Frustrated!!! Need help
saral8981
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What a frustrating Monday!! I have been doing EM2WL for a year now. I lost a few pounds, gained a few pounds, the typical yo-yo. So about 9 months into EM2WL (in Novemeber) I upped my exercise. Lost 4 pounds. Continued with the increased exercise. No loss. Went to the doctor, had blood work, my thryroid checked, everything came back ok. Still no loss. Upped my exercise in January, added weights, still no loss. FINALLY last month, lost inches, but no scale weight. none. When can I expect the scale to MOVE DOWN?! I am getting married in June, thought I was doing everything right to lose weight and go down some sizes for my beach honemoon.. and its not happening. I can't even begin to tell you how depressing bathing suit shopping was for me last week. I never thought losing 15 pounds would be so difficult.
Starting Weight a year ago: 167
Weight now: 164
Clothes sizes lost: none.
Inches lost (all over body) 10.5
Eating 1550 calories a day. (only saw weight loss progress when I was eating 1300 and exercising 1-2 hours a day) My BMR is 1537. I upped my calories to 1800 briefly and GAINED 6 pounds and fought to lose it back.
I am running out of time. Help!! If I am eating less calories than my body expends I SHOULD lose weight. There is no medical reason why I am NOT losing. I have also done the "reset" several times.
Exercise- 4-5 times a week, hour worouts. Zumba, Kettlebells, Drums Alive, Treadmill, 30 Day Shred (when I am short on time)
Starting Weight a year ago: 167
Weight now: 164
Clothes sizes lost: none.
Inches lost (all over body) 10.5
Eating 1550 calories a day. (only saw weight loss progress when I was eating 1300 and exercising 1-2 hours a day) My BMR is 1537. I upped my calories to 1800 briefly and GAINED 6 pounds and fought to lose it back.
I am running out of time. Help!! If I am eating less calories than my body expends I SHOULD lose weight. There is no medical reason why I am NOT losing. I have also done the "reset" several times.
Exercise- 4-5 times a week, hour worouts. Zumba, Kettlebells, Drums Alive, Treadmill, 30 Day Shred (when I am short on time)
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I can't offer solutions, but only support and sympathy. I've also been trying to lose the 15 pounds I gained after starting EM2WL a year ago. My measurements have NOT changed, nor the scale. I never eat below my BMR. I'm about to go back to my low-cal ways.
Have you checked your numbers at Scooby workshop? If you are just eating at slightly above your BMR, people will likely say you're probably not eating enough for your activity level. I too, am eating close to the 1800 mark, and NOT having any changes. It's beyond frustrating. I think there is truth in stress raising cortisol, so the more you worry about it, lose sleep, etc., it will only add the the holding on of this dumb fat. I will keep an eye on this forum for the suggestions of others. Hang in there!0 -
You aren't doing the program really. You haven't been eating enough likely this entire time.
You gained 6 lbs of what exactly?
If 1550 was really your TDEE, since you say you ate that and saw no loss of anything, then eating 250 more daily, or 1800, should have resulted in a mere 1 lb of fat gain in 2 weeks. If that was really your TDEE at 1550.
Gaining 6lbs proves it cannot have been fat only (though in theory 1 lb could have been, but not likely), which is not possible.
So water weight. Why? Because your glucose stores have not really been topped off, so there was massive space to fill up. Glucose stores with water.
Why were they not topped off? Because you have been under-eating for your level of exercise. Or eating very low carb while doing lots of cardio.
You have likely been slowly burning off muscle mass, which means your metabolism is going down for that fact. It is also probably suppressed anyway even lower than needed.
Basically, I don't think you did the program, and your resets were probably not really resets, but merely eating more and your body raised metabolism up to that new set point.
Get a better handle on your best estimated BMR and TDEE.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/813720-spreadsheet-bmr-tdee-deficit-macro-calcs-hrm-zones0 -
You aren't doing the program really. You haven't been eating enough likely this entire time.
Agree with heybales.. sounds like your doing a bunch of exercise, your eating a few calories over your BMR and I am assuming not eating your exercise calories.. so your not really following this..
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
^ Go there, enter your stuff, moderate activity (i am guessing), and 20% cut.. slowly increase your calories up to that, increasing every few weeks by about 100-150 calories. (or use the spreadsheet above)
EM2WL unfortunately isn't just about eating above 1200 calories, its about eating correctly for your activity.0
