Cutting Calories, Exercising, Not losing weight

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  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    How is it that your chicken always weighs in at 4 ounces? When I measure chicken it is never the same. Do you trim it each time to get to 4 ounces?

    I do this all the time. I cut things to make it what I want.
  • dominicgamutan
    dominicgamutan Posts: 42 Member
    Did you consider perhaps you are gaining muscle mass?
  • alysonbriggs22
    alysonbriggs22 Posts: 12
    Also, just want to clarify that I am not saying it's possible to build muscle while in a caloric deficit. I mentioned that the increased size in my arms "could be muscle" simply because I'm REALLY bad at consistently taking measurements and the increased size of my arms *could have possibly occurred prior to my initiating my cut and not SINCE I BEGAN my cut, if that is clear. That and my biceps just look gigantic compared to how they looked a month ago. Just sayin'.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Are you weighing and measuring your food?
  • MysticRealm
    MysticRealm Posts: 1,264 Member
    alysonbriggs22 wrote: »

    I appreciate that you're trying to help, but I kind of feel like you're attacking me lol. Anyway, in response:
    Yeah, I use cups pretty exclusively for my veggies. I don't think that's a HUGE crime, especially since the frozen ones always give calories per cup, but if the consensus on here is to use the scale for them as well, maybe I'll give it a try. Egg whites same deal, because they're from a carton and that's how the calories are given on the carton: per cup. But thanks, I'll try grams. Additionally, I have been extremely careful about adding salt to my food, and my rice is not pre-packaged.

    Furthermore, perhaps to you my diet is boring, but I love everything that I eat and I mean that quite sincerely. I founded my cutting regime off of principles given by Kim Oddo, who is generally regarded as being really knowledgeable in the sport of bodybuilding.

    Often you will find that when they say 'per cup' or 'per tbsp' or such things, that when you actually measure the grams on a scale, it's usually LESS than a cup or tbsp, etc. Or when it says 30 chips are 250 calories, if you weigh it instead you find that it's closer to 25 chips. That's why it's really important to weight things.
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  • myfitnesspal654
    myfitnesspal654 Posts: 1
    Workout4Health wrote: »
    alysonbriggs22 wrote: »
    Hello,

    It appears as though I have hit some kind of plateau. I have been cutting my calories (for about 4 weeks now) down to around 1520-1530/day. My protein is at 170 grams, my carbs are at 120-127, and my fat is generally at about 43. I am not losing any weight. In addition to this, I exercise twice per day 6 days per week. In the morning I strength train and in the afternoon I do cardio. I was just doing steady state but am switching to HIIT this week to see if that makes any difference. Last week I did a refeed day and dropped 3 pounds, but the weight just came right back up again a few days after that. Any help for pushing through this??

    You have cut your calories so you are doing the right thing. Switching from steady to cardio to HIIT won't work that well because you will be taking in a different amount of oxygen. What I recommend is to do HIIT every other day but to do other cardio every single day, maybe take one day off.

    So an example would be

    Sunday- Off (do a different kind of exercise like mall walking or golf)
    Monday- 120 minutes of steady cardio, 45 minutes of weights
    Tuesday- 30 min of moderate cardio, 30 min HIIT
    Wednesday- 120 minutes of steady cardio, 45 minutes of weights
    Wednesday-30 minute HIIT, 90 min steady cardio
    Thursday- 60 min moderate cardio, 45 minutes of weights

    Friday- 30 minute HIIT, 90 min steady cardio
    Saturday- 120 minute steady cardio

    Too much bro science asking someone to spend 3+ hours a day in the gym?
    Seems like OP is just taking guessing and eye balling calories. As many others have suggested looks like weighing everything should do the trick
  • 3proud
    3proud Posts: 21 Member
    Have you considered 5:2 diet? Eat at maintenance for 5 days and cut to 500 calls on 2 days? Maybe even make the 2 days cal days rest days? I would even consider an IF window (16:8) and eating TDEE calories without exercise factored in (and don't eat exercise calories back).
  • 3proud
    3proud Posts: 21 Member
    FWIW, I think you are doing too much cardio.
  • afitmama
    afitmama Posts: 3
    RunRutheeRun wrote: »
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    You're eating too much. Drop your daily calorie goal to 1200.
    ^^ don't listen to this!! noone needs to eat THAT little unless you're very petite and very sedentary!

  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    edited January 2015
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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    You only have 2 pounds to lose? Logging needs to be tight!
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,428 MFP Moderator
    How long are you working out? I know you said 2x a day, but that seems excessive even for preparing for a comp. There is a lot of potential that you are holding a good amount of water weight since you work out often. Cutting back might help with that and might help let your muscles repair themselves.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    alysonbriggs22 wrote: »
    I'm 25 years old, 5'4", 128lbs. I'm training for a bikini competition.

    with that little to lose fat is going to come off a lot slower…

    what is your weight loss goal right now ..1 pound or .5 pound per week?
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    oh and you mentioned that you are training two times a day = HIIT and lifting is that correct?

    If yes, you may have some water retention going on ….It may be beneficial to back HIIT off to only three days a week and keep lifting intensity as it is….
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