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I have no idea what to tell you here. I have been following the program here, eating the calories I am supposed to eat according to MFP, getting some exercise, and it has been working for me.
Under eating can prevent weight loss.
How about your measurements? It's possible you are replacing fat with muscle so you aren't seeing a change on the scale.
Everyone says that if you eat too little you won't lose any weight. Years ago I had a nervous breakdown and was not able to eat much for a whole week. I lost over 14lbs. Now, I'm NOT recommending it at all, but if you don't eat, your body uses the stored fat. Fact.
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I can understand why you'd be frustrated. Think two things--Nutrition and Fitness. Not diet and exercise. I took a quick look at your diary and you're eating good foods but some days you're not eating enough. Some people don't eat after 7pm. I haven't tried that yet. Glad to hear your BP is good and no deficiencies. Did your Dr. check your thyroid levels? Also, maybe a nutritionist could help. Learn as much as you can about nutrition. Best wishes!! Add me if you'd like!! I've had some pretty frustration days, too!!0
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I can understand why you'd be frustrated. Think two things--Nutrition and Fitness. Not diet and exercise. I took a quick look at your diary and you're eating good foods but some days you're not eating enough. Some people don't eat after 7pm. I haven't tried that yet. Glad to hear your BP is good and no deficiencies. Did your Dr. check your thyroid levels? Also, maybe a nutritionist could help. Learn as much as you can about nutrition. Best wishes!! Add me if you'd like!! I've had some pretty frustration days, too!!
Yes, she checked my thyroid, and it was ok.0 -
1600 hundred calories is good for u. let me tell u hang in there the 6weeks of starting this clean eating and exercising i DID NOT LOSE A POUND but now the weight is just coming off not every time u start a diet u lose the weight right away ur body built muscle this happen to a lot of us boost ur exercise it will come off0
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I'm gonna try the fat2fit method. Eat 1850 and not eat back exercise calories unless I have a huge workout. Concentrate on more protein, worry less about fat. Not be so frustrated if I don't make all my calories everyday, but also try to make it up the rest of the week--not freak out if I go over some days. I'll be back in another month complaining if I still can't figure it out.0
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Sounds like a great plan - well except th last sentence
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In order to get in 1500-1700 calories a day I start my day with a protein shake that has approx. 400 calories.. Protein powder, banana, almond milk, nutella or peanut butter, old fashioned oats, coffee. Yum! Greek yogurt for morning snack. Close to 600 calories counted for before lunch.....0
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I'm gonna try the fat2fit method. Eat 1850 and not eat back exercise calories unless I have a huge workout. Concentrate on more protein, worry less about fat. Not be so frustrated if I don't make all my calories everyday, but also try to make it up the rest of the week--not freak out if I go over some days. I'll be back in another month complaining if I still can't figure it out.
now it's my turn to GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
"EAT 15% UNDER TDEE" AND PATIENCE. THAT'S YOUR MAGIC FORMULA.
It's just gonna take me some time to figure out how to eat that many calories.0 -
I'm gonna try the fat2fit method. Eat 1850 and not eat back exercise calories unless I have a huge workout. Concentrate on more protein, worry less about fat. Not be so frustrated if I don't make all my calories everyday, but also try to make it up the rest of the week--not freak out if I go over some days. I'll be back in another month complaining if I still can't figure it out.
now it's my turn to GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
"EAT 15% UNDER TDEE" AND PATIENCE. THAT'S YOUR MAGIC FORMULA.
It's just gonna take me some time to figure out how to eat that many calories.
1850 wasn't in the fat2fit chart, I get 2047?? Eat 100g of nuts a day. 800 cals with protein and healthy fat, problem solved :-)0 -
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I'm gonna try the fat2fit method. Eat 1850 and not eat back exercise calories unless I have a huge workout. Concentrate on more protein, worry less about fat. Not be so frustrated if I don't make all my calories everyday, but also try to make it up the rest of the week--not freak out if I go over some days. I'll be back in another month complaining if I still can't figure it out.
I personally aim to eat in between sedentary (1750) and lightly active (2047-ish) at the moment - I am considered "moderately active" by fat2fit. I also have a hard time sometimes getting in all the calories.
Nuts are a great way to get lots of calories without lots of volume. 2oz of my favorite Blue Diamond Wasabi and Soy Almonds is like 360ish calories.0 -
1850 wasn't in the fat2fit chart, I get 2047?? Eat 100g of nuts a day. 800 cals with protein and healthy fat, problem solved :-)
The fat2fit chart is different for everyone who puts their info in.0 -
I'm gonna try the fat2fit method. Eat 1850 and not eat back exercise calories unless I have a huge workout. Concentrate on more protein, worry less about fat. Not be so frustrated if I don't make all my calories everyday, but also try to make it up the rest of the week--not freak out if I go over some days. I'll be back in another month complaining if I still can't figure it out.
now it's my turn to GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
"EAT 15% UNDER TDEE" AND PATIENCE. THAT'S YOUR MAGIC FORMULA.
It's just gonna take me some time to figure out how to eat that many calories.
1850 wasn't in the fat2fit chart, I get 2047?? Eat 100g of nuts a day. 800 cals with protein and healthy fat, problem solved :-)
1850 is in between sedentary and lightly active. I'm not going to increase my calories by 400 in one go if I'm not sure I trust this TDEE calculation. I'm going to work on accuracy (and eating tons of nuts (oh dear I'm gonna be so broke)) for now and increase again later if I need to.
Activity Level ... Daily Calories
Sedentary (little or no exercise, desk job) ... 1787
Lightly Active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/wk) ... 2047
Moderately Active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/wk) ... 2308
Very Active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days/wk) ... 2569
Extremely Active (hard daily exercise/sports & physical job or 2X day training, i.e marathon, contest etc.) ... 28290 -
Sometimes it takes people a LONG time to start loosing. My mom was doing everything right and the weight would just not go away at first. Eventually it did.0
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I also feel your pain as far as struggling with your weight and I too have been on this for 2 months but have lost weight. I know there are obsessive people out there who say you have to watch this that and the other thing making sure they all balance out in the end but unless you are working off your last 10+ pounds I've learned all you really need to do is keep yourself under your calories. Now that doesn't mean go eat a bunch of candy but I've been eating pizza, Chinese, and even cheese and no I'm not talking the healthy things you buy or the frozen stuff that's special I mean the good pizza from a pizza place and Chinese from a Buffet.
Ok I think I need to take you back a few year. See my husband did this first and I joined with him and read all I could about it and listened to people saying that I had to watch everything, drink only water, and making sure it all ended up green but well you are doing better then I did cause I gave up after a few days thinking there was NO WAY ON EARTH I could eat like that FOREVER!!! Well my husband staid on it yet did it his way. And lost 60+ pounds. I was totally jealous and tried every other pill, exercise program, and diet counter plan out there but pills are terrible for you and plans get you to buy their food or count their points without really telling you how to eat normal food or even go out to eat and basically being able to do it for the rest of your life. Well my husband gained a little back around Christmas (who doesn't right) and so he went back on this and I decided to go on it too since I didn't make any progress on the other things. Now don't get me wrong between it all I lost like 20 pounds but 20 pounds in 2 years isn't anything to brag about especially when I have a load more then that to loose. See I have this little problem of quitting after a week or so if I don't see progress. So my first day back on it I again got frustrated and my husband was like what's going on mine is all in there and green and I'm eating what you are what's wrong? It was then that he noticed what I was trying to do and said no no no showing that as long as calories are in the green I WILL LOOSE WEIGHT. Now the first week nothing happened and well trust me I was beginning to doubt him cause he lost it right away and I didn't. Well about 10 days after I lost my first pound and I was thinking it was a fluke until the next pound came off. Now I can't say it hasn't been frustrating not to be able to eat everything my husband can cause guys can eat more (totally not fair just saying!) but with exercise it's helped me be able to eat and not really be hungry. I've also learned that I don't have to drink just water (cause well I hate the stuff) but it does add in weight loss and our bodies run off it so at first I got a 24 ounce Gatorade bottle and fill it up 3 times a day knowing that's 9 glasses of water. Yes, I drink diet pop and there are people out there that gasp but I still have 100 pounds to loose have tried the no pop route for 2 months (was quite proud of myself) but lost nothing so I went back to diet figuring until that last 10 pounds were everything counts I'll live with the gasps knowing I get to drink something other then water. I also eat cheese and drink milk occasionally. I'm sorry people I love my dairy but it is expensive when it come to calories but like I say it's all a game and you have to decide where you want to give and take :P
Also if you are exercising A LOT you will be putting on muscle and if you loose 5 pounds of weight but put on muscle you will weigh more cause muscle weights more then fat! I learned that the hard way doing this crazy exercise program. I lost like 10 pounds but put on a load of muscle and was like how am I gaining well that's how I learned that and quite cause I wanted to loose not gain well now I'm back exercising but doing it so I don't add a bunch of muscle too fast so I can still see the scale going down :P
I range about 1600 a day without any crazy exercises so we are doing about the same so I can't answer why you haven't lost yet.
So just my opinion get loads of friend to keep your spirits up, eat healthy but don't deprive yourself too extremely or you will slip (trap I fell into my first time), and do low intensity but remember even low intensity for LONG periods of time will gain you muscle so maybe that's why you haven't lost yet?0 -
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I know exactly how you feel. For the past month I've been eating 1200 calories a day, 5 small meals or "snacks" a day, working out almost every morning and then walking or running again at night and I haven't seen any weight loss. What gives? I'm not starving myself because I'm no hungry at all through out the day since I'm eating so many times and I'm eating a lot of healthy options and eating all recommended servings sizes. It's seriously just super frustrating.. I know the scale isn't suppose to be the be all tell all, but when you aren't losing anything from it, it tends to make you feel deflated.0
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Thanks guys!! I underestimate how helpful it is to have a sounding board and especially to hear that there are so many others who just have to wait it out. I went to the store today, and I did a spectacular job if I do say so myself. I think maybe I'll take the Barnes and Noble gift card I got for Christmas and haven't used, and I'll grab some Moleskin notebooks to keep track of calories in and out, what stores I can get which foods, recipes, different exercises to try, some affirmations, how well I sleep and maybe even my BM's. There's no such thing as an unfinished journal in my life, so maybe that'll work better for long-term goals.
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Also if you are exercising A LOT you will be putting on muscle and if you loose 5 pounds of weight but put on muscle you will weigh more cause muscle weights more then fat! I learned that the hard way doing this crazy exercise program. I lost like 10 pounds but put on a load of muscle and was like how am I gaining well that's how I learned that and quite cause I wanted to loose not gain well now I'm back exercising but doing it so I don't add a bunch of muscle too fast so I can still see the scale going down :P
Sorry to burst your bubble but you won't gain that much muscle, it's pretty much impossible to gain muscle on a calorie deficit. Maybe a pound or two when you first start heavy lifting but that's it. It takes a LOT of work and a specific high protein diet to gain decent amounts of muscle.
If you were exercising a lot, its more likely the gain was glycogen / water retention for muscle repair.
At the end of the day, the more muscle you have, the more cals you burn even at rest. You might not lose lbs when gaining muscle but will lose inches which are more important :-)0 -
I am right there with you on only needing to lose like 10 to 12 lbs. I have hit a plateau and the scale I swear has been sabotaged! and is stuck. I never eat back my calories. My clothes are fitting loser, so i losing inches, but the weight.. GRRH is right. This is the first time I have done it with counting every calorie I am eating. I have done Dr. Abravenels body type and he used to have a place where you could buy plateau pills and now he is no where to be found as far as finding them, but htey worked. I cn find 3 of the ingredients that are in them but not the hypothalumus substance.
now as I have gotten older it seems ever harder than it ever was before.. but I am not going to give up. Hope you keep up the hard work ad that something will finally give..0 -
When I followed eat right 4 your blood type by dr. D'adamo helped too, but I did it before with just doing richard simmons rotating with my nordic track walkfit which is a manual treadmill. post Menopause and hormones are not my friend.. I am fighting this all the way.0
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First, track your calories in each day at the end of the week calculate the average calories consumed.
Second, track your calories out. Use your calculated BMR + exercise calories (via a heart rate monitor).
Third, understand that very weird things happen to a body when you subject it to a very low calorie diet. ...and as we are all different, our reactions will be different. (For me I stop loosing weight and get very tired.)
Now for a little insight...the first and second items will be needed once you know where your current BMR is. The BMR calculations are not exact, but the premise is sound; there is a relationship between the number of your calories in and your BMR + your exercise calories. (The more that you are away from your ideal BMI, the more error that is in the BMR equation.)
You can track the number of calories in.
You can track the number of exercise calories out.
Your BMR is the variable...but, the cool thing is that each of us can figure out what it is. ...and here's the challenge, you need to gain a couple of pounds. I know. I know. This is exactly what we are trying not to do. Here in lies the challenge....you should do it with good clean food and known quantities of exercise calories. If eating enough for the experiment to happen is a challenge, keep the exercise to less than 65% of your max heart rate. (Less than 65% you really, don't affect your body's ability to burn calories.)
OK, so as to minimize the weight gain during the experiment, the attempt is to gain, one (1) pound a week for two (2) weeks in a row. One (1) pound gained will be about 500 calories a day over your BMR.
Since you've been diligently tracking the calories in / calories out.
Drop your calories in by 1000 to 1500 and you should be on the weight loss track within the next few weeks.
...and remember to eat back at least 80% of your exercise calories as you ramp up your exercise.
...and use a heart rate monitor, the calorie monitors on the machines are really not accurate, especially after your fitness level increases. The machines use your weight, time and distance for the calorie calc. The heart rate monitor uses your heart rate changes for the calc...much, much more accurate.
Keep in mind, that as our fitness level increases our calories need to increase. When you take things to the next level, give your body the fuel it needs to do what you are asking it to do. The goal is to make your body's systems to work at an optimal level...kind of like an auto pilot. Never force it to try to respond on minimal or questionable fuel sources.
Remember, when you hit any plateau, it takes few weeks to readjust, but this can be used to break any plateau.
God made each of us AWESOME and UNIQUE.
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Stop eating crap just to hit a 'calorie goal'. You're eating more than you need as an individual. Each and every human body is different. Stop focusing so much on bringing your total up, and focus more on where you feel comfortable.0
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I have lost 8 lbs in 3 months and I eat over 1,000 calories a day (financial issues). I have 16 lbs to go!!!!
Losing weight takes time and I understand how frustrating it is!!!! :grumble: 0 -
How are you monitoring your exercise calories? MFP is way over the actual calorie burn. When I started using my Heart Rate Monitor I noticed a big difference in actual calories burned and what MFP says I burned. So you could be eating too many calories if you are using the estimates from this website. Good luck and don't give up!!0
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under eating does not prevent weight loss . Calories out - calories in = weight loss, just as 2 - 3 = -1 always has and always will.
Ha.
& to the OP...you don't HAVE to eat 1600 calories...Eating below that isn't going to harm you...Eat when you feel the need to eat...don't force yourself to try to reach the calorie limit.0 -
One thing that occurs to me is calcium. My husband, a pharmacist, recommends Citracal Plus with magnesium. Sure won't hurt, I wouldn't think.
But you are probably needing fewer calories, just don't cut to many at once. I sure think that if you're truly not hungry, don't eat. Been doing "New Rules of Lifting for Women" for two months now. Not losing yet, but was eating like a pig, then tried 1500 cals on non-workout days, 1800 on workout days, and maintained. So cut 300 cals starting this past week. (Actually have lost two pounds as of this am--but tomorrow is my 'post' day, so it's not official!) He says if you're not losing to cut not more than 300 cals at a time and try it for a while--you'll lose too much muscle if you cut too much, esp if you're low on protein (and I would think esp if you are close to goal and don't have so much leeway). Anyway, I'd recommend the book--been playing this game for a while now and what is explained in there about your body getting efficient and needing to "shake things up" really explains what has happened to me many times in the past . Really recommend getting serious about strength training and just doing enough cardio to be happy. I sure do feel better. And can do more.
Anyway--HANG IN THERE. Weight loss isn't a mechanical process than can be so easily ordered out. Got to stick in there and see what YOUR body needs. Chase health, not thin and you'll get there given time.0 -
I only know what worked for me:
I don't eat clean.
I ate around 1,500 calories a day (now I eat a little more)
I did 30 Day Shred for a month, then Ripped for a month and never lost a pound. But in those two months I lost over 6 inches on my waist alone.
Take measurements, or you will get discouraged.
Plan on getting discouraged, even when the measurements change. I get discouraged regularly.
Don't eat less than your BMR at minimum.
Remember that this was not an overnight increase in weight..... it feels like it is crazy slow, but when you look back it will have gone super fast.
Persistence. Eventually something will give. It may take a few months (trust me, I know....) but you can't stay at that weight forever.
Remind yourself what YOU want to be happy - not what others want/need/expect from you. Take YOUR ideals into consideration more than anyone else's.
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here's one thing to try.. Don't work out, reset your bmr based on no workouts. Do this for 2 weeks and eat based on that. Then start adding exercise.. and food. I'm guessing here, but pretty sure you need to find your correct bmr and work towards that.
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I've lost 12 lb since April...I just found this out at the Dr on Friday. I really messed up when I joined here- I put starting weight as the last time I weighed myself, at my mom's house, at Christmas, which was 225. Then when I started weighing myself at home in the spring, it was saying 185. Now, I KNEW there was no way in hell I'd lost 40 lbs (um, didn't need smaller clothes or anything). I got very sick in April and the Dr weighed me at 208, although I didn't know it at the time. i was sick and didn't care! LOL
Friday I weighed in at 198. I've lost 12 lbs since April. I am ok with that since I've had to buy smaller undies, and the dresses I've bought this summer have been larges rather than the XL and XXL I had to buy last year.
I started really working out/following C25k/doing MFP in April. Even with being sick, being injured, and having to quit working out here and there for those reasons, I have still managed to lose weight....not as much as I'd like, but I also still live a REAL, NORMAL life. I have teenagers, and we are always busy. I have the occasional mcDonalds happy meal. I have the occasional blended coffee drink. I have normal weekends. I'm sure that if I didn't do these things, I would be losing faster, however I KNOW I would be miserable. Yeah, I want to be healthy, but I want to be happy, too! LOL
I also did the fittofatradio.com calculators and changed my calories from the 1200 MFP recommended to 1500...I am no longer starving, and I AM LOSING. I believe in the whole "if you don't eat enough, your body will fight you"!!
My biggest advice right now- get MOVING, drink water, and be honest about your portion sizes.
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