Not understanding why i'm not losing weight.
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If you don't think you can eat as many calories at it is suggesting (which I had a similar problem with), then change your settings for your activity level to the next level down, it will reduce the amount of calories you're require to eat. I did that a little over a month ago and I broke through my last plateau, though i've met another one, but I haven't been exercising much.
and if youre exercising you should eat those calories back to meet your goal.
if you still arent losing weight after that, try measuring yourself instead of weighing. You could be toning up, it happens more often than you think. I see a lot of posts similar to this one, and its often theyre shedding the inches just not quite the pounds.0 -
:noway:Noo !! All wrong. You can lose weight easily your just eating the wrong calories !! Lasagna and pastas aren't going to help
Types of food you should be putting in your diet
- chicken
-tuna
-vegetables !!
-fruit
- plain yoghurt and maybe a bit of milk
-oats for the morning !!
Stuff like that. Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing0 -
Also, make sure you're hitting at least 1200 a day to keep your body out of starvation mode!0
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15lbs in 2 months sounds like you're losing weight... what you're currently doing is working.
Weightloss, despite what many claim, is specific to the individual. Cutting 3,500 calories from your diet is the basics... it is individual choice if you want it all to be from your food or if you want some of it to be burned through exercise... etc.
If you're feeling like you're doing something wrong... you're lacking energy, get sick often, etc. I would advise you talk to a trainer/nutritionist/doctor about your goals and how to achieve them in the healthiest way for yourself. We can only advise with what's worked for us and it may not be the best for you.
This is meant to be a sustainable lifestyle... not only to make you healthy but to help you attain and keep happiness :-) Best of luck to you and congrats on your weightloss0 -
I AM the king of this joint. Now, direct some of those limited calories to brain function, and get a clue.Omg I make one statement and you lash out at m e? Your not a doctor ! Stop trying to act like your king of this joint and put a shirt on !
LOL
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I have a crazy diet for you. only eat (&as much as you want): fruits, veggies, lean chicken or fish, oatmeal, and nuts (handfull for snaking)and of course, drink a lot of water!!! You can have 8oz of almond milk/soy milk from time to time if you want. Im eating this way and the pounds are melting off.0
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Thanks. I guess i've always thought that I should eat less and I would lose weight. I guess I was wrong. lol I'm glad I finally got the courage to ask on here so now I know what I need to change.
Well, you do eat less to lose weight. You just don't starve yourself to do so.
Curious, what workouts are you doing that you burn an extra 2000 calories a day?0 -
I've wondered if that was the problem.. I just find it hard to eat that many calories daily..
LOTS OF HIGH CALORIE GOOD FOODS! NUTS, CHEESE, PEANUT BUTTER0 -
Eat 1200 calories NET minimum. Eat your exercise calories back so you hit your NET target. Eat what the hell you want. It really is that simple.0
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Calorie for calorie you wouldn't.No actually that's not how it works. If I ate like that; bacon ham or whatever I wouldn't be losing weight id be gaining. -.-
Now bacon and ham are very calorie dense. I would say about 8 slices would cover your DAILY current intake. Coupled with the sodium, you would "gain".
You don't understand the basics of nutrition. I suggest you learn, because the path you're leading yourself down is not good.
And a small variation in the thickness of a slice or the size of a serving or even the fat content of an individual animal could make the calorie count for some of those things inaccurte. As opposed to veggies, where even if you eat 25% more that still only a tiny number of calories...0 -
OP, just curious, how do you know that doing zumba is burning 1480 calories per hour? I saw this in your exercise diary. That sounds like it might be off. And if you're eating back cals you didn't really burn that could sabotage your weight loss obviously.0
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I've wondered if that was the problem.. I just find it hard to eat that many calories daily..
LOTS OF HIGH CALORIE GOOD FOODS! NUTS, CHEESE, PEANUT BUTTER
ITA.
If any of the Lean Cuisines feature fake cheese, for example, I'd replace that with something that uses real, healthy fat. Avocado, olive oil dressings, etc. Nuts and seeds. Oily fish like salmon or sardines. Toss veggies with slivered almonds. Make grains into pilafs with olive oil, spices, and slivered almonds or toasted pecans....0 -
Agreed. And I find with me. A high fat food binge every couple of weeks actually helps me...
Wrong.Noo !! All wrong. You can lose weight easily your just eating the wrong calories !! Lasagna and pastas aren't going to help
Types of food you should be putting in your diet
- chicken
-tuna
-vegetables !!
-fruit
- plain yoghurt and maybe a bit of milk
-oats for the morning !!
Stuff like that. Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing
200 cals of bacon, ham,eggs, ice cream, pop tarts are still 200 calories to the body.0 -
Wrong.Noo !! All wrong. You can lose weight easily your just eating the wrong calories !! Lasagna and pastas aren't going to help
Types of food you should be putting in your diet
- chicken
-tuna
-vegetables !!
-fruit
- plain yoghurt and maybe a bit of milk
-oats for the morning !!
Stuff like that. Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing
200 cals of bacon, ham,eggs, ice cream, pop tarts are still 200 calories to the body.
Here is some research for you, so I'm not just a rude *kitten* correcting people on the internet with anecdotal evidence:
1) " ‘All calories are not created equal’ according to new research that suggests certain diets help to burn more energy than others."
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Are-all-calories-equal-for-weight-loss-Not-so-say-researchers
2) "Let's take a pure food example," says Anne-Marie Nocton, MS, MPH, RD. 'If someone were to eat all of her daily caloric requirement as fried onion rings, would the body respond the same way as if all of the calories came from raw spinach? No, because caloric absorption is affected by the composition of the food itself and by the amount of energy it takes the body to process that food. In this example, the body doesn't need to expend many calories to digest and store fat (in the onion rings) because the digestion and storage process isn't very complex. But the spinach contains fiber, and the structure of a fibrous food means that some of the calories will be 'lost' because the body cannot break it all down.' "
http://www.naturalchampion.net/articles/article/2410291/51175.htm
3) " 'It's not that calories don't matter, but the quality of the calories going in can affect the number of calories going out,' said study author Dr. David Ludwig, at Boston Children's Hospital."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/calorie-calorie-harvard-study-compares-popular-weight-loss/story?id=16654506#.UUxb4hk2LDM
4) This article makes 5 points: The energy cost to metabolize fat, carbs and protein is different, Calorie restriction slows metabolism, Protein reduces appetite, Fiber reduces calorie absorption, and Timing of eating affects calorie processing.
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/articles/nutrition/a-calorie-is-not-a-calorie.aspx
5) Another study (Pomana College): "Ingestion of the particular PF [processed foods] meal tested in this study decreases postprandial energy expenditure by nearly 50% compared with the isoenergetic WF [whole-food] meal. This reduction in daily energy expenditure has potential implications for diets comprised heavily of PFs and their associations with obesity.... more extensively processed foods have a greater thermodynamic efficiency (and thus a greater metabolic disadvantage) than less processed or whole foods. The present study tests this by comparing the DIT responses of two isoenergetic meals."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897733/
6) If you eat all your calories in high-cal junk food, you won't be able to eat throughout the day when your body needs energy, causing problems with blood sugar, producing more body fat and using lean muscle for energy:
"http://www.fitwatch.com/weight-loss/can-i-eat-all-my-calories-for-the-day-in-one-meal-and-still-lose-weight-649.html"
(Also, I get that it's easy to make fun of or dismiss someone eating like an anorexic, but you don't have to be so condescending and rude, especially when you may be the one who's "Wrong.")0 -
Agreed. And I find with me. A high fat food binge every couple of weeks actually helps me...
Wrong.Noo !! All wrong. You can lose weight easily your just eating the wrong calories !! Lasagna and pastas aren't going to help
Types of food you should be putting in your diet
- chicken
-tuna
-vegetables !!
-fruit
- plain yoghurt and maybe a bit of milk
-oats for the morning !!
Stuff like that. Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing
200 cals of bacon, ham,eggs, ice cream, pop tarts are still 200 calories to the body.
Oh, and I wasn't talking about occasional junk-food binges, I was just showing the "king" of MFP that it's not true that we might as well eat ice cream, bacon, and pop tarts every day, and that many studies back that up.0 -
Noo !! All wrong. You can lose weight easily your just eating the wrong calories !! Lasagna and pastas aren't going to help
Types of food you should be putting in your diet
- chicken
-tuna
-vegetables !!
-fruit
- plain yoghurt and maybe a bit of milk
-oats for the morning !!
Stuff like that. Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing
Huh? Ham and bacon are my snack foods, high protein, low carb foods.0 -
Wrong.Noo !! All wrong. You can lose weight easily your just eating the wrong calories !! Lasagna and pastas aren't going to help
Types of food you should be putting in your diet
- chicken
-tuna
-vegetables !!
-fruit
- plain yoghurt and maybe a bit of milk
-oats for the morning !!
Stuff like that. Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing
200 cals of bacon, ham,eggs, ice cream, pop tarts are still 200 calories to the body.
A-men!! The body doesn't KNOW or CARE what you are eating. A calorie is a calorie to it! Stay within your macros and you should be fine!0 -
Nutrition in my opinion is the most important thing for getting into shape, and living a healthy lifestyle. Think of it like the foundation of a building/house, and everything gets built on top of it. A big reason why diets do not work in the long run is they are just short term fads, life style changes must be made. People ask me at work when I'm eating if I'm on a diet, and I just politely let them know that it's just my daily meal plan (I just hate the word diet).
Here's something you can try:
Eat 6 times a day, forget the whole 3 square meal thing cause it's flawed and outdated. Focus on getting 6 smaller meals every 2-3 hours. Breakfast IS the most important meal since you're breaking fasting that you did during the night. If you like wheat, best time to eat it is for breakfast and at max lunch time. I try not to eat any wheat carbs after 3pm, instead choosing to get carbs from vegetables and the odd potato. Last meal should be 2 or so hours before bed UNLESS it's just protein. I'll drink Casein Protein about 30 mins before I go to sleep. It's slower digesting, so it helps keep my body fueled a bit while I sleep.
Cardio: If you really want to see more rapid weight loss do cardio first thing in the morning. If you can't do it on an empty stomach, I would suggest a scoop of protein to give your body a little bit of a boost. You'll target the fat cells a lot better on an empty stomach since you don't have to work off excess calories you've eaten if it was later on in the day.
Weight / Resistance Training: Ultimately you'll want to do some type of weight training to maximize results. Think of this equation: More Muscle = Less Fat. Muscle requires a lot more energy to maintain then fat does. The resistance training will help sculpt your body as you slim down. This is why you need to eat more calories and forgot the whole less is more type of mentality. If you don't eat enough, you're body will need to get energy from somewhere so it'll usually start to break down muscle tissue to get it. Not only that, you're metabolic rate actually slows down too so you'll be less effective at burning fat, and more likely to store it. This is because our bodies are still used to thousands of years ago when our ancestors would have to go days without finding food.
I hope you find some of this information useful and good luck on your weight loss.0 -
It's taken me TWICE as long to lose 13 pounds but I'm still plugging away, eating well and lifting weights. Scale is erratic but my body is definitely changing.
I agree with the advice to slowly up your calories to you reach a proper sustainable limit. Good luck to you.0 -
You should try to eat breakfast more consistently ... Should help quite a bit.0
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oy vey...there is so much bad advice in this thread.
Do what Sara said
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oy vey...there is so much bad advice in this thread.
Do what Sara said
/thread
This. Plus, if that dude puts his shirt back on - I'm rage-quitting for sure.0 -
oy vey...there is so much bad advice in this thread.
Do what Sara said
/thread
This. Plus, if that dude puts his shirt back on - I'm rage-quitting for sure.
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NOT light.Well i'm 5'5 204 lbs. i'm not sure what my BF% is my scale says it but it's in my roommates bathroom and my activity level before exercise is light
How much do you work out and how active are you in your daily life? (e.g. desk job, kids. etc)
I usually work out for an hour doing zumba or elliptical sometimes walks.. but i don't work I nanny for a 2 year old and clean house everyday
She's logging her exercise separately so she shouldn't count it when she sets her activity level.0 -
There is a glitch in xbox zumba for workout classes. Use the site posted its way more accurate! I kept getting told I'd burned 80 cals for an hour workout, thats just not right for doing 60 mins!
Edited for tablet typos, ugh.0 -
OP, just curious, how do you know that doing zumba is burning 1480 calories per hour? I saw this in your exercise diary. That sounds like it might be off. And if you're eating back cals you didn't really burn that could sabotage your weight loss obviously.
- I use Zumba for Xbox Kinect. It tell you calories burned at the end of your workout.0 -
Noo !! All wrong. You can lose weight easily your just eating the wrong calories !! Lasagna and pastas aren't going to help
Types of food you should be putting in your diet
- chicken
-tuna
-vegetables !!
-fruit
- plain yoghurt and maybe a bit of milk
-oats for the morning !!
Stuff like that. Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing
Where did you get your information from? This is OH SO WRONG!!!!0 -
200 cals of bacon, ham,eggs, ice cream, pop tarts are still 200 calories to the body.
I've been doing that exact routine like she did and I didn't lose anything. As soon as I got to eating good foods. I've nearly lost 5 kilos in a month. Explain that to me !!!
because she isn't eating enough. It has nothing to do with what you eat. Calories are calories.0 -
As to the issue of what you should be eating to lose weight, I've noticed for myself that as long as I stay away from overly processed foods and fast foods, I can eat pretty much anything I want and still lose weight. Providing I'm getting enough calories, of course. That has been a battle for me as well.
Try putting in more calories earlier in the day, and eating an afternoon snack too. I've been trying to start out with something like grape nuts or shredded wheat or oatmeal. I also got a pack of gobites and like to fit those in in the afternoon for a healthy couple hundred calories.
[and I agree with those saying it has little or nothing to do with what you eat. Healthy calories are obviously more nutritious, but calories are calories in terms of weight loss.]0 -
The problem with Pro Anorectic Commenters (PACmen, but more often PACwomen) is that they want to lose half their weight in one day and give devastating advice. Going on a starvation diet never works. When you eat less, your metabolism slows down. When you exercise less, your metabolism slows down. Hence, if you want to lose weight, exercise and make up for all the calories you put in. Find out HOW MUCH you should eat (your so-called TDEE - not to be confused with your so-called BMR!!! and if you don't know what they are search for it), not WHAT you should eat. Then, subtract 10% or so and (slow but steady) weight loss is guaranteed, providing you log everything and are honest about what you burn with your exercise and don't give up after two weeks.… Everything like ham and bacon are not good foods to put in a diet and u will be putting on weight rather than losing
Now, time for my eggs and bacon and ham.0
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