My allowance is 1400 kcals a day and I’m not really losing weight …

sarahkatherinejones7935
sarahkatherinejones7935 Posts: 1 Member
edited June 2023 in Health and Weight Loss
Has anyone got any advice. I train most days and never add my exercise kcals in

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  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,311 Member
    If you don’t lose at a certain calorie amount in 4 weeks you aren’t in a caloric deficit. It’s all about energy balance.
  • beastmodo
    beastmodo Posts: 1 Member
    sarahkatherinejones7935 wrote: »
    Has anyone got any advice. I train most days and never add my exercise kcals in

    I usually need to be consistent with my workouts for about two months before I start seeing a change in my body. I don't really worry about the scale as much as how my body looks in the mirror.

    Is it possible you're gaining muscle which is countering fat loss on the scale?
  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,242 Member
    how long have you been at 1400? are you using a food scale?
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,375 Member
    beastmodo wrote: »
    sarahkatherinejones7935 wrote: »
    Has anyone got any advice. I train most days and never add my exercise kcals in

    I usually need to be consistent with my workouts for about two months before I start seeing a change in my body. I don't really worry about the scale as much as how my body looks in the mirror.

    Is it possible you're gaining muscle which is countering fat loss on the scale?

    She may be gaining muscle... but for a woman who has diet, sleep and workout completely dialed in, a 1 lb gain of muscle in a month would be a good result. The more likely scenario here is that the op is eating more than she thinks she is. OP, do you weigh your food and log everything that you eat?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,220 Member
    What does "not really losing weight" mean: Zero loss, or slower than you'd like? If the latter, how much loss over what time period?

    What's your calorie goal? Do you log every single day? Ever have off days/cheat days? How old, tall are you; what's your current weight; "train" means what kind of exercise how often for how long each time?

    To give you any kind of even semi-intelligent answer, we'd need more information.

    As a generality, without more information:

    If it's been less than 4-6 weeks, and your current routine doesn't feel unsustainable, keep going for that long a time period before adjusting. If you're female, adult, not in menopause, compare body weight at the same relative point in at least two different menstrual cycles in order to assess weight loss, because hormone-related water weight fluctuations can be that weird.

    If it's been 4-6 weeks, some kind of inaccuracy in calorie logging is high on the list of possibilities. That's not a diss: Most of us who've done this for a while have had multiple forehead-slapping moments of realization that we'd repeatedly been doing something inaccurate. If you make your diary here public, maybe some of the MFP old hands could take a look, see if they recognize any problems they've stumbled over themselves.

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