Why am I not losing any weight?

How long have you been at this? When beginning an exercise regimen, your body may start to temporarily retain water to repair muscles. Also as the other person mentioned, you should track and weigh your food, esp at since you don't have much to lose.

i've been keeping it mentally cause it becomes a hassle to add everything in the app. But i do need to do that. And I just read a few articles about how those types of foods could be affecting weight loss

They can be, IF you are sensitive to them. You probably aren't so you can probably go back to eating those things.

Then be assured you are underestimating your calories. Mental counting is just not the same. Something can look like half a cup but measure at 1 cup (happened to me with breakfast cereal), also by not logging everything you are prone to forget quite a bit of things. If you are really serious about weight loss invest in a food scale (some of them are not expensive) and start tracking every bite.

You will read a lot about certain foods doing certain things to weight loss, but it all boils down to calories in the end. It works for some people because when the eliminate some of their main foods they end up eating less simply due to the lack of variety. Don't torture yourself. The only way these foods could affect your weight is if you have some medical condition, and even then it's usually the other way around (more trips to the bathroom, pain to the point where you don't want to eat, and dehydration)

You can give them up if that makes you happier but at least stick with counting calories correctly.

i've been keeping it mentally cause it becomes a hassle to add everything in the app. But i do need to do that. And I just read a few articles about how those types of foods could be affecting weight loss

And therein lies the problem--we often forget something we ate or estimate incorrectly. Logging is the most effective tool for accountability.

My guess is your are eating more than you think you are.

Buy yourself a food scale for 20 bucks or less. Weigh all food you eat, and log every single thing. Log your exercise calories too and eat approximately 50 percent back, unless you wear a heart rate monitor that is properly calibrated and you are sure that your calories are accurate.

Losing weight is not about WHAT you eat, it's about HOW MUCH you eat. People who eat super healthy have been known to gain weight too.

I also have a food scale and do weigh. Or get out the measuring spoons. Its annoying that I haven't lost more.

Make sure you are giving your body rest. And if you put your body into ketosis- from very low carbs- or just too restricted in general, your body will go into starvation mode and hold on to as much of your fat as possible. If you are consistent it will happen. Just make sure you are listening to your body along the way- Your body needs time to catch up to all of the healthy changes. It also takes time for the bad food/chemicals to leave your body.

i've been keeping it mentally cause it becomes a hassle to add everything in the app. But i do need to do that. And I just read a few articles about how those types of foods could be affecting weight loss

If you're not accurate 100% with your tracking how can you expect to? It only takes a few errors to be at maintenance cals.

^Track your food do some weight train more frequent too I would say!

I know this is a common question, but I was hoping maybe somebody can help me with this. I'm 20 years old, 5'5" and 150 lbs. I was 150 in mid February when I started this change in lifestyle and I am still 150. I cut out dairy, gluten, wheat, added sugar. I drink herbalife shakes for breakfast and eat super healthy throughout the day, about 1500 calories. I workout twice a day; an hour of cardio and sometimes also weight training in the morning and different intervals like running stairs at an arena and Insanity workouts in the evenings. I store a lot of fat in my lower half and I know that is the last place it leaves so I really need to start losing weight so that I can wear shorts in the summer. It's super discouraging because I feel like I work so hard and get nowhere and my friends will ditch soda and drop like 10 lbs. Does anyone know of anything that might help me or what my problem could be?

Please don't listen to everyone else saying that you're overestimating your calories. That's the simplest answer to give and it's usually wrong, most of these people have not taken the time to look through your diary, I have.

I went through every day in your journal for the past 2 months and from the few food entries i found in there i have come to one definitive conclusion:

February 15 2014: Totals = 855 (*You've earned 616 extra calories from exercise today)
February 16 2014: Totals = 1,666 (*You've earned 616 extra calories from exercise today)
March 19 2014: Totals = 1,164 (*You've earned 612 extra calories from exercise today)
March 20 2014: Totals = 817 (*You've earned 408 extra calories from exercise today)
March 25 2014: Totals 1,248 (*You've earned 566 extra calories from exercise today)

you are eating way too little calories. you're starving yourself and slowing down your metabolism. there is a very real response your body goes through when exposed to extreme calorie deficits for a prolonged amount of time called "adaptive thermogenesis," your metabolism begins to slow down.

the main problem is that you are not eating back your exercise calories. you should always eat back your exercise calories, and avoid staying below 1200 calories. Dont think that by eating them back that you're exercising for nothing, your diet will do most of the work and exercise will help keep your metabolism revved up -- but not if you're not providing your body with enough energy in the form of food.

On 2-14-14 you ate 855 calories then burned off 616 cal., that means you left your body with 239 calories worth of energy to work with (855-616=239). Even on your highest intake day 2-16-14 you ate 1,666 calories then burned off 616, which then left your body with 1050 worth of energy to work with (1,666-616=1050), that 1050 is still pretty low compared to the minimum 1200 your body needs to function well. The pattern seems to continue on all days, you eat very little, then you burn off even more with exercise and dont eat those calories back.

I've experienced weight loss plateaus when i held deficits below 1000 for too long and, In my experience, i've found that one way that always helps reset my metabolism is to spend 3 days eating enough calories to be at or just below your maintenance calories, or TDEE.. which for your height, weight, and age should be near 1800 calories. It should help sort-of reset your metabolism. I dont like to exercise on those 3 days cause it will complicate calorie counts and the focus is to try and reset your metabolism, so I dont exercise on those 3 days. After those 3 days of eating just below 1800, start cutting calories and exercising again, but to a healthy deficit -- dont go below 1200 calories, and always eat back your exercise calories.

just eat more, and dont listen to the people saying you're overestimating... you're already starving yourself, you dont need any more of that..