help! not losing weight!

kaitlynnrogers

i'm around 140 and 5'6 and i've been eating around 1200-1420 calories everyday and do about 1-3 10 minute trainer videos everyday and still arent losing....i wanna lose 5-10 pounds before summer; help anyone?!(:

IvoryParchment

Your diary looks like you're leaning on a small variety of foods, that they tend to be processed diet foods, and that there are a lot of hard to measure items like nutella and mayonnaise. It's likely you're getting more calories than you think, and it's likely you're missing important nutrients. You need 100% of all your nutrients every day to carry out your body's basic processes. If you're missing any one of them, you can still store calories as fat, but you can't use them for more useful things. Some starving people don't lose weight, eg. those with kwashiorkor.

kaitlynnrogers

how do i make sure to get every nutrients then?

sunkisses

Your answer is in this thread:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/515015-detox-and-cleanse

You're not getting enough calories.

redmapleleaf

To put it bluntly you are not eating enough calories and the calories you are eating is a lot of processed, crappy food. Up your calories and try to stick to clean eating, whole grains, fruits, veggies, lean sources of protein.

wickedcricket

what they said and .. 10 mins of exercise is better than none - but just barely. You get out of it what you put into it. Possibly you ARE losing, but it's going to be VERY slow.

kaitlynnrogers

do you know of any good breakfasts, lunches and dinners to eat or recommend any?

IvoryParchment

Look up your foods in the USDA database:
http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/

Add up all the vitamins, not just the things MFP lists. Just looking at your diet generally, I would want to know your totals of vitamins A, C, D and K, as well as iron and calcium.

If your meal is 1/4 protein (meat/fish/poultry/dairy/egg/legume whatever), 1/4 starch, 1/4 green vegetable and 1/4 yellow/red fruit/vegetable, with variety from meal to meal, you're going to get a broad range of nutrients without having to have a nutrition degree. If you stick with a limited number of foods, then you really need to know what is and isn't in them.