On a 1,500 calorie diet, but not losing weight?!

Gurdeep1993
Gurdeep1993 Posts: 1
in Health and Weight Loss
I have not once gone over the 1,500 intake set by myfitnesspal but yet i am not seeing any results in terms of weight. I have been exercising everyday for 45 minutes so not sure what the problem is? Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)
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  • cindybpitts
    cindybpitts Posts: 213 Member
    How long have you been doing this?
  • ChristyRunStarr
    ChristyRunStarr Posts: 1,600 Member
    You haven't given us much info and your diary is private so it's going to be tough to give you much advice....

    What is your daily calories (net) after exercise? It looks like you only joined a few days ago-this will take longer than 4 days. Your profile also says you're 18 and male-changes are your BMR is higher than 1500. Find your TDEE and BMR and go from there. How much do you burn during your workouts, how do you find the calories (MFP, HRM, machine)

    Edited to add in the link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974889-in-place-of-a-road-map-short-n-sweet
  • supermodelchic
    supermodelchic Posts: 550 Member
    H hun,if you want advice you will have to open up your diary and how much weighlifting are you doing?
  • mrsPaananen72
    mrsPaananen72 Posts: 13 Member
    Hi, I don´t know if you have any health issues, but I know from experience that hypothyroidism (untreated or medication not in balance) can do that. You can eat around 1200 kcal a day and not loosing any weight is entirely possible.
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    how much do u weigh? maybe u nee d to eat more caleries
  • Mmmmona
    Mmmmona Posts: 328 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.
  • tbetts23
    tbetts23 Posts: 303 Member
    So....if you just joined on the 18th...that's 4 days. Not a lot of time. Adding exercise you haven't done before? Weighing and measuring everything ? If you are doing what was suggested, give it time.
  • tbetts23
    tbetts23 Posts: 303 Member
    So....if you just joined on the 18th...that's 4 days. Not a lot of time. Adding exercise you haven't done before? Weighing and measuring everything ? If you are doing what was suggested, give it time.
    Sorry! Not good at this! Might have tried to edit:smile: you are a 19 year old male. Who told you to eat 1500 calories? I'm 47 and lazy as hell and that's my calorie goal!
  • RepsnSets
    RepsnSets Posts: 805 Member
    I increased from 1500 to 2149 and im now losing weight but I guess it all depends on weight, height, amount of burn per week etc. Everyone is different
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    How long have you been doing this?

    Joined 2013-05-19
  • deevatude
    deevatude Posts: 322 Member
    try eating more food

    find out ur BMR and take it from there. you should be netting ur BMR fyi
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    try eating more food

    find out ur BMR and take it from there. you should be netting ur BMR fyi

    try giving it more than a week too. maybe.
  • craigmandu
    craigmandu Posts: 976 Member
    Can't give you a recommendation as there is simply not enough information present.

    You are 19, and eat 1500 cals a day, that's all we know.
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    Can't give you a recommendation as there is simply not enough information present.

    You are 19, and eat 1500 cals a day, that's all we know.

    and it would seem you havent seen results after a week... right?
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    are you trying to lose or gain?
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.
  • metacognition
    metacognition Posts: 626 Member
    Change up what you are doing for exercise. Try high intensity interval training or lift weights if you do not already.

    Also consider dropping your calories a little bit on days without exercise, and boosting them on days with weight lifting.

    Do things to surprise your body and hopefully that will help break a plateau.

    I used to stay around 105 pounds at 1600 calories per day. After adding in a couple extra days of cardio per week and scaling back the weights I started losing at over a half pound per week, which is more than I should based on the equation alone. Heck, I averaged 2000 calories on a few days and still managed to lose weight that week - and I have no idea how it happened.

    The human body is strange sometimes. You have to shock it so it continues to adapt to the stresses that you place on it. Don't let it become too efficient at one exercise.
  • s50s
    s50s Posts: 138 Member
    bump
  • Mmmmona
    Mmmmona Posts: 328 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

    Color me horribly lazy then.



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  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

    Color me horribly lazy then.



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    Me TOO!!
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

    wait.... what? anyone else know why this is funny?
  • baileybiddles
    baileybiddles Posts: 457 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

    Color me horribly lazy then.



    jlaw-nod.gif

    Jesus, me too. Somebody is suuuuper judgy. An hour and a half is a lot for anyone. Get off your high horse biottttchh
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

    Color me horribly lazy then.



    jlaw-nod.gif

    In for being lazy
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

    There is NO NEED to be doing 1.5 hours of exercise a day, unless you are training for an endurance event..

    But you're the lady that survives on 200 calories net per day, so you know EVERYTHING
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

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  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,711 Member
    Hi, I don´t know if you have any health issues, but I know from experience that hypothyroidism (untreated or medication not in balance) can do that. You can eat around 1200 kcal a day and not loosing any weight is entirely possible.

    Everything you say is correct. However only one in nine people suffering from hypothyroidism is male and over 90% start with the problem in their late 30's or early 40's.
    Since the OP is an 18 year old male, he is probably safe.
    Also, as someone mentioned he is just doing this for four days and expecting too much too soon.
  • EuSaNaD
    EuSaNaD Posts: 33
    Try raising your exercise to 1.5 hours. If you just started, you may not see a loss for a month or more. Stick with it. The scale will move. I promise.

    There is no need to exercise for an hour and a half! Yuck! Losing weight is about a calorie deficit and you can do that all with food or a mix of food/exercise.

    An hour and a half is nothing unless you are horribly lazy.

    Color me horribly lazy then.



    jlaw-nod.gif

    Jesus, me too. Somebody is suuuuper judgy. An hour and a half is a lot for anyone. Get off your high horse biottttchh

    ^^^ THIS ^^^
  • goodtimezzzz
    goodtimezzzz Posts: 640 Member
    post pics fill out your profile
  • twinkiemon
    twinkiemon Posts: 216 Member
    Like others I'm not sure how much you weigh or what kind of exercise you do. 4 days isn't a lot of time to see progress - give it at least a week or two.

    But for me (I'm 5'2" 242lbs) MFP has put my calorie limit at 1210 (you should not go under 1200) - if I work out 45 minutes on the elliptical I burn roughly 500 calories.

    It's important to eat back your exercise calories. Say you eat 1500 but then burn 500 exercising, this will put you under 1200 and your body will think it's starving so it will hold on to the fat. Make sure you eat back your exercise calories.

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