the fat loves my body

Love_cup
Love_cup Posts: 20 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been pushing myself for two months 5x a week and eating so much better than I used to. I know weight loss takes quite a bit of time but I've lost not one pound... not even one. I can handle losing 1-2lbs every two weeks or hell even a month but to lose nothing at all.... I feel so discouraged.

My question is has anyone else had this problem? What did you change or eat differently to make some of the weight come off?

I dont drink soda, I very rarely drink juice, and I have candy MAYBE once a week....
No red meat and I'm not a fan of bacon....

HELP

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  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    Hard to help with a closed diary.

    My gut feel though... accuracy of estimation. Are you weighing food? How are you estimating burn? (HRM, or MFP estimates, or something else?)

    If you're not weighing food, do. If you're using mfp estimates for burn, consider either trimming a bit off, or getting an HRM to help. (Of course HRMs just give estimates too, but at least they're estimates based on some of your personal bio data).
  • jennk5309
    jennk5309 Posts: 206 Member
    Are you weighing, measuring and logging everything you eat? If so and you're sticking to it, then you're not at a deficit and need to lower your calories. I have a coworker who was complaining about stalled weight loss when she's been eating really healthy. Well, I watched her eat easily 6 full servings of nuts. Healthy, yes, but way too much! Cows get fat on grass. People can get fat on healthy food too.
  • _lyndseybrooke_
    _lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
    You didn't mention how many calories you're eating, your BMR, age, weight, height....all of this information would help a lot. Also, are you weighing and measuring all of your food? Are you logging every single day?

    If you're eating at a calorie deficit, you should be losing. If you're not losing, it sounds as if you're not eating at a deficit.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    No open diary, and no mention of calories in or out. Hard to help at this point.

    Edit now that diary is open: You are WAY overestimating your exercise calories.
  • Kim061865
    Kim061865 Posts: 13
    I was in the same boat! What about water? Drink lots of water. If you get discouraged message me and I will tell you how I got back on track!

    Kim
  • Gamer_2k4
    Gamer_2k4 Posts: 36 Member
    Are you weighing, measuring and logging everything you eat? If so and you're sticking to it, then you're not at a deficit and need to lower your calories. I have a coworker who was complaining about stalled weight loss when she's been eating really healthy. Well, I watched her eat easily 6 full servings of nuts. Healthy, yes, but way too much! Cows get fat on grass. People can get fat on healthy food too.
    Pretty much this. Look at the nutrition facts on things that "health" stores, like Trader Joe's, Outpost, Whole Foods, etc. sell. You might be surprised at how many calories are in some of their foods.

    Also, you say you're pushing yourself hard, which I assume means working out. I hear MFP overestimates calories, so just log half the exercise you do. If you run an hour, put down half an hour. It's going to be tough at first (because you'll find out very quickly that truly being at a caloric deficit is pretty unpleasant), but you're going to see results.
  • McCluskey1128
    McCluskey1128 Posts: 88 Member
    Cows get fat on grass. People can get fat on healthy food too.
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
    So true. So great.
  • Jordan_Gregers
    Jordan_Gregers Posts: 35 Member
    Hi :)
    What kinds of workouts are you doing, I noticed there are a lot of calories burned per day (upwards of 1200). Just as a benchmark, an 180 lb person has to run about 9 miles (about an hour and a half depending on your speed) to get that kind of burn... Could you be overestimating your expenditure a bit?


    Good luck :)

    -J
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    OP, what are you actually doing for all that time and calories that you log as "calisthenics"?
  • Love_cup
    Love_cup Posts: 20 Member
    Sorry I thought my diary was open... I'll change that now. I go by my Macros so its 2044 calories a day. I work out 2 -3 hours a day and burn any where from 500 - 800 calories... I've only made the 2044 calories maybe twice... i find it hard to eat close to that amount. I was eating 1,300 before meeting my personal trainer a month ago. Thats when he said i needed to find my Macros and from there its been 2044. I wasnt losing any weight with the 1,300 either so I'm just not sure whats going on.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    It looks like you have a lot of half-logged or un-logged days in the past month (unless you really are eating less than 1000 calories some days). For some people it's not a problem to go a few days without logging, but when your weight loss stalls that's one of the easiest changes to make to see what's going wrong. Log your food, accurately and completely.
  • Love_cup
    Love_cup Posts: 20 Member
    I do cardio for an hour and a half so thats usually 350, than i do an hour and a half of weights.... sucks and I'm sore all the time but its beyond worth it
  • DrFlave
    DrFlave Posts: 59 Member
    It doesn't matter what specific foods you're eating or even how often you exercise. All that matters is that you have a caloric deficit. There are a lot of missing entries in your diary. If you're not logging everything, you can't be certain you have a caloric deficit.
  • RaeLB
    RaeLB Posts: 1,216 Member
    You need to eat a calorie deficit to lose weight so if you're not losing you're not eating a deficit. You might not have calculated your calorie goal correctly, underestimating your food calories, overestimating your exercise calories or all of the above.

    -Calculate your TDEE http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/
    -Eat a 15-20% deficit
    -Weigh your food - it is much more accurate than measuring
    -Research how to track your exercise correctly (for example, I weight lift and use a calculator so I can put my stats in)
    -If you use MFP's exercise estimates, only eat about 50-75% of the calories back as MFP tends to overestimate calories
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    I do cardio for an hour and a half so thats usually 350, than i do an hour and a half of weights.... sucks and I'm sore all the time but its beyond worth it

    Did your trainer set you up to eat that many calories? He/she probably doesn't want you eating and logging exercise calories then. You may want to clear that up.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    As people have already said, way, way overestimating on calorie burn. You don't genuinely burn that much walking at 2.5 mph - that's a massive MFP overestimate. And the 'vigorous effort' calasthenics is almost certainly more like moderate effort, as the 'vigorous' is the kind of burn you'd get from the high intervals in HIIT. No way you're maintaining that for 70minutes....

    I think this is your issue.

    And if your burn estimates are this far out, I'd put money on your intake being higher than you think, too.

    Get your measurements sharper. Fat doesn't love anyone. Weightloss is an equation. If the numbers aren't working out, then probably the numbers are wrong....
  • Love_cup
    Love_cup Posts: 20 Member
    I tend to finish my diary later at night and forget to press complete entry... that would also help... wasn't taking that into consideration. I'm 24, 236, and last time they checked i was 38% body fat. I'll start completing my entries so people can see. I usually range between 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day... some days are better than most. I tend to eat the worst when its.. that time of the month but I try to work it off the best i can.
  • hopper602
    hopper602 Posts: 204 Member
    Id recommend an HRM as well to really determine your calorie burn numbers.
  • philipfoster76
    philipfoster76 Posts: 14 Member
    No one else has mentioned this yet...but measure yourself, neck, waist and such.
    If you are working out as hard as you have listed, you have a lot more than just fat loss going on with your body.

    When I started, I lost heavily the first few weeks, then started Jiu Jitsu and stalled for almost a month.
    I was at my wits end until the morning of week three, when I realized my belt was buckling a full notch tighter.

    Since then, I have faith that if all else is good, then when I'm not losing pounds, I'm more than likely losing inches as my body changes that fat into muscle.

    Best of luck!
  • muggzie399
    muggzie399 Posts: 116 Member
    I just signed on on Sun. Tired of the weight gain in the last couple years. I am starting out by cutting my meals in half. A START. I am an ice cream addict. No portion control. Cutting that out at least until I have trained myself that you don't have to finish everything on your plate. One day at a time.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    Id recommend an HRM as well to really determine your calorie burn numbers.

    Doesn't really help with weight workouts though.

    OP, if you've just started this intense workout with your trainer, your stall could be attributed to water retention. Gotta repair those muscles somehow, and you mentioned how sore you were getting.

    Start being more accurate with intake and calorie burns right now though. It may end up helping you now, and it certainly will in the future when you get closer to goal.
  • Jordan_Gregers
    Jordan_Gregers Posts: 35 Member
    That's a lot of time in the gym! Weights are great, but unless you are doing a cardio lifting program they don't really burn that many calories. I usually log about 120 calories for every hour I do weights (and I rarely do any lifting for longer than 45 minutes, I hate it... :P). Also, if you really are lifting that much, are you noticing any changes in your physique? Do you feel stronger? Fitter? Are you losing inches off your waist or hips? It helps to track those. I haven't lost a pound for 2 weeks, but I just checked my measurements today and I've lost 1/2 an inch off my waist and hips. There are other ways to measure your fitness than the scale maybe?
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I suspect inaccurate logging. I see a lot of meals out, which means that your calorie counts are likely off. Possibly by a lot. I'd start with this:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think

    and this:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants
  • mycupyourcake
    mycupyourcake Posts: 279 Member
    Measure your body. Weigh your food. Get a food scale. They are cheap and an asset. Log every morsel you put into your mouth. A lot of your days you did not log after lunch. Also be honest about how much you are eating. This means actually weighing all that Chinese food you have been eating. If it is from a take out place you actually have no idea how many calories are in it and MFP database is not reliable for that kind of stuff. If your take out place does not have calorie info I would get it from a big chain that does.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    OP, it looks like you may be eating out a lot. Is that accurate? You can totally lose weight while eating out, but you may have to put up with more jumps and stalls in your weight because of the sodium and because you have less control of the food.

    A lot of your entries look like estimations or generic entries that are "close" to what you ate. The less accurate your logging is the more likely you are to be overeating without realizing it. You need to either get more serious about accuracy or start eating less and hope that it puts you in a calorie deficit.
  • lindsey1979
    lindsey1979 Posts: 2,395 Member
    As many have pointed out, you likely would benefit from more accurate logging. It's really common to overestimate what we burn and underestimate what we eat. If you get to a point where you're weighing everything you eat and your exercise/TDEE estimates are solid and still not losing, then it's time to go to the doctor as you likely have something that's off that's impeding weight loss. But, you won't really know that until you weigh everything you eat and figure out a good estimate for your burn.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    You only log part time and when you do it is Krispy Kreme, Pizza, Chipotle, Chinese.... I eat out a lot too so I understand but those calories add up fast. Log accurately (including exercise calories) - use a scale for solids and measuring cups for liquids and make some meals at home and I bet you'll see better results on the scale.

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