Why am I not losing weight
stacey73casarez
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I've been going to the gym since January of this year I started just walking on the treadmill and now I started working in my abs arms and legs I have been wondering if I'm doing something wrong I go to the gym every day and work out for 1-2 hours and I have not loss one pound and I'm starting to get discouraged and think I'm never going to lose weight l have been eating 1200 calories a day or less ...does anyone have any suggestion to help me out
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How's your logging. You can go to the gym all you want but if you're eating too much you won't lose. Are you using your food scale for all solids? Measuring cups/spoons for all liquids? Using the recipe builder? Using accurate entries? Accurately calculating exercise calories? Logging everything that passes your lips?9
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What's your height and weight?1
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I am 5'6" and weight 1970
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Thats kinda my stats.Well im 5'5 (barely) and 196 lb. Wow you have veen dieting and going to the gym for 6 months girl,and no loss? Is your thyroid ok? Im not really sure about my loss,since I kinda just started really going for it about 2 weeks now, but only one week with a 1200 calorie meal plan. Ialso do intermittent fasting. I eat between 10-7. Have you tried that? And for me I started drinking Apple cider vinegar a month ago,and immediately started noticing I never feel bloated anymore. And my clothes do fit better .Just little things like that. I know last year I was 212 pounds,and walked for doctors appointments and lost the 12 pounds within a six month period, which was just the next time I hit a scale. I think ive lost 4 pounds since a month ago,but don't really know.I weighed myself a few days ago ,I thought it was going to be like 187, because of how well my clothes fits me now, but no, it was 196. But at least now I know whaat im working with. But yeah nake sure you track yoir calories in and out, thats what I have always heard to be the big common denominator. Good luck.15
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This flowchart has good troubleshooting advice:
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Check your tracking. And given all that gym activity you should be eating WAY more than 1200.10
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1200 probably sets you up for failure
You're on crash course.
I lose about .5 lbs a week and I'm 6"2 190.
You should probably be eating 1700 Cal's a day if you want to be aggressive8 -
1200 probably sets you up for failure
You're on crash course.
I lose about .5 lbs a week and I'm 6"2 190.
You should probably be eating 1700 Cal's a day if you want to be aggressive
Hmm. At 5'7" and even starting back at 251lbs I never ate as high as 1700 for my calorie goal. I think that would have put me at a loss of 0.5lb a week. Hardly aggressive.
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I started at 259, 5'6 and was given 2150 to start. Ate at a 400-600ish deficit and have been losing 1-2 pounds a week consistently. All depends on the person.2
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I'm not a fan of single minded focus on weight. Try using a tape measurement as well. You can also use your clothes as an indicator. Muscles are way heavier than fat.12
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Wow. Basically you've been eating too much.
Find your calories & macros via IIFYM.com then plug that into MFP. Hit your numbers and you'll be golden!6 -
I agree with few of the above. 1200 is waaaay too little. From my knowledge you need at least 1600 kcal to function properly, regardless of your height and weight.
For example, I am 183 cm and I am 98 kg, but I was 105 kg. I actually started with 2200 kcals a day and now dropped to 2000 because I have to study a lot so I SIT A LOT. But 2200 was ok for me to start losing.
I respected and followed the Harris Benedict formula -here: http://ratfactor.com/fat-loss-calculator#maxloss - to get to those numbers, so nothing by myself. You should try and finding it online.. From what I know eating too little can be a stress source for the body and can burden the fat loss journey. So you should keep that in check.. Think of it this way - you are going to hit plateau - what then? Are you going to drop another 100 100 since you are already eating this little? Not suggesting to eat like me, but suggesting to eat more, especially you startes streingth training..
Also consider measuring yourself with a tape. The first 2 months I wasn't loosing kg only cm - my first month I lost 10 cm overall but no kg... Barely the third month did my scale move. We are not equal, everyone has his own pace and you just have to find yours. Don't get frustrated or discouraged. You will lose. It's a LOT of trial and error :-)6 -
Okay. Here's my take one why you are not losing weight.
1. You're lifting weights: aka gaining muscle. So even if you are losing fat, the scale will not show it. The first 6 months of weight lifting is where you gain muscle the fastest. Invest in a tape measure. When I started lifting I weighed 196lbs and had about 40% bodyfat with a 34.5" waist. Today I weigh 187lbs (9 lbs is all I lost in 4 months), but my body fat is 29.8% and my waist is 30". HUGE difference, just not on the scale.
2. You're not eating enough of the proper foods. When you lift weights you need to increase your protien!!! A lot! On your macros, protien should be around 40%. Muscle needs fuel to exist, 1lb of muscle needs about 100 calories a day to just exist. Reevaluate your nutrition, a nutritionist or licensed personal trainer can help.
3. Less cardio, more weights. 30 min a day cardio is more than enough. Weights, push yourself. This means by the end of your workout you should be completely exhausted. After my leg workouts I can barely walk out of the gym.
I hired a trainer/nutritionist and had my world turned upside down. Ready for this: massive cardio doesn't work, 30 min a day is all you need. Weightlifting burns so much more, and because muscles take time to recover, you continue to burn calories after your workout for a good 3 hours. Eating the right foods and the right times is absolutely key, the best workout habits will be useless without proper nutrition.55 -
1200 calories is the reason. You are under eating. You need to research TDEE VS BMR. BMR are the calories you need just for your body to lie in a coma. TDEE is calculated with exercise and the calories your body needs to sustain all of this. You calorie intake is way below what it needs to be. Up your intake and you will see a difference. I thought eat less and exercise more was key until my Trainer educated me. I gave it a try and it worked. Find a TDEE calculator and put your numbers in. Good luck!19
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Chances are if you aren't losing you are eating maintenance calories. If you were truly only consuming 1200 calories you would be losing. Weigh your food and measure with grams or oz. Log everything you consume (good, bad, ugly). But agree with the above. 1200 cal may be your base, but you need to account for exercise calories and eat back 1/4-1/2 so you don't lose muscle mass.10
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BabyBear76 wrote: »Okay. Here's my take one why you are not losing weight.
1. You're lifting weights: aka gaining muscle. So even if you are losing fat, the scale will not show it. The first 6 months of weight lifting is where you gain muscle the fastest. Invest in a tape measure. When I started lifting I weighed 196lbs and had about 40% bodyfat with a 34.5" waist. Today I weigh 187lbs (9 lbs is all I lost in 4 months), but my body fat is 29.8% and my waist is 30". HUGE difference, just not on the scale.
2. You're not eating enough of the proper foods. When you lift weights you need to increase your protien!!! A lot! On your macros, protien should be around 40%. Muscle needs fuel to exist, 1lb of muscle needs about 100 calories a day to just exist. Reevaluate your nutrition, a nutritionist or licensed personal trainer can help.
3. Less cardio, more weights. 30 min a day cardio is more than enough. Weights, push yourself. This means by the end of your workout you should be completely exhausted. After my leg workouts I can barely walk out of the gym.
I hired a trainer/nutritionist and had my world turned upside down. Ready for this: massive cardio doesn't work, 30 min a day is all you need. Weightlifting burns so much more, and because muscles take time to recover, you continue to burn calories after your workout for a good 3 hours. Eating the right foods and the right times is absolutely key, the best workout habits will be useless without proper nutrition.
Source for this? Other than your trainer/nutritionist.15 -
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BabyBear76 wrote: »Okay. Here's my take one why you are not losing weight.
1. You're lifting weights: aka gaining muscle. So even if you are losing fat, the scale will not show it. The first 6 months of weight lifting is where you gain muscle the fastest. Invest in a tape measure. When I started lifting I weighed 196lbs and had about 40% bodyfat with a 34.5" waist. Today I weigh 187lbs (9 lbs is all I lost in 4 months), but my body fat is 29.8% and my waist is 30". HUGE difference, just not on the scale.
2. You're not eating enough of the proper foods. When you lift weights you need to increase your protien!!! A lot! On your macros, protien should be around 40%. Muscle needs fuel to exist, 1lb of muscle needs about 100 calories a day to just exist. Reevaluate your nutrition, a nutritionist or licensed personal trainer can help.
3. Less cardio, more weights. 30 min a day cardio is more than enough. Weights, push yourself. This means by the end of your workout you should be completely exhausted. After my leg workouts I can barely walk out of the gym.
I hired a trainer/nutritionist and had my world turned upside down. Ready for this: massive cardio doesn't work, 30 min a day is all you need. Weightlifting burns so much more, and because muscles take time to recover, you continue to burn calories after your workout for a good 3 hours. Eating the right foods and the right times is absolutely key, the best workout habits will be useless without proper nutrition.
What drugs are you on to gain over a pound of muscle per week while losing weight as a woman?43 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »How's your logging. You can go to the gym all you want but if you're eating too much you won't lose.
This. If you aren't losing, you aren't eating less than you burn. That means you almost certainly are eating more than 1200, so figuring out that issue and getting the eating under control is the first thing.
Exercise is great -- important for health, helpful in allowing you to eat more while losing. It's often not enough for people who don't have their eating under control or who haven't found an accurate way to make sure their calories don't increase as exercise does.
As for going to the gym daily and working out for 1-2 hours. Do you enjoy it? If not, there are probably more efficient ways to achieve what you want (either way I think both weights and cardio are good to incorporate). If you do, excellent.16 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »So much woo in this thread.
Exactly. So many people taking the 1200 calorie thing at face value and then going so far as to say she's not losing because she's eating too little. Sorry, nope. If the OP were truly eating 1200 calories with their stats, they'd be losing weight. The OP is not eating 1200 calories or less per day even though they may think they are. If they have a cheat day on the weekend, then it's even less of a deficit than they think. OP, get a food scale and weigh everything you eat. It will be a real eye opener and you'll see that you've most likely been underestimating your food intake by 300+ calories.22 -
BabyBear76 wrote: »Okay. Here's my take one why you are not losing weight.
1. You're lifting weights: aka gaining muscle. So even if you are losing fat, the scale will not show it. The first 6 months of weight lifting is where you gain muscle the fastest. Invest in a tape measure. When I started lifting I weighed 196lbs and had about 40% bodyfat with a 34.5" waist. Today I weigh 187lbs (9 lbs is all I lost in 4 months), but my body fat is 29.8% and my waist is 30". HUGE difference, just not on the scale.
2. You're not eating enough of the proper foods. When you lift weights you need to increase your protien!!! A lot! On your macros, protien should be around 40%. Muscle needs fuel to exist, 1lb of muscle needs about 100 calories a day to just exist. Reevaluate your nutrition, a nutritionist or licensed personal trainer can help.
3. Less cardio, more weights. 30 min a day cardio is more than enough. Weights, push yourself. This means by the end of your workout you should be completely exhausted. After my leg workouts I can barely walk out of the gym.
I hired a trainer/nutritionist and had my world turned upside down. Ready for this: massive cardio doesn't work, 30 min a day is all you need. Weightlifting burns so much more, and because muscles take time to recover, you continue to burn calories after your workout for a good 3 hours. Eating the right foods and the right times is absolutely key, the best workout habits will be useless without proper nutrition.
I would strongly suggest that you refrain from giving advice until you have studied further. Rather, seek advice and input to learn and grow. Your post above is a very weird mix of bro-science, half truths and untruths. It sometimes defies physiology and nutritional science. Ask questions. Learn. Research. You are too inexperienced and have not studied and read enough to advise.
As examples, weight lifting does not "burn so much more", nutrient timing is mostly preference. It's irrelevant other than that except for elite level athletes. Women eating in a deficit aren't gaining massive amounts of muscle. Even newbie gains. Learn first. Advise later. If you wish to be taken seriously at all.....36 -
Fill out mfp accurately and eat what mfp tells you. Plus about half of your exercise calories.
Buy a food scale. Use it.
Accurately log all foods.
Be patient.
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Your probably eating a lot more then you think, invest in a food scale7
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I agree with few of the above. 1200 is waaaay too little. From my knowledge you need at least 1600 kcal to function properly, regardless of your height and weight.
Err... I'm 5'2". And I'm small now (healthy weight). Your minimum to "function properly" is my maintenance if I'm actually being semi-active. If I went sedentary, my maintenance would be even less than that.
Minimum recommended for women is 1200 calories, men is roughly 1500 calories.3 -
OP, buy a food scale. What some people in here suggest is woo. Basically going "ermagerd Starvation Mode"... If you eat at a deficit, you'd lose. Follow the chart another person posted in the thread.
Trust me. I'm 100lbs down.18 -
1200 calories per day and you're working out 1-2 hours that's why you're not losing weight . You need to up your calories . 1200 calories would probably be correct if you weren't working out (depending on your bmi) . Best thing to do is look up your bmi26
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How many more people are going to reply without reading the other replies and erroneously claim that the OP isn't eating enough and that's why she's not losing weight?24
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Maxematics wrote: »How many more people are going to reply without reading the other replies and erroneously claim that the OP isn't eating enough and that's why she's not losing weight?
I'd say 4
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@stacey73casarez - please respond and let everyone know how you are measuring the amount of calories you eat. Are you weighing? If you really are eating this little while working out this much, you need to see a specialist to figure out why. More than likely you are eating far more than you think, but without input from you, there can't be any meaningful discussion.4
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You is not losing because too many calories7
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