Weight Loss

brianahes

Hello everyone! I'm dealing with a huge problem. I'm close to obesity and I want to lose around 7 kilogrames. I'm an active person who eats less than 1000kcal everyday, but I can't lose weight. I don't eat chocolate, chips or hamburgers because I don't like them. I eat quite healthy (vegetables, fish, fruits etc.). What should I do to lose weight until September or November? Every advice would help a lot Thank you xx

kyrannosaurus

How do you know you are eating 1000 calories a day?
What are your stats?
Your profile says you've lost 4 pounds so it would seem you can lose weight...

If you want to lose weight: eat a deficit. Weigh and log everything.

DemoraFairy

If you were active and eating less than 1000 calories a day you wouldn't have got close to obesity in the first place (unless you mean you started eating like that recently to lose weight). As @kyrannosaurus said, how do you know you're eating that? Do you weigh everything? Can you open your dairy? How long have you been dieting for? And you shouldn't aim for less than 1000 calories a day anyway, especially if you're being active, that's incredibly unhealthy and will only make things worse in the long run. Aim to eat what MFP has recommended for you.

brianahes

kyrannosaurus wrote: »

How do you know you are eating 1000 calories a day?
What are your stats?
Your profile says you've lost 4 pounds so it would seem you can lose weight...

If you want to lose weight: eat a deficit. Weigh and log everything.

I count calories and it seems like I eat less than 1000 calories.

brianahes

DemoraFairy wrote: »

If you were active and eating less than 1000 calories a day you wouldn't have got close to obesity in the first place (unless you mean you started eating like that recently to lose weight). As @kyrannosaurus said, how do you know you're eating that? Do you weigh everything? Can you open your dairy? How long have you been dieting for? And you shouldn't aim for less than 1000 calories a day anyway, especially if you're being active, that's incredibly unhealthy and will only make things worse in the long run. Aim to eat what MFP has recommended for you.

I've been dieting for almost two weeks. I weigh everything by the MyFitnessPal. So how many calories should I aim if I'm active?

kyrannosaurus

You say "it seems like" you eat less than 1000 calories. You don't sound especially confident with that claim. You either do or you don't. If you're not losing weight I am betting on the latter. Can you open your diary so we can get an idea of what you are logging?

So you've been doing this two weeks... I'm still confused why your profile says you've lost 4 pounds? Have you lost weight or not?

We still don't know your stats, so we can't give you an estimate of what calories you should be eating but for a woman it is never under 1200 and exercise calories are additional to that.

DemoraFairy

brianahes wrote: »

DemoraFairy wrote: »

If you were active and eating less than 1000 calories a day you wouldn't have got close to obesity in the first place (unless you mean you started eating like that recently to lose weight). As @kyrannosaurus said, how do you know you're eating that? Do you weigh everything? Can you open your dairy? How long have you been dieting for? And you shouldn't aim for less than 1000 calories a day anyway, especially if you're being active, that's incredibly unhealthy and will only make things worse in the long run. Aim to eat what MFP has recommended for you.

I've been dieting for almost two weeks. I weigh everything by the MyFitnessPal. So how many calories should I aim if I'm active?

Can you open your diary? Will help us give more specific advice.

2 weeks isn't really long enough to start worrying - people stop losing for a week or two all the time then carry on, it's pretty normal. But still open your diary and we'll see if we can spot anything going wrong.

MFP should have given you a calorie goal based on the information you gave it. You give it an activity level - this is based just on what you do for everyday life, not on workouts. So if you're an office worker and drive to work everyday, you'd probably be sedentary. However if you're, say, a construction worker who's moving round and carrying things all day, you'd have a much higher activity level. Then when you do specific workouts you add your exercises on in the exercise tab and it automatically gives you extra calories to eat (though many people eat back 50-80% of those calories as MFP tends to overestimate).

amanda_the_mom

MFP has a calculator where you put in your weight, height, sex, activity level, etc and you select at what rate you want to lose weight and it will recommend a certain number of calories.

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