Why am I not losing weight?

natstar26

Hey I just took a look at your diary, I see you keep most of the time within your calorie, sugar ect goals but one thing I notice is the lack of vegetables. It is important to watch salt, sugar ect but even though you eat within your calories and you are eating carbs and sugar you will be stuck. I say this because I have done this lol. You can check out my diary is you wish, I try to keep sugar treats or "bad" carbs to snack time and only a small amount Yes you should eat back the calories you burned in exercise. If you don't when you do eat your body will store the carbs you ate into fat and the next day when you workout you will burn off what you stored yesterday, thus leaving you in a cycle.

Absolutely not.

Nothing is stored as fat unless eaten at a surplus. I'm consistently over 100g of sugar and eat 300g of carbs and can lose weight if I'm in a deficit. I also eat a majority of these right before I go to bed. Calorie deficit is king of weight loss.

I will say, for health, balancing your macros and micros is an important factor but even if these are off you will lose weight in a calorie deficit

Just personal experience that I went through, I ate within my calories but ate wrong food and scales didn't budge but when I ate right foods I lost. Would be interesting to see if anyone only ate bad foods within calorie goal and lost weight and remained healthy.... I don't think so.... Most people on here aren't pt's or medical students but we just say what worked for us hoping it will help others

skutnikj

Measure and record everything.
I also looked at your diary and there seems to be a huge lack of vegetables and whole foods....

natstar26

Measure and record everything.
I also looked at your diary and there seems to be a huge lack of vegetables and whole foods....

Yes exactly....

rose313

Just personal experience that I went through, I ate within my calories but ate wrong food and scales didn't budge but when I ate right foods I lost. Would be interesting to see if anyone only ate bad foods within calorie goal and lost weight and remained healthy.... I don't think so.... Most people on here aren't pt's or medical students but we just say what worked for us hoping it will help others

I went through this as well. However, it was over a year ago and I can't 100% guarantee I was logging accurately. I definitely am now, and am losing, but I am also 20 lbs heavier than I was over a year ago.

SugaryLynx

Hey I just took a look at your diary, I see you keep most of the time within your calorie, sugar ect goals but one thing I notice is the lack of vegetables. It is important to watch salt, sugar ect but even though you eat within your calories and you are eating carbs and sugar you will be stuck. I say this because I have done this lol. You can check out my diary is you wish, I try to keep sugar treats or "bad" carbs to snack time and only a small amount Yes you should eat back the calories you burned in exercise. If you don't when you do eat your body will store the carbs you ate into fat and the next day when you workout you will burn off what you stored yesterday, thus leaving you in a cycle.

Absolutely not.

Nothing is stored as fat unless eaten at a surplus. I'm consistently over 100g of sugar and eat 300g of carbs and can lose weight if I'm in a deficit. I also eat a majority of these right before I go to bed. Calorie deficit is king of weight loss.

I will say, for health, balancing your macros and micros is an important factor but even if these are off you will lose weight in a calorie deficit

Just personal experience that I went through, I ate within my calories but ate wrong food and scales didn't budge but when I ate right foods I lost. Would be interesting to see if anyone only ate bad foods within calorie goal and lost weight and remained healthy.... I don't think so.... Most people on here aren't pt's or medical students but we just say what worked for us hoping it will help others

Right. Healthy is in the context of a person's whole diet, not individual foods. So, calling certain foods "good " or "bad" is trivial, at best. You don't get extra credit for getting more nutrients than what your body requires, that's Eric Helms, btw. Your body couldn't care less where it gets it's nutrients from, so as long as it's getting them. That was my point.

It worked the same way I suggested to the other poster. Typically, whole foods are less nutrient dense, your margin for error is better. I don't argue the fact that whole foods are great to incorporate into one's diet. By all means, do so. They help satiety with fewer calories and they do typically contain more nutrients but that doesn't make all other foods bad. And going over sugar and sodium will NOT halt progress. Sodium might cause water retention but that's not true weight gain, it goes away. Do I think someone should eat crazy amounts of either? No. But if a person is watching their macros/micros, that shouldn't even be an issue but that is a matter of health, not whether or not they will lose weight.

TL:DR Eat a balanced diet, stay in a deficit if you are trying to lose weight, enjoy your ice cream

cwoyto123

Exercise. Note my caloric intake and my bodyfat %.

JennEason1

Exercise. Note my caloric intake and my bodyfat %.

Holy crap you eat like a beast!!! You must train like a beast! Doing work in the gym!