Who honestly weighed/logged/ate deficit yet did not lose?

sodakat
sodakat Posts: 1,126 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
As good as the weight loss is going for me at my age, when I honestly thought because I was older weight loss would be slow, I would like to know who has been diligent about following the MFP method yet did not have success. It seems so unlikely to me. Like someone said in another thread, it may not be easy but is sure is simple!

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  • Amandawith3kids
    Amandawith3kids Posts: 367 Member
    when i first started i lost right away, then flat lined. turns out i wasnt eating enough! i was at the 1460 mfp gave me. when i looked up my tdee and bmr, i got to eat LOTS more. YAY for food LOL.
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  • geebusuk
    geebusuk Posts: 3,348 Member
    By definition, if you're not losing weight over time, you're not in a deficit as far as calories in vs calories out goes :).
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    By definition, if you're not losing weight over time, you're not in a deficit as far as calories in vs calories out goes :).

    :drinker:
  • csontos
    csontos Posts: 76 Member
    By definition, if you're not losing weight over time, you're not in a deficit as far as calories in vs calories out goes :).
    +1
  • easjer
    easjer Posts: 219 Member
    I didn't lose much in February. I finished my Whole30 and I know I was very low in calories that week. Then I joined MFP and upped my workouts at the same time. It wasn't a pretty month. MFP sets my calorie goal below my BMR and that made things dicey when I added in working out. My body just kind of freaked out. I settled on a calorie goal to try plus added in a fitbit to get a realistic TDEE and figured things out. Then I started losing and have lost steadily throughout March.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    I have never had any issues with MFP. I am losing weight and doing just fine with my base + exercise daily calories.
  • JazmineYoli
    JazmineYoli Posts: 547 Member
    when i first started i lost right away, then flat lined. turns out i wasnt eating enough! i was at the 1460 mfp gave me. when i looked up my tdee and bmr, i got to eat LOTS more. YAY for food LOL.

    Same with me. I was a too big of a deficit. I ate more, then started to lose.
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
    No one. If you are really in a calorie deficit you will lose weight.
  • sodakat
    sodakat Posts: 1,126 Member
    I didn't lose much in February. I finished my Whole30 and I know I was very low in calories that week. Then I joined MFP and upped my workouts at the same time. It wasn't a pretty month. MFP sets my calorie goal below my BMR and that made things dicey when I added in working out. My body just kind of freaked out. I settled on a calorie goal to try plus added in a fitbit to get a realistic TDEE and figured things out. Then I started losing and have lost steadily throughout March.

    How could your MFP-calorie-goal be BELOW your BMR? I don't understand. When you are working out you are basically earning calories to add to your calorie goal, correct? I know not to eat all calories earned from MFP exercise database but still, it would increase the amount you could eat wouldn't it? Do you think you entered incorrect info somehow? Like how active you are even if you don't exercise. Regardless, I'm glad you got things straightened out. I cannot say enough good things about this simple way to achieve weight loss.
  • geebusuk
    geebusuk Posts: 3,348 Member
    How could your MFP-calorie-goal be BELOW your BMR? I don't understand.
    Easily by having a sedentary lifestyle generally, setting a high deficit and not doing a massive amount of calories worth of exercise.
    I've eaten below BMR for extended periods in the past and it hasn't caused a problem - thankfully my body doesn't know about this figure :).
  • Fuzzipeg
    Fuzzipeg Posts: 2,301 Member
    Regrettably there are people on here who have undiagnosed health problems. A major one is low thyroid which can be involved in so many other things and yet it still goes undiagnosed and often when it is diagnosed it can be under medicated. Many doctors treat their numbers not the person with the reams of increasingly complicated symptoms. The human body is complex.

    Weight loss and gain for that matter is a very personal thing. Some people need space to realise there could be an issue, then unfortunately they can then have problems getting the right help.

    Hurrah, for those who have no trouble loosing or what ever "as is normal for people to do".

    Hugs and deepest commiserations to those who through no fault of their own struggle to be healthy.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    The calorie calculators are based on averages, someone could be burning more or fewer calories than predicted. I burn more than the calculators predict. Some people will burn less. There is a necessity to adjust your calorie goal based on feedback from real world results (but you need to look for the long term trend, not at short term water weight gains/losses) because the calculators give estimates; they're not the Oracle of Delphi.

    If someone's burning a lot less than the calculators predict, it could be a sign of a metabolic problem, and therefore they should see a doctor.

    Also, all of the above assumes food's being weighed and logged accurately.... if it's not then that's the first thing that needs to be fixed before anyone diagnoses themselves as having an abnormally slow metabolism.
  • verhunzt
    verhunzt Posts: 154 Member
    I was eating at a deficit and running for 30-60 minutes daily and didn't lose any weight for a week, but just yesterday I dropped almost a pound and am now under the 150 lbs mark. I am so happy I stuck with it despite my frustration, just stick with it, I'm not an expert but as long as you know that you're doing everything right, plateaus should be normal and you will lose weight! Good luck to you!
  • paulperryman
    paulperryman Posts: 839 Member
    besides the fact your body weight goes up and down anyway regardless of your diet and just cause you want to lose weight or build muscle doesn't mean your body will respond as you want it to it atleast in my case seems to have it's own agenda.

    MFP is just taking an educated guess as is all the calculators, as meandermagnon said you could be burning more or less and on any given day your body maybe doing something out of the ordinary or be in a different mode depending on stress etc.

    33Kgs ago i had no trouble losing weight and it was pouring off but that was accompanied by an extreme change in activity and food intake, now i'm within 5Kg's of what science would deem "ideal weight" i struggle to lose anything on a "deficit" but on the flip side doing more resistance training and less cardio i've certainly built up some muscle that wasn't there before so that would counteract weight loss which is perfectly fine my motabolism seems to be in check around 2400-2600, well according to what my calculations based on HR monitor, VO2 tests and a Fitbit taking what those give me and working out an average for 24hour intake at maintenance and that figure seems to be fine for not gaining anything give or take a little bit.

    I in the past 12 months went through atleast 5 plateaus that were accompanied by a rigid measuring everything still and exercising that should've had the opposite effect but it didn't, eventually each plateau stopped and weight loss resumed, now i'm not so stringent on measuring absolutely everything and worrying about every single source, aslong as it fits my personally set goals that i worked out, not what MFP would have me eating i've been on maintenance with some weight loss for 3 months now and managed to keep the weight off. I personally think most of it is in our heads, if you worry about it, you will manifest it
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