Struggling to loose weight

treej3
treej3 Posts: 11
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone please could you help me, I've been staying in my calories and I have started jogging 3 times a week 3 miles each night so that's 9 miles a week. Also I got a pedometer and before I was doing as little at 2,000 steps a day and since having the pedometer I try for 10,000 5 days a week. Trouble is I'm loosing no weight at all, I did have 3 takeaways last week due to the impression if u stay in your calories you could? My limit is 1,200 calories a day and I eat that maybe some days under by a little but never over. I go jogging and it says that I have only burnt 21 calories from that one run which I find is really low so I never eat back my exersise calories, I've totally ditched juice all together and drink water which is good because before I was having as much as ten glasses a day, I just don't see how the weight isn't budging ? I'm not big I'm 5.1 I'm 24 and weigh 9.6 at the minute. Oh and I never eat that many takeaways usually just been so busy these past few nights I haven't been able to cook. When I was with weight watchers after my first daughter the weight dropped off, and now after my 2nd I tried weight watchers again but didn't pay and I couldn't even loose it on weight watchers thanku for your help also how do I post my diary up here and then you can hopefully get a better picture of what I'm eating
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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    You can open your diary by going here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings and choosing Public towards the bottom of the page. It would really help us to get a feel for what might be happening.

    It would also help if you can tell us how you're measuring your portion sizes. Are you eyeballing things, using measuring cups, or using a food scale?
  • charliejenny
    charliejenny Posts: 79 Member
    Hi tree

    I'm 5.1 and can only eat 1200...I run 4 to 5 times a week and lift hard heavy weights 5 times....when being medically (well sort of) my resting met rate was eat 1472 which is quite low, I'm female nearly 40 and study (sedentary) during the day. However, I have always lifted. Anyway, my point is.....we worked out that even by me dropping to 1200 cals and burning 400 a day through exersize...4/5 times a week, its still under 1lb a week (1lb fat = deficit 3500 cals). I kinda resigned myself to this and stopped battling with it long ago. Its a long journey and at times if I fall off the wagon one week it takes me a month to correct the damage, as I simply can't survive on less than 1200 with the exersize and I certainly can't up my exersize with a degree and work too. So I'm afraid because we are on the minimum and we are so small.....its a lot harder
  • newdaydawning79
    newdaydawning79 Posts: 1,503 Member
    Looks like based on your height/weight and what you want to lose, that you should have your goal set at .5/week at most. Which would be a deficit of 250 cals/day. TDEE based on how much you exercise is 1783. So with that being said, subtracting 250 from that leaves you around 1533 that you should be eating daily.
  • mulecanter
    mulecanter Posts: 1,792 Member
    If you are running 3 miles you should be burning more than 21 calories. If you have a smart phone download a free app that tracks your runs with GPS and calculates your burn and reports it to MFP automatically (Runtastic or Runkeeper are good choices). I would ensure that you track net calories after you set your profile on MFP correctly and then log your exercise accurately (including setting your profile properly, i.e. current weight set in your profile). If you are not losing weight (notice spelling of "losing") while you stay under your net calorie goal then you are likely eating more than you think you are. Measure and weigh everything until you see results--I still do it after a year. Take out food is dangerous if you are serious about losing weight. Save money and calories by eating your own cooking. Leave some calories on the table everyday--it's margin for errors.
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    . Trouble is I'm loosing no weight at all,

    I'll make this simple for you.

    You need to consume less calories and or burn more calories.

    Fat loss requires a calorie deficit and you are not in one. Maybe your TDEE needs some refinement , or you are not accurately counting the calories you consume.

    Work on getting the details correct and get in a calorie deficit and you will lose fat.
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Thanks for all your replys, I am I'm a calorie deficit I've made my diary public now so u can see. I am counting and weighing all my food as I used to do this with weightwatchers and I can't accurately log what I have eaten unless it isn't weighed out. And newdaydawning I hav my weight loss as 2pounds a week I think that's we're I'm going wrong I'm not looking at the scales for a loss of half a pound if I haven't lost the two pound I give up for a day. It was only a year ago I was this weight after my first and the weight dropped off so don't see how a year later would be different. And mulecanter I thought I would also be burning more than 21 calories as I have the fitbit pedometer and the app links up to my fitnesspal and shows that the exersise I've done is only 21 I don't have to log the exersise as it can see how much I did and how long it took ect .ok charliejenny your prob right I've heard when you have less to loose it is a lot harder, I am also taking measurements. Let me no what you think to my diary I'm probably doing something completely wrong :-(
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    My TDEE is also average of 1950 a day so even when I'm on a calorie deficit of 1,200 I should be loosing 2 pounds ish a week surely with exersise on top
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    . Trouble is I'm loosing no weight at all,

    I'll make this simple for you.

    You need to consume less calories and or burn more calories.

    Fat loss requires a calorie deficit and you are not in one. Maybe your TDEE needs some refinement , or you are not accurately counting the calories you consume.

    Work on getting the details correct and get in a calorie deficit and you will lose fat.
    i second this, except for the TDEE stuff, which it don't know (or care) about.

    Assuming you are healthy, if you use up more than you take in, you will lose weight.

    Eat less and/or move more.

    That's it. :)
  • newdaydawning79
    newdaydawning79 Posts: 1,503 Member
    Looking at your diary.

    When you log :) most of the time you're under, and if you're running 3 miles/day...you are definitely not eating enough. Unless your metabolism is completely off, which I can't imagine unless you have a medical condition that you haven't specified or you don't know about.

    Keep plugging away, and make sure you make yourself a realistic goal. Trying to lose 2 pounds/week when you only want to lose a few pounds isn't going to happen. Another thing to consider is weight training rather than losing weight, if you wanted to go that route.

    Good luck!
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    i second this, except for the TDEE stuff, which it don't know (or care) about.

    Assuming you are healthy, if you use up more than you take in, you will lose weight.

    Eat less and/or move more.

    That's it. :)

    Just because you don't know or care about TDEE doesn't make it any less valid of an approach. Anyone could say "eat less / move more" but how much less?

    Use TDEE, time, and math to figure it out... and save yourself from being frustrated further down the line.

    Science and math come into play and can work to benefit here.
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    . Trouble is I'm loosing no weight at all,

    I'll make this simple for you.

    You need to consume less calories and or burn more calories.

    Fat loss requires a calorie deficit and you are not in one. Maybe your TDEE needs some refinement , or you are not accurately counting the calories you consume.

    Work on getting the details correct and get in a calorie deficit and you will lose fat.
    i second this, except for the TDEE stuff, which it don't know (or care) about.

    Assuming you are healthy, if you use up more than you take in, you will lose weight.

    Eat less and/or move more.

    That's it. :)

    Uh. Yeah. That's exactly what TDEE says. Except it defines how much less to eat/more to move.

    My biggest problem pre-MFP was that I kept trying to UNDER-eat: maybe 1600 calories a day. My TDEE was somewhere in the range of 2600 calories a day. So, I kept starving and binging and gaining weight and feeling out of control.

    Getting some real numbers around what I needed to do solved almost every problem I had. The weight felt like it was melting off over the first three months. And I was only hungry right before meals.
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    Use TDEE, time, and math to figure it out... and save yourself from being frustrated further down the line.

    Science and math come into play and can work to benefit here.
    Begone with your witchery!!

    Seriously, it's not even complicated math. Then it's just a matter of patience. Simple, but definitely not easy!
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Your logging isn't consistent. Are you weighing and measuring? If you're not losing, usually you're not eating at a deficit.
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    Your logging isn't consistent. Are you weighing and measuring? If you're not losing, usually you're not eating at a deficit.

    Let me correct that: if you're not losing, you're definitely not eating at a deficit.

    However, there's a lot of variation in weight that has nothing to do with how fat you are. So, you can be losing and just not see the trend for six weeks. That's ok too.

    The first place to start if you want to be sure that you will, eventually, see this trend is accurate tracking. Log everything you put in your mouth.

    If you find that's not accurate enough for you, then get a food measuring scale and learn to use it. Eventually, you will find the source of the extra calories and it will all fall into place.
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    remember that just because some websites TDEE calculations give you an estimate of your daily calorie needs doesn't mean that those are the accurate numbers for you. They are just an estimated starting point based on generalities. Take that number and refine it based on your actually results. If you are accurately and consistently counting calories and still not loosing fat then you are not in a calorie deficiet and need to work on figuring out YOUR true TDEE.

    1 universal truth in fat loss is that consuming less calories then your body burns results in fat loss.

    Accurately nail down your calorie intake and calorie burn and you will have the knowledge to change your body's fat stores.
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Camo.. Thanku , so if I have a pedometer that accurately measures how many calories I burn each day as it records my fitness levels , so if I am burning say 1,900 a day which is close to that would I still eat 1,200 calories or would I cut that as I'm eating too less and cut the 1,900 to 500 so I'd be eating 1,400? Just at a loss as to find out my true TDEE , as I'm definatly logging correct as I scan all the barcodes onto mfp thanks again x ...
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Camo.. Thanku , so if I have a pedometer that accurately measures how many calories I burn each day as it records my fitness levels , so if I am burning say 1,900 a day which is close to that would I still eat 1,200 calories or would I cut that as I'm eating too less and cut the 1,900 to 500 so I'd be eating 1,400? Just at a loss as to find out my true TDEE , as I'm definatly logging correct as I scan all the barcodes onto mfp thanks again x ...

    I just want to check, because I've seen a lot of people make this assertion lately. When you use the barcode scanner are you double-checking that the entry matches the one you're eating? Companies sometimes change a product but keep the same UPC. So you can still run into inaccuracies in the database.

    Additionally, the biggest inaccuracy most people see with logging are serving size discrepancies. Weighing vs. measuring vs. eyeballing. And the scanner doesn't help with that.

    I'm not saying that you're logging is flawed, I just want to point out that the scanner is not a guarantee of accuracy.
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Hi Diane no I'm not I'm just scanning it and logging it I'm not even checking if the information is correct. I would have thort is notice if it was way over ? But suppose it adds up over the week. I'm tempted now to look at all what I've logged and see if it's the same on the packaging. I hope your right :-) that would make me feel a lot better thanku again for getting back to me x
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Would you suggest not using the scanner for a week and try logging by typing in what I am eating and see if I loose that way ? I have been eating fish and a lot of veg with it so can't really see that going over 1,200 either and I don't have a big breakfast. Maybe I'm going wrong with my teas x
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Well I haven't been following any plan or watching what I've been eating since last week as I was too annoyed I didn't loose weight? And today I have weighed myself and I've lost some ? I don't understand how as I've had takeaways and went out drinking on Saturday night and eaten god noes what and no exersise and I've lost weight? Not a lot about a pound but how is that possible , when before I was eating great sticking to 1,200 calories and exersising and couldn't loose a single pound ?
  • kprice95
    kprice95 Posts: 3
    Hi, I'm new to this app and I'm massively over weight and I just really need motivation and support to do this, I feel that hearing stories and tips from people who've done it may help me
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  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Gosh no I'm 9.6 stone, just over 130 pounds I'm nearly overweight but not quite
  • Supertact
    Supertact Posts: 466 Member
    Loose... wtf.

    Eat less. Lose weight.
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Well supertact if ud have red my post correctly I've been doing just that and nothing is happeneing
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  • jrline
    jrline Posts: 2,353 Member
    If you are not gaining but just staying still you might be consuming just enough calories to survive with the 9 miles of walking a week. Your body my not want to let you lose. You may need to bump your calories up to 1400-1600 range and keep up the walking. Your body may be in conservation mode so that is why you are not losing you are consuming too few calories.

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  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Thanks Jline, I'm guna try that this week. I've upped it to 1,450 and c how I go thanku again x
  • treej3
    treej3 Posts: 11
    Hi hope ur ok :-) u can do it with all the support on here , everyone's been great with me so far. If u have any questions or anything just ask and people will help as much as they can x
  • gheatly
    gheatly Posts: 2 Member
    cardio, cardio, cardio

    Every body and metabolism is different and so I don't think you can necessarily pattern how others' weight loss programs will work for you. The same applies to programatic weight loss solutions. You need to stay within your body's plan and accept how your body reacts to weight loss/gain and excercise, good or bad. Don't micro analyze your weekly weight loss. Create a plan (MFP is a good program), be anal (accuracy is critical) with what/how you log (food, excercise, weight, measurements) and stick with it. Track both your weight loss (scale) and measurements and check back in 6 months. Yes 6 months. Most say you will see a difference in 6 weeks but to surely know if your plan is working, 6 months is a good rule of thumb. Weight loss and maintaining weight is not a quick hit formula but a life journey. Motivation should be what good your diet plan and excercise is doing for you and the rest will fall into place, if you stick with your plan.

    What will work, also drawing from others in this post:

    -- be accurate in your food logging
    -- stay away from takeaways (takeout food)
    -- don't be tempted to take in what is not inline with losing weight
    -- don't rely just on logging your weight but also track measurements in areas where you are predisposed to storing fat (waist, hips, legs, etc.)
    -- work on raising your BPM towards a higher heart rate zone during cardio excercise in order to better your chances of losing weight (like they say, sweat off the fat)
    -- work less on TDEE but more on quality of excercise during workouts (proper weight training to maintain or build muscle and proper cardio to burn fat/calories)
    -- if weight training and taking in good amounts of protein, realize that muscle build will contribute to your weight formula
    -- don't neglect weight training for long periods of time if your cardio plan and/or weight loss food diet are aggressive (not healthy)

    With all this said, weight loss is really tough, doable and very motivational when you do see results (needs patience).

    My personal story is that I have lost 5 pounds in 35 days. I am 48, now weigh 153lbs (aiming for 145lbs), 5'9" tall. I do an hour of cardio on a stationary bike with little weight training (coming soon (in 3 months) once I hit my desired weight target) every day (7 days a week), get my BPM up to 110 during workouts and maintain a caloric intake of 2,100 calories. No junk food, no candy, little carbs, no beer, no soda and minimal sugars. Admittedly I do like to sleep in, in the mornings and watch my fair share of TV but sticking with my fitness training plan makes me feel great knowing what good I am doing for my body while amping up my energy level.

    Good luck!!

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