Please Help, I'm not losing weight anymore

I think your body may have got resistant to the low-calorie diet and your body is no longer accepting that. Its just like some medicines, peoples bodies eventually get resistant to that medicine and they have to be put on new medicine. Your body may just need some new type of diet. I myself too find it hard loseing the first couple pounds...I relize its going to take some time to lose the 15 pounds but with the amount of exercise I have been doing I would have loved to see more results by now....you can do it though! Stick to it!

Your diary isn't public, so I can't see anything .. but seriously. eat more work out more.. You will move in the right direction.

Your body probably adjusted to the low calories, and stopped losing. Read about the Spike Diet.

have you taken measurements to see if you are losing inches? also, make sure you are drinking plenty of water during the day.

Change your foods and change the type of exercises you do. It's important to change every couple of months. Your body adjusts to the routine so no changes, no challenge, no loss. Good luck!

The unfairness of it all is that, as we lose weight, it takes more and more exercise and less and less calorie intake to continue to lose. I have been thinking that if I hit a hard plateau that I might have a "retreat week" where I don't try to lose, but just try to stay stable so that I can go hard after the excess pounds after pausing. You might just be on a plateau and eventually you could/should start shedding poundage again.

Your probably screwed up your metabolism and hormonal balance the first time. 36 pounds in a month is insane.

Go to the Dr. and have a hormone/thyroid panel done. Stop dieting, do minimal cardio and start eating at maintenance for a few months to make your body feel like its not starving and regulate your hormones. Balance out your body. The do it again the right way. Slow and steady. Maybe get a nutritionist.

^ Agreed. Weight loss is most effective when you do it right. Eat healthy and exercise. Abs are made in the kitchen.

WOW.. I didn't read your post clearly... ARE YOU CRAZY .... 36 lbs in a month unless you are like 600 lbs is just plain bad for your body.. Even then the 600lbs person is probably working with a higher calorie in take than you and exercises 2 -4 hours a day.


Did you gain 36 lbs in a month ? Probably not.. You shouldn't be losing it that way either..


You need to have a consistent diet with a calorie deficit brought on buy at least 30 minutes to an hour of active exercise.

You have probably jacked your system up...

You are starving yourself, ruining your metabolism and burning muscle. You need to eat more to fuel your body for your workouts. You should not be eating below your BMR and on top of that you should be eating back at least some of your exercise calories. There is great information on the internet about how many calories you should be consuming to lose weight and be healthy. Good Luck and I hope you get everything figured out.

Ive done that same diet in the past and also lost a ton of weight (a lb a day basically). But you cant live on 500 calories a day for the rest of your life so I ended up gaining it all back and then some It does work, but not permanently. I know that's not what you want to hear but I'm just telling you what happened to me. Now I eat at least 1200 calories a day and exercise 30 minutes a day 5-6 days a week and I am seeing awesome results! I never feel hungry, and I feel like I am getting stronger, whereas before I was cranky and hungry all the time and always had a headache.... Granted the weight doesn't come off as fast, but I feel a million times better Good luck.

Gawd this site makes me so sad sometimes. People destroying themselves to "get healthy" is just so aweful. Please go see a doctor and get the help you need.

Thank you everyone. I didn't realize the danger I was causing to my body. Change is on it's way!

Glad to hear it!!!!!!!

The answer lies in your question itself - before you were not exercising much, so with whatever little you were eating, it was enough consumption and deficit for that level of activity. Now you are exercising A LOT more, so you need A LOT more food too..Your TDEE has obviously increased, so your calorie consumption must increase too and you should maintain a healthy deficit, not the kind of insane deficits you are currently following coz clearly your body is probably in starvation mode and so is storing every bit of food you give it. If you eat more, your metabolism will start ticking again and you will start seeing weight loss.. In summary, EAT MORE TO LOSE MORE !

Actually, I do and do not agree with what is being said.

1 ) I agree the weight loss is way too fast
2) but the math is not adding up...if this person is eating too little, and exercising a lot, he should still be losing weight. And it does not compute even if he is adding muscle or if his body is in starvation mode. Starvation mode only slows consumption a little...not as much as being reported.


Think about it...you don't believe in perpetual motion machines because they defy the laws of physics. And, if you are burning calories thru exercise and not replacing them, you lose weight...simple as that!

There are 2 simple explanations for the situation:

1) the person is not properly counting the calories being consumed. Or:
2) the person is not expending as much energy as he thinks exercising.

Sorry, everyone, but simple laws of physics apply....the details are incorrect.