Need advice

ballster_7
ballster_7 Posts: 24 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How is everyone losing their weight? I need help! I have been going Hiit and cardio for 5 months now and I still weigh the same. My calorie intake is 1400-1500 and Most of the time I am eating healthy. I weigh 80kgs right now and I need to get to 60 kgs before my wedding which is early next year. I really would love to get some advice.

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  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    This chart has some good advice:

  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    ballster_7 wrote: »
    How is everyone losing their weight? I need help! I have been going Hiit and cardio for 5 months now and I still weigh the same. My calorie intake is 1400-1500 and Most of the time I am eating healthy. I weigh 80kgs right now and I need to get to 60 kgs before my wedding which is early next year. I really would love to get some advice.

    "Most of the time I am eating healthy".

    If that means you're starving yourself some days and bingeing some days, you're just cancelling out your efforts.

    Change your weekly weight loss goal to half a pound a week, and stick to your calorie limit with the foods you feel like on the day. Win.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,588 MFP Moderator
    The good news is your current plan seems to have you maintaining, so while I am sure you are frustrated, that at least gives you somewhere to start.

    Most likely you are suffering from some inaccurate logging (eating a little more than you think and burning a little less than you think). There are two approaches you can take from here. 1. tighten up your food logging as much as you can, weigh solids and measure calorie containing liquids, and don't eat back as many exercise calories if you currently are. Or, since you currently are on maintenance, log the way you are currently and cut your calorie goal.
  • animatorswearbras
    animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
    It doesn't look like you've been logging. Chances are you're eating more than you think, you may be eating healthily but that doesn't mean you're having a calorific deficit.

    1, get a food scale and some measures for liquids and weigh and measure everything you eat, every beverage, every condiment, every splash of oil you cook with, every chip you steal of someone elses plate.

    2, do not eat back all your workout calories for now, start at only eating 50% at first, there's a huge tendency to overestimate your burns. If you are losing quicker and are too hungry eat a higher percentage.

    3, log weekends, log cheat meals, log every time you fall off the wagon.

    4, give this a few weeks you should definitely see the scale moving IF you're honest, log accurately, and maintain a deficit.

    Good luck x
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
    The good news is your current plan seems to have you maintaining, so while I am sure you are frustrated, that at least gives you somewhere to start.

    Most likely you are suffering from some inaccurate logging (eating a little more than you think and burning a little less than you think). There are two approaches you can take from here. 1. tighten up your food logging as much as you can, weigh solids and measure calorie containing liquids, and don't eat back as many exercise calories if you currently are. Or, since you currently are on maintenance, log the way you are currently and cut your calorie goal.

    Agree with all of this.
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