HELP my weight is STUCK!!!!!

brittanymfarley

I am a 31 year old female I currently weigh 185. Im 5'6 and I'm eating 1290 calories a day and keeping my net carbs under or right at 30 grams. I'm a freak about measuring out everything and watching my diet. I've been drinking 100 oz of water a day. I started working out 3 sometimes 5 days a week I've been stuck for 2 weeks at 185. I don't understand. I am on remicade for my Crohn's disease and it may be part of the problem but I've got down to 162lbs before and that was before my medication changed. I know I can do it I'm just discouraged and mad right now because I'm doing everything I can and it's not helping I feel. My iron levels were low and this is month 2 of iron supplements so I know my iron is good because I'm able to work out now without passing out. I don't understand I've ready weight loss plateaus are not real and your just eating too much. But I feel I'm on track. I would love to be 150 or hell even 160. But for some reason my weight hasn't budged in 2 weeks any ideas? You all can look at my food log I log everything. Hope someone can give me some advice. Thanks in advance!

fitoverfortymom

Our stats are almost identical. I've gone from losing every week to losing every 2 weeks. It was frustrating at first, so I started tracking my weight daily on the Libra app. It's still too soon to see any trends, but it keeps my brain happy to collect data.

How long have you been at it? Could it be time for a diet break and maybe eating at maintenance for a few weeks?

brittanymfarley

This is week 5. I just got to the point to where I can really eat healthy foods without getting sick from my disease. So not too long but it's frustrating stepping on the scale every day and it's the same every day! Ugh I know in my weight loss journey I've had plateaus before and it get past them I'm just wondering if I'm doing something wrong!

fitoverfortymom

5 weeks is probably too soon for a diet break. Crohn's sucks. Not sure if your meds would affect loss or not. Can you make your diary public?

brittanymfarley

My diary says it's public.

fitoverfortymom

Maybe I'm too inept how to see it via the app.

usmcmp

March 18th is incomplete.

Several entries lead me to believe you eat out a lot (restaurant numbers can be off by a lot).

Some days you are under 1000, leading me to believe they are incomplete especially since you are missing lunch or breakfast on those days.

MJL68

Your body doesn't lose weight in a steady easily calculated way. Everything ebs and flows. Salt, water, potassium and glucose all take turns. Two weeks is a very normal flux. Stick to your guns and ride it out. The worst thing you could do would be to over react. When your bodies been ill for a while it is natural for it to fight the change. Good luck you should start seeing progress soon. I had a month of no loss after a bad illness. Hang in there the numbers well work out in the long run.

brittanymfarley

I just started back the week after Valentine's Day. I was sick in the hospital right after my wedding at the end of September. I do eat out maybe one night a week but I have meat and veggies. Maybe that's the reason?

srk369

The sodium from eating out, TOM depending on where you are on your cycle, the intensity of your workouts, all of this and many more reasons could cause water retention that is masking weight loss. Keep doing what you are doing and just be prepared that weight loss is like this...up, down, even. As long as you know you are logging everything you eat or using the best estimate you can when eating out, the scale will eventually catch up.

usmcmp

I really just think you aren't being accurate. That's only looking at March's information. Were there days you skipped breakfast or lunch or dinner? If not, that's where I would start. Also, the day you didn't finish logging at all was only a week ago.

brittanymfarley

Like i said I am not new at losing weigh I've been successful before. I eat out on mainly sat nights but I'm always meat and veggies when I go out. I'm really good about meal prepping and calculating exactly what's in every meal I make I log. I guess I didn't think about my body wanting to maybe fight change because I was really sick for 2 months with my crohns I was flared for those 2 months and when you flare with crohns you become malnourished even though I was over weight. Then I was on prednisone steroids for 4 months that's how I gained my weight. I also had to be on a low residue diet which was mainly carbs because my belly could not tolerate anything else. I am going to keep on with my healthy lifestyle it's just discouraging. Thank you for the positivity!

srk369

Also, are you weighing everything? I eat quest bars and I've rarely had one that actually weighed the 60g on the package. Most are 64 to 67g. Same with the english muffins. Mine are 55g each and usually weigh in around 65.

brittanymfarley

Oh no! I'm not I'm just going by the package! I will have to from now on!

JeromeBarry1

A couple of days ago you logged "franks red hot buffalo - hot sauce, 2 tbsp" for 60 calories.
I googled for it and found http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/franks-red-hot-wings-sauce-hot-buffalo-w-estimated-macros-328225094 which has a tblsp of that at 5 calories, and 2 tbsp would be 10. I don't know why you have 60. I do know that once I see a discrepancy such as that, I begin to suspect widespread sloppy logging. A confirming point is that you don't log 100 oz of water in your food diary. I think you're exaggerating.
That's not me being mean. It's me telling the truth. If my truth is not your truth, your truth wins.

I saw nothing else in your diary of the last 3 days to worry about. I wonder how you were able to get the exact same 401 calories in that salad you had 4 times in two days, but maybe it's a packaged thing and that's how.

srk369

brittanymfarley wrote: »

Oh no! I'm not I'm just going by the package! I will have to from now on!

Yep, they are allowed to be off by as much as 20%. Multiple times in a day and you can see how much it can add up!!

brittanymfarley

Yes that day I didn't finish my log I went out for dinner that evening. So maybe I shouldn't go out once a week. I guess for me it's about balance I look forward to having a dinner one night a week out. So if I do that maybe I shouldn't be so upset to not see the scale move. Like I said I did this last year and was successful I just kept pushing through.

brittanymfarley

I drink 3 34oz blender bottles of water daily. Trust me I pee a million times so I know that's a fact. The franks I scan the barcode. And do that for many things. The calories in my salad is because I make a recipe and measure everything out then I take that whole chicken salad that I made and divide it into 5 servings. So I know by measuring every ingredient that the calories are correct.

usmcmp

MFP ate my comment. Within the last few weeks you had Dominos. I'm not judging you for that since that's what I had tonight, but when it comes to not seeing a scale loss sometimes it's worth temporarily cutting those things out.

brittanymfarley

True I need to maybe not have my cheat eat or meals then once a week maybe once a month. Thanks for all the comments!

JeromeBarry1

brittanymfarley wrote: »

Yes that day I didn't finish my log I went out for dinner that evening. So maybe I shouldn't go out once a week. I guess for me it's about balance I look forward to having a dinner one night a week out. So if I do that maybe I shouldn't be so upset to not see the scale move. Like I said I did this last year and was successful I just kept pushing through.

There it is. Going out once a week. Even if your calories from that trip don't wipe out your deficit, the salt will cause water retention for several days.

My wife also greatly enjoys dining out. I had to learn how to make that fit within my food plan. It sucks, but all I can have at her restaurants is a side salad.

fitmom4lifemfp

brittanymfarley wrote: »

Yes that day I didn't finish my log I went out for dinner that evening. So maybe I shouldn't go out once a week. I guess for me it's about balance I look forward to having a dinner one night a week out. So if I do that maybe I shouldn't be so upset to not see the scale move. Like I said I did this last year and was successful I just kept pushing through.

Once a week dining out can easily wipe out a week of effort. I've pretty much cut out *dining out* completely until I get back to my goal weight. And even then, it's going to be a monthly thing...not weekly.

cerise_noir

usmcmp wrote: »

I really just think you aren't being accurate. That's only looking at March's information. Were there days you skipped breakfast or lunch or dinner? If not, that's where I would start. Also, the day you didn't finish logging at all was only a week ago.

This. OP, you mention measuring food, but do you weigh all solid and semi solid food on a food scale?

Cheat days and meals can affect the weekly deficit. Log. Everything. Your logging is very lax. Lax logging results in smaller to no losses.

Jthanmyfitnesspal

Amazing job so far! Sounds like you are taking good care of yourself (staying out of the hospital), watching vitamin levels (very important for Crohn's, I hear), staying active, and certainly not gaining weight. Hopefully, you are happy and staying out of the hospital. These are the most important things!

Eating low-carb helps, but if you feel low energy, particularly while working out, it can help to add a few back, in my experience. Keeping carbs relatively low is a good maintenance strategy if you don't want to log for the rest of your life.

As for weight loss, it's usually a matter of accurate logging for both exercise and food calories. If you really want to lose weight, there is no room for "cheat days." You have to log everything. You can eat extra calories any day you want, but losing a pound of actual tissue mass (hopefully mostly fat) means you ate 3500kcals less than you burned. (There are no exceptions to this rule, but you can vary day-to-day by more than a pound. It pays to weigh in the morning after potty time in the same level of dress. I prefer to do it nearly daily and watch the trend.)

(I don't recommend to anyone that they make their diary public. Everyone just picks on you and, in the end, you are only beholden to yourself. What you choose to eat and how you log is a personal choice.)

TxTiffani

Is there a reason you're low carb? You said the carbs help with your chrons so is low carb a preference or your choice of diet or what? I only ask because I lose better when eating carbs than I do on low carb and I'm more satisfied. I know that's personal preference and how my body responds, but I've unsuccessfully done low carb several times because of all the hype I kept going back til I figured out eating carbs but sticking to CICO helped me lose better and feel satiated while losing:)

brittanymfarley

Thank you for your positivity Jthanmyfitnesspal. I realized after having people look at my diary it may have been a mistake. I've lost over 100 lbs I know what I'm doing maybe I was just looking for a little encouragement rather than advice. I choose low carb because the carbs make me feel like crap. I had to eat the carbs when I was sick because they have no nutritional value and my body didn't have to work to break them down. I could not do protein or veggies because they were way to hard on my system. Low carb just works for me. Like I said I'm doing everything I was doing before it's just stalled. When I lost 102lbs I was having a cheat meal once a week maybe once every 2 weeks and it was working like I said the only thing different is my medication. I don't log my water because I don't feel the need because I always drink at LEAST 100oz. Oh well I'll get through it. I did it before and did it healthy and I need to remember that before I had stalls and kept going and eventually got to where I wanted to be. It's a lifestyle for me so having those cheat days I'm ok with like I said if I choose to do the cheat days I have to be ok with stalled weight loss.