not losing weight

I see in your diary that you aren't tracking your sodium intake. Too much salt can hinder weight loss. It looks to me like you might be eating some fairly salty foods. Something to look at maybe limiting to get your weight loss moving again.

If you are exercising so much, you might be losing fat and gaining some muscle, meaning you might not see the changes on a scale. Are you measuring yourself? I've had 2 weeks with very little change in weight (while doing the 30 Day Shred) in which I lost 2 inches off my hips, an inch off my thighs and waist. To me, that's amazing progress and I don't care that the scale didn't move when I went down a pant size. Try tracking your progress with a measuring tape instead of just weight.

kfa;slkfjawe;lkfj I KEEP BINGING.

kfa;slkfjawe;lkfj I KEEP BINGING.

What? Where's the evidence of 'bingeing' in that diary? (And yes, there's an e in binge, sweetie.... ) Seriously, I get you're a teen and everything, but this is incredibly unhelpful. Run along.


Now to the OP.... I think the first thing is to check how you're estimating expenditure and intake. Are you weighing your food, especially calorie dense food? Your basic diet looks reasonably healthy (I don't see why other posters are concerned about salt - that doesn't look too bad to me.... ). Are you absolutely sure you're logging everything that goes in?

Now, on the question of expenditure. I don't know much about fitbits, in practice, but they always appeared to me to just be glorified pedometers? Is that the case? In which case, I'm not sure how reliable what is, essentially, a distance only based calculator, would be. You might want to think about a HRM for a slightly more accurate reading on outputs.

how long have you been logging your food intake?
it looks like you have been staying under your calorie goal for all of........two or three days?

is that right?

GREAT START!!:bigsmile: but, it's only the start, but GOOD FOR YOU!!!

i am new here too, (IF you are also new)
and it took me a few days to get used to NEW eating habits, i messed up a few times, especially at first, til i got stronger in my mind about it all.


it will take more than two days to lose weight, but, it looks like you ARE headed in right direction!! KEEP GOING!!!
kudos to you for trying and figuring it out, you can do this!
we are ten miles into the woods,
and yes,
we will have to walk ten miles to get back out again.

but, we CAN do this, just keep logging every bite you eat, drinks, condiments, evvvvvvverything, and watch how just doing THAT will help you!! helped me, anyway, i am going to DO THIS THING!!

I am new here,
but, i love it and feel MFP is helping me focus on my caloric intake,
and find the very act of logging my food

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every bite, every condiment, every liquid, everything,
just logging it all,
is causing changes in how i see my ktichen now.

For first time in my whole life,
i am becoming aware of how MUCH i eat---> the portion sizes.
NOW, i at least eyeball the food, if not actually measure it, to be able to log it later on.


I am becoming more aware of calorie-dense foods.
lol

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i am getting eyes like that scene in the Terminator movie, where the alien guy scans a room and sees numbers/facts/measurements,

that is kind of how i see tables of food now:laugh:

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my eyes look at a table and register this: "item in this bowl is probably about 300 cal per cup, item in this bowl is about 100 ca per cup." etc etc.

I am now eager and more eager, to weigh myself, to see if another few ounces has come off yet., focusing on one day at a time, instead of looking at the wholllllllllle pile of weight i have yet to lose.
I feel good to lose a few ounces,:bigsmile: instead of thinking, "aw geez, i still have 28 more pounds of fat :sad: on me."

I am becoming more focused on, what i eat = what i weigh, and which types of food are best for me.

Becoming aware of how many calories i have left for the day, has helped me (more than once), NOT eat something i normally would have eaten.
sometimes, late in the evening, i run to computer, log all my food, to see if there are enough calories to eat this snack, or not.

never did THAT before!! ha ha!! i AM going to make to my goal weight, and am going to become a healthier more active person again.

There could be many reasons why you are not losing weight. Have you checked your BMR (Basal metabolic rate), this will give you the exact calories that you need to stay alive. So if you are consuming lesser than your BMR, your body does not lose weight. Secondly have you checked your thyroid levels? If you happen to have hypothyroidism (which I have) it is tougher to shed the excess pounds. Also do you get 8 hours of sleep? Do you drink more than 8 glasses of water everyday? MFP has a great app for keeping count of water. Also on MFP we tend to overestimate our exercise numbers and underestimate our eating habits. Take a look at various factors and you might just figure out what is holding you back. All the best!!!!

I think she hit everything there. And water is also great for the elasticity of the skin as well (: And I was eating to little and had to up my calories and it takes a little bit for you to start again a few days after adjusting my calories I had dropped 1.5 lbs (: And sleep definitely makes a difference. Especially on days your exercising, but you're exercising everyday, so it would be good to get at least 7 hours but preferably 8. (: Good luck (: Hope you start losing, again soon. But, don't give up! It will happen again eventually. (:

My recommendation would be to move to a low carb food strategy as soon as possible. Run that diet for about 4 weeks then review results and evaluate. Here is a good resource that explains the low carb diet:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/#axzz23vBEMcyK

Good luck!

You need more fiber and need to detox

What do you mean by detox, and why does she need to do it?

Seriously, reading through this thread, I'm wondering whether anyone's looked at the diary.... ?

Well, good luck to the OP. I hope you find an appropriate solution. My money's still on overestimating expenditure.

try not counting any exercise you do for less than 20 minutes. (I'm sorry, but I remain pretty convinced .... :-) )

There's something wrong in the numbers, I think. You need to review it all as carefully as you can. Check your weight is entered correctly on the hrm. (those static bike figures sound *way* high). Do the fit test to improve accuracy if your version of the polar offers this. That you lost before you started using this site, and changing the numbers suggests numbers *are* the issue. (not carbs... your carb intake isn't that high, unless viewed by a habitual low carber!)

Zoloft was 'sold' by pfizer as not causing gains, but there's more mixed evidence recently. I doubt that's the whole issue, but may contribute. Obviously don't come off it, but perhaps raise it as a concern when you review your meds.

Mellie's point - you might have some newbie muscle gains, but full on muscle gain is a bit unlikely. However, if you've stepped up activity since joining mfp, and particularly if you're stiff, you may have doms related water retention, which will mask loss.

Bear in mind 6 days is a very short time to be on this programme though... I know you've started elsewhere, but I'd give it a bit more time before you start to panic about drastically changing what you're doing.