I'm eating less but not losing much weight

amber1547
amber1547 Posts: 1
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been on semi-Atkins diet for more than a month but I don't seem to be losing any weight. I'm mostly sedentary and I'm not exercising much (except for few bike rides to school and walking between classes) but I am definitely eating significantly less + low carb than usual.

I'm having the following everyday:

Morning - bread (or cereal), eggs, fruit
Lunch - Cobb salad or spinach salad
Dinner - fish & veggies or meat & veggies

Snack - fruit (berries and tomatoes)


I'm curious whether I can lose any weight but just changing my diet...but assuming that nothing changed maybe not??

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  • philwrightfitness
    philwrightfitness Posts: 122
    You lose weight by creating a calorie deficit , I'm not sure what a semi Atkins diet is supposed to be, the presence of bread means that it probably isn't atkins at all, the food types don't matter that much if your goal is merely to lose weight just consume less calories than you expend, if you have specific goals such as lose fat, build muscle or have health issues then your food types will matter.
  • z_bra
    z_bra Posts: 79 Member
    edited October 2014
    Your description of what you eat doesn't provide almost enough info...weight , oils its cooked with etc

    If you aren't losing weight then you aren't eating a deficit
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    How many calories are you eating?
  • Firefly0606
    Firefly0606 Posts: 366 Member
    All of that sounds nice and healthy, but without knowing the quantities of what you are eating, you will have no idea how many calories you are consuming.

    A regular breakfast for me is 40g or muesli with 100ml of full cream milk = 250 calories. Before I started tracking on MFP, I ate the same things for breakfast but would have easily been eating 600 calories in that meal by pouring it all into the bowl straight from the box.

    Work out how many calories you need a day to survive, I used my BMR (google it, there are plenty of sites you can use to do the calculation). I now make sure that with food and exercise factored in, I finish up the day at less than my BMR.

    It's working. Slow and steady lifestyle change, which is resulting in weight loss. Just what I wanted.
  • logg1e
    logg1e Posts: 1,208 Member
    This website is for a calorie counting approach. You don't appear to be counting calories.
  • steff274
    steff274 Posts: 227 Member
    Do you weigh your food? If you just just pour out your cereal in the morning it is very easy to pour out a triple portion.. In fact a serving 40gms is tiny!! I always have a double portion but it is weighed so I know exactly how much I am getting.. Same with the veg I weigh that too ;)
  • pander101
    pander101 Posts: 677 Member
    You can't be semi-Atkins. If you are not weighing your food, measuring is not accurate for solids, then you don't know how much you are actually eating. You could think you are eating less but eating a lot more than you think. Count your calories.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    buy a digital scale
    weigh everything you are about to put in your mouth
    log it on MFP - choose carefully if multiple entry possibilities go for the MFP version or the most member confirmed logs because some are wrong
    make sure over the week you eat less calories than you burn
    and that's how you lose weight

    low-carb is not some panacea to weight loss - it's just calorie reduction packaged up all pretty and easy to follow with the benefit of protein / fats being filling for longer

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