Can't loose weight even with diet and exercise!

Hello I have been trying to lose weight for about two years already I managed to lose about 1 to 3 pounds and then stay the same. I don't eat fatty meats basically chicken breast salads A lot of vegetables beans. I hardly ever eat out and I exercise one hour three days a week. I don't understand why I cannot lose some weight can anyone help?
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  • mazdauk
    mazdauk Posts: 1,380 Member
    As others have said:

    First get your MFP account set up properly, including your activity level. Ignore "deliberate" exercise in this - just because you exercise 3 times a week does not make you active, it depends what your job/daily life entails! So if you have a desk job, set it to sedentary. Then stick to the daily calorie limit.

    Next, buy a food scale - never ever measure in cups, handfuls, "average portion", or you cannot be sure of your calories.

    Finally, be honest when estimating your exercise calorie burn - being tired after a walk doesn't necessarily mean you were walking very briskly!

    Come back to us in a month if you are tracking accurately and still not losing weight :)
  • MissyCHF
    MissyCHF Posts: 337 Member
    anahdz2013 wrote: »
    Hello I have been trying to lose weight for about two years already I managed to lose about 1 to 3 pounds and then stay the same. I don't eat fatty meats basically chicken breast salads A lot of vegetables beans. I hardly ever eat out and I exercise one hour three days a week. I don't understand why I cannot lose some weight can anyone help?
    Hi, I think the advice you're given here to count calories is excellent, by tracking every morsel you eat or drink - if it is calorific - you will lose weight. The best exercise is to push your chair away from the table. It is very hard I know but with MFP works. :)
  • johnnylakis
    johnnylakis Posts: 812 Member
    I had the same problem, so I quit the gym, ate less and lost 6 lbs per month until I got to my goal weight.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I'm guessing you're new to myfitnesspal?? Give it a try for a few weeks. (Using mfp that is, its a calorie counting tool) you will see.
  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    OP has left the building!
  • anahdz2013
    anahdz2013 Posts: 5 Member
    Hello yes I have been logging in my meals I get frustrated sometimes and stop. I am only able to exercise three times a week because I work 12 hour shift's three other days of the week. I am at 5'3 and 170 pounds right now and My goal is to be 135 to 140 pounds. And example of what I eat in a day is two boiled eggs in the morning with a cup of coffee with Stevia. Then at lunchtime I eat a salad with boiled chicken breast. For dinner I eattwo more boiled eggs and a half a cup of oatmeal. For snacks in between meals are usually eat either apples a little container of organic hummus with snap peas or a banana. My exercise consist of using a maxi climber in which i burn 750 cal in 50 minutes then I do 10 minutes of ab work. What am I doing wrong?
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    anahdz2013 wrote: »
    Hello yes I have been logging in my meals I get frustrated sometimes and stop. I am only able to exercise three times a week because I work 12 hour shift's three other days of the week. I am at 5'3 and 170 pounds right now and My goal is to be 135 to 140 pounds. And example of what I eat in a day is two boiled eggs in the morning with a cup of coffee with Stevia. Then at lunchtime I eat a salad with boiled chicken breast. For dinner I eattwo more boiled eggs and a half a cup of oatmeal. For snacks in between meals are usually eat either apples a little container of organic hummus with snap peas or a banana. My exercise consist of using a maxi climber in which i burn 750 cal in 50 minutes then I do 10 minutes of ab work. What am I doing wrong?

    Can you open your diary??

    Exercise calorie burn is most likely not accurate.
  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    You don't even HAVE to exercise to lose weight as long as you are counting all of the calories you eat and actually maintain a deficit.
  • LiftHeavyThings27105
    LiftHeavyThings27105 Posts: 2,086 Member
    edited September 2017
    @aeloine - agreed. In the "Calories In/Calories Out" concept the food that one eats is the "calories in" and the body "doing its thing" and one's day-to-day activities are the "calories out". So, just make sure that the "calories out" are higher than the "calories in" and fat loss happens. Obviously, the larger the gap the more fat loss. There is an appropriate "gap size", depending on several things.

    Cardio and training simply add to the "calories out" side of the equation.

    The key is to (A) log everything correctly and (B) compare what should happen vs how your body is responding. If there is a 'disconnect' there then review the logging. There *might* be something that is less than accurate there. Maybe. But not necessarily.

    Start there. As a general point....
  • Jancandoit7
    Jancandoit7 Posts: 356 Member
    Hashimoto's Thyroid issue here too and post menopausal - yep it's harder to lose but I just expect it to be slow (.5 pound a week is good for me). I just try not to think of myself as on a "diet" - I've completely changed my way of eating for weight loss and health. I'm eating 1400 cal. a day- macros are 30 carbs/35 protein /35 fat
    I don't lose when I up my carbs more. I'm 5'3 CW 188 (goal is 150).