Eating 1200 calories a day/burning 600 not losing weight

flydc989

I work out everyday at least 500 to 600 calories a day and I take in 1200 calories a day minus the ones I am burining. I even join kickboxing classes. I am eating fish, brown rice, wheat bread etc and I am not losing any weight! I am a 46 year old women and I cannot understand why the weight is not coming off. can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I weight 130 and I am trying to get down to 120. Thanks!

keeponkickin

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/8017-in-place-of-a-road-map

Please start here. This will explain it all.

stofteland

You are not eating enough. Up your cals to 1700 if you are really burning that much in your exercise. You will have more energy to do your workout. Days you do not work out keep it at 1500.

hollyjo01

having the SAME issues!!!! makes u want to give up!

Mokey41

You're under eating and over exercising.

trainguy917

The 1200 is before you exercise. If you stay at 1200 and burn 600, you're only netting 600, which translates to starvation. You need to NET 1200.

Amberonamission

Not that I am even close to your weight... But, I think 1200 is really low, unless you are eating back your workout calories.

SillyFitMe

How long have you been trying and how tall are you?

kellster111

I would suggest that you are not eating enough! Sounds odd I know but lots of threads on here talk about it if you are only eating 1200 and burning 600 then you are effectively only consuming 600 cals per day which is not sufficient for your body to function effectively. Try eating back some of your cals and see how you get on for a couple of weeks.

ggeise14

Possibly you're not eating enough? What's your BMR, TDEE, body fat %?

RushBabe214

You're under eating and over exercising.

^^This.

tryclyn

I would start here.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/833500-what-do-i-do-common-sense-cliff-notes
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress

trogalicious

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/8017-in-place-of-a-road-map

Please start here. This will explain it all.

You're under eating and over exercising.

for emphasis.

HerBravado

You're under eating and over exercising.

!!!

In reality, you're actually eating about 600 calories a day.
No bueno.

Unless you're eating those calories back.

Silvara_11

how are your clothes fitting?

you could just be changing your body composition.

rileysowner

You are supposed to eat those 600 calories burned in exercise back. Also, how carefully are you measuring your food? Estimating serving sizes is not going to work for most people. I would suggest using the following to set your calories as an option.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

KeepGoingRhonda

Got EM2WL website! There are also threads here under that name as well.

__RANDY__

I work out everyday at least 500 to 600 calories a day and I take in 1200 calories a day minus the ones I am burining.

subconscious_ink

It would help if your diary was public, so people could check out what exactly you're eating, how much water you intake, your sodium, etc.
Also, do you mean that you're only eating 1200 cals and then burning 600 on top of that? Or that you're eating 1200 plus the 600 you're burning? Because if you're only eating 1200 overall and then burning 600, it means you only net 600 cals a day, which is definitely not enough. Try eating back at least some of your exercise calories if you aren't already.

LoraF83

I work out everyday at least 500 to 600 calories a day and I take in 1200 calories a day minus the ones I am burining. I even join kickboxing classes. I am eating fish, brown rice, wheat bread etc and I am not losing any weight! I am a 46 year old women and I cannot understand why the weight is not coming off. can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I weight 130 and I am trying to get down to 120. Thanks!

You should only be aiming for 1/2lb per week weight loss if you only want to lose 10lbs.

And, instead of only eating 1200 calories, eat back your exercise calories like MFP wants you to do. The program was designed that way for a reason.

aakokopelli7

You are going to get about 500 different people tell you this same thing. Eat more than 1200. Instead of trying to loose 2 lbs a week, change your setting to 1, that will change your calorie intake for you and like magic you will see the pounds coming off. Also every single day exercising is NOT going to make you loose weight any faster, you body needs a recovery day.

Cue.... another person who will explain it better. I don't want to try and explain why it works this way, it just does. Period.