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georgie1268

Hello everyone! Welcome to the struggle.lol
Tell me, am I the only one who eats under 1100 cal a day, low carb, clean eating. Puts portions on the scale AND hit the gym hard.. = NO weight loss.. ugg.
I will not give up but it's not motivating to work so hard for zip. 🙁 any advice would be great.

AliNouveau

You should probably eat more. Eating less than 1100 calories a day and working out isn't conducive to good healthy habits. Add some more calories and I bet you'll notice a change

apullum

You need to stop undereating. 1200 is the minimum calorie intake for women, and is still too low for many women.

Put your stats into MFP. Select a rate of loss that is reasonable for your stats. 1 pound per week is generally reasonable unless you only have about 15-20ish pounds to lose (in which case you should select 0.5 lb/week), or if you have 75+ pounds to lose (in which case you can select up to 2 lb/week).

Eat the number of calories MFP gives you, not less. Eat back all your exercise calories if you're confident they're calculated correctly. If you aren't confident that they're correct (i.e., you're using estimates from the MFP exercise database), then eat half the estimated exercise calories.

Use a food scale to weigh ALL your food. Literally ALL of it. Your cooking oil, your bananas, your onions, everything. If you aren't using a food scale for ALL your food, then you're virtually guaranteed to be eating more than you think you are.

Low carb and "clean" eating aren't meaningful for weight loss. They are simply personal preferences. Weight loss happens when you take in fewer calories than your body burns, and it does not matter what specific foods/macros those calories come from.

Finally, you don't say how long you've been trying to lose weight, but once you start doing all of the above, give it time. If you have just started a new exercise plan, you may be holding onto water weight as part of the normal muscle repair process. If you have a menstrual cycle, you may retain water at certain times in your cycle. And if you don't have much to lose, weight loss should be slow and may take several weeks to show up on the scale.

Emmapatterson1729

I eat very low carb, for medical issues. I eat about 97% clean eating (no processed foods, no eating out), and I workout 4-5 days a week, (20-35 minutes light-medium) cardio, (10-20 minutes light) strength training.

I am female; I try to consume 1400-1600 calories a day. Been at this one month, and have lost about 9 inches off the biggest part of my stomach.

I suggest you up your caloric intake to lose weight. Especially eating low carb. If cutting carbs, getting in enough fats and proteins is vital. Eating that low of calories, you're sabotaging yourself.