Can't loose any more weight.
mkollenb
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I am 5 feet 4 inches tall 148lbs right now. I am following the 1200 calorie diet on my fitness pal. I have lost a total of 52lbs so far. I bike 11 miles to work & 11 miles home. 22 miles a day. I have tried to loose more weight and can't seem to drop my goal is 125 pounds. I am trying to figure out what I should do to conquer this problem. I am not giving up.
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Well, considering the amount of calories you're exerting in a day to day basis your body may not be getting enough calories to function and could be holding on fats and calories instead of burning them and therefore you can't lose any more weight.
If you have any questions about that, message me, I sent you a friend request. Hope it helps!
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If you are being really consistent about your diet, your metabolism is probably down. You'd need to do a reverse diet to fix that. That's what I've been doing for the last 5 months and I'm now maintaining weight at 2800 cal/day (was maintaining weight at 1800 cal/day). Check this video out and if you have questions, please let me know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3gTGLulLnI
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If you are cycling 22 miles a day and not losing, then you are eating too much. No other explanation.-1
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Congratulations on your weight loss!I am 5 feet 4 inches tall 148lbs right now. I am following the 1200 calorie diet on my fitness pal. I have lost a total of 52lbs so far. I bike 11 miles to work & 11 miles home. 22 miles a day. I have tried to loose more weight and can't seem to drop my goal is 125 pounds. I am trying to figure out what I should do to conquer this problem. I am not giving up.
In order to continue losing weight, you need to eat less food.
Weight loss slows down as you get closer to your goal weight.
Also, have you recalculated your goals with each ten pound loss? That's important because as we become slimmer we don't need as many calories to function.
Finally, what are your food and exercise logging habits? Do you weigh food and log everything you eat? Are you logging your exercise burns and, if so, where do you get those estimates from?
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No, this is doubtful.]If you are being really consistent about your diet, your metabolism is probably down. You'd need to do a reverse diet to fix that. That's what I've been doing for the last 5 months and I'm now maintaining weight at 2800 cal/day (was maintaining weight at 1800 cal/day). Check this video out and if you have questions, please let me know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3gTGLulLnI
Allan
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I am 5 feet 4 inches tall 148lbs right now. I am following the 1200 calorie diet on my fitness pal. I have lost a total of 52lbs so far. I bike 11 miles to work & 11 miles home. 22 miles a day. I have tried to LOSE more weight and can't seem to drop my goal is 125 pounds. I am trying to figure out what I should do to conquer this problem. I am not giving up.
I call BS. Either you are consuming much more than 1200 calories or you are dreaming about cycling 22 miles a day.
Is it possible that you sleep in the car and dream about cycling while someone drives you to work each day?
If not I suggest you look at this link:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/early-math/cc-early-math-counting-topic
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A closed diary, a general statement of eating 1200 calories without noting if that is total or net, no mention of measuring / weighing foods ... yet we get the instant recommendations that include starvation and countering MFP.
OP ... if you could open your diary it would give people some insight to what you are really doing (assuming you log accurately, honestly, and completely). Do you weigh and measure your foods? All of them?
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yeah, I'm also stuck just like you. I've tried a lot of things and nothing seems to be working. (even increasing my calorie intake for a week). It's been two months now. I'm stuck at 128 pounds and the scale won't budge. This week, starting today, I'm gonna try to eat 700 calorie lunch (healthy, beans rice, protein) and skip dinner and have a handful of blackberries and maybe 90 calorie greek yoghourt instead, exercise and sleep. I think skipping dinner will help me lose weight.
I also have carrots as snack and a banana for breakfast so it will be around 1200 calories for the minimum daily intake.
Maybe you can replace some of the type of foods you are eating with vegetables.0 -
Plateau is another word for eating g to much.Apparently no one here has ever heard of a plateau and thinks starving yourself is a good idea. You need to measure your metabolic rate to make sure you're consuming a deficit of calories. You'll only ever be able to ballpark any measurements, such as: calories in, calories expended during exercise, calories burned daily because of metabolism. As long as your final calorie count for the day (after eating and exercise is counted) is a deficit, just keep up this lifestyle and your body will eventually adjust. Everybody gets plateaus, some last a while others don't. Remember as you burn fat you may be adding muscle, which weighs more. You shouldn't trust weight that much, measure your waistline, get a body caliper test. That would be more accurate.
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How long has it been since you lost weight? More than 4-6 weeks?
How often do you use a food scale?
How often do you skip logging meals?
How often do you approximate what you eat?
Accuracy & consistency are the combination needed.I am 5 feet 4 inches tall 148lbs right now. I am following the 1200 calorie diet on my fitness pal. I have lost a total of 52lbs so far. I bike 11 miles to work & 11 miles home. 22 miles a day. I have tried to loose more weight and can't seem to drop my goal is 125 pounds. I am trying to figure out what I should do to conquer this problem. I am not giving up.
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StaciMarie1974 wrote: »How long has it been since you lost weight? More than 4-6 weeks?
How often do you use a food scale?
How often do you skip logging meals?
How often do you approximate what you eat?
Accuracy & consistency are the combination needed.I am 5 feet 4 inches tall 148lbs right now. I am following the 1200 calorie diet on my fitness pal. I have lost a total of 52lbs so far. I bike 11 miles to work & 11 miles home. 22 miles a day. I have tried to loose more weight and can't seem to drop my goal is 125 pounds. I am trying to figure out what I should do to conquer this problem. I am not giving up.
This. All of this.
Every time I've thought I was "on a plateau," I was actually just swedging my calorie numbers. Every time.
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I agree that it's probably a calorie difference. With that much cycling I don't know if you have any extra time, but if you do, start adding weight training. Doing cardio only generally won't get you the body you want.0
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You need to eat more, not less.0
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Plateau is another word for eating g to much.
That's one ugly assumption you're making. Not everyone sticks to their daily count, some cheat; but to assume everyone who's plateau'd is lying is just plain ignorant and stupid. You're using your ignorance to emphasize destructive habits.
If someone is cheating then they're cheating and lying to themselves. If someone is sticking to their calorie plan, with a deficit, they'll eventually break through the plateau. As I'm always saying, weight is one of the worst ways to measure progress.
So weight is one of the worst ways to measure weightloss? ok...0 -
Have you tried having "up" days on occasion to reset your metabolism? I can't eat the same number of calories every day, because my body adjusts to it. I have "up" days" (2100 calories ish) and "down" days (1700 calories) to shock my metabolism. Also, you might want to up your calories to compensate for all of the exercise you're doing.
Also, have you tried measuring yourself? You might be gain muscle, which is heavier than fat, and losing inches, but not weight.
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Have you tried having "up" days on occasion to reset your metabolism? I can't eat the same number of calories every day, because my body adjusts to it. I have "up" days" (2100 calories ish) and "down" days (1700 calories) to shock my metabolism. Also, you might want to up your calories to compensate for all of the exercise you're doing.
Also, have you tried measuring yourself? You might be gain muscle, which is heavier than fat, and losing inches, but not weight.
Good luck!
There is so much pop dieting drivel and so little science in this post. Metabolism shocking, a woman building appreciable muscle mass on a deficit while cycling not lifting ... wow.0 -
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Plateau is another word for eating g to much.
That's one ugly assumption you're making. Not everyone sticks to their daily count, some cheat; but to assume everyone who's plateau'd is lying is just plain ignorant and stupid. You're using your ignorance to emphasize destructive habits.
If someone is cheating then they're cheating and lying to themselves. If someone is sticking to their calorie plan, with a deficit, they'll eventually break through the plateau. As I'm always saying, weight is one of the worst ways to measure progress.
It may be cheating. It may not be willful cheating but thinking you're doing everything right but logging in accurately by using incorrect database entries or not weighing food. You could also be eating too much because you lost 50lbs and your metabolism is now lower because you weigh less and you did not account for that, and eating at the same calorie level is actually maintenance and not a deficit.
Those are all reasons for a plateau, but they all boil down to you are eating too much for how much energy you expend.0 -
If your Cycling "22" miles per day and only eating 1200 calories something is wrong. Either your lying about what your actaully doing OR your lying about what your actually doing.
You might think your only eating 1200 calories a day but in actuality it most likely way more then that, with a closed diary its hard to tell.
Are you actually weighing out ALL your foods?? Once you get down to the final stages of weight loss, every single calorie counted is very crucial. Every thing you put into your body needs to be weighed out on a food scale to get accurate calorie amounts. Just guessing isnt going to do any good at this point. When you have 50+ pounds to lose you can get away with it becasue you margin for error is a lot higher, but when you have 5-10 pounds to lose you margin for error is a lot lower so you need to be as accurate as possible with your calorie intake.-1 -
If the OP is indeed cycling 22 miles a day (11 miles both ways), it could be that her body has gotten used to this amount/type of exercise and she should add to it/intensify it. Doing the same exercises in the same amounts on a consistent basis means that the body will get used to it and less energy is expended for the same amount of activity over time. Still coming back to a lack of calorie deficit, but doesn't mean the OP is lying about what she does - just that the calorie deficit isn't what it once was. But without knowing what she actually eats, it's hard to say for sure.0
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Whoa.Plateau is another word for eating g to much.
That's one ugly assumption you're making. Not everyone sticks to their daily count, some cheat; but to assume everyone who's plateau'd is lying is just plain ignorant and stupid. You're using your ignorance to emphasize destructive habits.
If someone is cheating then they're cheating and lying to themselves. If someone is sticking to their calorie plan, with a deficit, they'll eventually break through the plateau. As I'm always saying, weight is one of the worst ways to measure progress.
I never said, nor did I imply, that anyone is lying. I said plateau is another word for eating too much, which it is. That does not mean someone is lying, it means they are miscalculating.
If you're not losing weight, It's not assumed you are eating too much, it's a fact.
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View a chart of most peoples' significant weight loss and you see plateaus. It happens to most of us, and not from overeating. That's why the term exists. Weight loss is rarely linear.
Though if you don't experience plateaus it's probably very tempting to assume you do something right that nearly everyone else missed.0 -
WalkingAlong wrote: »View a chart of most peoples' significant weight loss and you see plateaus. It happens to most of us, and not from overeating. That's why the term exists. Weight loss is rarely linear.
Though if you don't experience plateaus it's probably very tempting to assume you do something right that nearly everyone else missed.
Walking Along,
Since you believe a plateau is not based on eating at maintenance, then please share what you believe it is based on.
I agree 100 % that weight loss is not linear, but I think that is a different issue. It is my understanding that a plateau is based on several weeks of a standstill with weight. It is really easy to miscalculate--to not notice that our calorie deficit is lessened due to a possible decrease in activity, or we become a bit lax in our logging habits, or to get so busy that we forget to log something. I've done these things before, and I'm sure countless other people have too, and continue to do so.
Sidesteel posted a wonderful sticky at the top of this forum that addresses this issue:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10012907/logging-accuracy-consistency-and-youre-probably-eating-more-than-you-think#latest
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Plateau is another word for eating g to much.
That's one ugly assumption you're making. Not everyone sticks to their daily count, some cheat; but to assume everyone who's plateau'd is lying is just plain ignorant and stupid. You're using your ignorance to emphasize destructive habits.
If someone is cheating then they're cheating and lying to themselves. If someone is sticking to their calorie plan, with a deficit, they'll eventually break through the plateau. As I'm always saying, weight is one of the worst ways to measure progress.
No. You are wrong. Plateau is a make believe word used by someone who is eating at maintenance level contrary to their beliefs. People 'break through their plateau' as you put it, because they start eating at a deficit. There is no magic wall put up by some wicked witch that physically puts a wall or adds hidden calories to stop you from losing the pounds....-1 -
Have you tried having "up" days on occasion to reset your metabolism? I can't eat the same number of calories every day, because my body adjusts to it. I have "up" days" (2100 calories ish) and "down" days (1700 calories) to shock my metabolism. Also, you might want to up your calories to compensate for all of the exercise you're doing.
Also, have you tried measuring yourself? You might be gain muscle, which is heavier than fat, and losing inches, but not weight.
Good luck!
This is also nonsense. Eat at a calorie deficit and you will lose weight. Dont worry about your friend metabolism. He will just head off to the pub.-1 -
Eat more!!!!!!!!-1
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