Perfect on Plan and No Loss :-(

jodyblanchard

Jumping on the bandwagon here, but seriously, thats a lot of fast food in your diet. I slip up and eat fast food sometimes too, it's hard when I'm on the run all day everyday, but you also have a really high calorie limit everyday. Are you sure you put your information in correctly? You may want to go through your profile info and make sure.

My high calorie limit is because of my high weight.

jodyblanchard

Looking at your diary, it's far from perfect. Too much fast food. No fruit, whole grains, or vegetables. It is very difficult to track calories when eating out. Try eating 5 small homemade meals a day. Real food. If you can stick with it, your palate will adjust.

If you must eat out, I've found chile's guiltless entrees are a good option although loaded with sodium.

I am a 65 year old special education teacher. I am relentlessly busy. As soon as school is out, I will be eating most meals at home. But in the meantime, by "perfect" I mean I have met the standards I set for myself which include not eating sugar and keeping my carbs below 30. I don't count calories. I have 100 pounds to lose, so my calorie allowance is very high. I don't usually meet that MFP goal. (not my goal) Thanks for your input, though. I appreciate you taking the time to help. :-)

jodyblanchard

It seems to me that your diet is almost exclusively eating out and when you eat out you have no control over what went into the food that you're putting in your mouth. I'd bet that if you reverted to cooking for yourself with basic ingredients that you weigh, in grams, on a digital kitchen scale you'll start to find that weight comes off.

Thank you for responding. I currently do eat a lot of restaurant and fast food. It's the end of school, I'm 65, and crazy busy. It will be better in the summer. I do have a digital scale and will use it. i will also be going to Central Market for clean food. TWO MORE WEEKS! Ready for the year to be finished. Again, thank you so much.

jodyblanchard

I didn't lose a single pound in April. The numbers all worked but the scale didn't care. Then, first weigh in of May, I dropped 4lbs. Just be persistent. Besides, a scale is machine that lays on the floor and waits to be stepped on. Would that piss you off? It would irritate the fire out of me and I would tell people they weighed whatever I wanted to tell them. Scales have attitude problems. If they were people, they would be gang bangers, punks who lack a for real male role model. Talk about inferiority complex! Consider the source and don't let it bother you.

It must be lonely being a set of scales and have everyone hating you. No sympathy from me however!

Weight loss isn't always linear. Some people drop a pound or two a week, whilst others will stall and then lose 5 pounds over the course of a week. I'm no expert, but it seems like people respond diffrently to losing weigh with a calorie deficit and increasing their exercise.

LOL. I adore your personification of the scale. Well, I weighed this morning and I have lost 2 pounds. I am satisfied with that. I try to weigh about every 10 days. Thank you so much for your wonderful post!

jodyblanchard

Body does not recognize but someone transforms it into fat. Yeah, that's a first for me.

Huh?

jodyblanchard

Looking at your diary, you eat a lot of processed foods, most of which contain ingredients that our bodies do not recognize and get stored as fat. On a side note, I'm personally a starchivore, 60-80% of my calories come from complex carbs. Our bodies need carbs for energy but not the crappy carbs like processed breads and junk food, but healthy carbs from fruits, veggies, rice, beans, legumes, etc... Read the book The Starch Solution. Good luck!

Well that is a load of crap. Ingredients your body "does not recognize" and yet somehow end up becoming fat, something that your body very much recognizes. How does that work exactly?

OP simply comes down to the fact that 2 weeks is never enough time to evaluate the success of a diet. If you start second guessing what you are doing every time you don't lose weight over a two week period you will get no where. If you are confident in your approach just stick with it for a few months and if it still isn't working then it is time to re-evaluate.

I apologize for the confusion. It's not my first two weeks. I do eat a lot of processed food currently because I am 65 and hideously busy with the end of school (special ed teacher). The food will be much better when school is out and I am able to shop and cook more. Thanks for you input, though. Not sure I agree about the good carbs.

jodyblanchard

yes, patience. what is your exercise plan? also, you have SO FEW veggies and fruits! i know you said low carb -- what was your reasoning there? (not knocking it if it works for you, but i worry about vitamins a little)

Well, my reasoning is (or was) to try to be as keto as possible for a month. I'm experimenting to find something that will work for me. I did weigh today and 2 lbs are gone. Who knows? I do take vitamin supplements. My son lost 100 pounds on the ketogenic diet and has kept it off for several years. I wanted to try it. I so appreciate you responding.

jodyblanchard

Just going to state the obvious, your plan wasn't perfect then

Good luck on your journey

:flowerforyou:

:-). Duh.

jodyblanchard

Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?

Weight loss is about calorie deficit. Are you at a deficit?

Yes, but by design I am low carb and not really counting calories. Thanks for your response.

jodyblanchard

How are you today? I just wanted to introduce myself and say that I would LOVE to support you on your fitness journey. I am a certified fitness coach who is here to help individuals achieve their goals. If you'd like to know more, I'd love to chat!

Why don't you do it in this thread and then maybe we can all benefit from your wisdom?

Well, she can't sell her products or services on the forums, so better off to do it via a PM and not risk her account being shut down!

I deleted the PM.