Pls help

kaylee2155

Hey! I’m an 18 year old female and I’m looking to lose a little weight. I’m currently 127lbs and I’m looking to get down to 114lbs. I usually eat very healthy, my diet consists of a lot of vegan food, lean meats, veggies, and teas but I haven’t seen much of a different at all. I work out some (though not as much as I used to). Any tips or input on what I could be doing wrong?

snowflake954

What are your stats? 114 lbs is very low.

sijomial

"Not much of a difference" - how much difference and over what timescale?

BTW - eating heathily is great but doesn't cause weight loss on its own. You can lose, gain or maintain weight with the same foods in different quantities.

Making your diary public helps enormously for problem solving.

BarbaraHelen2013

I’m going to guess you’re only a little over 5ft tall?

If you’re significantly taller then 114lbs may be too low (I maintain at 112-115) and am 5ft myself).

Either way, if you’re as petite as I suspect, weight loss is going to be slow and easily masked on the scale by hormone related water weight fluctuations, waste in transit and the simple physics of needing fewer calories to fuel a petite person. This means creating a deficit and also maintaining a nutritionally sufficient intake is a fine balancing act.

Like me, you’re going to have to dial in your logging accuracy - weigh everything in grams and double and triple check the entries you choose from the database.

Patience and persistence are also necessary - aim for no more than half a pound a week - you don’t have a huge amount to lose and it’s frankly better to go slowly but get there than bang your head against a wall by making it too hard to stick to by cutting calories too far and exercising excessively.

I wish you all the best! It is possible (I started at 147lbs and it took me over 2 years to get down to 112lbs) - I’m over 40 years older than you so the time scale may be different for you as you’re still very young but just as an indicator of the patience you may need!