haven't lost weight in 3 months

salina14u
salina14u Posts: 12 Member
edited November 14 in Health and Weight Loss
So I haven't lost weight in 3 months I hit a plateau. What should I do? I eat 1500 calories & burn about 600 calories doing exercise daily. Any suggestions?

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  • ♡MyCurves
    ♡MyCurves Posts: 103 Member
    salina14u wrote: »
    So I haven't lost weight in 3 months I hit a plateau. What should I do? I eat 1500 calories & burn about 600 calories doing exercise daily. Any suggestions?

    Ummm...take a look at what you're eating. Maybe zigzag your diet. Eat 1700 one day, 1400 the next. Drink more water, increase your workouts, workout less....i hit a plateau strewn i started working out. So maybe do a not so intense workout. Maybe some strength training. See If in a cpl days that helps.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,593 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    How accurate is your logging? Are you using a food scale for all solids? Measuring cups/spoons for all liquids? Tracking everything that passes your lips? Using the recipe builder? Accurately determining exercise calories? Using accurate entries?

    This ^^

  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    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.
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    This should cover it.

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  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
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  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    If your weight has remained the same for all that time then you have been eating at maintenance - tighten your logging and you will soon see losses again.
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    If you have accurately tracked your food (weigh everything), and not lost weight then you are eating too much.
  • crzycatlady1
    crzycatlady1 Posts: 1,930 Member
    Op can you make your diary public so we can take a look at it?
  • mcraw75
    mcraw75 Posts: 99 Member
    If you are doing everything correctly, then just keep doing it. I had the same experience as you. I was stuck at 188lbs for 5 months, got frustrated, checked and double checked I was doing everything right. But I just kept on and one day I started losing again.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
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