Why am I not losing?
hiyomi
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Eating about 1500-2000 calories a day and was doing about an hour cardio (roughly 700 calories burned) and weight lifting 5 days a week. I did this for about this December-March and lost 20 pounds. Since March, I have been losing extremely slow. I took a break in May but started back up June 1st. 1500-2000ish calories a day and just started the 30 day shred on Monday and am not doing the usual cardio/lifting, just the 30 day shred. And by slow I mean like little to no progress since late March. >.< Someone please halp
Oh my BMR is 1,991 and my TDEE is roughly 2,980 calories
Weight: 259
Height: 5'8
Female
20 years
Oh my BMR is 1,991 and my TDEE is roughly 2,980 calories
Weight: 259
Height: 5'8
Female
20 years
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I don't know what the reason might be as to why you aren't loosing, but I can explain what happened to me.
I was eating at my BMR for a while and lost weight, very slowly, but some of it did come off. I plateaued for a while, even though nothing changed( i did vary my workouts too). I decided to lower my cals, and ever since then, the weight has been coming off. I find my body does very well eating the 1200-1400 cals. Im not saying you should try that or that it will or wont work. But, sometimes you have to alter a few things to kick start the weight loss! Good luck!!0 -
It's hard to tell. Your food diary is not very consistent.(days missing, etc) And there are quite a few days where you're quite "into the red" on calories. Hard to tell whether they're "balanced out" with the days that you're in the green.
Log EVERYTHING and make sure you're targeting your calories. Not too little, not to much. BE CONSISTENT.
If you're not giving yourself GOOD DATA on what you're doing, then it will be much harder to figure out why you aren't making the progress you want to see.0 -
It's hard to identify the problem with your desired weight loss because your calories aren't constant. 1500-2000 is a wide range to truly know what caloric intake you're intaking for the week. Be more consistent on your calorie counting. As for cardio it seems like your are doing a good amount. The case may be calories are to high.0
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Not every day will be perfect, but the more days of 1500 to 1800 calorie days, the better. You mentioned not loosing weight, but you didn't mention to us what your start and present waist, hip, leg, etc. body measurements. Sometimes it's hard to measure true weight loss if you lifting lots of weights often. Muscle weight's more than fat. If you were to quit lifting, you might be surprise to see the number on the scales go down. But it's not about the number is it?
Is your diet mostly veggies and fruit? Or do you hamburgers and fries more often than not. Key is to eat more of the good stuff every chance you get. If the bad food days dominate the good food days, you won't go anywhere.0 -
You really shouldn't be eating less than 2,000. I would actually recommend 2,200 to help you remain consistent and prevent binging.0
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If you ate 20% less than your TDEE, you need to be ingesting roughly 2300 [minus earned calories from exercise. Don't even worry over calories burned anymore. It's included in your TDEE, remember?]
Unless you have a HRM, the number of calories you burn in a day may not be entirely accurate...especially if you go by MFP estimates.
Are you weighing/measuring your food? Avoiding processed/prepackaged crap food 80% of the time?
From what others say, you haven't been very consistent with logging/eating within your goal range. You already know this. Just work on it.
Good luck. 0 -
Eating about 1500-2000 calories a day and was doing about an hour cardio (roughly 700 calories burned) and weight lifting 5 days a week. I did this for about this December-March and lost 20 pounds. Since March, I have been losing extremely slow. I took a break in May but started back up June 1st. 1500-2000ish calories a day and just started the 30 day shred on Monday and am not doing the usual cardio/lifting, just the 30 day shred. And by slow I mean like little to no progress since late March. >.< Someone please halp
Oh my BMR is 1,991 and my TDEE is roughly 2,980 calories
Weight: 259
Height: 5'8
Female
20 years
Your sodium intake is high often from the couple weeks I saw. For me I've noticed that if I have too much sodium, then I tend to retain a lot of water weight so that could be contributing as well as the days you went over your calorie limit.0 -
By the way, I did 30 day shred and didn't loose weight after just 30 days. But I was totally stronger and better cardio! Maybe switch out your exercise routine and try different things too. Good luck! :flowerforyou:0
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If you ate 20% less than your TDEE, you need to be ingesting roughly 2300 [minus earned calories from exercise. Don't even worry over calories burned anymore. It's included in your TDEE, remember?]
Unless you have a HRM, the number of calories you burn in a day may not be entirely accurate...especially if you go by MFP estimates.
Are you weighing/measuring your food? Avoiding processed/prepackaged crap food 80% of the time?
From what others say, you haven't been very consistent with logging/eating within your goal range. You already know this. Just work on it. Good luck.
I purchased a digital food scale and was blown away how much more I was eating than I thought.0 -
Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.0 -
If you ate 20% less than your TDEE, you need to be ingesting roughly 2300 [minus earned calories from exercise. Don't even worry over calories burned anymore. It's included in your TDEE, remember?]
Unless you have a HRM, the number of calories you burn in a day may not be entirely accurate...especially if you go by MFP estimates.
Are you weighing/measuring your food? Avoiding processed/prepackaged crap food 80% of the time?
From what others say, you haven't been very consistent with logging/eating within your goal range. You already know this. Just work on it. Good luck.
I purchased a digital food scale and was blown away how much more I was eating than I thought.
The scale is invaluable.
Also, OP, if you're going by MFP for cardio burn, it's probably over-estimating.0 -
Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.
I lost my 30lbs eating fast food 3x per day while travelling.0 -
If you ate 20% less than your TDEE, you need to be ingesting roughly 2300 [minus earned calories from exercise. Don't even worry over calories burned anymore. It's included in your TDEE, remember?]
Unless you have a HRM, the number of calories you burn in a day may not be entirely accurate...especially if you go by MFP estimates.
Are you weighing/measuring your food? Avoiding processed/prepackaged crap food 80% of the time?
From what others say, you haven't been very consistent with logging/eating within your goal range. You already know this. Just work on it. Good luck.
I purchased a digital food scale and was blown away how much more I was eating than I thought.
The scale is invaluable.
Also, OP, if you're going by MFP for cardio burn, it's probably over-estimating.
^ All of the above0 -
Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.
I lost my 30lbs eating fast food 3x per day while travelling.
All burgers, fries, dressings, condiments, potato cakes and pizza, too?
I looked further back. Nearly EVERY DAY is a trend of the same foods above.
I eat out a fair amount. I most definitely wouldn't be upset about no weight loss if I lived on cheeseburgers though. Just sayin'.0 -
Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.
This.0 -
Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.
I lost my 30lbs eating fast food 3x per day while travelling.
All burgers, fries, dressings, condiments, potato cakes and pizza, too?
I looked further back. Nearly EVERY DAY is a trend of the same foods above.
I eat out a fair amount. I most definitely wouldn't be upset about no weight loss if I lived on cheeseburgers though. Just sayin'.
All that? No, but fries and grilled chicken sandwiches daily, and pizza twice per week.0 -
You can't trust the calorie estimates of fast food restaurants. Have it occasionally - even once or twice a week is probably fine. But every day and you really have no idea how many calories you're consuming.
VIDEO: The Truth Behind Calorie Labels -
http://youtu.be/hE2lna5Wxuo 0 -
Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.
I lost my 30lbs eating fast food 3x per day while travelling.
All burgers, fries, dressings, condiments, potato cakes and pizza, too?
I looked further back. Nearly EVERY DAY is a trend of the same foods above.
I eat out a fair amount. I most definitely wouldn't be upset about no weight loss if I lived on cheeseburgers though. Just sayin'.
All that? No, but fries and grilled chicken sandwiches daily, and pizza twice per week.
Thus my point.
Nothing is inherently wrong with fast food. The choices you make/portion sizes are a different story.0 -
Agreed - too much sodium.
Agreed - too much fast food. You need more whole foods - try adding a couple of fruits a day, then some veggies...fast food is full of preservatives and nothing good for you. Its OK for once in a while but everyday? If you have a hard time finding time to cook or just don't want to - they have salads and things you can eat with your burger. This makes me sad - reminds me of how I ate when I was in high school...and it didn't do me a bit of good.0 -
You can't trust the calorie estimates of fast food restaurants. Have it occasionally - even once or twice a week is probably fine. But every day and you really have no idea how many calories you're consuming.
VIDEO: The Truth Behind Calorie Labels -http://youtu.be/hE2lna5Wxuo
Unconvinced.
The discrepancies were by 1-200 calories on some. The chipotle site is going by a 'serving size,' which is impossible to enforce on the employees making rough guesstimates. The tofu sandwich was kind of a given. It was SLAM PACKED with the stuff. Does the package suggest a serving size in grams? If the guy took the time to weigh it (or even eyeball it), he'd know that 224 calories isn't even realistic. Hell, whole wheat bread is 140 calories for 2 slices (or mine is on average). The sandwich would be fine if he ate half of it.
I don't think the differences were that life altering. If there were more samples and an average taken from the totals, I'd be in.0 -
The food you chose to eat has very little nutritional value. You're counting calories but still being harmful to yourself in other ways. Also, even though you consume the allotted calorie amount you really don't eat much for the entire day so you may be inadvertently slowing your metabolism down.
I would try changing your eating habits. Try adding one good thing in each day...like adding a salad to one of your meals. If you're staying on top of it and slowly keep adding the good things into your diet eventually you won't want to eat at McDonald's anymore.
Good Luck!0 -
My only suggestions are to track as accurately as possible every day and be sure to use a kitchen scale whenever possible. Watching the sodium wouldn't hurt either, but I have no comment on your food choices.0
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Use a food scale and a heart rate monitor consistently, if you aren't already.0
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I'm sorry but I truly doubt you will lose anything eating so much fast food!!! Do you ever eat fresh foods? I looked back just a handful of days so maybe this isn't your norm but I would most definitely gain weight eating pizza, burgers, fries,sundaes every day. Those should be rare treats, or even just once a week but not multiple times per day. Weight loss is in the kitchen not the gym0
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Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.
I lost my 30lbs eating fast food 3x per day while travelling.
All burgers, fries, dressings, condiments, potato cakes and pizza, too?
I looked further back. Nearly EVERY DAY is a trend of the same foods above.
I eat out a fair amount. I most definitely wouldn't be upset about no weight loss if I lived on cheeseburgers though. Just sayin'.
All that? No, but fries and grilled chicken sandwiches daily, and pizza twice per week.
Thus my point.
Nothing is inherently wrong with fast food. The choices you make/portion sizes are a different story.
I agree with this.
What really matters in dieting is to treat it as a lifestyle change. Cutting out fast food and eating more nutrient dense food is great and all, but the most important thing is to choose something that is sustainable so you stay on track. So if you want/need to eat 2,000 calories in fast food each day, then go for it. At your weight it is more important to be worried about shedding the pounds. However, I would recommend adding in as much nutrient dense foods as you can over time.0 -
look at your diary and see all the fast food, thats why.0
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Totally peeked through your diary through the last 3 days. You eat fast food once, sometimes twice a day. Junk food is consistently nonstop as well.
...What do you expect with that sort of food? Like, I'm not saying give up fast food. It's all about moderation, though.
Incorporate more fruits and vegetables. Prepare more food at home. When eating out, choose the healthier options. So on and so forth.
I lost my 30lbs eating fast food 3x per day while travelling.
All burgers, fries, dressings, condiments, potato cakes and pizza, too?
I looked further back. Nearly EVERY DAY is a trend of the same foods above.
I eat out a fair amount. I most definitely wouldn't be upset about no weight loss if I lived on cheeseburgers though. Just sayin'.
All that? No, but fries and grilled chicken sandwiches daily, and pizza twice per week.
Thus my point.
Nothing is inherently wrong with fast food. The choices you make/portion sizes are a different story.
I agree with this.
What really matters in dieting is to treat it as a lifestyle change. Cutting out fast food and eating more nutrient dense food is great and all, but the most important thing is to choose something that is sustainable so you stay on track. So if you want/need to eat 2,000 calories in fast food each day, then go for it. At your weight it is more important to be worried about shedding the pounds. However, I would recommend adding in as much nutrient dense foods as you can over time.
You said it!
I approve this message. :flowerforyou:0 -
Most people hear are making it sound like I eat 4k calories of fast food. I do eat fast food a lot because my parents are just those type of people lol But I had been told by a dietician that a calorie is a calorie, you eat too much you gain, you eat to little you lose. I know they aren't the healthiest choices but its what there and I just try to control how much of it I eat. Not trying to sound rude or anything but ya ^^ If I eat 1500 calories a day with home food/fast food mixed in, I wouldn't lose? I did this December-March and lost 22 pounds perfectly fine. Its just now it has seemed to slow down. OH, and one more very important thing, sometimes I just log calories as fast food because its already there and I am too lazy to search for the actual one. I usually go by calories/sodium more than anything else. On weekends I admit I eat fast food quite often, but some days on there I swear lol I just log them because they are close to accurate. I actually baked a pizza hear at home today but in diary it says "Little Caesars" lol
College student/parents shop at the beginning of month and once the food runs out they go out for fast food, which is a lot of the time!
I told the dietician that I seemed to lose faster while eating only home foods than fast food even if it was the same caloric intake and he told me that a calorie was a calorie and it didn't matter what type of food it was, and that shouldn't be possible. >_<
Any and all help/feedback is appreciated.0 -
Go back to exercising the way you did when you lost weight. Obviously that's the biggest difference I see when you stated you changed it to 30DS.
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Go back to exercising the way you did when you lost weight. Obviously that's the biggest difference I see when you stated you changed it to 30DS.
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I did that from March-June and very little changes, so that's why I am trying 30 day shred now to maybe lose some inches. ^_^
From December-March I lost 22 pounds but then March-June nada
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