What if my body just refuses to lose weight?

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  • karenk2f
    karenk2f Posts: 21 Member
    I wish I had some profound, sage advice to give. However, reading your post is like looking in a mirror and I have no answers. Like you, my weight loss has screeched to a halt. I only have a few 'jiggles' I would like to trim down. Your post and the answers have been most helpful! Hang in there! You will ultimately win!
  • arl1286
    arl1286 Posts: 276 Member
    How meticulously do you measure your food?

    I'm 5'9, and I have my net calories set to 1500 a day, just because I know there will be a lot of measurement error.
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
    You are not going to gain muscle and lose weight at the same time. If you are lifting weights you can retain most of the muscle you have. If you are not lifting weights you are probably losing some muscle as well as fat. You need to really figure out what your TDEE is and cut about 250-500 calories a day from that. You need to weigh and measure everything that goes in your mouth. Be diligent and don't cheat yourself. Good luck.

    Not actually.

    Without testosterone, a female is not going to approach the male as far as gaining muscle mass (strength).

    So work out with weight to gain strength and definition, and a lot of the calories burned will come from fat and you should lose weight.

    If you are discouraged, why not try skipping breakfast? You should work out on an empty stomach, anyway, especially if a gain in strength is what you want.

    Plenty of time to eat at noon. And your body does not need the nutrients and calories from breakfast- it has PLENTY already stored.

    When you diet, you do NOT lose lean muscle mass.

    Ummmm, no to pretty much all of this.
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    If you are weighing everything then I suspect you are over esitmating burns.

    ^ This is quite possible. Research shows that heart rate monitors often overestimate calorie burns, especially for women.* As for MFP's exercise database, it can dramatically overestimate calories burned, sometimes by nearly double.

    *One study of the Polar F6 showed that, even calibrated with subjects' actual VO2max and HRmax, it overestimated energy expenditure by 27% (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21178923). An earlier study showed that the Polar S410 overestimated energy expenditure in women by 12% (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15292754). Another study found that the Polar S810i overestimated expenditure when exercising lightly but not moderately (http://www.jssm.org/vol9/n3/21/v9n3-21abst.php). The research seems to suggest that HRMs are less accurate for women than they are for men.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    LOTS of fruits and vegetables. I have only had success on a plant-based diet.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pu6-0K6KdY

    Dr. Graham, chiropractor, and the 80/10/10 . . . ugh.

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