Not seeing a difference - What am I doing wrong?

senboy
senboy Posts: 6
in Food and Nutrition
Hi everyone,

So I recently posted a thread about my lack of weight loss considering the amount I work out and my food consumption. It became clear that one of my main faults is the fact that I restrict myself to 1200 calories a day which apparently isn’t enough.

I have never been fat – always normal. I am 5ft5 and weigh around 67kg. It’s not about what other people think but more about me being less comfortable with my body. My target is to weigh 60kg.
I don’t want anyone else to have a go at me about this and instead offer some suggestions. What works for you? What is your calorie intake? What do you eat?

My job requires me to sit down for 12 hours a day. So I get into work at 6:30 am and leave at 6:30pm. This is what my day looks like at the moment:

5:30am – Wake up
6:30am – Arrive at work
7:00am – Breakfast: Either a bowl of cereal OR some fruit OR porridge
11:30am – Lunch: Either a bowl of pasta OR soup OR a salad OR rice and chicken with vegetables OR stuffed peppers
4pm – Snack: Cereal bar OR fruit
6:30pm – Leave work
7:00pm – Gym: 1 hour mixed cardio session
8:00pm – Leave the Gym
9:00pm – Get home, shower
9:30pm – Dinner: smoked salmon with vegetables OR pasta OR chicken rice OR 2 boiled eggs with a piece of toast
10:30pm – BED!!

PLEASE note that I cannot change my lunch time or the time I have dinner. I also walk for at least 1 hour a day. Also, this is based on my average working week. I go to the Gym Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs. Sometimes I will skip a day because I have other social commitments.

I have been going to the gym 3-4x a week for 3 months now and started changing my food consumption to the above a month ago.

I started doing the 30 day shred 2 weeks ago, so in addition, I do that 4x a week after the gym.
WEEKENDS: This is where I let go a little. I will not go mental though. I will usually skip breakfast because I wake up late and won’t go to the gym since that is near work and a 1 hour journey. However, for the past 2 weeks I have been doing the 30 day shred. For lunch and dinner, I will have whatever my family is having and will snack on fruits or a few biscuits.

So yes, my diet is not that great but I am trying! Having to sit for 12 hours a day definitely doesn’t help me! I would appreciate any improvements or would love to see how people would change my current diet so I can start seeing results.

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  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    If you open your diary people will be able to give you more specific help. You are more than likely eating more than you think because if you were actually eating 1200 calories a day with that exercise you would lose weight. So the first thing to do is check you are weighing and measuring your foods accurately and using accurate food entries

    This is a great guide that shows some of the logging problems people miss

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide

    Good luck

    EDIT: I've just realised you've had most of this advice before in your last thread so I'm not sure why you are basically asking the same questions again and why you are expecting different answers. I'll leave my reply for you though but I suggest you reread through the replies in the other thread.

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