NO WEIGHT LOSS! what am i doing wrong?

If you're not hitting 1200 calories and doing an hour of more of cardio you're absofreakinglutely not eating enough.

eat more. That's all you need to you.

Also, don't even consider fad diets... or put time/date goals on how fast you have to lose weight.

sometimes i eat the calories burned! ... i am eating lots through the day.. lots of fruit & veg, every now and again i have a treat, but i log everything..

Again. The 1200 is with a pretty extreme deficit already built in. You only set a goal of 40lbs to lose. Change your settings on MFP to 1/lb per week loss at most. Change your activity to "active" and eat the minimum that MFP gives you, plus a portion/percentage (I'd go 50% minimum) of exercise cals.

Doesn't matter what you're eating through the day if you aren't eating ENOUGH to start with.

How long have you been login? You said you've been eating healthy for a month, but randomly looked at 1 st July and its blank, few days before too.
Log everything, every day and you'll see results.

Are you measuring and weighing everything you eat and drink? Start there. Buy a $20 digital food scale. If you aren't using one, you can easily make 500+ calories a day errors.

And eat those exercise calories - that is the way this site is designed to be used.

You haven't lost anything in a month at eating 1200 calories a day and working out 4 x's a day? That doesn't sound right at all. Hmm...I didn't look at your diary But I would try upping your calories to 1500 a day and making sure you measure and weigh every thing that touches those pretty little lips. I was having a hard time getting my calories in recently and my weight loss completely stalled. I upped them and boom, it started dropping again. I don't work out like I should but I focus on eating good right now. Don't push yourself too hard. You are young and beautiful regardless. I know it is hard when you are 19. Looks seem so much more important at that age and there is so much pressure to be thin like all the celebs. But just be healthy and the pounds will come off in time. I was your age and skinny and miserable thinking I was fat. I would give ANYTHING to be back there and happy. Don't end up like me 200lbs overweight because I couldn't just accept that I was beautiful with a few extra pounds.

these. You need them.

Agree. Also, your logging is a little spotty (sorry, didn't realize you just started). It's hard to say whether you're eating too much or too little without several weeks of solid, accurate logging.

ETA: eat your exercise calories back.

How long have you been login? You said you've been eating healthy for a month, but randomly looked at 1 st July and its blank, few days before too.
Log everything, every day and you'll see results.

hi, i started loggin eevrything about a 10 days ago.. maby even less.. but before that i was eating more or less as what i am now

and if that's the case, you're undereating.

I see that OP is in southern Spain. She may not (or maybe she does, I don't know) have ready access to buy a food scale there at her age.

Regardless, please eat more. At your weight and age, 1800-2000 cals a day would be more likely to help you lose weight. 1200 is way too low for a 19 year old woman who exercises and has 17ish kg to lose.. No wonder you aren't losing weight.

I would say you're under eating, over estimating caloric burn, and not accurately measuring food. Eat at a MINIMUM 1200 cals NET (aka eat back exercise cals), research TDEE method (I'm a former 1200 calorie eater and saw much more success with TDEE method, get a heart rate monitor that estimates calories burned (it won't be 100% but it'll be better than the machines or the exercises in the mfp database, and buy a digital food scale (i have a perfect portions from kitrics, you can easily find one on amazon).

GOOD LUCK!

Best of luck with it! The process works. Just be patient. I'm elated to see someone moving towards a solid/proven method.. and moving away from fads.

Keep at it!

You need to eat more!!

add your excercise and then eat what MFP suggests, 1200 calories and working out is NOT enough to sustain anyone.

I looked at your diary. You also need to watch your sugar, it is high every day and your protein could be increased. I think if you focus more on protein it will help you lose weight. And drink more water, it will help, especially when you overdo the sodium. Typically from your diary you eat a very light breakfast, try to get a good protein at breakfast and add a morning and afternoon snack if you can. MFP allows you to customize your diary to add morning and afternoon snacks.

I agree you are probably not eating enough but I also think to be successful you need to focus on one thing at a time. Maybe sit down and make a list of what is most important to you. Is it eating balanced healthy foods? Or is it developing an exercise program? Do you need help shopping? (I still have problems with shopping and I'm old enough to be your mother ) You seem really overwhelmed right now and a list will help you organize your thoughts and priorities. The stress you are under is not helping either.

I also agree, get a food scale and measure everything. It will not take long for you to learn how to eyeball things.

Remember this, you are young and beautiful. You are also very smart to fight this battle now and not wait until it is out of control.

Feel free to send me messages or add me as a friend if you have any questions.

Hi guys,

I have battled with my weight all my life. i have always been over weight, apart from one time i went through a tough time in life and got down to 75 kilos ( currently 92kilos)

i was wondering if someone could look at my food diary, and tell me what im doing wrong, the kilos are not budging at all.. and i am really trying.. but maybe i need to excessive more.. or eat less.. i am keeping in my 1200 calories each day, and i am doing most days 1 hour of cardiac exercise minimum!

Can anyone give me some advice? Does anyone have a diet plan i can follow? I don't want to do a fad diet, but would like to loose the weight as soon as possible.

I have been eating healthy for 1 month and going to gym at least 4 times a week...

Help please!!

Thanks in advance

It can be VERY frustrating to see others around you lose weight normally doing their thing while you are doing everything right as well yet get very little to no results. I've been there done that and honestly not many people understand the frustration that comes with this. Everyone thinks you're either eating too much and/or you don't know how to control yourself. Others tell you to stop comparing your results to others. Yea...ok. I know people are trying to be helpful but implying that I can't control myself when obviously I am doesn't help me figure out what it might be the problem.

So for over a year I was stuck around the SAME number. My friends are all losing weight and I'm the same despite putting in my fair amount of effort. Not fair. When this happens it means that something else in your body is not working properly. If you are measuring, logging and creating your caloric deficit yet not seeing results you NEED to look at your health. Seriously....everything that has to do with your metabolism. I was checked for hypothyroid and that was positive. I was also tested for celiac...came back weak positive. I was tested for other allergies and such because I've been having these reaction.

Long story short, my hypothyroid has been under control for numerous months yet I wasn't losing weight. I can blame my hypothyroid for that but it made no sense to me if I was feeling "normal" again with the medication and my labs were good. I finally looked back to my lab results from that celiac testing. Even though everything was negative except that one marker, I was told I could have some sensitivity to gluten so I decided to avoid gluten June 12. Do you know what happened? I kept eating the same way I was eating before except without the gluten. Actually this time I wasn't even exercising but I'm still eating same amount of calories as before. The scale began moving downwards. I did NOT have to do anything else. I didn't have to go out jogging like a nut to burn calories. I didn't have to beat myself up for not losing the weight and feel bad that others are having succes and I'm not. I'm now losing consistently every week.

In summary: if you know you are doing everything right in regards to your diet, you are creating your deficit and you see no weight loss for a long time then it's time to check your health. I'm not saying going gluten free. That's just what worked for me in my situation. It may or may not be what works for you. You have to figure out what is halting your body from weight loss. Once you figure that out, you'll start losing again like everyone else does on a calorie deficit and you won't feel frustrated.