Scale Just Not Going Down

Well if it means anything I was in the same predicament as you up through last week (I was happy if the scale went down at all) and when I got on the scale this morning and I lost an additional 4 pounds. However over the past week I increased my caloric intake from 1200 calories to 1500 calories. My friends husband who is a personal trainer had told me that my body was not getting enough calories because of all the exercising we were doing so I tried it ( I thought what do I have to loose ) and it worked. So you might want to try that.

Perhaps you are losing inches - as you know muscle weighs more than fat - if you are exercising hard - that may be it.

I am right there with ya...My biggest weight loss came one week when I was off my thyroid meds because of delays in getting them filled. Since taking them again I have gained back what I had lost in that week. Now I have taken myself off of them again based on some research that indicates they are a generic synthetic brand and may result in weight gain vs loss. If I start to lose weight again - I am calling my doctor to ask him to put me on something else.

I am hoping that is the problem because I have also done well with the exercise and calorie counting and just not seeing much progress.

If that isn't then problem then I will need to try adding more calories...

I totally understand how you feel, and did a similar post last week. Since November I have lost 6lbs, however, since January I have seen very little chang!! Dont think I have ever been so good at sticking to a diet and exercise plan, so its massively disheartening when you are not getting results.

I wasnt eating my cals, going by the rule, exercise more.... eat less, however was kindly told by peeps on here to eat the extra exercise cals as aleady have a deficit on here, for example I am on 1200 cals, so if I earn say 500 cals exercising and dont eat them, then I am only really getting 700 cals, which isnt enough!!

So I am going to give it a couple more weeks eating exercise cals, and see how I get on. It is defo worth doing your inches if you are exercising. I know its nice to see the scales moving, but inches will spur you on.

I am really worried as I get married in 6 months, cant believe I have done so well for 2 months and feel no better for it!! I ordered my wedding dress today, and last tried it on about 4 weeks ago, would have been nice to have tried it on again weighing a bit less!!! But never mind!! I was worrying last night thinking what if I carry on like this.... trying really hard, but getting no-where.... its sooooooooo frustrating!!! Was even considereing going back to weight watchers, which I have done in the past and know it works, but then I dont tend to eat as healthy when on it!!!

Fingers crossed you start seeing results....and that I do too!!

Ok wait a minute. 41 days is 6 weeks. And you've lost 8 pounds. That is a little over a pound a week. How is that not losing weight?

I have been stuck around the same area too for the last few weeks - I go up, go down, but overall it is a slow decline. I have upped my calories from 1320 to 1400 to see if that helps (maybe even try 1500 if this doesn't work). Then of course eating my exercise calories.

If you want to change your calories you can go to goals and select "custom" instead of "guided" to manually change the amount of calories you consume. So you don't have to add an extra random exercise.

My scale is still going down but only went down 500g this week. I exercised my butt off and did not eat anything naughty. I am disappointed as my husband (yes I know the male metabolism is better) lost 900g and only did little exercise.

Having now read all the posts in this topic it is making me realise that perhaps I am eating too few calories as I was always making sure that I was eating alot less than my 1200 calories thinking this will lose weight quicker.

This week I will try two things, 1. eat my allocated calories ensuring that I always have 1200 in the bank at the end of the day. 2. I now have a heart rate monitor and will exercise within my target heart rate.

I am already varying my exercise each day between walking, running, cycling and skipping.

Good luck everyone and I will give an update next week.

Patch

Maybe there's something you're eating that's holding you back. I was stuck at the same weight for over a month. I had got into the habit of having a glass of red wine in the evening. Hardly a skid row alcoholic, and I always logged it and was still under calories, but I was concerned about getting used to it so I decided to quit. The scale started moving downwards again a few days later. :drinker:

I'm there with you! I'm getting married May 8th and would love to be at least another 15 pounds lighter by then. I have been workign out regularly and watching what I eat for almost 10 months, with a total weight loss of about 18 pounds.

My problem is when I hit 197-198, my body just stops losing weight. I stay there for a couple weeks and then start to gain weight, with no change in my diet or exercise routine. I'm trying to prevent that from happening this time....

I have been at the same weight since Jan 20th. Up two pounds, down two pounds, up and down. It was very frustrating. So yesterday was my weigh in day and I had lost .8lbs. Not really all that exciting since I figured I would be back up those .8lbs today (since it was in the range of my +/- 2lbs that I have been struggling with). Anyway, yesterday I went to a party and went crazy. I ate and ate. I estimated that I ate about 1500 calories in chips and dip-- and boy was it wonderful!! Anyway, I had a regular breakfast and dinner and when I got up this morning I was down another 2.5 lbs. My point is, maybe you need a few extra calories. I'm obviously not going to make a habit of it but I've decided that once a month I'm just going to eat whatever the heck I want.

that happened to me too. I ate and ate and ate one day and they next day I was down 1 pound when some days I eat good and workout and nothing! It's funny how losing weight can be so confusing. Now I know if I go out to dinner or do something fun I don't have to worry about always watching what I eat :bigsmile:

same here, i'm so mad and unhappy. :sad: