What am I doing wrong???

funny, because I lost 4% body fat and before I paid attention to my micronutrients I lost about a pound a week, now it's at least 3. I didn't lose 35 pounds of water.

funny, because I lost 4% body fat and before I paid attention to my micronutrients I lost about a pound a week, now it's at least 3. I don't carry 35 pounds of water.

You're consuming less than 50g of carbs a day, I guarantee you're depleting glycogen stores. Every gram of glycogen binds to 3 grams of water so when you deplete glycogen there is a relatively large amount of weight lost through water. I'm not saying you're not also losing fat as well as muscle, cause you are, but to claim that you tripled your rate of fat loss with the same calorie intake by adjusting macronutrients is absurd...

What he said. Losing three pounds a week is not healthy and probably not sustainable.

I read the whole post (except the dily details, which I skimmed), but lost track of where you stopped losing. No matter. If you aren't losing, you have to eat less and/or move more. All the talk on all the websites of all the fitness gurus will always, always, ALWAYS boil down to that: eat less and/or move more.

As I've now lost the amount of weight Oprah had when she wheeled her Wagon O Fat on stage, I've been thinking a lot about how people lose and gain it back and how to not become one of those people. Also about how all the money in the world won't help. It'll buy you the best doctors, full-time personal trainers to work you and chefs to make you the yummiest healthy food. It'll buy you your own gym with all the latest, high-tech, most awesome machines. And it'll buy you workout clothes (and bras! Dear Oprah, please get someone to design us better damn bras!) that fit well and absorb sweat, a gorgeous pool, trips to the fat farm, etc. But the money cannot make you thin. It cannot stop you from sucking the creamy lard off the Oreo, scooping out the Ben & Jerry's or sucking down yummy cream pies. And it can't make you get off your *kitten* and work your body.

Eat less and/or move more. That's the trick. And unless you have a physical problem, anyone can do it. That means me and you.

Eat less! Either weigh and measure all the food to get a fairly accurate calorie estimate or just keep dropping your calorie goal until you lose. Do the intermittent fasting if you want. I think bunches of small amounts of food are the way to go because you never feel hungry, but that might just be me. Whatever works for you! But keep the calories down. And try to eat healthy food as much as possible. You've done enough harm to your poor body.

Move more! Do what you like, but switch it up!!! Don't keep doing the same thing because you'll be bored and stop. Every week, do something you haven't done. I vote for swimming because you get cardio and resistance, clear your mind (you just cannot think while you swim!) and it's easy.

I'm assuming here that your doctor looked into possible physical causes (e.g. ran a FULL thyroid panel) - if that didn't happen, ask him to look into them at your next appointment.

The more you lose, the harder it gets!!! Don't expect the same rate of loss you began with. Remember that the smaller you get, the fewer calories you need.

Good luck!!

it all boils down to calories in / calories out. It doesn't matter where those calories come from.

I'm obviously not a fitness expert and i'm not trying to be argumentative but using that logic that "it doesn't matter where those calories come from." that means that you would be able to eat fast food, junk food, drink soda etc... for your entire calorie intake per day and still be able to lose weight...
if i'm working out and doing cardio every day and need to consume 2000 calories a day to lose 1.5 pounds a week that means that i'd still be able to lose that weight at the same rate if all 2000 of those calories came from big macs and taco bell burritos?

Yes.
You would be missing important nutrients and not eating much food, but a calorie is a calorie. 2000 = 2000.
You're going to get a lot more food & a lot more nutrients by eating less processed food, less junk food, and more whole, real, natural food.
To make an extreme example...
According to the MFP database, a big mac is 530 calories (27g fat).
44 oz (2.75 lb) of carrots is 511 calories (2g fat).
(Or 6.5 lb of romaine lettuce, 520 calories.)

To make your 2000 cal day, you could have almost 11 lb of carrots, or 3.8 big macs.
Which one is going to fill you up more, keep you full longer? Which one is lower fat?
Heck, are you even going to be able to eat 11 lb of carrots or 26 lb of lettuce? :sick:

Low carb diets aren't any better for fat loss than a balanced diet with a calorie deficit.

Yes, they are.
Eating higher protein & lower carbs leads to more weight loss. Links to studies in this blog post.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/MKEgal/view/2014-08-09-high-protein-diet-685553
Try 45% carbs, 20% fat, 35% protein


As you lose weight, you use fewer calories simply living.
Drop your calories by 50, give it a couple weeks. If there's no change, drop another 50.
Also, are you sure 2000 (200 lb) is a healthy goal for you?
My doctor says I'm 5' 9.5" and I'm aiming for a maximum healthy goal weight of 165, so I'm eating no more than 1650 calories & ignoring what I burn in exercise (other than thinking it's kinda neat when I get MFP to think I've burned 1000).
By BMI, the top of a healthy weight range is about 170.

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Eat 1500.

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Do you track your food/weigh every item you eat? You're probably eating more than you think.

^^ This. Also, you can drop every one of the supplements you're taking except for the multivitamin.

The fish oil is good for heart health so it may be a good supplement to keep along with the multivitamin. Otherwise, I would drop the rest, they don't do anything except eat up your money.