No weight loss in 6 weeks...

kristy_n0831
kristy_n0831 Posts: 108 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Let me start off my saying, I didn't get fat overnight and I don't it won't go away that fast either.

I lost 4 pounds each week my first two weeks on MFP, but since then, the scale hasn't changed. I started measuring and have lost a total of 17 inches, but as of the past two weeks, that has also stalled.

My stats:
6'1" 268 pounds

MFP says my TDEE is 2590 and to lose a pound a week I should eat 2090 calories. I have been eating around that (sometimes eating back exercise calories and sometimes not) and granted my food choices aren't that great. I go to the gym 6 days a week, for an hour each time.

I guess my question here is, Should I drop my calories down and see if that helps? Should I change up my routine at the gym?

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  • mallen404
    mallen404 Posts: 266 Member
    if your settings when you put in your goals accounted for how active you are, you shouldn't eat back your exercise calories...
  • wendybird5
    wendybird5 Posts: 577 Member
    Sure. Why not. Experiment for a week. See what happens.
  • emmajfearn
    emmajfearn Posts: 4 Member
    To attempt to answer your question, 6 days a week at the gym should be doing wonders for you (I wish I could afford a gym membership) but maybe you're eating slightly too many calories? Possibly drop it down to 1900 and see if that makes a difference?

    MFP estimated I should be on 1500 calories a day for my weight loss, and have been doing this for nearly a month now, along with a lot of exercise and like you said, it won't go away fast but I haven't noticed any difference :( The last time I weighed myself (yesterday) i'd lost 0.9kg in a month and only gone over my limit once by around 133 calories

    I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I'm getting so frustrated!
  • palmerar
    palmerar Posts: 489 Member
    MFP does not figure your TDEE, the MFP method and the TDEE method are two completely separate things. A lot of people on MFP use the TDEE method, they are not one and the same though.

    MFP: tells you how many calories to eat and be at a deficit, you always eat back exercise calories, set your activity level to what you do outside of your exercise routine

    TDEE: tells you how many calories you burn doing everything including exercise, eat that number to maintain current weight at current lifestyle. Reduce TDEE by 20% to lose weight at a slow and steady rate. Just eat your TDEE-20% number do not eat back exercise cals.

    ALWAYS recalculate your numbers (MFP or TDEE) at every 5 lbs lost. If you are carrying around less weight you will burn less calories.
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
    if your settings when you put in your goals accounted for how active you are, you shouldn't eat back your exercise calories...
    This is completely inaccurate!

    Your activity setting should NOT include dedicated workouts. It's meant to include how active you are throughout your day, for most people this is based on what their full time job is. Workouts should be logged using the Exercise tab and you SHOULD eat back your extra earned calories so you maintain the same calorie deficit every day, whether you workout or not.

    I plugged your stats into MFP's BMR calculator and it shows 2,074 calories. Never eat below your BMR. This is the number of calories you would burn if you were in a coma.

    Since you workout 6 days a week and sometimes you don't eat back your extra earned calories, your metabolism has slowed down and your body has adjusted to the lower fuel (food) amount and is resisting weight loss.
  • kristy_n0831
    kristy_n0831 Posts: 108 Member
    I have my lifestyle set to sedentary. I was weighed recently on another scale and it said the same thing my scale at home does. Just checked and my diary is set to public, so you should be able to see it.

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