No weight loss after 4 weeks!

jessebaby28

Help. I am a 70 year old overweight female. Over the last few weeks I’ve been walking approximately 200 minutes a week ( in bite sized chunks), doing a 45 minute zumba class, an hour of aqua aerobics plus a 1 1/2 hour yoga class.
I have been following a 1200 calories a day MyFitnessPal healthy (as possible) eating plan for over a month and haven’t lost an ounce of weight.
What’s going wrong??

deannalfisher

Are you weighing everything? Did you add extra working out? How is your sleep?

dsboohead

Is the 1200 cal what MFP designated you for your age, height, and weight as well as daily physical activity?
You logging every single bite?
Could be eating to little.

dsboohead

1200 is minimum for anyone in a coma

usmcmp

dsboohead wrote: »

1200 is minimum for anyone in a coma

Actually it isn't. You're thinking of BMR. 1200 is a generally accepted lowest suggestion based on an old study the government has stuck to. A very short, sedentary, light female may need to eat less than that for noticeable weight loss. If I was in a coma and given 1200 calories I'd be sickly skinny in a few months.

OP: do you use a food scale? Do you eat out?

iowalinda

jessebaby28 wrote: »

Help. I am a 70 year old overweight female. Over the last few weeks I’ve been walking approximately 200 minutes a week ( in bite sized chunks), doing a 45 minute zumba class, an hour of aqua aerobics plus a 1 1/2 hour yoga class.
I have been following a 1200 calories a day MyFitnessPal healthy (as possible) eating plan for over a month and haven’t lost an ounce of weight.
What’s going wrong??

Are you weighing & tracking every bite or are you guesstimating what you are eating? Exercise is good for toning/strength, but most people need to reduce the number of calories they eat to lose weight.

GaleHawkins

jessebaby28 wrote: »

Help. I am a 70 year old overweight female. Over the last few weeks I’ve been walking approximately 200 minutes a week ( in bite sized chunks), doing a 45 minute zumba class, an hour of aqua aerobics plus a 1 1/2 hour yoga class.
I have been following a 1200 calories a day MyFitnessPal healthy (as possible) eating plan for over a month and haven’t lost an ounce of weight.
What’s going wrong??

@jessebaby28 it was day 45 before I lost my first pound when I when Low Carb High fat for joint pain and many other serious health issues back in Oct 2014. My pain dropped like a rock in the first 30 days and lost an inch in the waist. I was looking for a new Way Of Eating to avoid having to start Enbrel injections and that might work for other family members is the same health issues.

Since I went to this new WOE to manage pain I did not focus on calorie counts but the sources of the calories making up my macros of more or less 5% carbs, 20% protein and 75% fats. I do walk a 1/4 of a mile most days but due to age and health decided to not use exercise to lose weight or tracking foods beyond long enough to figure out how much I was eating. I have lost another 40 pounds eating around 2000-2500+ calories daily. On LCHF for over three years has worked to get my pain down from the 7-8 level range to <1 most all of the time and reversed serious health issues in my case.

We are all different and what works for one may or may not be right for the next person to do. Just stay on your mission and in time I expect you will find the way of thinking, eating and moving that is right for your better health. Best of success.

quiksylver296

Check out this thread, @jessebaby28. It shows why a food scale is such a powerful tool for your weight loss.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1

CharlieBeansmomTracey

dsboohead wrote: »

Is the 1200 cal what MFP designated you for your age, height, and weight as well as daily physical activity?
You logging every single bite?
Could be eating to little.

eating too little would not be the issue. if eating too little would be the reason no one lost weight anorexics and those in starving thrid world countries would not lose weight.