Why am i not losing any weight!

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jennifurballs wrote: »

If you've gained, you're eating too much. I'm gonna guess you're not logging accurately and are eating more than you think you are. You can most definitely gain weight while eating "healthy." If you don't have one, get a scale and weigh your food. Also, don't use the "homemade" entries, most of which aren't correct. Count everything you put in your mouth.

THIS! If you are gaining you are eating too much. I changed my diet all around, I rarely ate bad food and cut out soda completely. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't lose weight, I kept hearing I wasn't eating enough but bumping my calories NEVER helped. I cut my calories and like magic (or not so much magic) started to lose. You can over eat healthy items... I have been working on my portion control and not eating as many carbs (no I'm not low carb) and eating much more protein. Measure/Weigh your food, you can over eat healthy food. You don't gain weight from under eating. I see it says you are eating 1200 calories, you are most likely eating much more then you think. Log every bite (even if you think it wont matter) because nibbles here and there can add up to a lot of calories. Log your drinks, you may be drinking a lot more calories then you know (unless you only drink water). I hope you figure out what is going on, and good luck!

Are you netting 1200 calories? That's not much to fuel all of those workouts.

I do agree with others, you're probably eating more than you think. Chocolate is fine and cheat meals can help some people. I try to make them fit into my weekly calories if I need it.

You've also introduced a lot of new activity so your muscles could be holding onto water. Drink lots of water all day and during your workouts and it might help.

I'm also wondering why you've given yourself such a short amount of time. Losing weight takes time If you're truly doing the right things, you may see a drop on the scale soon.

Have you been tested for PCOS or hypothyroidism? If not, you might want to consider it.
You should probably start measuring everything you can (including veggies).
Where are you getting your calorie burns from? Exercise machines and MFP tend to overestimate and as such you probably only want to eat 50-75% of the calories they report back. If your using a HRM, maybe try only eating 80% of it back (while it should be more accurate than MFP/Exercise machines, it still can be off by a bit depending on what your doing while wearing it).

Weight – So many things can affect weight, because of this it shouldn’t be the only way you track your progress. Things to keep in mind:

• Always use the same scale – Different scales can show different weights. You will get the most accurate number for tracking when using the same scale.
• Don’t move the scale – Carpet, uneven flooring, different types of flooring…can all affect the weight on the scale. So when you weigh, you want it to be approximately the same spot for the most accurate number for tracking. [/color]
• 3500 calories – To gain 1lb of fat you need to be over maintenance by 3500 calories.
• Muscle Repair – Muscles will hold onto water to repair, because of this it is not uncommon to see a gain for a little while after a workout. This weight comes right back off when they are done repairing.
• Sodium – Can cause you to retain water. This can also be amplified if you don’t drink enough to flush it out of your system. This is also another reason for temporary weight gain.
• Water – Not drinking enough water can actually cause you to retain water. Recommended amount is 8 cups or 64oz. I drink 64 oz to 128 oz of water a day. It doesn’t have to be plain water either. I like to flavor mine with crystal light or tea.
• Time of day – Your weight can fluctuate throughout the day. So for the most accurate tracking, you want to weigh at around the same time.
• Frequency – This is up to you, but if small fluctuations bother you than only weigh once a week or less.
• Lightest Weight – Will be naked, first thing in the morning, after using the bathroom
• Multiple times a Day – Don’t Do It. As I said before, your weight will fluctuate throughout the day. What you eat, what you’re wearing, ect will all affect weight.
• Clothes – If you weigh with clothing on, keep in mind that the scale will show your weight plus the weight of your clothes. (Jeans are heavy)
• TOM - A lot of women will retain water around their TOM, but its just temporary and will go away.

What is healthy food for you? You are over training. If you cut your caloric intake drastically all of the sudden and you do cardio you are going to mess your metabolism and your body will rather store the food that you eat, as well as slow down your metabolism, it is thinking of "starvation move".

"Im 27
164cms
and weigh 63 kilos.. well 63.8 as of today
I was netting 1200 calories and im pretty careful about portion sizes. I have a set of scales i use at work and measure nearly everything except for vegetables. I haven't gained any centimeters but the scales seem to go up "


I'm nearly 51
I'm 165cm tall
I weigh 62 kg as of this morning.
I suffer on 1200 calories a day even when i do no exercise at all which is most days. So i don't do it.

You are simply not eating enough food. But that doesn't really explain why you are not losing weight.

Buy yourself a set of scales to use at home and weigh first thing in the morning after a pee in the nude.

Anyway its simply an extremely stupid idea for people to be doing lots of exercise and eating 1200 calories a day. I don't know why so many people do it? Don't you like food? Sorry for getting grumpy but so many people do this and i can't understand why. Its simply not sustainable.

Also you don't need to exercise to lose weight. That's another mistake that so many people do and i've certainly done that often enough. No more. I exercise for health and fitness not for weightloss. And i'm only just taking up tennis that i'm near goal. Most days i am quite sedentary.