Why haven't I lost any weight if

That's only a projected weight loss so I would not rely too much on it! You have to look at your consumption vs expenditure, fat vs muscle ratio etc. If you are tracking properly and are at a reasonable deficit, you should see some loss.

Could be anything... even stress from not enough sleep, not enough calories, or not enough exercise, not consistent with anything? Just hang in there and keep going at it. We all learn along the way with this weight loss stuff. You are here and trying and eventually the weight will have it move. I actually ended up calling a local nutritional store and told her I needed to loose a lot of weight and wondered if they had any ideas... they had a lot of great ideas. Just keep at it... the rewards will come!

sleep could very well play a role.. but I don't think it would stop it only slow it down. are you eating enough?

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Are you logging everything? One day there was only breakfast and dinner.
And another day was missing.

Also 800 calories is far too low. You need to be eating at least 1200 calories.

I am 5'3", 150 pounds, and I eat 1850 calories a day, losing about 1 pound a week.

EDIT: Try using this to calculate your daily calorie intake: http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

I only went back 2 weeks and there are several days where nothing is logged at all, and a day where only 45 calories (during breakfast) were logged. The rest of the days you are logging so little that it would stand to reason that your body is probably eating itself.

You can't really beat thermodynamics with calories in vs calories out. Sure you may retain water here and there, but if you are logging as accurately as you said you are, then your weight would be dropping dangerously fast. Dropping by way of losing muscle and other material.

I also noticed that there is no exercise being logged. I am not a cardiologist, but I imagine that light exercise and a more appropriate diet is something you would benefit from following a heart attack.

Yes! Working nighshift WILL hinder your weightloss. I've been there! It wreaked havoc on my weightloss and I ended up gaining back almost everything I had lost. Having no good sleep stresses your body, which brings about the evil wretched villain we call cortisol. It keeps you from losing weight and can in fact make you gain weight. I have cushing's syndrome, so I know that little SOB can break it or make it for me if i stress too much. If you really want to lose weight, you will have to make the decision to work during the day and adjust to getting sleep during the night. Once you do adjust, the weight will melt off.

when I finish logging my days food it says if everyday were like today you would weigh xx amount? well I have been doing this for longer than 5 weeks and haven't lost anything!

According to your food diary you're eating less than 1200 calories a day. Sometimes it's 800 cals a day, sometimes 600 & sometimes it's 1000 cals.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1077746-starvation-mode-adaptive-thermogenesis-and-weight-loss

"Starvation response in animals is a set of adaptive biochemical and physiological changes that reduce metabolism in response to a lack of food"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response


I've been losing weight, look at my diary. I am female as well. Sometimes I am eating 2200 calories a day. It really depends upon how much exercise you do. You don't say you do exercise but it's really important & eating back a lot of the exercise cals helps.

By no means am I a diet doctor (couldn't even spell the word haha) but you sodium levels are really high I would try to cut back sodium. Sodium and cause you to retain water. Another thing is I would recommend you use more calories for breakfast and fewer for dinner, weird trick that worked for me in the beginning.

when I finish logging my days food it says if everyday were like today you would weigh xx amount? well I have been doing this for longer than 5 weeks and haven't lost anything!

I have not read the other replies but I have looked at your diary.

If you were truly eating as few calories as your diary shows you would be losing weight, and pretty darn fast. You logging is extremely spotty, and my guess is your calorie estimations are off and you are not logging every single thing you put into your mouth.

Weigh all solid food and measure all liquids. Here are some inconsistencies I found with measurements and weight, thus the measured foods renders more calories than the weighed food:

Package says about 10 chips equal one ounce. Nope, about 8 chips equal one ounce.

The Jar of Peanut butter says 2 tablespoons of peanut butter equals 32 grams. Not true. 2 tablespoons of PB weighs more than 32 grams.

Try weighing anything and the weight generally DOES NOT match the measurement.

Don't eyeball portions, either, because our eyeballs tends be inaccurate most of the time.

Make sure you log consistently and accurately. That means you log every single thing you put into your mouth.

it also depends on the type of food you are eating
how many calories you are eating ..

it is not always about calories.