Why am I not losing weight like i think i should?

Is that legitimately what you're eating? As a male, you should be hitting MINIMUM 1500, if not your goal.

malibu927 wrote: »

Nutn899 wrote: »

I would take measurements. Muscle weighs more than fat. From your earlier post, it sounds like you are hardly eating anything at all. If that's the case, your body goes into "starvation" mode and holds on to all the weight it can. Try to eat more fruit and veggies too.

At that amount that he's eating, it's impossible to gain muscle. Also, starvation mode is a myth.

LOL what she said. What I have learnt around here and other articles its a myth. If that were the case ppl who are actually starving due to their poverty circumstances would not get thin at all.

you are totally not eating enough - you seriously need to be eating AT LEAST 1200 calories a day - im going to assume you used to eat alot more than this before you decided to start on your weight loss journey - so you went from eating too much to starving yourself. This is completely non sustainable and you will, at some point, binge because you will be craving.
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- At the amount of calories you are eating just now, there is no way you are getting enough nutrients or vitamins to keep you healthy and lets face it, you lose weight to be healthy, no?
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- Please eat more. instead of egg whites, eat the whole egg - there is nothing wrong with the yolk and its the best bit! instead of 3 grams of cereal, eat the recommended 30g or whatever it is. Have some carbs with your dinner. Just start thinking

First off a food scale is a must. Mine is with me everywhere I go...cause you never know when you might need it! I noticed you are eating a little cabbage...that's great...eat a lot of it! Eat more broccoli....Truth is you can have so much more of many of the things you are already eating. Remember the "cleaner" you eat the more of it that you get. For me personally I had to decide what was more important to me...a little taste of something sugary and sweet or a big taste of other cleaner foods. Those cleaner foods are what my body needs to give me FUEL for all the weight training and cardio that I do daily. Please, I'm not saying you are eating sugary sweet things, I didn't look that far into your diary, I'm just saying you can be eating a WHOLE LOT MORE than you are and YOU NEED TO EAT MORE. If you like spaghetti then buy a spaghetti squash and halve it, remove the seeds and cook either in the oven or microwave. Use a fork to scrape it and like magic it comes out just like spaghetti. At Walmart there is a marinara sauce by Wild Oats Marketplace that has 1.5 grams fat and about 6-7 carbs....it is the lowest that I have found and it tastes good. I usually have 186 grams of spaghetti squash, 113 grams, or one serving of the marinara and about 4.5 ounces of chicken. that is just one delicious meal that typical in my diet.

Based on your diary entries, you are on the road to a very unsustainable diet. It's possible to eat under 1000 calories a day for a little while, but at some point you are going to break and it's gonna cost you a lot of what you have lost. If this doesn't happen and you somehow stick with it something even worse will happen: permanent serious damage to your body.

I changed the way I eat when someone bought me the SuperFoods RX book. That book won't necessarily work for you, but you should find something that can guide you into a sustainable healthy diet. I hope you can find your way on this.