Not Losing Any Weight

billsica
billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
in Success Stories
I weigh myself almost daily, same time every day. Pre and Post BM. I like to track the weight of my movements.

For the past several months I have fluctuated in the same 5 pound range. I have not gained or lost really much of anything. Granted my tracking lately has been poor at best, and most days I haven't been really at all.

A few weeks ago I had to buy a new belt, I had a size 38? one, but I had to get a 34 one now. (I'm not really into all the belt sizes).

I was only able to get it in the first hole. Yesterday I pulled and it went to the 2nd hole.

Still no weight loss. I'm lifting and running. Just busy being awesome. Have fun mfp party people.

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  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    congrats brochacho \m/
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    If you are counting anything that isn't water as water, that is why you aren't losing weight.
  • AmyP619
    AmyP619 Posts: 1,137 Member
    Glad to read this. I've had no loss in 2 months. Getting frustrated! Congrats on the movement (physically) even if the scale isn't moving!!! Good for you! :)
  • _Emma_Problema_
    _Emma_Problema_ Posts: 261 Member
    :heart:
  • pandabear7486
    pandabear7486 Posts: 92 Member
    Try taking measurements every couple weeks. You may not see weight drops but it definitely sounds like you are losing inches. Also getting back to thoroughly tracking may help with the weight loss as well. You need to be eating less than burn. So if you're on say 1600 calories and burn 250 with exercise, shoot to hit just the 1600 80% of the time. Good luck!
  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
    But you didn't loose any weight on the scale so it's kind of meaningless!!! Good luck in the future!
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    I always brag about putting it in the second hole.

    Congratulations!
  • downsizinghoss
    downsizinghoss Posts: 1,035 Member
    fatty! go suck on a keytone for God's sake.
  • TyTy76
    TyTy76 Posts: 1,761 Member
    But you didn't loose any weight on the scale so it's kind of meaningless!!! Good luck in the future!

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  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
    I always brag about putting it in the second hole.

    Congratulations!

    I just about spit my water out on this one. LMAO!
  • jackiemcbride906
    jackiemcbride906 Posts: 2
    Muscle weighs more then fat! Way to go girl!!! Sometimes the scale can be misleading! It is not a deal breaker for me as long as my clothes are fitting better then thats the main thing! Keep up the good work and feel free to add me! :)
  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
    Muscle weighs more then fat! Way to go girl!!! Sometimes the scale can be misleading! It is not a deal breaker for me as long as my clothes are fitting better then thats the main thing! Keep up the good work and feel free to add me! :)

    This made me laugh, almost got in trouble!

    You're such a pretty girl, Bill. I would totally date,bang or marry you!
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Sounds like you're gaining fat. Stop eating carbs and sodium. Egg whites and raspberry ketones are your friends here.

    ETA: Apparently people don't get sarcasm here.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    fatty! go suck on a keytone for God's sake.
    Like on a piano?
  • mazdauk
    mazdauk Posts: 1,380 Member
    Ummmmmmm.....belts stretch once you've had them on a bit.:ohwell:

    You've said your logging is poor - I think that there's your problem. I can't speak for everyone, but I've found if I don't log everything (exercise AND food/drink) its really easy to go "Oh, I did go up some stairs earlier so i won't count that square of chocolate", "I didn't fill that glass all the way up so I'll just top it up a little", "I'm going to do that exercise DVD tonight so i can have a packet of crisps" and ta-da! Over calories limit by 250 calories.

    Try logging everything for 4 weeks, then weigh yourself. If you don't have a food scale, do get one - pasta, cereal, slice of cake - impossible to judge weight (and therefore calories) without!

    Then come back and tell us how much you've lost this month :smile:
  • singlefemalelawyer
    singlefemalelawyer Posts: 382 Member
    I always brag about putting it in the second hole.

    Congratulations!

    bahahaha.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    Granted my tracking lately has been poor at best, and most days I haven't been really at all.


    Don't you think the statement above is the most likely reason?
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    Muscle weighs more then fat! Way to go girl!!! Sometimes the scale can be misleading! It is not a deal breaker for me as long as my clothes are fitting better then thats the main thing! Keep up the good work and feel free to add me! :)

    This made me laugh, almost got in trouble!

    You're such a pretty girl, Bill. I would totally date,bang or marry you!


    MINE!!! go get your own GIRL E!!!
  • mazdauk
    mazdauk Posts: 1,380 Member
    Sounds like you're gaining fat. Stop eating carbs and sodium. Egg whites and raspberry ketones are your friends here.

    Ignore this unless you know you're eating too much of any one food group. A calorie is a calorie, the difference being in nutritional benefits (protein etc good, trans fats bad, for example). And don't waste the egg yolk - a whole egg is only 60-70 calories and the yolk has most of the benefits.

    Eat at a deficit and you will lose weight. Even if you eat 2000 calories a day of doughnuts, if you expend 2500 calories in activity you will lose weight!
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    If you're poopin'...you're doing it wrong.
  • msjames1999
    msjames1999 Posts: 528 Member
    Congratulations!!
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Granted my tracking lately has been poor at best, and most days I haven't been really at all.


    Don't you think the statement above is the most likely reason?


    Wow. Someone completely missed the point of this. *smh*
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Sounds like you're gaining fat. Stop eating carbs and sodium. Egg whites and raspberry ketones are your friends here.

    Ignore this unless you know you're eating too much of any one food group. A calorie is a calorie, the difference being in nutritional benefits (protein etc good, trans fats bad, for example). And don't waste the egg yolk - a whole egg is only 60-70 calories and the yolk has most of the benefits.

    Eat at a deficit and you will lose weight. Even if you eat 2000 calories a day of doughnuts, if you expend 2500 calories in activity you will lose weight!

    Sarcasm...it is a Billisca thread, after all.
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    Muscle weighs more then fat! Way to go girl!!! Sometimes the scale can be misleading! It is not a deal breaker for me as long as my clothes are fitting better then thats the main thing! Keep up the good work and feel free to add me! :)

    a pound is a pound is a pound....

    so if my fat weighs a pound...what does my muscle weigh? Can you tell me? i was never taught this at school...

    is it perhaps a grundleberry? or a plaxitosis?

    whats the name for the weight of my muscle that weighs more than a pound of fat?

    Thanks!
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    Muscle weighs more then fat! Way to go girl!!! Sometimes the scale can be misleading! It is not a deal breaker for me as long as my clothes are fitting better then thats the main thing! Keep up the good work and feel free to add me! :)

    a pound is a pound is a pound....

    so if my fat weighs a pound...what does my muscle weigh? Can you tell me? i was never taught this at school...

    is it perhaps a grundleberry? or a plaxitosis?

    whats the name for the weight of my muscle that weighs more than a pound of fat?

    Thanks!

    Snozberries!!!!
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    You guys are right. Really I should just give up.

    I'm not a girl. NO you can not put it in my second hole, let alone my first one.

    Although I'd totally do me.


    in for snozberrie keytones
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    You guys are right. Really I should just give up.

    I'm not a girl. NO you can not put it in my second hole, let alone my first one.

    Although I'd totally do me.


    in for snozberrie keytones

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  • PhoenixEve
    PhoenixEve Posts: 131 Member
    Muscle weighs more then fat! Way to go girl!!! Sometimes the scale can be misleading! It is not a deal breaker for me as long as my clothes are fitting better then thats the main thing! Keep up the good work and feel free to add me! :)

    a pound is a pound is a pound....

    so if my fat weighs a pound...what does my muscle weigh? Can you tell me? i was never taught this at school...

    is it perhaps a grundleberry? or a plaxitosis?

    whats the name for the weight of my muscle that weighs more than a pound of fat?

    Thanks!

    I'm pretty sure what people mean by this, is that a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat. Or, if you had a chunk of muscle and a chunk of fat that were the same size visually, that the muscle would weigh more than the fat because it is more dense tissue.

    5-pounds-of-fat-5-pounds-of-muscle.jpg

    So the equal VOLUME of muscle will weigh more than equal VOLUME of fat... or a pound of fat will have more volume than a pound of muscle.

    Muscle weighs more than fat PER VOLUME (not per pound).

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