I don't know what to do anymore

Can I just clarify - you only ate dinner once a week?

That does seem like a small amount of food. Have you lost weight prior to these 4 weeks. May be that you just hit a plateau which is common and just have to bust through.

I think that for the amount of exercise you are doing, you are not eating enough.

Dinner once a week? You need to have dinner every day!

Unless you are logged your meals and unless you open your diary, there's really not much advice that anyone can offer. You made it sound like you've been skipping dinner six days a week and are eating salads with no dressing, cheese or salad toppings.

It sounds like you're eating too little. Have you been tracking your food? How many calories per day are you eating? Are you drinking 8 glasses of water per day? Eating too little can definitely cause you to not lose weight.

At 5'2" and 187 lbs, you should be eating 1300 to 1600 calories a day... You're eating about 500-700 a day by what your post says. That's your problem.

I agree with the person who suggested that bloating may be from a food intolerance.

Speak to your doctor or a nutritionist. Ask them how to do it. If you don't eat enough your metabolism slows down to a point it's harder to lose weight. You have to keep your metabolism up in order to help you lose weight. Your body goes into starvation mode and slows down. Eat, but eat sensible, and watch what you eat and more importantly how much you eat. Losing weight is difficult, and people who don't have that problem don't understand how difficult it can be. Find friends that are trying to lose weight as well, they can help your through the tough times. It's nice to have a supporter to help you through it. Stay strong. Best of luck.

Weight loss is a slow process. Just keep eating healthy and under, eventually you will lose weight. If you eat fewer calories than your body burns, your body will not have a choice.

Nina,

I've been where you are, but it's not healthy. You need to eat your three meals a day, plus snacks if you can tolerate it (some people are not snack people). From what you write, it sounds like you are starving yourself and your body is rebelling by not losing any weight.

I love MFP because it's my accountability factor: log everything in and I know exactly where I stand each day. I am learning to make better choices with both food and exercise.

As for bloating, I agree with others to say to look at food intolerance because it can cause a lot of problems. I've known I'm lactose intolerant for years, so I started drinking soy milk. I did an elimination diet earlier this year andI learned I was soy intolerant and caffeine intolerant. I had a whole slew of symptoms but the doctor could not figure out what was going on. I read a book on food intolerance and went from there.

I am also sugar sensitive, so I need to be careful about sugar intake as well.

If you log in your food and use a pedometer when you exercise (you can get them for your iphone or ipod), you will know how much you eat, have a fair estimate of what you burn, and you will see that you need to each much more in order to lose weight.

Good luck!

Sounds like your not eating enough for the exercise. Did you check to see what your BMR is? There are a lot of calculators that you can search and find out the basic amount of calories that your body needs just to support your organs and other functions. It doesn't sound like you are eating enough to do that and therefore you won't lose any weight. Hope this helps!

Why in the world are you only eating dinner 1 day a week?!?! Are you worried about the time of day you eat - because that's a myth. It doesn't matter what time you eat your food, if you are at a calorie deficit (healthy one) then you will lose weight.

I agree, I do not think you are eating enough at all. You need to eat above your BMR and below your TDEE.

I eat 3 meals a day and sometimes 1-2 snacks a day. I'm eating 1688 calories a day. I'm losing weight. You need to fuel your body properly if you want to lose weight. Your body needs 1200 calories to continue to function properly. If you eat only 1200 and burn say 300 calories a workout then you are only giving your body 900 calories to function. You need to eat those 300 back. It will still be at a deficit.

I will try and track my food on here from now on. But I honestly don't believe I'm not eating enough. Last year I signed up to a program eating 1200 kcal a day and having the support of a nutritionalist. After 9 months, I still haven't lost anything.

Most of the time I'm not hungry, I've got cravings but I'm not hungry. As I said I work away from home, so I can't cook for myself and I don't know how the food has been prepared. Therefore it's hard to guess how many kcal something has. Also when you go to the buffet, I takes a lot of willpower not to eat anything else but veggies. Therefore I don't go for dinner at all. It's different when I'm home. But unfortunately we travel a lot and therefore eat out a lot. But I thought if I get into a good routine will at work, it will help me to keep it up at home. Well, not working so far...

I honestly don't know what it is, I think I still eat too much and exercise too little but there's only so many hours in the day. I'm just at a loss and whenever I do go and see someone, they tell a different story what I should and shouldn't been eating.

I thank you for all your replies!

I don't see how you could eat less. Take the advice you are getting and eat dinner. You are eating less than 1000 cal per day from what it sounds like, and how is that working????

Um, please start eating dinner every day.

Yes, this! You need to make sure you are eating 1100-1300 a day, seriously. I can't remember your height, if you're above 5'2" then at least 1200-1300

I take it you live in Australia? I worked FIFO for 13 years in Western Australia, so I know what you are talking about. I agree its hard to handle the full spread buffets and eating healthy on a mine site, especially when the foods are all heavily oiled & fried with limited fresh options and having no idea whats in the food and limiting what you put on your plate.

I ended up cooking meals at home on my break, freezing them and taking them to work in a cooler bag and storing in my fridge/freezer in my room or in the crib room at site. If you travel heavy normally when going back and forth to work, ask the flight girls to allocate you a larger luggage allowance to compensate. I used to heat my dinner up in the mess every night and eat with everyone, so that I didnt feel like I was being unsocialable.. You would be surprised how many people ended up following my lead. Breakfasts and lunches for the most part I could find something to throw together. I just found that the more I could stay away from bringing a plate up to the buffets, the better off I would be.

Lite n easy could also be an option for you. They are all pre frozen meals, you could get them flown to work as freight on the flights. Then you could almost stay right away from the buffets altogether. Theres no thinking, you just take your bag to work and eat your food throughout the day. Take your dinner to the mess and heat up in the microwave. Easy!

You really need to start eating properly though. Not eating dinner is really bad. Changing your habits even just a little bit, will make you feel better before you know it. Keep positive and try something new. Obviously what you have been doing in the past, isnt working so what have you got to loose?

Start by eating a meal, even a small meal at dinner time!