Why no weight loss?!

SLLRunner

overestimating calorie burns and/or underestimating intake of calories...

This. I looked at your diary and it seems to me you are really overestimating your calorie burns. I doubt you burned 252 calories running 5.0 mph for 30 minutes.

I think you are underestimating food calories too. I notice you had around 100 calories for 1.5 banana. Nope. A banana is about 110 calories so 1.5 would be around 160 calories.

Are you weighing all solid food and measuring all liquid food? Are you logging every single thing you put in your mouth?

The app I used just logs it at running 5pmh for 30 mins, that's not what I'm actually doing, it's interval training and longer than 30 mins a time. - although, as I don't eat back my exercise cals, this wouldn't affect it surely?

with regards to the banana - I'm only eating 1 small banana, but I know that a small one is in the region of 100-115 not what the calorie estimate on here has it at so I increased it. I do weigh dry foods and liquid foods, e.g the potato shapes I had last night, came it at a much smaller portion. I had by eye guessed I was eating 100g but weighing them show it to be much less.

The only things I don't log are the sugar free squash I drink and the herbal teas.

If you want success, stop estimating and log EVERYTHING you eat and drink. Squash juice has calories too. 1.5 bananas has around 160 calories.

Weight fruit too because often medium apples weigh very differently.

Nachise

I've been losing inches, but not pounds. I was put on the impedance machine to look at my body composition, and for every pound of fat I've been losing, I have been gaining a pound of muscle. I call it the even-exchange program. If you were particularly flabby when you started and have been exercising a lot, that could be what is happening. The scale is not the only indicator of progress.

Yah no You can't gain muscle on a deficet.

I agree the scale is not the only indicator.....

you beat me to it ..

not sure how you would be replacing a pound of fat with pound of muscle if you are eating in deficit...unless you have some magic formula...

I have been eating back my calories. What makes you think I am eating at a deficit? I do HIIT three times a week, and walk a lot. I am trying to regain bone mass following an illness and an operation that was depleting my bone mass. It's called hard work.

eldamiano

Someone is probably telling themselves fibs....