not losing after 5 months

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  • steinbok
    steinbok Posts: 82
    Numbers shnumbers. Eat sensibly, cut out the garbage, get active, be honest with yourself, and your weight will go south.
  • osualex
    osualex Posts: 409 Member
    Agree with everyone else, cut out (or limit, at least) the processed foods and up your protein, fruits, and vegetables. You barely get 70g a day...the more protein you eat, the fuller you will feel. Plus the simple carbs are doing nothing for your health. If I were you, I would cut out the simple carbs at least for breakfast.

    I think your calorie target is fine - but just make sure you're carefully measuring. It can be difficult when you're logging homemade things. If you're not already, enter your own recipes with the exact measurements you use, that way you'll know for sure how much you're eating. I didn't lose for a whole month when I was inaccurate with my logging.

    Good luck to you and let us know how it works out!
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Well, I would love to lose the 2lbs a week but I do not think only eating 800 calories a day is healthy. What if I ate 1200 and exercised 400 calories a day? Not that I could every day though.

    Large calorie restrictions by dieting plus exercise tend not to work.

    " It appears that the combination of a large quantity of aerobic exercise with a very low calorie diet resulting in substantial loss of bodyweight may actually accelerate the decline in resting metabolic rate. These findings may cause us to re-examine the quantity of exercise and diet needed to achieve optimal fat loss and preservation of resting metabolic rate." - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2017606

    Your practical options are to accept a slower rate of loss, or to source a nutritionally complete approved 800 calories diet and do that for 4-6 weeks with a maintenance plan at the end of it.
  • TheFunBun
    TheFunBun Posts: 793 Member
    Yeah, I'd take two weeks of measuring every gram that entered my mouth. I'd make an effort to clean up my macros and reduce my garbage foods. If I still found I wasn't losing, I'd hit up the doctor and have him do a fasting blood sugar and all the available thyroid options.

    If I didn't have any bloodwork issues, I'd then go on a hunt for my actual TDEE by slowly increasing calories by 100 per week until I found the point in which I gained actual fat- go down 100, stay at that for a month to make sure my metabolism was in fine order, then lower it by 15%.

    If I didn't lose weight doing that, I'd go back to my doctor with my impeccable food logs and info and be like, "WTF?"
  • adfabus
    adfabus Posts: 178 Member
    Agree with everyone else, cut out (or limit, at least) the processed foods and up your protein, fruits, and vegetables. You barely get 70g a day...the more protein you eat, the fuller you will feel. Plus the simple carbs are doing nothing for your health. If I were you, I would cut out the simple carbs at least for breakfast.

    I think your calorie target is fine - but just make sure you're carefully measuring. It can be difficult when you're logging homemade things. If you're not already, enter your own recipes with the exact measurements you use, that way you'll know for sure how much you're eating. I didn't lose for a whole month when I was inaccurate with my logging.

    Good luck to you and let us know how it works out!
    Thank you for the information! What are simple carbs? How many grams of protein a day should be eaten? MFP has me set for 45.
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    Yeah, I'd take two weeks of measuring every gram that entered my mouth. I'd make an effort to clean up my macros and reduce my garbage foods. If I still found I wasn't losing, I'd hit up the doctor and have him do a fasting blood sugar and all the available thyroid options.

    If I didn't have any bloodwork issues, I'd then go on a hunt for my actual TDEE by slowly increasing calories by 100 per week until I found the point in which I gained actual fat- go down 100, stay at that for a month to make sure my metabolism was in fine order, then lower it by 15%.

    If I didn't lose weight doing that, I'd go back to my doctor with my impeccable food logs and info and be like, "WTF?"

    i agree with this. weight loss should be a race. i think it's more efficient to spend a month figuring out your TDEE this way than spending 1 month running around like a headless chicken trying this and that and still not know how many calories you need to maintain.

    once you know how many calories you need to maintain your current weight then figuring out your deficits should be easier

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