My Scale just isnt moving :(

I am starting to feel a little down...In the last month my scale has hardly went down at all! 90% of this month I have stayed under my 1,200 calorie goal and have exercised 3 to 4 times a week burning usually around 500 calories..Has anyone else had this problem? And if so what did you do ? I just feel like I may need to go see a doctor to get some things checked....

its called not eating enough

I am 5'3 and weigh about 193.....I usually do around 45 minutes on the eleptical and then do some weight lifting so I burn around 500 or 600 calories on the days I work out....I usually do not eat my calories back, I may eat 100 or 200 of them but not all....My net calories this week have averaged around 900 or 1,000 calories since I am not eating all of my exercise calories back...So are you all saying I need to have a net of 1,200?

For your age, weight, height even if you did NOTHING all day you need around 1500 calories. I'd suggest reading http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10665-newbies-please-read-me-2nd-edition to start and going from there.

You do need to eat more!! I know it sounds counter-intuitive but you don't want to go into starvation mode. 1200 should be your bare minimum intake. I'm at about 1600-1700 calories. I would also take measurements because the scale is only one yardstick for measuring your health progress.

I'm at 196 and MFP tells me that to lose a pound a week i need 1670 calories and that's without any exercise calories. I know i could not survive on 800 net a day.

Hi
My scale has been stuck for awhile now but I have not given up yet. I have been using myfitness for awhile but have not added any friends. So, I decided that I need to start reaching out for encouragement and support.

So what's apparent is your body is slowing down your cellular mechanism because it has detected you are fasting.This is the problem with the 'calories in < calories out' mentality, it completely misses how advanced the chemistry of the body is.

Please see the Good Calories Bad Calories pdf and read pages 20-21
http://www.dragaonordestino.net/Drachenwut_Blog_DragaoNordestino/Ernaehrung/Ernaehrung_arquivos/Notes-to-Good-Calories-Bad-Calories.pdf

Not sure how you decided 1200 calories would be a good idea. I focus on eating enough to maintain a fast metabolism, am relatively indifferent to calories per se and focus on net carbohydrates (grams of carbs minus grams of fiber). So for me that works out to 1 gram of protein per day for each pound of goal body weight. for me that's at least 170 grams of protein a day no matter how i do it. i have to add a protein supplement to get that much protein. I keep grams of net carbs below 60. for the most part using low carb breads (10 grams of carbs per slice they have plenty of breads like that at Sprout), you're limited to about 4 slices of bread a day. but no rice, pasta, potatoes, or other starches (no beer, no booze).

I also be sure i get PLENTY of fat!! you read that right. Bacon, Avocados, Rib Eye Steak with the FAT left ON! cheese etc.

And based on that i'm losing 1-2 pounds of FAT per week, (I use a body fat scale to be sure). And before you ask my cholesterol is well below 200.

Been living this way for over a year now.
Good luck, stop fasting. won't work. your body has evolved the ability to SURVIVE difficult winters and famines and such and it KNOWS how to lower your metalbolism when calories are restricted. Your body is actually MUCH smarter than you are!

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