Why can't I lose weight?
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Hi sorry but I have proved this wrong, in these last 4 weeks doing IF, my body fat loss in 1 week, was 0.4% (1.1lbs) bringing my body fat to 26.1% but gained total weight too.
Lean gains i made this week. I gained 2.21 lbs in Lean mass bringing my total weight to 241.40lbs.
so you see it is possible to lose body fat and gains lean mass on a calorie deficit
BMR: 2259 calories
BMR+Activity: 3502 calories
Target BMR with Nutrition: 2802 calories
Fat - 202g
Protein -196g
Carbs - 49g
Cheers
Sergio
You are saying you gained 2.2 lbs of lean mass in a week.....really?
Holy *kitten*?!!!!!! 2.2lbs of lean mass in one week!!!!! Dude, write a book and you'll become a billionaire.0 -
See if your doctor can prescribe you phentermine pills. I would work out and eat right with no results but phentermine increases your metabolism and decreases your appetite so you're bound to lose weight
NO!!!! Phentermine is methamphetamine. Stay away from drugs.0 -
2. stop eating early in the evening. This is hard to do but your body burns the fat all evening and night long when you cut yourself off at dinnertime. When I am in the losing mode (I'm maintaining now), I chew gum and drink tea.
Hey, sexymuffintop...you wanna get this one? I don't have the energy.0 -
Same thing happened with me, the next week I weighed myself and I was down 3 pounds!! Its probably all the muscles you are building. Muscle weighs more then fat. Just keep going and wait to see, its all trial and error at first. Another idea from personal trial and error..... dont weigh yourself all the time, it does more harm then good, atleast it did for me and the best time to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning before exercise or anything to eat or drink.
No. No. No.0 -
OMG!!! I think I've never seen that many stupid answers/bad advices in the same thread. *facepalm*0
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I don't get n the forums for months for this exact reason. This poor man is going to start running....to the doctor for a pill script....then to the pharmacy to pick it up and then home to take his pills with an apple and some tea but not after 5 pm. Oh my.... I see not much has changed.
Dear OP,
Figure out your BMR and TDEE. There are plenty of sites where you can do this but www.scoobysworkshop.com and fat2fitradio.com are good places to start. Eat at a 15% deficit of your TDEE and set your goals to your new caloric intake on MFP. Set your macros at 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat just to start and then stick with your walking and start some weight exercises. Even if its just your body weight and some dumbells. You will see progress within a few weeks of eating at the correct amount of calories for your body. You cannot under eat as its detrimental to your metabolism and fat loss. If you have questions look for the EM2WL group or In Place of a road map group on MFP for some pointers. There are also many guys in here that use a 'If it fits your macros' plan meaning eat what you want if it fits into your macros. This works well for them especially when weight training. No matter what you decide to do to help yourself lose some weight, you have to eat more or it will never happen.0 -
Based on this thread in particular, because some of the advice is second to zero!
I have started this topic
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1006165-advice0 -
2. stop eating early in the evening. This is hard to do but your body burns the fat all evening and night long when you cut yourself off at dinnertime. When I am in the losing mode (I'm maintaining now), I chew gum and drink tea.
Hey, sexymuffintop...you wanna get this one? I don't have the energy.
I'd love to but i'm just in the middle of my last meal for the day. Holy ****!! I'm gonna gain though, it's 21.18 pm here!!! arghhhh!!!0 -
OP it seems that you are not eating enough. You also are not tracking your sodium and potassium. These are two really important factors. If your sodium level is high then some of that water you are drinking is being retained. Water is not the magic eraser for sodiium. Also with all that water you are drinking your potassium may be low. You can choose those values to show up. Potassium should be twice that of sodium. Be patient. Get things in line, let the scale alone for at least a week. Good luck to you.0
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2. stop eating early in the evening. This is hard to do but your body burns the fat all evening and night long when you cut yourself off at dinnertime. When I am in the losing mode (I'm maintaining now), I chew gum and drink tea.
Hey, sexymuffintop...you wanna get this one? I don't have the energy.
I'd love to but i'm just in the middle of my last meal for the day. Holy ****!! I'm gonna gain though, it's 21.18 pm here!!! arghhhh!!!
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What has this topic turned into?0
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What has this topic turned into?
A gong show, mostly.0 -
What has this topic turned into?
You could steer it back on course with your advice for the OP?0 -
I took a look at your food diary and from what I could see: 1) NOT ENOUGH FAT! You need a minimum of 35 grams of fat per day just to keep your body functioning properly. Staying at 1 gram per day will kill you. You must eat some fat in order to burn fat. 2) You don't seem to be tracking sodium, but I would recommend it--you eat a fair amount of processed stuff and they are usually pretty intense with the sodium. And sodium makes you gain water weight. 3) Others have probably told you this but you might want to drop some of the cardio and do a bit of lifting so that you retain your muscle mass while you are losing.0
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I'm baffled. I walked approximately 5 miles on my treadmill every day this week, ate within my calorie allotment plus I ate some of my exercise calories. The scale didn't budge. It's not like I'm eating crap either, pretty much all healthy foods.
I'm not on medication, I drink lots of water.
This just kills my motivation because I work so hard to eat right and exercise, and I get no results, so I think why bother?
Anyone have any suggestions? It would be much appreciated!
you're body is too comfortable with your routine. Shake it up
Try interval training. Walk for a minute... Sprint for a minute. Do that for half hour mon-friday0 -
You could steer it back on course with your advice for the OP?
Much of what I wanted to say was included in my post on the first page. However, I would like to emphasize what has been said since OP made his diary private - under-eating is a bad idea.0 -
Maybe your muscles are toning up? So losing fat, but replacing with muscle mass
this doesn't happen. it takes up to a year to gain as little as 5lbs of lean muscle mass. its possible that you can put on water weight that quickly if you start strenuous activity. when muscles are newly abused, they hold a lot of water, but that's not muscle mass.0 -
Weight loss fluctuates week to week due to water weight fluctuations. So you either retained some water and lost some fat or your eating too much. One of the two0
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Maybe your muscles are toning up? So losing fat, but replacing with muscle mass
No! Just no. You don't gain muscle on a calorie deficit.
yes you can. you might be eating a calorie deficit, but your body is still operating at calorie parity. it takes what it needs to make up the deficit from your fat.
thats how fat loss works.
if you had very low body fat, and you ate a deficit, yes, you won't put on muscle mass. but when you have a casino buffet worth of body fat, like those of us trying desperately to lose weight often do, as long as you are getting the protein needed for building blocks, your body will take from it's fat reserves for energy.
thats how fat loss works.0 -
Wow. Just wow. Some of the answers were meant to be jokes, apparently... but they failed miserably. Looking at your diary, I am curious as to how many calories you are netting? It LOOKS like you may eat 1700 calories... but then you burn 1500.... If that's the case... you are only giving your body 200 calories to fuel your normal every-day activity. Would you tell a couch potato to stop eating and only eat 200 calories per day, just because they were not exercising? No. Because it's way too little for proper nutrition! Same goes for you. You should be netting at least your BMR. If you don't know what that is, please have it calculated. And please, do not take to heart some of the idiotic "advice" given earlier!0
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Maybe your muscles are toning up? So losing fat, but replacing with muscle mass
No! Just no. You don't gain muscle on a calorie deficit.
Actually you can have noob gains if you never lifted seriously before.0 -
No it doesn't unless you have changed the laws of physics.Muscle weighs more then fat.
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Weight loss fluctuates week to week due to water weight fluctuations. So you either retained some water and lost some fat or your eating too much. One of the two
Before you speak on how much someone is eating, could you please have a look at their food diary? Please, for future reference. There are way too many people on here with food disorders already only eating 500 calories and if you tell them that, they are going to take it to heart (not this guy, but others). This guy is obviously not eating too much either, however. He is not eating enough.0 -
Walking is a great exercise, but your body is quite adept at walking and expends very little from it. In my opinion, and I would imagine most professionals, walking cannot really be considered cardio exercise. For exercise to be cardio, it needs to significantly raise your heartbeat, which is hard to get from just walking - even speed walking. If you could sing to yourself during your walk, it's not cardio. It's exercise, don't get me wrong, but the benefit to the heart is negligible. Also the body adapts quickly to exercise. What might have worked before might not work now. My advice: ramp up the intensity. Get your heart rate up. Mix in some runs/jogs. Have some high intensity sections in your workout (I personally love the app ZombieRun). This is what I had to do to blast myself off of a plateau. Good luck!0
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(I personally love the app ZombieRun).
This app is so much fun.0 -
Wow. Just wow. Some of the answers were meant to be jokes, apparently... but they failed miserably. Looking at your diary, I am curious as to how many calories you are netting? It LOOKS like you may eat 1700 calories... but then you burn 1500.... If that's the case... you are only giving your body 200 calories to fuel your normal every-day activity. Would you tell a couch potato to stop eating and only eat 200 calories per day, just because they were not exercising? No. Because it's way too little for proper nutrition! Same goes for you. You should be netting at least your BMR. If you don't know what that is, please have it calculated. And please, do not take to heart some of the idiotic "advice" given earlier!
I'm going to quote myself because people are still giving random advice without even looking at your diary. :noway:0 -
1) Agreed - some weeks you will loose nothing for whatever reason, and then another week the scale will suddenly jump down two pounds.
2) Agreed - when first starting new routines, the body resists and actually tries to hold onto fat - but once the routine is established as regular, the body will stop fighting it so much.
*3) When you say you eat back some of the exercise calories, how do you know how many calories you burned? Machines typically overrate the calories burned. When I got a heart monitor, I discovered that at my 3.8 pace, I was burning only about 70 calories per mile, but the machine told me closer to 90 calories! Yikes - that's a 20 calorie difference. Over the course of 5 miles, that's a 100 calorie difference. Not to mention that my normal maintenance calories burned in an hour is 100 calories (I only burn about 40 calories per hour in my sleep according to my heart monitor, and about 90 to 100 during my waking hours) - so I subtract 100 calories from the calorie read-out because I would have burnt those calories anyway if I had not been intentionally exercising. In other words, if I walk for 5 miles for 90 mins and the calorie read-out is, say, around 450 on the machine - I disregard that and check my monitor. My monitor may say 350 calories. Now, because I walked for 90 minutes, I subtract the 150 calories that I would have burnt anyways had I been doing my regular activities (which is NOT just sitting, I do have an active job - it is likely that may only burn 60 to 90 calories per hour depending on your job) - so in reality, I have only burned 200 calories over-and-beyond what I normally would have. Make sense? Try getting a monitor and see how many calories you burn while sleeping for 3 hours, working for 3 hours, and being at home for 3 hours in addition to exercising so that you can figure out your true maintenance calories per hour. If you do this, you will burn through the battery pretty quickly - so have a second battery handy - but realize that you only need to do this once, then only wear the monitor for workouts.0 -
nygr8guy I'm glad you posted this because I've been wondering the same thing the past couple of days! It sounds like water retention is the popular diagnosis - which is very frustrating but nice to know it's a temporary hang up. Thank you for posting this and to everyone for their helpful ideas and posts!0
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You could possibly have added a little muscle and retained some water, but if that's not the case, you might need to go and get bloodwork done to make sure everything is ok. But I think if you just give it another week or so, you might be happily surprised.
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Maybe your muscles are toning up? So losing fat, but replacing with muscle mass
No! Just no. You don't gain muscle on a calorie deficit.
yes you can. you might be eating a calorie deficit, but your body is still operating at calorie parity. it takes what it needs to make up the deficit from your fat.
thats how fat loss works.
if you had very low body fat, and you ate a deficit, yes, you won't put on muscle mass. but when you have a casino buffet worth of body fat, like those of us trying desperately to lose weight often do, as long as you are getting the protein needed for building blocks, your body will take from it's fat reserves for energy.
thats how fat loss works.
Fat loss and building muscles are 2 different things, dude.0
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