One month with no weight change :(

how's it going with the flax?

you might try looking for it in the baking section
or in the health food section where they have low carb, and the like
. I'm guessing you're on the other side of the pond?
in the uk it could be called linseed.

wasn't really trying to push it on your or anything.
I don't sell anything for fun or otherwise.
it's just really great to find a real food with so many benefits
including b vitamins, vegans often have trouble with
and yet it's so easy to prepare.

Hi there,

I can understand your frustration as my scales have not moved for over 3 weeks since starting a new exercise routine (I've heard this is normal and will settle down).

Sounds obvious, but are you weighing and measuring everything? Are you being totally strict, logging every mouthful of food? Also with your exercise, do you use a HRM or are you relying on the MFP figures as many people say they are too generous?

Other than that, all I would suggest is when you change something, give it a few weeks to work, else you can't really see if your changes have had any effect. I know that's difficult as we are all impatient and want changes NOW.

Also how often do you weigh? As weight naturally fluctuates by a few pounds anyway, so maybe limit your weigh ins.

I hope you can figure this out, good luck!

But starvation mode isn't supposed to kick in until under 1,000 calories per day.

Who told you that? Knowledge is power my friend read this and you will be in control. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/912920-in-place-of-a-road-map-3-2013

You might want to consider that vegan may not be best for you, and look into other styles of eating, such as paleo/primal, which seems to be very successful for a lot of people.

I feel for you, I really do, I've been pretty much on one big plateau since last year - I've started to lose now, since significantly increasing my calories!

Please don't think I'm down on you, I'm not, but you appear try to up the cals for a week, see a slight gain and freak out - if you READ about this stuff you will see that it can take up to 8-12 weeks to reset your metabolism IF you do it right (I'm 43 btw) - in that time you are likely to gain slightly, but its NOT fat gain, it can't be as you are eating below your TDEE. I try to make sure I hit my BMR daily, don't always manage it and forget to log when I eat fruit/yogurts etc, but generally I'm eating my BMR and not worrying until I go over my TDEE minus 20% which doesn't happen that often. (My diary shows around 1300 cals per day, its more than that, I log main meals, I don't log all of my protein shakes and fruit etc - I should do but I mentally log them and its also part of me trying to break away from fixating on every last darned calorie). Your TDEE and BMR are based on your age, height etc so its not the older metabolism problem, that's calculated in.

All of us can only tell you what works for us, but this is working for me - I'm not losing much but omg is my body changing, and now the weight is starting to drop - I don't officially weigh in til Tues but I seem to have lost around 3lb this week! That is major - its the weight I put on when I upped the cals and now its finally going. We've all been fed so much rubbish by the dieting profession (who make their money from repeat clients) that we need to cut cut cut, but its completely destroying our metabolism and making us have to diet again and again.

As regards exercise, that is down to you - I HATE running, I run 3 times a week, I loath it, hate every minute, but hate being fat even more. I'm combining that with swimming and with lifting (aiming to cut the cardio after a race I booked to motivate myself and move more to lifting) - but the trick is consistency and developing the habit - I don't want to be skinny fat, I want a body that burns fat continually :-)

Only you can know what you want to do, but you must give changes time - lob those damned scales, go by your tape measure, scales are ridiculous, they alter with the weather for goodness sake (or seem to!) Make a decision and stick to it, but don't think things that work so well for so many don't work simply because they do what they WILL do (ie slight gain) without waiting for the plummet the other side. You haven't wasted a month - eating the old way (presumably) you'd be several pounds heavier and still going up!

You may want to try the Eat, Train, Progress group here on MFP. They have great information there and if you follow their recommendations and are still stuck, they will give you advice.

Morning Doug,

For what it's worth....I lost 40 pounds over 17 yrs ago using Wt Watchers and returned there losing only 15 pounds. I was VERY frustrated because I burn 500-800 calories/day 5 times/wk(competitive tennis) and the scale wouldn't move for over 1 month. My body was used to this activity... I added a gym routine which I orig. hated but learned to enjoy 3 times/wk. Nothing moved! I discovered this site and only lost 1 pound the first wk and nothing the following wk so two wks ago, I changed my daily goal from 1200(most women here feel way too low for us) to 1400 calories/wk and actually didn't have time to get the walking 3 times/wk in but managed to see a change in the scale the last two wks. I eat only half of my burned calories/day and don't go below my BMR calories(1300/day)....adding only 200 calories/day and trying to keep my sodium 1200mg/day PLUS drinking an extra 16oz of water/day has made a huge difference....

My suggestion would be to change things around(calories or exercise for 2 wks) and see if you see any changes....

PS I hope to lose another 20 pounds before goal weight....

Good Luck and yes, be patient....