Consume very few cal a day and no significant weight loss
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Hello. I am 28 female, 150 lb(69kg) and 162 cm
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things, I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things, I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
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Are you logging and weighing all your food, including bites, oils and condiments? Including all prepared foods?7
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How are you measuring your intake? If MFP says you should be consuming 1500 to lose weight, you should easily be losing on 1000 (which isn't recommended).4
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You are eating more than you think you are. Get a food scale and weigh everything you eat. Also for health, eat a well-balanced diet and move your body.5
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1. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.
2. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.
3. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.
4. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.
5. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.
6. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.
7. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.
8. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.6 -
I'm confused. You kick out sugar, sugar content juice and food, and then your breakfast is mango or papaya juice which is sugar content juice. Are you certain that you are eating less than 1000 calories a day for 3 months with no weight loss? If you are, then siege warfare has never succeeded at starving a population, ever, in the history of war. I'm inclined to believe that you do not actually measure your food accurately. A gram-sensitive food scale will help fix that. I don't know what vermichilli salad is, unless it's some kind of pasta. Pasta is an energy-dense food, and the additional stuff added to the salad may also be energy dense. Do you prepare it yourself or do you buy it ready-made? How much meat?
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That's a ton of sugar.
You body needs protein and oils too.
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1000 calories a day would make the laziest of people lose weight, I mean sit at home watching TV and barely move from the sofa.
You are consuming far more and like most people, don't realise it. Just because you eat a "healthy" salad for lunch doesn't mean it's low calorie, a "portion" of leaves with noodles, fatty meat and sugary dressing could be over 1000 easily, whereas half an "unhealthy" pizza is 350.6 -
Your diet doesn't sound balanced at and juice isn't enough full. I did weight watchers for years and I found what helped most was eating all my available calories especially those extra calories earned in exercise, adding more protein, and keeping my body in check by changing foods up.1
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If that fruit juice is large, it's more calories and sugar than most breakfasts I'd say most on here consume. What dressing is on that pasta salad? And a banana with more fruit juice for dinner? Firstly, dull, secondly, sugar, thirdly, are you sure that's all you eat?! No snacks? If you ate under 1000 cals you would lose, no argument, cut and dry. Use this system accurately and it will work trust us!!4
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Hello. I am 28 female, 150 lb(69kg) and 162 cm
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things,I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
You say you kicked out sugar and sugar content juice, yet you have juice for breakfast, and choose a high sugar fruit and/or juice again for dinner.
If you were truly eating less than 1000 calories then weight would be falling off of you. Somethings not adding up here.
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Way to much sugar eat more protein and veggies stop eating fruit all together. And if you must eat fruit eat it in the morning or pre workout and eat whole fruit don't ever drink juice of anything. Also bump your calories up to 1300-1500 and make sure you are counting correct.1
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holy juice overload - juice for breakfast and dinner? where's the food? eat regular food (weighed in grams) and get some protein in!3
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You should definitely be losing weight, if your figures are accurate.
I think it is time to see your health care professional to rule out any medical reason why you are not losing weight.2 -
From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!-1
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sallynewberry wrote: »From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!
Starvation mode doesn't work that way. If the OP is truly eating 1000 calories, she would be losing weight.12 -
sallynewberry wrote: »From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!
why is there no 'dislike' button here? 'starvation mode' does not work that way!8 -
sallynewberry wrote: »From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!
^This is not true. Starvation mode is a myth. There are no guarantees, that losing weight slowly and consistently, will help avoid gaining the weight back. Everything I read says that over 85% of the people that lose weight (no matter how they lose it, or how fast or slowly they lose) gain it all back, sometimes gaining even more back, within 5 years. Very small percent keep it off. In fact, just the other day, I read an article that said the statistic is 95%.
If this poster is truly eating 1000 calories or less, she should definitely be losing weight.
She should be talking to her doctor, because there may be medical issues (perhaps her thyroid) that need to be looked into.
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Christine_72 wrote: »Hello. I am 28 female, 150 lb(69kg) and 162 cm
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things,I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
You say you kicked out sugar and sugar content juice, yet you have juice for breakfast, and choose a high sugar fruit and/or juice again for dinner.
If you were truly eating less than 1000 calories then weight would be falling off of you. Somethings not adding up here.
then, what would be the substitute for juice, I mean fresh juice.. Sometime i bland itself or sometime with fat free milk.. Even lunch ( salad) I eat very few0 -
Why so little calories? That'll make you rather sick eventually.
You don't need to stave and be miserable to lose weight.
Chose to eat more protein (meat, fish, eggs, tofu, dairy) and fats. Actually, try a balance of protein fats and carbs. Fuel your body appropriately. Eat AT LEAST 1200 and eat back 30-50% of your exercise calories back. There is no way you'd be gaining (you won't gain until you go over your own maintenance calories and any gain after upping calories and staying under maintenance is just water weight). I am 5'3.5" @ 170ishlbs and eat 1477 (according to this spreadsheet) to lose around .9lb per week.
Weigh all the food that you eat. That means, weigh each component of a sandwich, salad or recipe. Everything. Use spoons and cups for actual liquids only (no, not for soups, just liquids.) Choose accurate database entries that reflect the nutritional information on the packaging.0
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