Scale stuck for 3 weeks
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mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
And two hours of working out each day?4 -
mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
All that is understood.
But most people who are spending 15+ uncompensated hours a week commuting don't need supplementary income from working on the weekend.
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My question is: how long do you honestly think you can keep up this pace before you burn out? IMHO you are abusing your body by underfueling and denying it the sleep it needs to rejuvenate. Take a deep breath and slow down a bit. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight, just like gaining it didn't happen overnight. Stress and lack of sleep only sabotage your efforts (speaking from experience).7
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My question is: how long do you honestly think you can keep up this pace before you burn out? IMHO you are abusing your body by underfueling and denying it the sleep it needs to rejuvenate. Take a deep breath and slow down a bit. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight, just like gaining it didn't happen overnight. Stress and lack of sleep only sabotage your efforts (speaking from experience).
Been working 7 days a week for 5 years in April.
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stanmann571 wrote: »mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
All that is understood.
But most people who are spending 15+ uncompensated hours a week commuting don't need supplementary income from working on the weekend.
Goverment jobs don’t pay well. Not much else around here
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Make sleep a priority over workouts, you can operate without workouts but not without decent sleep. You can lose weight without workouts too.
Spend any spare time doing active stuff with your family. You're no good to them if you're burnt out!9 -
It's possible that you have entered into an over trained state and have reached a slowed metabolic adaption problem, depending on how long you have been in a caloric deficit. I would figure my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and reverse your calories by 100 or so every 5 to 7 days until you reach your maintenance calorie number to slowly wind your metabolism back up. Then drop your calories to 20-25% below your TDEE to resume losing the fat. You definitely need more sleep and should need no more than a one hour long heavy resistance training session (5 times per wk) combined with no more than 3 to 4 HIIT cardio sessions per week to melt the fat off at a 20% calorie deficit from your TDEE. Supplementation can aid in this as well. Just want to help. Let me know if you want to know more.13
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Do you want help or not?
People have given you very good advice above. Have a read through and try some of it. Your health is also important, and weight loss can be achieved with far less/no exercise.15 -
It's possible that you have entered into an over trained state and have reached a slowed metabolic adaption problem, depending on how long you have been in a caloric deficit. I would figure my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and reverse your calories by 100 or so every 5 to 7 days until you reach your maintenance calorie number to slowly wind your metabolism back up. Then drop your calories to 20-25% below your TDEE to resume losing the fat. You definitely need more sleep and should need no more than a one hour long heavy resistance training session (5 times per wk) combined with no more than 3 to 4 HIIT cardio sessions per week to melt the fat off at a 20% calorie deficit from your TDEE. Supplementation can aid in this as well. Just want to help. Let me know if you want to know more.
You don't need any of that exercise to "melt the fat off" if you're in a deficit and MFP calculates the total calorie intake for loss just fine without exercise, so why overcomplicate it with TDEE. Agree some strength training and cardio is beneficial for health and muscle insurance but there is no need to be doing 5 hour long heavy lifting sessions per week.9 -
mochamommy wrote: »My question is: how long do you honestly think you can keep up this pace before you burn out? IMHO you are abusing your body by underfueling and denying it the sleep it needs to rejuvenate. Take a deep breath and slow down a bit. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight, just like gaining it didn't happen overnight. Stress and lack of sleep only sabotage your efforts (speaking from experience).
Been working 7 days a week for 5 years in April.
No one is criticizing your work. They are talking about your workout schedule. Workout less. Clean a little less. Sleep a little more.9 -
I lost a significant amount of weight in the past and I had a few stalls like this. But it usually would result in a bigger loss once your body is done taking a break.1
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mochamommy wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
All that is understood.
But most people who are spending 15+ uncompensated hours a week commuting don't need supplementary income from working on the weekend.
Goverment jobs don’t pay well. Not much else around here
Government jobs tend to pay plenty well if you manage your lifestyle appropriately. They also come with benefits like Health care and time off for fitness and fitness and lifestyle counseling.8 -
Eat more calories!!! you are starving yourself and over working yourself... bad combo. your body is tired!! ttrust me i over did it and obsessed over seeing the scale move,. i'm eating between 1670-1800 and do atleast 45 mins of cardio daily and WT 30 mins 3 days a week, trust me you don't have to under eat and over work your bones and body to lose weight... been there done that!!12
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stanmann571 wrote: »mochamommy wrote: »stanmann571 wrote: »mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
All that is understood.
But most people who are spending 15+ uncompensated hours a week commuting don't need supplementary income from working on the weekend.
Goverment jobs don’t pay well. Not much else around here
Government jobs tend to pay plenty well if you manage your lifestyle appropriately. They also come with benefits like Health care and time off for fitness and fitness and lifestyle counseling.
Not in all countries.5 -
mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
Ok, now you just sound defensive. You've been given rock solid advice here, but you're only responding to the fact you work 7 days a week. You're busy enough with that, there is no need to excersise as much as you are and you certainly don't need to do that to lose weight. I get the feeling you think weight loss can only be acheived through manic workout routines. No.
Calorie deficit will lose the weight.
Try eating at the setting MFP gave you. Take a break from the gym. Get some SLEEP!12 -
Your post says the scale is stuck. You say you are eating 1300 calories....and workout 2 hours a day. Before going into anything else, and without looking at your stats....you haven't mentioned them. I would be shocked if 1300 isn't an adequate or even extreme deficit. The scale is not moving because either:
1) you are holding water due to added stress (likely),
2) you are eating more than you think (also probably likely) or
3) Both
Working out more is not going to be the answer here. You have not mentioned your height, current weight, goal weight or age. So there is no way to tell where your deficit is. Perhaps you can provide those. Nobody has to work out more than even 1 hour in a day to lose weight (or even at all for that matter). You just have to eat less than you burn.
Stress = hormone reaction, water retention, some (minor) metabolism slowing and all kinds of bad things. Adding more workout and less sleep will only exacerbate that. Furthermore, if you do lose the weight you want when you do that stuff, will you be able to keep it up during maintenance? How would you know?
Lastly, you're going to have to prioritize. I would put sleep above working out and above cleaning up. If you are working out, sleep is where the magic happens. That's when muscles recover (and build if you're doing that).
Please take the sensible advice offered on this thread - even if it's not mine. Best wishes to you.13 -
You're over exercising and undereating for that kind of activity...you're just stressing your body out and jacking with your hormones and raising cortisol levels. You do not need to workout the way you're working out...the people I know who train for multiple hours per day have advanced fitness aspirations and/or are training for particular activities and even then, they work at various intensities and what not...and they eat and train...as in they properly fuel that activity with lots of calories.
You're basically burning the candle on both ends, and in the middle too. Cut back on the exercise...you're well beyond the point of diminishing returns and well into counterproductive territory.9 -
I learnt a new word today, bragplaining. It's a useful word. Oh, and the forum is immune to it, btw.14
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Silentpadna wrote: »Your post says the scale is stuck. You say you are eating 1300 calories....and workout 2 hours a day. Before going into anything else, and without looking at your stats....you haven't mentioned them. I would be shocked if 1300 isn't an adequate or even extreme deficit. The scale is not moving because either:
1) you are holding water due to added stress (likely),
2) you are eating more than you think (also probably likely) or
3) Both
Working out more is not going to be the answer here. You have not mentioned your height, current weight, goal weight or age. So there is no way to tell where your deficit is. Perhaps you can provide those. Nobody has to work out more than even 1 hour in a day to lose weight (or even at all for that matter). You just have to eat less than you burn.
Stress = hormone reaction, water retention, some (minor) metabolism slowing and all kinds of bad things. Adding more workout and less sleep will only exacerbate that. Furthermore, if you do lose the weight you want when you do that stuff, will you be able to keep it up during maintenance? How would you know?
Lastly, you're going to have to prioritize. I would put sleep above working out and above cleaning up. If you are working out, sleep is where the magic happens. That's when muscles recover (and build if you're doing that).
Please take the sensible advice offered on this thread - even if it's not mine. Best wishes to you.
90 minutes to prepare and eat dinner is also another place where efficiencies can be found and exploited with planning.
Yes, I've been direct and maybe a bit harsh, but at the rate you're going, you're probably very close to the point where you start losing the ability to focus on unimportant things, which will make them take more time. You're also probably overlooking other ways in which efficiencies can be found.
Finally, cutting back on the classes and training time will probably put more money in your pocket which will go a long way to further reducing your stress and giving you energy to find other economic and temporal efficiencies.9 -
Stress, lack of sleep and undereating all contribute to the scale slowing down or not moving for periods of time. The main mechanisms are water retention; fatigue related slowdowns in exercise intensity and daily life calorie burn; and sometimes poor record keeping due to fatigue.
Only you are in control of your life and priorities.
If you "can't" work less, clean less, exercise less, reduce stress, or sleep more, you're effectively proposing to keep doing what isn't working . . . or ignore the (good, IMO) advice you've been given and work out more, or maybe eat even less, which will probably make your stalls and fluctuations (and stress level) worse.
It's your call.
Look, I'm a nice li'l ol' lady who likes to see everyone achieve their weight management goals while staying strong, healthy, and as happy and in good life balance as their personal circumstances allow. You're struggling on several of those fronts right now. It's not possible to perfect every aspect of life simultaneously; it's necessary to set priorities and make choices.
Please, please make a positive choice. Please.
Regardless of your choice, I sincerely hope and wish for positive outcomes for you.13 -
stanmann571 wrote: »Silentpadna wrote: »Your post says the scale is stuck. You say you are eating 1300 calories....and workout 2 hours a
Finally, cutting back on the classes and training time will probably put more money in your pocket which will go a long way to further reducing your stress and giving you energy to find other economic and temporal efficiencies.
My gym memberships are only 25 a month through work.2 -
Height 5’6.5” ish. One dr says I’m. 5”7’ one says 5’6. 1/2Silentpadna wrote: »Your post says the scale is stuck. You say you are eating 1300 calories....and workout 2 hours a day. Before going into anything else, and without looking at your stats....you haven't mentioned them. I would be shocked if 1300 isn't an adequate or even extreme deficit. The scale is not moving because either:
1) you are holding water due to added stress (likely),
2) you are eating more than you think (also probably likely) or
3) Both
Working out more is not going to be the answer here. You have not mentioned your height, current weight, goal weight or age. So there is no way to tell where your deficit is. Perhaps you can provide those. Nobody has to work out more than even 1 hour in a day to lose weight (or even at all for that matter). You just have to eat less than you burn.
Stress = hormone reaction, water retention, some (minor) metabolism slowing and all kinds of bad things. Adding more workout and less sleep will only exacerbate that. Furthermore, if you do lose the weight you want when you do that stuff, will you be able to keep it up during maintenance? How would you know?
Lastly, you're going to have to prioritize. I would put sleep above working out and above cleaning up. If you are working out, sleep is where the magic happens. That's when muscles recover (and build if you're doing that).
Please take the sensible advice offered on this thread - even if it's not mine. Best wishes to you.
Weight 151. Will not drop damn it
Goal weight 140
Age 45
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BMR is a pathetic 1346.4
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mochamommy wrote: »
Height 5’6.5” ish. One dr says I’m. 5”7’ one says 5’6. 1/2Silentpadna wrote: »Your post says the scale is stuck. You say you are eating 1300 calories....and workout 2 hours a day. Before going into anything else, and without looking at your stats....you haven't mentioned them. I would be shocked if 1300 isn't an adequate or even extreme deficit. The scale is not moving because either:
1) you are holding water due to added stress (likely),
2) you are eating more than you think (also probably likely) or
3) Both
Working out more is not going to be the answer here. You have not mentioned your height, current weight, goal weight or age. So there is no way to tell where your deficit is. Perhaps you can provide those. Nobody has to work out more than even 1 hour in a day to lose weight (or even at all for that matter). You just have to eat less than you burn.
Stress = hormone reaction, water retention, some (minor) metabolism slowing and all kinds of bad things. Adding more workout and less sleep will only exacerbate that. Furthermore, if you do lose the weight you want when you do that stuff, will you be able to keep it up during maintenance? How would you know?
Lastly, you're going to have to prioritize. I would put sleep above working out and above cleaning up. If you are working out, sleep is where the magic happens. That's when muscles recover (and build if you're doing that).
Please take the sensible advice offered on this thread - even if it's not mine. Best wishes to you.
Weight 151. Will not drop damn it
Goal weight 140
Age 45
That's a healthy weight.
Why do you want to lose weight? Is there a specific health concern that will benefit from going from a high normal/healthy weight to a lower weight?
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I was not loosing weigh for a few weeks as well. But it finally snapped and down 2 pounds now. If you have not done so i recommend also taking your measurements so you have more than one way to measure your success.2
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All great advice here. I am still stumped on the fact you were willing to give up one more hour of sleep to work out for 3 hours instead of 2?
Things sounds off a bit, as in prioritizing and finding balance instead of beating yourself in the ground. You just need a moderate of exercise and eat less. You can even give up the exercise and eat less, this way you could sleep more. Sleep is a wonderful thing.6 -
I'm going to bow out but keep following.
I leave with just this. Everything I've said is exactly the same as I would say to my sister or my wife's best friend in the same situation. And I hope you can figure out a way forward.8 -
How about drop the gym membership and classes, and just go for a walk for 1/2 hour or an hour a day? Do it with your family and you'll get more family time. You will eventually crash and burn at the rate you are going.4
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mochamommy wrote: »BMR is a pathetic 1346.
This is not pathetic. I am shorter than you and mine is 1130ish. And you are eating below BMR no wonder you are having the issues you are having.mochamommy wrote: »
Height 5’6.5” ish. One dr says I’m. 5”7’ one says 5’6. 1/2Silentpadna wrote: »Your post says the scale is stuck. You say you are eating 1300 calories....and workout 2 hours a day. Before going into anything else, and without looking at your stats....you haven't mentioned them. I would be shocked if 1300 isn't an adequate or even extreme deficit. The scale is not moving because either:
1) you are holding water due to added stress (likely),
2) you are eating more than you think (also probably likely) or
3) Both
Working out more is not going to be the answer here. You have not mentioned your height, current weight, goal weight or age. So there is no way to tell where your deficit is. Perhaps you can provide those. Nobody has to work out more than even 1 hour in a day to lose weight (or even at all for that matter). You just have to eat less than you burn.
Stress = hormone reaction, water retention, some (minor) metabolism slowing and all kinds of bad things. Adding more workout and less sleep will only exacerbate that. Furthermore, if you do lose the weight you want when you do that stuff, will you be able to keep it up during maintenance? How would you know?
Lastly, you're going to have to prioritize. I would put sleep above working out and above cleaning up. If you are working out, sleep is where the magic happens. That's when muscles recover (and build if you're doing that).
Please take the sensible advice offered on this thread - even if it's not mine. Best wishes to you.
Weight 151. Will not drop damn it
Goal weight 140
Age 45
Oh my... All of this to lose 10-11 pounds? Your are going about this wrong, putting a lot of emotion in things instead of stepping back and trying to learn the right process to reach your goals. I hope you heed the advice given in here and be kinder to your body and the amount of physical, mental and emotional stress you are putting on it. You only have one body, choose healthy weight loss and healthy amounts of exercise.19 -
Dear Mocha Mommy, Try eating food with only one ingredient. Use a food scale for 100% of everything you eat. You might just be at too low a daily caloric intake. 1500 should do the job without stressing the body to shut down/slow the metabolism way too much. You do a lot of exercise and you burn calories besides the work outs so you just are probably too low in calories in. I don't know squat but what works for me. I've lost 37.8# so far.26
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