Why am I not losing weight
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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.
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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This thread reminds me of weight watchers' forums. I swear 80% of the people on that program think they are not losing weight because they aren't eating enough.
Seriously folks, do people that are starving in Africa look like they're gaining weight because they are in starvation mode?
OP, you are either underestimating calories or you are seriously ill and need guidance from a doctor, not a bunch of woo.26 -
This thread reminds me of weight watchers' forums. I swear 80% of the people on that program think they are not losing weight because they aren't eating enough.
Seriously folks, do people that are starving in Africa look like they're gaining weight because they are in starvation mode?
OP, you are either underestimating calories or you are seriously ill and need guidance from a doctor, not a bunch of woo.
Weight Watchers flat out tells people that too, so it's not surprising. Fun fact - Up until relatively recently, even MFP would trot out "starvation mode" if you tried to complete your diary at under 1000 calories a day.7 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »This thread reminds me of weight watchers' forums. I swear 80% of the people on that program think they are not losing weight because they aren't eating enough.
Seriously folks, do people that are starving in Africa look like they're gaining weight because they are in starvation mode?
OP, you are either underestimating calories or you are seriously ill and need guidance from a doctor, not a bunch of woo.
Weight Watchers flat out tells people that too, so it's not surprising. Fun fact - Up until relatively recently, even MFP would trot out "starvation mode" if you tried to complete your diary at under 1000 calories a day.
That is why Oprah invested in WW. Keeping people fat keeps them in business.
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What does woo mean? Or for that matter "kitten" i keep seeing it on the discussions.0
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Nykkismommy21 wrote: »What does woo mean? Or for that matter "kitten" i keep seeing it on the discussions.
Woo=a weight loss idea that has been disproven or won't do anything
*kitten*=MFP's profanity filter5 -
Okay here it is when I started this app it put me down as to eat 1200 calories a day I usually eat 1200 calories or less the day I go to the gym in the morning and then again at night... I have been to the doctor and have asked about my thyroid and they said that my thyroid is fine so I don't know what I'm doing wrong if I'm not eating enough calories for going to the gym twice a day but a lot of you guys are saying I'm eating way too many calories... and yes I log everything I eat and drink1
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stacey73casarez wrote: »Okay here it is when I started this app it put me down as to eat 1200 calories a day I usually eat 1200 calories or less the day I go to the gym in the morning and then again at night... I have been to the doctor and have asked about my thyroid and they said that my thyroid is fine so I don't know what I'm doing wrong if I'm not eating enough calories for going to the gym twice a day but a lot of you guys are saying I'm eating way too many calories... and yes I log everything I eat and drink
How are you logging? Are you weighing all of your food?2 -
stacey73casarez wrote: »Okay here it is when I started this app it put me down as to eat 1200 calories a day I usually eat 1200 calories or less the day I go to the gym in the morning and then again at night... I have been to the doctor and have asked about my thyroid and they said that my thyroid is fine so I don't know what I'm doing wrong if I'm not eating enough calories for going to the gym twice a day but a lot of you guys are saying I'm eating way too many calories... and yes I log everything I eat and drink
How are you measuring what you're logging?2 -
stacey73casarez wrote: »Okay I have been to the doctor they said there's nothing wrong with my thyroid I log in everyday and log everything I eat and drink when I started this app it put me down for my height and weight 1200 calories a day I usually eat 1200 calories or less the day but I also go to the gym in the morning and then again at night.... so some of you tell me I'm eating way too many calories and some of you tell me I am not eating enough calories
Food scale. Weigh everything that passes your lips. Log it into this app. No skipping, forgetting or cheating.
After doing that, if you determine you really were eating 1200 calories, then go to Plan B.5 -
stacey73casarez wrote: »Okay I have been to the doctor they said there's nothing wrong with my thyroid I log in everyday and log everything I eat and drink when I started this app it put me down for my height and weight 1200 calories a day I usually eat 1200 calories or less the day but I also go to the gym in the morning and then again at night.... so some of you tell me I'm eating way too many calories and some of you tell me I am not eating enough calories
How are you quantifying the amount of food that you are logging? Are you estimating? Looking at the packaging and saying, "Yeah, that's probably one serving." Weighing it on a food scale? What?2
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