Tips for most of you.

rickiimarieee

I see most of you asking the questions, "I can't seem to lose weight on a 1,200 or whatever calorie diet" or "I'm stuck in a plateau". Most of you are stuck or can't lose because you are NOT weighing and measuring your food! To get a precise count for calories you need to weigh and measure. If you don't, you're going to overeat and then become discouraged because you haven't lost anything. Weight loss is created by a calorie deficit. How do you know if you have a calorie deficit if you are not weighing and properly measuring? That's my tip for you, take or leave it.

pjrabone

Thankyou for that. I had forgotten! Weighing my food was always how I did so well. THIS time my plan is for life. I have lost a total of 32 kg since my heaviest of d few years ago. 115kg. Now 83. My lifetime goal is 78-79kg. This last few kg is the hardest. Now I will go back to.weighing my food. THANKYOU FOR REMINDING ME

chrissywelsh10

It’s a community forum, these questions come from people who don’t know much about dieting & seeking answers - try to be kind & point them to the sticky posts.

rickiimarieee

I'm being kind, I didn't mean for this post to sound nasty or mean at all. This is also for people on here who you try to tell that too and they don't listen then wonder why they haven't lost anything.

rickiimarieee

I meant for this to be a helpful post for those who did not know why they haven't been losing. I'm sorry for anyone who took offense thinking that I was trying to be nasty!

Nony_Mouse

Your heart was in the right place, OP, and there does seem to have been a plethora of those posts the past few days. Truth is, there will be more of them tomorrow when your post has already dropped back a couple of pages (no, people don't look back more than the first page, or use the search function), and there will be more the day after that, and the day after that...so we grit our teeth, smile, and reply to the people posting. And when we're fed up to the eyeballs, we step back and let someone else handle it. It can be frustrating, always feeling like you're answering the same questions (because you are!), but that how this place rolls.

kommodevaran

To expand on PP's post - my bet is that it's the people who already knows about and practices weighing who will read your thread. I think many of us have an ingrained dislike of user manuals, so the stickies are only occasionally read. Even when pointed to. "Why am I not losing weight" will come up many times per day, every day, for eternity. Frustrating, but nothing we can do about it.

rickiimarieee

You both are entirely right. I mean if this helps one person realize that they're doing something wrong then that's fantastic if it doesn't then I guess oh well. Lol this is the post that can answer atleast like 5 questions on the first page of the forum of weight loss so if they read this, great!

FeelingAlive

I'm a geneticist/virologist, therefore I know exactly how to weight my food very accurately, and yet I lose weight incredibly slowly and hit plateaus regularly.

I feel it is important to point out to those who do weigh their food religiously that their bodies may adapt to a new lifestyle differently and that weight loss is not linear. I've lost almost 30lbs, but that has been over a 9 month period. Many people do not have the patience to see a steady loss, and therefore they complain about it. I eat around 1200-1400 calories a day (I like to keep it varied, but most of the time it leans towards 1200), which is less than what my body requires to maintain its current state, so I am at a deficit.

Weight loss is a learning process and people ask their questions because they don't have the knowledge. Yes, they may weigh inaccurately, or perhaps their body struggles with water weight, to digest certain foods properly, have hormone imbalances or started a new exercise regime. All these factors can contribute to the scale not budging, and we shouldn't simply shrug their concerns off, because they might truly not know how this works. I certainly didn't when I first started.

Seffell

This is not the only reason for not losing weight. Another major one is water weight. My weight was stuck for 6 weeks until my last period. I lost 5lbs in the last 3 days after literally NO loss for 6 weeks. 5lbs are A LOT for me cos I weigh 135lbs and are not a normal fluctuation for me. I made the deficit for these 5 lbs during 6 whole weeks getting frustrated like hell from the scale. But it only came off yesterday.
I was consistent because I've been doing this for 18 months and trust the physics.
But people get discouraged easily because they don't know that weight fluctuates. And water can mask loss for a VERY long time especially if they are lifting.