Why am I not losing any weight?

jmayy16
jmayy16 Posts: 4
in Health and Weight Loss
I started almost 100 days ago and the entire time have been limiting my net intake to 1,310. I strictly count my calories and have a heart rate monitor that keeps track of exactly how many calories I burn during exercise. I started at 136.5 and was hoping to be at 127 by now. After the first month I lost 2 lbs and the second I lost another two. Now, if anything I have gained weight and am up to about 138. Why did this happen? I haven't started any new medications or anything. Did I put myself in starvation mode? How do I know the appropriate amount of calories that I need?

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  • navyrigger46
    navyrigger46 Posts: 1,301 Member
    Google a TDEE calculator and input your stats, that'll get you close, from there you can tweak your calorie intake to figure out where you need to be. Do you weigh your food, or measure. If you measure you may not be logging your food accurately.

    Rigger
  • dancingmuffin
    dancingmuffin Posts: 70 Member
    I know when a person is close to a normal weight to begin with it takes longer to loose the weight and is easier on the body if you only try to loose like half a pound at a time. Now as far as the weight gain it could be a combination of water weight being retained by a new excersize routine or maybe you gained muscle, tho im not sure if you can do that or not while in a calorie deficit. And you are sure your calories are correct? Are you eating back your excersize calories? If so you may be over estimating how many calories are being burned.
  • daphnec1994
    daphnec1994 Posts: 71 Member
    You should open your diary. But it could be many things, a huge one could be that you are underestimating the amount of calories you are eating.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    Perhaps you just didn't weigh yourself correctly or you had too much sodium: 4 lbs. is well within most people's fluctuation range.
  • thenewjane
    thenewjane Posts: 4
    What exactly are you eating? Maybe you are getting your calories from the wrong balance of nutrients. Try a structured meal plan and stick to it for a month and see if there are any improvements. Good luck... I do know how you feel.. it is frustrating especially if you feel you are depriving yourself.... that mentality needs to change.. you are not depriving yourself of anything, you are simply choosing to eat better food.
  • unFATuated
    unFATuated Posts: 204 Member
    I had a quick look at your diary, but I wanted to ask - how's your fibre intake? Lots of people don't get enough fibre in their diet and trust me when I say that getting enough can make a huge difference to get things 'moving', both weight loss wise and in other ways. You should aim for about 25g to 30g per day.

    I wouldn't drop calories much more, or at least not yet, give it a few more weeks of consistent logging and if you haven't lost in say, 4 weeks, despite weighing your food and doing consistent activity, then revisit your calorie goal. If you are ovulating or expecting your period you might find things slow down a bit too, the joys of womanhood!
  • jmayy16
    jmayy16 Posts: 4
    Alright, I have upped the net intake to 1,503 and will see if that helps at all
  • mschicagocubs
    mschicagocubs Posts: 774 Member
    I'm not sure your height, but you sound like a pretty normal weight range for a female. Throw the scale out the window and start measuring. When you are at a decent weight, it will take more for the LBs to come off, especially if you are building muscle and toning.
  • kwantlen2051
    kwantlen2051 Posts: 455 Member
    Do you do weights? Could it be muscle weight? Have you taken your measurements lately. Maybe you are losing fat but gaining muscle weight?
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    I started almost 100 days ago and the entire time have been limiting my net intake to 1,310. I strictly count my calories...

    Open your diary.
    ...and have a heart rate monitor that keeps track of exactly how many calories I burn during exercise.

    No, it doesn't. HRMs track your heart rate and then GUESS at your calorie burn. If you are eating those calories back, that could be the source of your problem right there.

    Let me ask you this - if you felt you were underweight and came to these forums looking for advice on how to *gain* weight, what do you think the advice would be....?
  • bekahlou75
    bekahlou75 Posts: 304 Member
    I had a quick look at your diary, but I wanted to ask - how's your fibre intake? Lots of people don't get enough fibre in their diet and trust me when I say that getting enough can make a huge difference to get things 'moving', both weight loss wise and in other ways. You should aim for about 25g to 30g per day.

    Totally agree with this. I was one that was logging, exercising, not eating back all the calories, and losing nothing. I was also not losing the food I ate either but maybe once a week. I looked at my diary and I had a low fiber intake. Metamucil works for that if you need to get things moving along.
  • jmayy16
    jmayy16 Posts: 4
    I don't think I understand Mr_Knight
  • michael300891
    michael300891 Posts: 275
    I started almost 100 days ago and the entire time have been limiting my net intake to 1,310. I strictly count my calories and have a heart rate monitor that keeps track of exactly how many calories I burn during exercise. I started at 136.5 and was hoping to be at 127 by now. After the first month I lost 2 lbs and the second I lost another two. Now, if anything I have gained weight and am up to about 138. Why did this happen? I haven't started any new medications or anything. Did I put myself in starvation mode? How do I know the appropriate amount of calories that I need?

    Ignore the idea of starvation mode. You are most likely getting overestimates on energy expenditure from your HRM and eating extra calories back limiting weight loss.

    Try cutting a few calories extra back and see what happens.
  • jmayy16
    jmayy16 Posts: 4
    Okay never mind I cut it back to 1310 a day total and am weighing my food. We'll see what happens
  • forever_winter18
    forever_winter18 Posts: 13
    maybe you plateaued

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