No Scale Movement

comittobethin
comittobethin Posts: 42 Member
in Motivation and Support
So, for the past two weeks, I have not lost any weight, yet I have been eating the same amount of calories and exercising with the same amount of intensity. I even took it up a notch and still, no movement. Any advice/motivating thoughts?

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  • Leebett
    Leebett Posts: 238 Member
    As you continue to lose weight you will have to adjust your calories. Make sure that you are accurately recording every morsel you are putting in your mouth you may be ready for a food scale. Do you have a heart rate monitor? I read time and again on the forums that people underestimate food and overestimate exercise. I've also read that a lot of people have success with just focusing on nutrition first and getting that under control.

    YOU CAN DO THIS! DON'T GIVE UP! I know that if you continue to experiment you will find the right balance for you!

    Wishing you peace as you find your way.
  • Samquentin1
    Samquentin1 Posts: 23 Member
    Check your "goals" section on MFP... you may need to just open it, and make sure you have the right stuff clicked... for some-reason, my calorie goals dont go down, unless I open it... you eat less and you weigh less. Also, do you eat back all the calories that you exercise? try cutting back on the eating back some...

    Hope that helps! :D Good LUCK!
  • JohnDowding
    JohnDowding Posts: 46 Member
    It's helped me to just change-up something in my routine to get off the plateau. I added 15 minutes of stretching, and that helped a lot, or maybe try adding a walk or a bike ride, or something different to your routine.
  • tristaj90
    tristaj90 Posts: 330 Member
    So, for the past two weeks, I have not lost any weight, yet I have been eating the same amount of calories and exercising with the same amount of intensity. I even took it up a notch and still, no movement. Any advice/motivating thoughts?

    Sometimes for me it was eating a few hundred more calories over a 2 day span to jump start some loss. Sometimes your body needs more calories. there is something that some people do called calorie cycling.. As long as you maintain a deficit overall through a week span, you could do 1200 calories one day, 1600 the next or something like that. Do some research on it.
    Sometimes also trying a different exercise. When I first started losing I was doing 40 minutes of Zumba daily (the same dvd routine) and that worked for about 2 months and then it wasn't doing as much for me. So I bought a different workout DVD and it helped a lot. Switching up different exercises is a good idea.
  • jessica9705
    jessica9705 Posts: 8 Member
    I agree with the last post. I was stuck a couple of different times and it was because I was not eating enough. Your body will hold on to what it has if you do not feed it. It just takes a few hundred extra calories a couple of days and, boom, 4-5 pounds drop. Then go back to your regular calorie intake. Good luck.
  • ElizabethIrish
    ElizabethIrish Posts: 32 Member
    I've been going at this for about a month now - staying well under my calorie goal and working out several days a week. At first I GAINED 3 pounds, got very discouraged! I "realize" this is probably muscle gain from the working out but still! I have not weighed in since but I DO see a change in the way my clothes fit now. Still too timid to weigh again.

    One thing I noticed as well is I had originally signed in as "active" as daily activity but that was incorrect. I'm only active when I exercize, otherwise my daily work is rather sedentary so this took me from 1500 cal day baseline to 1400 which is more appropriate. Check to make sure your daily activity level is correct.

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