Why is the scale not moving?

BWBTrish

Leslierussell4134 wrote: »

I don't think I should log on here anymore, everyone thinks they're doctors and nurses. Guess I wasted my time with my degree lol. I could have been educated through Web MD or my fitness pal...who knew.

When starvation mode exist we wouldn't have very thin hungry and poor people who die of hunger isn't it?
Their body would be the perfect indication of the fact of staying fat/thick because they are really starving of hunger and no food.

MKEgal

Leslierussell wrote:

When you don't eat enough ... your body believes it's starving ans holds onto calories
in panic mode. We are animals and very efficient when there seems to be a shortage of food.
When we increase exercise and don't fuel our body for the workload... again starvation mindset
and we won't lose, and if we do, it will be very slowly.

That is all false. Hooey. Woo. Irrational.
Read this. Read it over & over until it sinks in.
http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/starvation-mode/

Yes, Virginia, there is a starvation mode.
What you're describing is not it.
The body has to burn calories to survive. If you're alive, you're burning calories.
It will not 'hold onto' calories unless you're eating more than you need to run your body.
It's impossible, because science.

It prefers to burn carbs (glucose, then glycogen), then fat, and as a distant inefficient 3rd, muscle.

"Starvation mode" is when the body burns muscle for energy to live, in a last-ditch effort to
survive long enough to find food before becoming unable to breathe or move blood.

Look at anorexics. They wouldn't be skin & bones if your version of starvation mode were real.
Ditto for concentration camp survivors.

MKEgal

sheinz7132 wrote:

I have been eating very healthy and doing T25 (I am on week 2) and the scale hasn't moved an ounce!

In addition to sexypants, read this:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10012907/logging-accuracy-consistency-and-youre-probably-eating-more-than-you-think

And this:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/MKEgal/view/2014-06-08-setting-goals-667045
That discusses setting realistic & healthy goals. You desperately need to do that.
One of the links (I think it's the 3rd, it's from the Baylor College of Medicine) will even tell you how many servings
of each food group you should be eating to maintain any particular weight. Put in your healthy goal weight, or
play with the weight until the BMI is in a healthy range (18 - 24.9), then eat what it says. When you hit a plateau,
cut a couple hundred cal/day & give it a couple weeks. Unless you're very short, or your doctor says it's OK, don't
go under 1200.

"Eating healthy" means more than just eating small portions of nonprocessed foods.
It means getting the nutrition (including calories) your body needs to run properly.

BWBTrish

There is a link to a study done on people who "starve" them self's almost to dead. The link is in the forum somewhere too.

What the body does is after a half year...yes a half year or even longer...the body start to use 7% less calories to be alive. So slowing down what it burns normally.
Indeed a survival mode if you want to call it like that...but you keep losing weight..slowly but you will and you will after all kind of medical issues eventually die.

But it takes a long time and in the meantime you lose weight, till you are a scary skin over bone skeleton.

Starvation mode used here by a lot of people, telling others that your body "holds on" to body fat is totally nonsense. ( Scientifically proven. when i find the link i will post it).

fatcity66

Leslierussell4134 wrote: »

I don't think I should log on here anymore, everyone thinks they're doctors and nurses. Guess I wasted my time with my degree lol. I could have been educated through Web MD or my fitness pal...who knew.

I'm curious...what is your degree in? Where did you attend school to earn this degree?

rosette976

I didn't read all the comments, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to repeat other people (sorry about that). And, i'm french so sorry for all the spelling and grammar mistakes.

You are saying that you are eating healthy, but eating healthy is the exact opposite of what you are doing.
1000 or 1100 Kcal a day IS NOT ENOUGH ! You should eat at least 1600 Kcal: carbs (with low glycemic index), fat (but good fat, like olive oil, amends, peanut butter) and proteine (at least 70g each day).
You will see, you will feel like you are eating a lot, but no. Eat well and you will look well.

Why ? Because as everyone told you, you are starving your body so:
- you can't get muscle, because in order to build your muscle, your body needs protein, and because you are not giving your body enough protein, it takes it in your muscle, so it is completely unproductive.
- you are not getting fit, because your body is keeping all the fat, because it is STARVING

Today, you can eat 1300 Kcal, stay at 1300 kcal for a week, and next week go at 1600 kcal. You won't get fat, don't worry !

Last thing, don't loose more that 500g a week, otherwise, it will be a muscle loss and it is not good.
If you see that you are losing more than 500g a week, eat more carbs (but again, with low glycemic index !!)

And of course, keep going to the gym

GaleHawkins

sheinz7132 wrote: »

I have been eating very healthy and doing T25 (I am on week 2) and the scale hasn't moved an ounce! In the past I starve and never workout and I seem to loose 2-5 pounds per week! What gives???

Take your measurements. I can go weeks without the scales moving but be getting smaller inch wise the entire time.

Sued0nim

Leslierussell4134 wrote: »

I don't think I should log on here anymore, everyone thinks they're doctors and nurses. Guess I wasted my time with my degree lol. I could have been educated through Web MD or my fitness pal...who knew.

Perhaps you shouldn't if actual science bothers you

Because

Leslierussell4134 wrote: »

When you don't eat enough, typically less than 1200 calories, but higher if you're a larger person or male, your body believes it's starving ans holds onto calories in panic mode. We are animals and very efficient when there seems to be a shortage of food.
When we increase exercise and don't fuel our body for the workload...again starvation mind set and we won't lose, and if we do, it will be very slowly.
For an exercise like T25 you need protein and cards to fuel and recover from workout. More calories in your diet will allow your body to see...okay they're going to make me work more, but I'm not really missing anything...okay I'll give up some fat stores so we can be more effective in these workouts.
Good luck

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