4 MONTHS INTO GYM AND WEIGHT REMAINS THE SAME :((((((

So today i got to my breaking point,i cried and cursed my body for not losing any weight,I stepped onto the scale today thinking I had lost some weight since i felt a bit better about my body. But to my suprise i have not lose anything. I am 28 years old, i weigh 60 kgs my highest weight ever. I am 1.54 ft tall. I just got back to gym 4 months ago, i exercise 5 times a week only cardio treadmill and stair stepper. I workout for 60 mins. I eat healthy foods and drink green teas. My goal weight is 50kgs but the rate im going i am not losing anything. My clothing doesnt feel loose on me either and im very uncomfortable. Over the last year i gained 7 kilos and when i got back to gym this year i gained 3 more. I am utterly disspointed and i thought by now i would be at least 55kgs and then get to goal weight by October. Everyone around me seems to be losing weight so easily. I am finding it very hard to lose weight and i used to be 48kgs in 2012. I think now im going to try proana diets just to speed up this weight losS. eating healthy and eating 1200 calories isnt working for me. There is a show i want to attend in december and i wanted to look my best and at my goal weight but im not losing a damn thing and i feel fat as ever ((((( Please dont tell me the crap about eating more or starvation mode because i am quite a short height and this weight is too big for me. Someone even told me im gone fat and it hurt me but i didnt show it. Now 5 months into gym and not lost anything. Almost end of the year can not believe this. And yes i checked my thyroids etc and everything is normal.

Relax. Take a deep breath. I know what you're going through, but a proana diet is NOT the answer. I know you don't want to hear it, but eating more just might be the answer. Earlier this year I was eating 1600-1800 calories a day, lifting weights 60 minutes 2x a week, and doing 60-90 minutes of cardio 2-3x a week. The scale wasn't moving. My dear friend (a bodybuilder and trainer) told me he'd like to see me eat 6x a day, a total of about 2100 calories. Because I love and trust him, I gave it a month....and lost 4#.

For you, I think 1500 calories would be more appropriate. Try to get 40% of your calories from protein, and drink a MINIMUM of 64oz of water a day.

Just for the record....I'm 39, 5 ft 1.5 inches tall and weigh 184 lbs. I need to lose 20 lbs to be overweight.... But I wear a size 10/12

OP, what most of us are saying, is go back to the kitchen, where weight loss is truly conceived...measure, measure, measure, and weigh, weigh. Weight training is a good way to change body comp without losing weight, you seem to be doing nothing but cardio. I've not lost any weight in a month, but my body comp looks great and i've lost inches, and actually gained muscle. I know if I perservere, the trend will eventually go down again. But REMEMBER - abs are made in the kitchen...and weight loss as well. Re-evaluate your diet first. Don't ever give up...this game never ends...it's for life. If you're determined, you will eventually begin to lose weight. Try to remove the emotion out of it and stop giving yourself timelines! Wait until you start seeing a slow trend - you're pumping more cortisol in your system with all that added stress.

Good luck! :flowerforyou: :happy:

I understand your frustration. I've done years of going to the gym, or exercise videos at home for 1 to an hour and a half. I've tried Weight Watchers, low calorie diets, low fat, no sugar, vegetarian, vegan, raw food, low-carb-high-protein, grain-free, paleo, the Mediterranean diet, French-Women-Don't-Get-Fat, Japanese-Women Don't-Get-Fat, just about anything you can think of that sounds like it might work. From my college years, my weight crept up a little bit every year, even though I was working on diet and exercise obsessively. Every month I'd gain a couple pounds during my period, and then one pound would seem to stick around after it was over.

Nothing worked for me until I started focusing on my macro nutrient ratios. Apparently for me, I can eat more calories if my macros are in proportion, and still lose weight. I lost 10 lbs the first month after I switched my focus. I have to make almost everything I eat at home, which is a bit of a pain with a busy schedule, but now I prefer it that way.

I also have come to believe in *moderate* but daily exercise, unless you are a performance athlete. I feel excessive exerise stresses the body and does more harm than good. I've cut my exercise down to 30 minutes a day and I almost always do something more fun than some machine at the gym.

Best of luck, and keep looking for what works. Trust your body and love yourself, but be skeptical about 95% of the diet authorities. If what they told you really worked, no one would have weight problems!

[ Please understand, what you are doing is unhealthy and what you are contemplating unhealthier still. I don't know off the top of my head, but I suspect 50 kilos is underweight for your height. You are already at a perfectly healthy weight, so getting below that will be difficult at best.