What Am I Doing Wrong?!

your diet is pretty bad - chocolate biscuit for breakfast, sugar in tea, etc. Carbohydrate festival !

Try eating 1400 a day every day and ignoring the exercise. Your BMR etc can be 10% or more out in the predictions, I guessed your highet and got a BMR (Katch McArdle forumula) of 1450.

your diet is pretty bad

Disagree - food has no moral value, ya get me?

I think I know what it is OP - in your diary you have things like 20g butter, 10g jam, 1 serving (100g) roast potatoes... so it looks to me as if you are estimating instead of measuring exactly? For things like butter and jam it might be an idea to use little measuring spoons so you know exactly how much you're having. If you put every little morsel you eat on the weighing scale before you eat it, you'll soon see the weight coming off because you'll know exactly how much you're having.

All the best xx

I must agree, if I take in soda..reg or diet and any carbs like breads etc I will NOT LOSE at all, no matter how hard I try. I am doing my best to almost eliminate those foods and yes it is hard as hel but it needs to be done for some.

I know it sounds daft but a 'teaspoon' is an exact measurement (ie not just the piece of cutlery you're using to dish the food :bigsmile:) - I think it's 5ml? You might be better using a measuring spoon - they're kind of ladle shaped.

You can lose weight on a crap diet (just google twinkie diet) provided you are actually under the amount of calories you need. It probably would hurt to add more vegetables and all, they are not all evil.

Part of the problem might actually be your exercise. Have actually determined that you are walking at 3mph when you are walking your dog (last time we had a dog we actually had to stop occasionally to let him do his thing)? When you log that you are doing 10 min of sit-ups do you do one after the other without any breaks?

Anyway, it is probably just water or a fluctuation depending on your monthly cycle, keep going and see how it is next week. Good luck :-)

Are you hungry a lot?

I found 3 meals, 3 snacks work for me.
I found eating a lot more protein worked for me.
I found not eating any bread, flour, rice and one potato once or twice a week works for me.
I allow treats within my allowance only, but not at the expense of my "real" food, that works for me.
I drink lots of water, it works for me.
I do the TDEE thing and wear a fitbit one all day and night, except in water. This works for me.

I am a shift worker and work 13 hours shifts. I have to be super organized. This works for me.

I am short 5'2". Short like you. I am large, very large. Have been on every diet you could imagine.

I REFUSE to ever go on a diet again.
I have been at this since the 6 June 2013.

So far it is working for me.

We are all different.

My diary is not open, but if you would like to see my diary, I am happy to show it to you.

I wish you all the best. You can do this. You just need to find what works for you. Find something that will work for you forever:)

Edited to say: I weigh every single thing that goes in my mouth wherever humanly possible.

It's so early as far as seeing a concrete number If you've made changes, they'll work! Water weight, a heavy dinner (literally) the night before, etc. will make the scale register changes that don't matter. Wait until you should have lost at least maybe 4-5 lbs before you worry at all about it.

Being accurate about portion sizes and exercise is important, of course. But I think it might just be too early to know how your plan is working, other than knowing you are sore or more hungry than usual, lol. Can you feel any new muscles tightening up? That sort of thing.

I am the same height as you, and am currently working my way down from 105kg. In about a month and a half I am down to 100.6. I find the things that affect my weight day to day the most are

-Water intake. If I drink only water (apart from my brekkie drink) in a day and drink at least 2 litres, I lose weight
-Exercise. I too have a pretty sedentary lifestyle, but have taken the habit of long walks, sometimes up to 10k a day. I also get in an exercise video when I can, but find the MORE exercise I do in a day, the LESS results I see on the scales. I figure this is just because my body is keeping more of the nutrients and water consumed within the day inside to help muscle development/repair.
-Medication. I suffer from hayfever, and find whenever I need to take a tablet, my weight will always be up the next day. No idea why, just happens.

Those are my main things, hope this helps you

Also, feel free to add me as a friend if you like. I love swapping motivation and support

I don't think you're doing anything wrong as such except maybe expecting too much too soon. We're all different, it can take a few weeks for the body to adjust to weight loss.

Keep plodding away at it. Weigh everything you eat, a food scale is best, if you take food to work weigh it out at home first. When teaspoons or tablespoons are given as measurements they have to be level/flat. Personally I can get a huge amount of jam on a teaspoon, well over what it should be! Lol Scales really are the only weigh to be sure.

It doesn't really matter what you eat, you don't have to be super clean, just make sure you have a decent sized deficit for you and it will start to happen.

Good luck :drinker:

I'm still learning how to eat healthy too so I won't talk about what you're eating but instead about weight. You said you weighed 0.5 pounds more, you can gain and lose up to 5 pounds a day depending on when you weigh yourself and what you've ate that day(high in sodium.) etc.
Here's what I do, weigh yourself ONLY in the mornings after you pee right after you wake up. Because you were sleeping your body will of taken care of the food in your stomach for you.
Even if you did that and still gained 0.5(which I highly doubt if you were only 178 calories over but maybe.) then that's okay! Just eat healthier, drink lots of water and keep on working on it!

You may be close to your calorie count BUT--high fat or high sugar foods will block any progress you try to make. I tell people all the time that this is a LIFESTYLE CHANGE not a diet. People fail at diets. Step back and look at your food list and then try to clean it up. EAT CLEAN, no processed foods or meats as they are HIGH in sodium, no sodas either for the same reason. And if you are still stopping at fast foods places, then you need to make the effort to stop that as well. There are lower count foods thee as well. Most of them have fruit or salad dishes for lunch and supper. Just step back and look at your diary and look at your goals and then set small goals. Do it day by day. Today I am going to walk one lap and eat 2 salads, tomorrow I am going to walk 2 laps and eat one salad---things like that--small attainable goals that will slowly get bigger and bigger. YOU CAN DO THIS

So, before getting into the TDEE business (which I AM a huge fan of), I want to tell you that you can lose weight eating 1500 calories worth of bread, pastries, anything labelled "junk", so long as you are under your goal. You won't feel great, but you'll lose weight.

You DO NOT need to cut out breads/carbs/follow any fancy fad to lose weight. You DO need to weigh and measure everything (EVERYTHING!!), an electronic food scale is the best, it's most accurate. You want some jam on bread, etc? Put the bread on the scale, press the tare button (to zero it out), and put jam on top until it reaches the gram amount listed as a serving (or however much you're accounting for).

Make sure you count everything (cream/milk in tea, milk and butter in mashed potatoes, etc) until you start losing the way you want to. Any calories you could be drinking too

In regards to the exercise calories, if you aren't using a heart rate monitor, then eat back half to 3/4 of the exercise burns. MFP usually overestimates the burns.

I lost a very good chunk of weight following MFP's suggestions and calorie levels. It did eventually (I mean 8 months or so in) stop working for me, and I wanted to focus more on muscle retention and fat loss, so I started looking into the Eat More to Lose Weight method (or is it Eat More to Weigh Less?.. lol), and now I am eating 2000 calories and I just lost a pound this week! woot woot!