I do not lose weight anymore! Help!?

you're a dude. you should be eating more than that. you're probably messing with your metabolism

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I was on 1600 calories a day (I'm 6'4" and was at 310) for over a year with no weight loss! It was obnoxious. I blamed it on forced inactivity due to a couple or orthopedic surgeries and an arthritic hip. Got the hop replaced and that allowed more activity with is ESSENTIAL to breaking a set point and getting below a weight plateau. But I didn't really make progress until I discovered Dr. Joel Fuhrman and "Eat to Live." Dr. Joel preaches the ANDI** gospel and since I became a believer I've shed 40 pounds in about 5 months. Make friends with broccoli, bok choi and all types of fiber. Continue to avoid processed foods and junk and get your oils from nuts and seeds. I'm still doing 1600 calories per day and set a 10,000 step a day target that I use Fitbit to help me track. I hope you can benefit from some of this. Keep on keeping on.

**Aggregate Nutrient Density Index.

Fuhrman, Dr. Joel (2013-05-07). Nutritarian Handbook & ANDI Food Scoring Guide (Kindle Locations 336-337). Gift Of Health Press. Kindle Edition.

Your initial weight loss was easy because it was mostly water. If you are living at a calorie deficit (burning more than you are consuming) then you will lose weight--the laws of thermodynamics demand it--period. The people in the concentration camps lost weight even though their metabolisms "shut down". Your metabolism will not shut down on 1300. Your weight loss graph will be jagged as your water levels fluctuate--others have mentioned this already. You will have plateaus as your body adjusts. What will prevent weight loss is inaccurate record keeping. Weigh your food (as others have suggested) and log every damn morsel that goes down your gullet. It is so easy to cheat, sometimes you don't even know it yourself. Above all, patience--this is not a sprint.

Hi,

I was 183 Ib and I started low calorie diet 3 weeks ago.
Simply, I exclude every junk food, fast-food, sweets, etc... from my daily diet and started too cook my own food and eat lots of salads and proteins and good carbs (rice).

in average, I consume about 1300 calorie per day and I do not feel hungry at all.
I loose 9 Ib in 3 weeks. However, for strange reason I stop loosing and in last three days I gained 1 Ib!
I do not change anything in my diet and it is same as three weeks ago.

What should I do?
Is this normal? any suggestion?
please help me.

First you have to look at trends over a month, not three days. Second, eating 1300 calories for a dude will lead to a lot of muscle lost. So you will be skinny and flabby. Third, LCD over time and increase loss in muscle mass will lead to a slower metabolic rate.

Based on your stats, your goal should be closer to 1800 (if you are sedentary) and macro's around 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fats. Additionally, do NOT worry about eating clean. YOu can still eat unhealthier foods if you need. Essentially, calories is more important than were it's coming from. If you exercise, you will need to add more calories. So if you exercise 3-4 hours, add another 200 per day, if it's 5-6 hours, then another 400-500 per day. As a reference point, I am 187 lbs, 5'11, 31 years old, desk job and exercise 5-6 hours a week and lose weight at 2400 calories day. I frequently eat Klondike bars, protein bars, chipotle, etc... There is NO food that is unhealthy for you. It's only bad when it creates a surplus of calories.

^^ All you need to know right there!

Congrats on getting started getting healthy. There are many reasons why your weight loss has stalled, the number one reason is a happy reason. When you eat a lot of food and junk, it gets backed up in your intestines as waste. The day you start a healthy diet, it is all still in there and will eventually come out. As you went three weeks eating healthy, you weren't losing just fat, you were dropping waste at a quick pace without replacing it in excessive quantities. This will eventually balance out, and you hit the "Wall" you are at now. In reality, you are now working on fat, which is much harder to lose, than excess waste from an unhealthy diet. Hope this helps you and keep it up man, you will get this done!

Great advice and info. I've learned over the last year that it's not a race!! Don't stress about the #.... try adding a more intense workout and when you do, add a few more calories. I'm 5'11" and losing around 2lbs/week on a 1600/day with limited exercise. You WILL hit walls. It's just part of the journey. Take your time and don't stress about it anymore!

While you are obese or morbidly obese, 2 lbs per week is fine, but it's not good for more lean individuals. Realistically, you should be aiming for the below:

If you are too aggressive with your weight loss, you will lose more muscle which means, it will take a lot longer to hit your ideal body image. I can't tell you how many people come on this forum or diet for two years only to need a bulk/cut phase or two.

If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal,
If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal,
If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal,
If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal, and
If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal.

Who knew you picked up diabetes from eating a protein bar.
MFP saves the day again.

A lot of them have quite a bit of sugar in them. like upwards of 30 grams....if I had all that at once and then also bothered to eat anything else in the day, my sugars would be through the roof. Unfortunately because I tend to have higher blood sugar but am also trying to make my body convince some nice doctors that I'm NOT going to get diabetes so they'll let me donate a kidney, I have to be uber careful about how much I have even beyond cutting added sugar. Even fruit is no longer my friend.

Who knew you picked up diabetes from eating a protein bar.
MFP saves the day again.

A lot of them have quite a bit of sugar in them. like upwards of 30 grams....if I had all that at once and then also bothered to eat anything else in the day, my sugars would be through the roof. Unfortunately because I tend to have higher blood sugar but am also trying to make my body convince some nice doctors that I'm NOT going to get diabetes so they'll let me donate a kidney, I have to be uber careful about how much I have even beyond cutting added sugar. Even fruit is no longer my friend.

But there is no correlation between sugar and diabetes, unless a medical condition is the reason you have high blood sugar. But for the rest of us, sugar isnt' an issue.

Who knew you picked up diabetes from eating a protein bar.
MFP saves the day again.

A lot of them have quite a bit of sugar in them. like upwards of 30 grams....if I had all that at once and then also bothered to eat anything else in the day, my sugars would be through the roof. Unfortunately because I tend to have higher blood sugar but am also trying to make my body convince some nice doctors that I'm NOT going to get diabetes so they'll let me donate a kidney, I have to be uber careful about how much I have even beyond cutting added sugar. Even fruit is no longer my friend.

But there is no correlation between sugar and diabetes, unless a medical condition is the reason you have high blood sugar. But for the rest of us, sugar isnt' an issue.

True story. For myself, my high fasting blood sugar levels indicate that I have reduced glucose tolerance...due to the nature of this site and the fact that there's probably a good number of users who are obese and in particular happen to carry a lot of weight around the middle, there's probably a lot more people here who have insulin resistance than are even aware of it, unfortunately.