I hope there is something wrong with me...

Going to have mine checked also! I want to do it the healthy way but it gets frustrating after 6 weeks and no loss! I joined a gym in January and will get re-measured soon but I can't tell any difference in my clothes!! Good luck!!

I would run all your numbers again. BMR, exercise etc.
Personally TDEE-20 didn't work for me I just gained.
I went to a dietician and found out my BMR was way lower than any online calculator was giving me. My dietician has me eating under my BMR and I have seen weight loss I am lifting weights 3- 4 days a week only at the moment.

I tried TDEE-20% for a month and I gained. I've recently lowered my calories a bit and will change up my exercise routine in the next week also. Sometimes you have to just keep trying until you find what works for your body. It can be frustrating, but there are other benefits from eating healthy and exercising, besides losing weight. I hope your tests come back with happy results, and good luck working past your plateau.

Two pounds lost in one month is nothing to shake a stick at. Keep at it!

I hope you blood work comes back fine

Would it be easier to just place the blame on something outside your control? I'm sure people with actual health problems would adamantly disagree with you on this. You are losing about a half pound a week. It's progress!

:grumble: This WAS me too...for decades. My bloodwork showed nothing, but I was called pre-clinical by my Mother's endocrinologist. It has been a long road, and do not regret all the futher refinements I did to make my whole food diet even cleaner and better balanced. It gave me excellent blood work and urine results! Still, the fat remained.

To cut to chase--drinking filtered water and taking enteric coated digestive enzymes (both with my carbs & proteins and at night on an empty stomach) with a good quality multi-vit&min, as well as consuming more fat (the good ones ~60g/day) has been key. Ask your doctor and read about digestive process that takes place in the small intestine. :bigsmile:

BMR calculators can be off at least 10% in either direction, and I hear that the average person underestimates their caloric intake by at least 10%. And how do you calculate your exercise burns? If you are using MFP or machines at the gym, they can overestimate burns by a lot for some people. If you are using a HRM with a chest strap, like a Polar, are you deducting your TDEE hourly rate from your burn count to get your 'net' calorie burn?

With all the variables, your 20% cut could be less than it actually is. And even if it is an actual 20% cut, that may only be a 1 pound or less per week loss rate, which is what you have lost over the last month, so you are right on track. If you want to lose faster than that, you will need to either lower your cals a bit or increase your exercise. Other than that, just be patient and stick with it.

I have friends on my list that lost inches before pounds. They also had their first month or so relatively hidden because of normal fluctuations covering up their loss. Once they dropped more, it was more obvious.

You have no water logged on your diary. Are you drinking enough water? You should try to get AT LEAST the minimum of 8- 8oz glasses. Once I upped my water, I'm slowly losing weight again.

I had gained 10# since The beginning of December. I had finally hit my red flag number where I swore to myself I would never get to again. It happened. I was sure I had an underactive thyroid and had bloodwork done. Everything was normal. Turns out my failure to exercise finally caught up with me after a year.

I use the calculator on Freedieiting.com and zig-zag my daily calories. Works much better with my work schedule

My thyroid is borderline, but I'm still losing. I change up the times I work out and the food I eat. I have stopped eating after 5 pm, make sure I drink all my water, only eat breakfast, lunch dinner, and 1 snack every 3 1/2 hours as Jillian Michaels advices. I'm lifting more then doing the crazy cardio. I eat within 15 minutes of waking up and make sure I get to bed around 10. Other then that try to keep carbs low because I notice the low carb sodium days reflect the best on the scale. Eating low fat didn't work for me. So I eat close to what MFP says and I don't eat back exercise calories. I'm still learning so I hope you find what works. I'm not terrified about that skinny fat term everyone uses, but my legs have muscles and my arms have 6 defined muscles I couldn't see before. So hopefully I'm doing good enough. I have a doctor's appointment next week. I will keep you posted if they tell me I'm doing everything right or if they tell me to change things up.

I know the feeling - I really do - but it's kind of terrible to hope there's something wrong with you.

I hope there isn't.

As I've been logging along, I thought there had only been a few days that I had gone above my calorie counts, but I guess memory lies because I found the REPORTS feature and discovered that I had been over calories almost as many days as I had been at my calorie limit. Also, I thought I'd been exercising more than I have. To make matters worse, I know there were days when I had a bite of this and a taste of that but didn't log them because how do you log one bite? Ya know?

Anyway; it's a struggle for some of us. I hope you find your weight loss sweet spot soon. I hope I do, too.

I haven't done 30ds so I don't know how effective it is. What I do know is that if you do legs and back exercises, you will burn off fat faster since those are the two main fat storage places (hence "It's going straight to my thighs"). Squats can become your best friends. If you add barbells to the mix you can practically hit every muscle group with just one exercise.

Your metabolism seems good and your food choices aren't problematic (from the days I've seen). I suggest you try to keep your protein intake high since protein will help fuel your muscles and your muscles will help you burn fat.

My guess is that it is water weight from the exercise and maybe sodium although you aren't over on it all the time. I've seen so many people on here have he same thing happen that were doing 30 day shred. I've not done it myself, it's just what I've observed happen many times so relax and keep doing what you are doing and I think it'll just start to drop off soon.