Increased excercise stalled my weighloss!? Help

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  • laurasprogress
    laurasprogress Posts: 35 Member
    wandajnevills wrote: »
    Apparently there is no way to unfollow a thread on here so I'll just be ignoring the notifications. Deuces.

    You are so great! I'm sorry that you can't unfollow my post but I have thoroughly enjoyed your comments today. Applause applause. I drank my shake and ran my tail off this morning while some people were steadfast in saying I eat too much. That's ok. I know what I put in my mouth. My caloric goal set by mfp is 1300 after setting a new lower goal weight and reducing my weighloss to 1.5 pounds a week. I'm staying the course and couldn't give two poops what a couple people have to say to make me feel like I'm doing it all wrong. The 60 pounds I've lost so far have to say something for my efforts. I hope you have a beautiful afternoon
  • chocolate_owl
    chocolate_owl Posts: 1,695 Member
    edited June 2016
    wandajnevills wrote: »
    Apparently there is no way to unfollow a thread on here so I'll just be ignoring the notifications. Deuces.

    You can uncheck "Notify me when people comment on discussions I've participated in" under Notification Preferences, then bookmark threads you want to continue to follow by hitting the Star icon at the top right. I don't know of another way to unfollow a thread you've commented in.
  • KelBgess
    KelBgess Posts: 27 Member
    Increase protein, decrease simple carbs and fat. Add HIIT to your cardio routine and do strength training 3-4 days a week.
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
    OP, I'm gonna share my experience over the last couple weeks which may give you some hope. I stopped losing weight about two weeks ago. And as of yesterday, the scale was up an additional four pounds. During this time I continued to weigh my food and stay within my calorie goals. I also added a more strenuous weight lifting routine and have gone through my time of month.

    Today I got on the scale and voila I'm down 8 pounds. Which puts me not only where I probably should be but even an additional pound less than I expected. Hang in there, you might get a whoosh too!
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    KelBgess wrote: »
    Increase protein, decrease simple carbs and fat. Add HIIT to your cardio routine and do strength training 3-4 days a week.

    who does decreasing carbs have to do with it?
  • laurasprogress
    laurasprogress Posts: 35 Member
    auddii wrote: »
    laurasprogress wrote: »
    wandajnevills wrote: »
    Apparently there is no way to unfollow a thread on here so I'll just be ignoring the notifications. Deuces.

    You are so great! I'm sorry that you can't unfollow my post but I have thoroughly enjoyed your comments today. Applause applause. I drank my shake and ran my tail off this morning while some people were steadfast in saying I eat too much. That's ok. I know what I put in my mouth. My caloric goal set by mfp is 1300 after setting a new lower goal weight and reducing my weighloss to 1.5 pounds a week. I'm staying the course and couldn't give two poops what a couple people have to say to make me feel like I'm doing it all wrong. The 60 pounds I've lost so far have to say something for my efforts. I hope you have a beautiful afternoon

    Actually, what was repeated over and over is that you are likely retaining water either due to your exercise, hormones, or some other factor. Two weeks isn't long enough to see what's going on. If you continue to not lose after another few weeks, then double check your logging (things like incorrect entries in the database can be killer for progress if you have a small deficit).

    ETA: and congrats on your loss so far!

    I appreciate the encouragement so much. It was the people who seem hell bent on bringing ya down that make for a bad day. In speaking with some others via message I am ashamed at the little amount of water I am drinking. I'm going to do better
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    No need to be ashamed about the fluid intake. It's good for your body to be well hydrated, outside of the weight loss factor. Think about doing things for health and not just weight loss. Long-term goals have helped me stay motivated.
  • wandajnevills
    wandajnevills Posts: 56 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    wandajnevills wrote: »
    Fursian wrote: »
    Do you measure your food intake using a food scale? tracking food in a diary here or elsewhere? Exercise is awesome, but if we're eating at maintenance calories or a surplus, we're not going to lose any weight.

    True about eating less calories than we expend, but weighing food doesn't give us any idea of its caloric content. Green beans weigh a lot more than whipped cream, but it's the whipped cream that's going to pack in mass calories. In fact, the fattiest foods are the lightest by weight. Oils (fat) float to the surface of water because they're light. You'd have to eat 5 pounds of green beans to get the same amount of calories as virtually zero pounds of whipped cream.

    I can't even with this. Oil doesn't float, it separates because it doesn't mix with water. Weighing foods tells you how much of that food you are eating and calories are calculated for the weight associated with those calories.

    What are they teaching in schools these days!?

    2 weeks when you've added new exercise isn't the time to worry. Especially given your height and weight and calorie goal, you're probably eating a little too little to hit needed nutrition needs (this won't stall weight loss but is detrimental to overall health).

    LMAO "oil doesn't float." and I'm the one being ridiculed? Seriously, have you never actually seen oil and water together? :') obviously none of us know everything.
  • dragonrider6
    dragonrider6 Posts: 18 Member
    @laurasprogress are you eating back the excercise cals you lost?
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    laurasprogress wrote: »
    I have lost 60 pounds since January 1st of this year. A few weeks ago I added running 3-4 times a week. 5 miles. Now don't get me wrong, I walk jog run walk jog run, but am getting better and love it. MFP has me set at 1200 calories to lose 2 pounds a week. Since I started the excercise... Nothing.. Not a pound. Help! I could cry and am feeling so discouraged when I thought I was doing a good thing for myself. I'm still heavy.. 205.. And am 5'7" so why is this happening?

    60 pounds in 25 weeks is a lot! This doesn't address your question, but what's your goal weight? It's likely time to dial back to a weekly weight loss goal of a pound per week.
  • laurasprogress
    laurasprogress Posts: 35 Member
    dragonrider6 wrote: »
    @laurasprogress are you eating back the excercise cals you lost?

    No. I just eat the calories mfp gave me. I don't eat back the calories it says I burn with my runs and daily steps

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