Perfect on Plan and No Loss :-(

jodyblanchard
jodyblanchard Posts: 99 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?
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  • DrJenO
    DrJenO Posts: 404 Member
    Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?
    Weight loss is about calorie deficit. Are you at a deficit?
  • Factory_Reset
    Factory_Reset Posts: 1,651 Member
    Just going to state the obvious, your plan wasn't perfect then

    Good luck on your journey

    :flowerforyou:
  • buzybev
    buzybev Posts: 199 Member
    Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?

    It's only been two weeks. Patience is key. also make sure you're weighing/measuring everything that you eat.
  • alexandriamarino
    alexandriamarino Posts: 45 Member
    yes, patience. what is your exercise plan? also, you have SO FEW veggies and fruits! i know you said low carb -- what was your reasoning there? (not knocking it if it works for you, but i worry about vitamins a little)
  • DianeinCA
    DianeinCA Posts: 307 Member
    Low carb is not magic. It is a way of eating. If you enjoy eating that way, continue. If you don't like it and you're only doing it to drop weight quickly, stop and return to a way of eating you prefer.

    No matter which eating plan you choose, you still have to eat fewer calories than you expend.
  • tryett
    tryett Posts: 530 Member
    I noticed that most days you are way under your calorie goal (not to mention even your carb and protein goal). Try eating more. I would also try to get a bigger variety of food in there. You need some level of carbs to provide energy and protein/fat to be full, not to mention maintain lean muscle.
  • jim180155
    jim180155 Posts: 769 Member
    Carbs are not bad. Neither are fat and protein. I'd look for balance more than exclusion of any macro. And as noted above, fruits and vegetables, both good for you, are almost entirely carbs.

    I only looked at 3 days of your diary. The most obvious thing is that you seem to go from fast food place to fast food place, with I think one exception. Personally, I'd aim for more "real" food that I prepared at home so I could both control and measure the ingredients.

    As to your original question, it all comes down to a calorie deficit. If you're not losing, it's because you're not at deficit. Now you need to figure out why. It could be a medical condition, but the odds are that it's not. More likely, you are underestimating how many calories you're eating.
  • omgliam
    omgliam Posts: 5
    I tried low carb a few years ago while I was working out like crazy. It was fairly effective - I dropped 50 lbs in a matter of 4-5 months. Unsurprisingly, as soon as I stopped low carb it all rocketed back on to my body.

    This last September I decided to start using MFP while tracking calories - and only calories. No complicated ****, no 40/40/20 macro break downs, none of that. Go out and enjoy the sunshine and eat less than the number MFP tells you. I haven't logged any of the exercising I do, nor do I account for it here on MFP as I don't entirely trust their calorie amounts.

    Since September, I've lost 81 lbs at approximately 2 lbs a week. I still enjoy a huge variety of foods, and I still get to enjoy life. I won't mentally quit after having a "bad day."

    Just keep your chin up and trust your body, it'll do it's work if you do yours :)
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    How are you today? I just wanted to introduce myself and say that I would LOVE to support you on your fitness journey. I am a certified fitness coach who is here to help individuals achieve their goals. If you'd like to know more, I'd love to chat!

    Why don't you do it in this thread and then maybe we can all benefit from your wisdom?
  • ybee1991
    ybee1991 Posts: 106 Member
    How are you today? I just wanted to introduce myself and say that I would LOVE to support you on your fitness journey. I am a certified fitness coach who is here to help individuals achieve their goals. If you'd like to know more, I'd love to chat!

    Why don't you do it in this thread and then maybe we can all benefit from your wisdom?

    *chuckles in corner*
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?

    It's been just a couple weeks.

    How do you know PERFECT? Have you weighed everything and kept full datasets?

    How can you be successful without commitment? Losing motivation after 2 weeks, when many times it takes months to cause any real change may be an indicator that you should review your commitment, and really think about why you are doing what you are doing.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?

    It's only been two weeks. Patience is key. also make sure you're weighing/measuring everything that you eat.

    +1
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Low carb is not magic. It is a way of eating. If you enjoy eating that way, continue. If you don't like it and you're only doing it to drop weight quickly, stop and return to a way of eating you prefer.

    No matter which eating plan you choose, you still have to eat fewer calories than you expend.

    +1
  • sadiebea25
    sadiebea25 Posts: 72
    I just looked at a few days, I saw a lot of eating out, meat, cheese and heavy cream. Why not add in some carbs, fruits, veggies, etc, but maintain a deficit? Cook at home instead of hitting McDonald's in the morning? Variety is healthy, and you'll be able to sustain it longer. Do you have a food scale? Are you weighing everything? Hitting your macros?
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?

    It's been just a couple weeks.

    How do you know PERFECT? Have you weighed everything and kept full datasets?

    How can you be successful without commitment? Losing motivation after 2 weeks, when many times it takes months to cause any real change may be an indicator that you should review your commitment, and really think about why you are doing what you are doing.

    +1
  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
    How are you today? I just wanted to introduce myself and say that I would LOVE to support you on your fitness journey. I am a certified fitness coach who is here to help individuals achieve their goals. If you'd like to know more, I'd love to chat!

    Why don't you do it in this thread and then maybe we can all benefit from your wisdom?

    Well, she can't sell her products or services on the forums, so better off to do it via a PM and not risk her account being shut down!
  • adry20
    adry20 Posts: 82 Member
    Looking at your diary, you eat a lot of processed foods, most of which contain ingredients that our bodies do not recognize and get stored as fat. On a side note, I'm personally a starchivore, 60-80% of my calories come from complex carbs. Our bodies need carbs for energy but not the crappy carbs like processed breads and junk food, but healthy carbs from fruits, veggies, rice, beans, legumes, etc... Read the book The Starch Solution. Good luck!
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Looking at your diary, you eat a lot of processed foods, most of which contain ingredients that our bodies do not recognize and get stored as fat.

    Do you have any peer reviewed research references supporting this claim of yours?

    It's rather spurious.
  • adry20
    adry20 Posts: 82 Member
    Not at this time, I do not but I bet if you researched yourself you could find it ;)
    Looking at your diary, you eat a lot of processed foods, most of which contain ingredients that our bodies do not recognize and get stored as fat.

    Do you have any peer reviewed research references supporting this claim of yours?

    It's rather spurious.
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    How are you today? I just wanted to introduce myself and say that I would LOVE to support you on your fitness journey. I am a certified fitness coach who is here to help individuals achieve their goals. If you'd like to know more, I'd love to chat!
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  • xMrBunglex
    xMrBunglex Posts: 1,121 Member
    How are you today? I just wanted to introduce myself and say that I would LOVE to support you on your fitness journey. I am a certified fitness coach who is here to help individuals achieve their goals. If you'd like to know more, I'd love to chat!

    0 lbs lost, 36 lbs to go, and you're a certified fitness coach?

    You might want to hire a fitness coach.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    Looking at your diary, you eat a lot of processed foods, most of which contain ingredients that our bodies do not recognize and get stored as fat. On a side note, I'm personally a starchivore, 60-80% of my calories come from complex carbs. Our bodies need carbs for energy but not the crappy carbs like processed breads and junk food, but healthy carbs from fruits, veggies, rice, beans, legumes, etc... Read the book The Starch Solution. Good luck!

    I'm glad this is working for you. But it really comes down to your deficit. You're right in some ways but very wrong in others, many of the elite athletes and body builders here eat a certain amount of so called 'forbidden foods'.

    You really have to be very careful cutting out food groups. They will come back and bite you in the butt eventually, and you'll binge and give up. Better to incorporate everything in good measures. Believe me, I've been at this for 25 years and am finally now an advanced athlete with low body fat and no cravings that lead to disaster.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Not at this time, I do not but I bet if you researched yourself you could find it ;)
    Looking at your diary, you eat a lot of processed foods, most of which contain ingredients that our bodies do not recognize and get stored as fat.

    Do you have any peer reviewed research references supporting this claim of yours?

    It's rather spurious.

    Sorry Charlie, you can't come in and spout fake facts and expect others to do the footwork for you. You know that the part in bold is inaccurate, and it's very unfair for you to tell someone who may not know better something so patently false.

    It's either cruel, or you don't know any better yourself, and this message should set you straight. :) General freshman level chem and bio classes basically invalidate your bolded claim. (PS - you can quickly find the info you need for your elucidation at scholar.google.com)
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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    What ingredients is it our bodies do not recognize? Please don't tell me to look it up myself. You made the claim, you should be able to back up your claims. Are you also saying that carbs like bread and other things don't provide us with energy?

    Ho ho ho ho ho. You caught that BS line too eh? :D
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Two weeks of perfect Low Carb healthy eating. No loss. I'm losing motivation. Any thoughts?

    Two weeks is insufficient time to judge weightloss. Your body can naturally fluctuate up and down 5 pounds in weight due to things like water retention. In two weeks it is quite possible that you have lost 2 pounds of fat but yet also retained 2 pounds of water.

    Give it two months, then evaluate.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Looking at your diary, you eat a lot of processed foods, most of which contain ingredients that our bodies do not recognize and get stored as fat. On a side note, I'm personally a starchivore, 60-80% of my calories come from complex carbs. Our bodies need carbs for energy but not the crappy carbs like processed breads and junk food, but healthy carbs from fruits, veggies, rice, beans, legumes, etc... Read the book The Starch Solution. Good luck!

    Well that is a load of crap. Ingredients your body "does not recognize" and yet somehow end up becoming fat, something that your body very much recognizes. How does that work exactly?

    OP simply comes down to the fact that 2 weeks is never enough time to evaluate the success of a diet. If you start second guessing what you are doing every time you don't lose weight over a two week period you will get no where. If you are confident in your approach just stick with it for a few months and if it still isn't working then it is time to re-evaluate.
  • Yagisama
    Yagisama Posts: 595 Member
    Body does not recognize but someone transforms it into fat. Yeah, that's a first for me.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Body does not recognize but someone transforms it into fat. Yeah, that's a first for me.

    You know, the four of us are being unfair, and we should just look it up.

    WE MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING.

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  • jj_jupiter
    jj_jupiter Posts: 23 Member
    Looking at your diary, it's far from perfect. Too much fast food. No fruit, whole grains, or vegetables. It is very difficult to track calories when eating out. Try eating 5 small homemade meals a day. Real food. If you can stick with it, your palate will adjust.

    If you must eat out, I've found chile's guiltless entrees are a good option although loaded with sodium.

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