Help please - not losing

What are your goals? You're already at a healthy weight, so any more losses WILL be slow. If it's shape you're more concerned about, up your strength training.

My net calories is set at 1200 but I just eat when I'm hungry. I'm not usually that far from 1200 but I have recently starting to eat 1300-1400 cals (unless I'm having a bad day!!!)

I think you answered your own question. If your target is X and you are eating Y then you are not hitting your target. Log everything you eat accurately (use a foodscale) and stick to your target for at least a few weeks, then reconsider targets..

I have recently changed my macros but I'm not yet achieving that. I do know that my sugar is on the high side - so this could be the cause.

Focus on getting your protein and fats in, then worry about the rest. You are at a healthy weight so what you are looking to do is shift the weight from fat to muscle, not lose a bunch of weight.. protein + lifting is your best friend in that regard.


On your target calorie number, I agree with albertine58 that you should reconsider the number. If you are not ready to build, at least consider eating at maintenance and focus on fitness. Your clothes will start to feel looser if you are making progress in fitness.

One very glaring thing I see is you are not getting enough protein on ANY day the past week. At first as you start exercise, you should be building muscle and not seeing much in the way of loss is typical. Not eating enough protein could stretch this phase out a lot longer, never allowing your muscles to recouperate adequately. I would add another daily session of some kind of aerobic exercise, maybe just walking 30mins/day and then eat those calories in protein additions to every meal, maybe an egg with your oatmeal, larger portion of chicken, add a small tin of sardines or fish in there somewhere, cottage cheese with a meal, or a whey protein shake addition, just make sure to make your protein goals at least when you are increasing exercise. What do you do for 87 calories/day btw is that walking? Cornflakes every breakfast I consider kind of junk food btw, and switching to something like oatmeal and an egg, or cottage cheese, would give you a lot more protein and not shift calories too much so you may not even have to increase exercise much or at all to stay even.

You are also not eating all your calories, I think I counted an additional 500 calorie deficit roughly in the weeks I looked at, which in addition to the lack of protein could also stall you (too high a deficit while trying to build).

As always, double checking your settings, and weighing your portions is also important when you are trying to find the issue.

Oh, and after having a look at your diary, make sure that the items you're choosing from teh database are correct - there's rice and potatoes in there showing as zero carbs.

First I noticed that your logging suggests that you are not weighing your food. Try that to assure that your bowl of cereal is 70g and not 90g, etc. these things add up.

Second, you are close to objective. Changes will be slow. Accept it and work with that. They will come. Promise.

Third, Stronglifts is a great program but you are just learning during the first months. Take pictures now, you will see a difference but it takes time. Take pictures. Progressive loading to an effective weight, if you are doing SL correctly takes 2-3 months. Oh, and did I tell you to take pictures? Yeah, the mind lies.

Fourth, changing your calories should be fine, going up a hundred should not make a large difference either way, it should be at a level that you do not struggle to meet and that you can be consistent long term - so even 200-300 higher makes sense, especially if you are active and want to work on performance in your activities. Note - weight will fluctuate. Don't panic.
Good luck.

Have you been eating back calories that you burnt from exercise?