weight loss advice wanted

You aren't eating enough. If you burn 500 cals while eating 1000, you have net cals of 500 for a day, and you're doing that 3-5 times a week. You shouldn't allow yourself to go under 1200 cals a day. Your body is hanging on to whatever calories it can to survive.

Kinda of the same thing is going through my head at the moment.
I've ALWAYS eaten around 1000 calories a day.
Very rarely going over 1200 and i seem to be stuck at my current weight!!?? 161 lbs :-(
Surely it makes sense to me anyway, that if you eat less calories you lose weight??
I've been doing the Weight watcher program of having 29 points a day and you're supposed to have 49 a week too but i haven't been using my 49 points and just been eating the 29 ( which to me to enough food) no more than 1000 calories a day.
Exercising for 30 mins 5/6 times a week
Been doing the all the way through Jan and Feb and i've lost NOTHING!!??? FRUSTRATING!!
So at the end of Feb i thought i'd just see what happens in March if i up my calories to between 1300 - 1600 and still exercise 5/6 a week.....guess what??? I'm pretty sure i'm losing weight!! Haven't actually weighed myself to be honest (gonna wait til end of March for confirmation that ACTUALLY eating MORE will make me LOSE) but my waist has DEFINITELY shrank and so has my bum!!
In the past 2 weeks - i can do more sit-ups, leg levers, squats then i have been able to do the past year!!
This is actually working...still not convinced tho...wait til weigh-in end of March!
Feel free to add me anyone to see the final results 28th March :-D

I have lost weight on a 1200 cal diet and also a 1400 cal diet and I'm 5'2" there is no need in going hungry just with those extra calories eat foods that are good for you (no packaged foods)

Okay so your body loses weight while in a calorie deficet...it does not "hang onto" weight if you are at a low calorie diet....otherwise we wouldn't have actual starvation...

Unless you weigh your food before you eat it chances are you are eating more than you think
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think

or you are over estimating your calorie burns

or both

Buring 500 calories is hard...it takes hours...I lift heavy weights for anywhere between 1hour and 1.5hours and it burns about 300 calories...and at 41 and 164lbs I lose weight eating 1700 calories a day...and I know it's 1700 because I weigh/measure everything...

So if you really want to lose weight...do the following

1. Buy a food scale
2. Use it
3. Log everything
4. Eat food...
5. Be at a reasonable deficet...there is no need to be under 1000calories a day. You are setting yourself up for failure.

You can burn 500 calories per hour by doing intense cardio pretty easily. You burn significatnly less calories when you lift weights compared to cardio burns. I can burn 500 calories in about 45 minutes just by running fast on the treadmill. Also how are you calculating calories burned for weight lifting? I hope you are not using a heart rate monitor.

Of course I don't use a HRM that is for steady state cardio only and that is with a chest strap. That 300 is a rough estimate based on MFP database which is actually low considering...and you don't burn significantly less lifting vs cardio btw.

HRM without chest straps are not accurate, machine burns are over estiamated as well sometimes by as much as 50%...

for me to burn 500 calories in one hour I would have to do High impact Aerobics and that is pushing it every second.

But do you really think that eating 1k calories a day a person has the energy to work that hard...yah me thinks not.

Okay so your body loses weight while in a calorie deficet...it does not "hang onto" weight if you are at a low calorie diet....otherwise we wouldn't have actual starvation...

Unless you weigh your food before you eat it chances are you are eating more than you think
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think

or you are over estimating your calorie burns

or both

Buring 500 calories is hard...it takes hours...I lift heavy weights for anywhere between 1hour and 1.5hours and it burns about 300 calories...and at 41 and 164lbs I lose weight eating 1700 calories a day...and I know it's 1700 because I weigh/measure everything...

So if you really want to lose weight...do the following

1. Buy a food scale
2. Use it
3. Log everything
4. Eat food...
5. Be at a reasonable deficet...there is no need to be under 1000calories a day. You are setting yourself up for failure.

You can burn 500 calories per hour by doing intense cardio pretty easily. You burn significatnly less calories when you lift weights compared to cardio burns. I can burn 500 calories in about 45 minutes just by running fast on the treadmill. Also how are you calculating calories burned for weight lifting? I hope you are not using a heart rate monitor.

Of course I don't use a HRM that is for steady state cardio only and that is with a chest strap. That 300 is a rough estimate based on MFP database which is actually low considering...and you don't burn significantly less lifting vs cardio btw.

HRM without chest straps are not accurate, machine burns are over estiamated as well sometimes by as much as 50%...

for me to burn 500 calories in one hour I would have to do High impact Aerobics and that is pushing it every second.

But do you really think that eating 1k calories a day a person has the energy to work that hard...yah me thinks not.

Oh no, I completely agree that she isn't eating enough food. She is like netting 500 calories, which is terrible. And yes, the only HRM to use are ones with the chest strap. I was just commenting on how it doesnt have to take a couple hours to burn 500 calories.