Why can't i loose weight?
Sammy85x
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I've been trying to loose weight since the start on jan. But nothing seems to be working.
I go to a high impact aerobics class once a week and go to the gym 2 - 3 times a week burning between 300 - 400 cals each time. I'm eating a lot less and more healthier. I am a chocoholic so still eat a few bars a week but not excessively over eating it.
I've not lost any weight at all since I've started. I don't no what to do it's so frustrating. What am I doing wrong? My tummy looks bigger now than when I started!
Please help xI use fitness pal and according to my height and weight it says my calories should be around 1,750 to be loosing 1 pound a week. Is that too much? x
I go to a high impact aerobics class once a week and go to the gym 2 - 3 times a week burning between 300 - 400 cals each time. I'm eating a lot less and more healthier. I am a chocoholic so still eat a few bars a week but not excessively over eating it.
I've not lost any weight at all since I've started. I don't no what to do it's so frustrating. What am I doing wrong? My tummy looks bigger now than when I started!
Please help xI use fitness pal and according to my height and weight it says my calories should be around 1,750 to be loosing 1 pound a week. Is that too much? x
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Do you know how many calories you're consuming in a day?
Eating "healthier" (whatever that means) and working out is not enough.
You need to eat less calories than you burn.0 -
What is your height, weight, age? How many calories do you consume each day? How often do you use a food scale? How do you determine you burn 300-400 calories each workout?
Your profile says you've lost 5 pounds. What is your expectation, in terms of how quickly do you think you should be losing weight? (This may be the issue - realistic expectations would be .5-2 pounds per week, depending on what you have to lose.)0 -
The simple answer is you are eating more calories than you are burning across the week
The simple solution is to weigh everything you eat and log it accurately to ensure you don't eat more than your calorie allowance to lose weight
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What's your age, height and current weight. And what kind of job do you do eg sit at a desk all day? Move around like a teacher or nurse etc?0
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I'm 29, I'm 13 stone 3 at the min and around 5ft 7. I'm a nursery nurse, so on my feet quite a bit running around after 2 year olds. I use the gym and when I log out it tells me how many cals I've burned. That 5lbs was lost ages ago when I was on weight watchers and wasn't doing any exercise at all. But I can't afford to do weight watchers as it's not cheap. I don't understand as I wasn't exercising at all then and now I am and I'm not loosing anything! It's really getting me down0
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The calorie estimation on exercise burn is only an estimation. Most people only use a percentage of those calories to be safe. Apart from that if you're not weighing and logging dietary calories it will be impossible to know how many you are taking in. Several chocolate bars likely cover the exercise calories for starters!0
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You've only been doing it a month so give it time. Have you lost anything? Also, have you taken measurements? You may have lost a couple of cm off your waist for example.
You need to make sure your logging is accurate, weigh your food, especially things like cheese and peanut butter as you'd be surprised how small a portion actually is.
I know people say you can still eat chocolate, crisps etc, but I'd try and cut down a little bit on the chocolate bars.
I also don't eat back exercise calories, but I know people have success eating them, so obviously eat them if you lose doing so, but make sure you know for sure what you've burned. Machines can overestimate.0 -
Not lost a thing since I started at the start of jan
it's really depressing as I've been trying really hard at the gym. One problem with me is that I don't eat fruit of salad but I make up for it with lots of vegetables. Yeh maybe I should cut back on the chocolate etc and maybe I'm eating too many calories. No I haven't taken any measurements. It's just unfair that my boyfriend who weighs just over 11 stone can still eat crap and work out 3+ times a week and looses 2lbs almost each week, it's not fair. 0 -
I gained 5 pounds in my first month of my diet, I was horrified! I was eating at a defecit, so I knew I was doing it right, so despite this I kept going now I'm down 40 pounds. Dont give up, I attribut that initail gain to my change in lifestyle rather than let it get me down. As long as you are tracking and your allowances/defecit is correct there is no reason why you wont see a loss, you may just need patience.0
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Keep in mind that weight fluctuations are normal, especially with hormones etc (so if you are trying to lose a half a kilo a week it's possible you are holding on to 2-3kg of water). So give your strategy a bit of a chance before freaking out too much.
But if the trend continues - you are probably overestimating your exercise calories or underestimating calories eaten - or both.
Unfortunately some people have higher BMR due to being taller/leaner etc and they are able to eat a bit more than you but you gotta work with what you got0 -
The answer most probably lies in your food diary - which is private.
It's far from uncommon for people who start to exercise more to simply eat more to compensate.
Your focus for losing (not "loosing"!) weight is your calorie balance and your exercise calories in a week is a drop in the ocean compared to your food intake. That's where to focus.
You may simply have too high a calorie goal or your food logging may be inaccurate. A month isn't a long time by the way, normal weight fluctuations can mask the trend over a short time.0 -
Not lost a thing since I started at the start of jan it's really depressing as I've been trying really hard at the gym. One problem with me is that I don't eat fruit of salad but I make up for it with lots of vegetables. Yeh maybe I should cut back on the chocolate etc and maybe I'm eating too many calories. No I haven't taken any measurements. It's just unfair that my boyfriend who weighs just over 11 stone can still eat crap and work out 3+ times a week and looses 2lbs almost each week, it's not fair.
Yeah, it's unfair, but c'est la vie and we can't do much about it, just have to work with what we've got. My husband isn't overweight, but if he decides to lose a bit, all he has to do is cut back a little and do some exercise and he loses a stone in a month.
I wouldn't worry about not eating fruit or salad. I think the nutrients in lettuce for example are minimal. I do like fruit and salad, but I think vegetables are far better for you. Fruit is quite high in sugar.
I'd work out how many calories you're actually eating, because maybe all you need to do is cut back on portion sizes, so you don't need to change much.
I was 11 stone and a size 10/12 (UK) pre pregnancy and I have about 2 stone to lose to get back to that, which sucks as my baby will be 9 months tomorrow, but I've accepted that I lose weight slowly, and I gain in pregnancy.
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Thank you for all your messages, they really help. I suffer from depression so any little sort of set back brings me down. I'll keep trying hard and see how I get on x0
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Can we see your diary?
Are you accurately weighing, measuring and logging your intake to get an accurate as possible calorie intake?
Have you used one of the various online calculators to estimate your calorie needs. It's always worth getting an estimate of your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) from a source other than MFP
I use this one http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/
I prefer a to use the TDEE method rather than let MFP do it for me. So I calculate an estimated TDEE then deduct 10%/15%/300/400/500/whatever then set a custom goal in MFP.
Do this for a month, then reassess. Losing too much - up your calories, not loosing enough - lower your calories.
Eat less calories than your body needs and you will drop weight.
As for exercise calories, I personally log half of the estimated burn.0 -
With the gym exercises you could be building mussel mass and mussel are a lot heaver than fat keep at it. To many people expect a instance lose but not putting on weight is a good start. Keep doing with what you are and have a look in 3 months even if you still haven't lossed anything at least you will know that you are a lot fitter than you were and that's what counts. Enjoy and don't let any one tell you that you are not wonderful.0
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But on herehttp://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ it asks for your body fat %, how do i find out what it is?0
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With the gym exercises you could be building mussel mass and mussel are a lot heaver than fat keep at it. To many people expect a instance lose but not putting on weight is a good start. Keep doing with what you are and have a look in 3 months even if you still haven't lossed anything at least you will know that you are a lot fitter than you were and that's what counts. Enjoy and don't let any one tell you that you are not wonderful.
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OP, are you logging everything you eat and using a food scale? If not, then you're eating more than you think. Weight loss ultimately comes down to eating less than you burn, but it's extremely difficult to do if you aren't keeping track accurately.0 -
Yeh I am logging everything? What is a food scale?0
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Oh.Yeh I am logging everything? What is a food scale?
http://www.amazon.com/Scales-Measuring-Tools-Cooks-Gadgets/b?ie=UTF8&node=289787
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Oh yeh I know what that it, I have one. I thought you meant it was an app called a food scale0
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Yeh I am logging everything? What is a food scale?
Just a scale used for weighing food. I got a digital Salter one from Amazon. I'm surprised you don't have one already. I guess you're English like I am, and all our recipes are in grams or ounces, so we've always had a scale, I just got a better one a couple of years ago.
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With the gym exercises you could be building mussel mass and mussel are a lot heaver than fat keep at it. To many people expect a instance lose but not putting on weight is a good start. Keep doing with what you are and have a look in 3 months even if you still haven't lossed anything at least you will know that you are a lot fitter than you were and that's what counts. Enjoy and don't let any one tell you that you are not wonderful.
I'd be concerned if I had mussels on me lol. Yum, moules frites!
Muscle is denser than fat, not heavier!
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But on herehttp://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ it asks for your body fat %, how do i find out what it is?
You're about 40% fat give or take - accurate enough for now.
There are various ways you can get it measured from relatively low accuracy electronic scales, skinfold measurements etc through Bodpod or Dexa scans (££).0 -
um eating healthy doesnt matter for example yesterday i ate 570 calories worth of kitkats and mini donuts and i still lost weight. its calories in/calories out and youre probably eating more than you think (this is why i have a food scale) even packaged foods can have more calories than it says there is in the entire package especially baked things. so weihg those too if you want to be truly accurate
also you could be retaining water try eating less sodium and drinking a lot more water you will probably see a difference.0 -
Can we see your diary?
As for the calculator don't worry about the bf%, just use the athlete formula, the result is negligible (as in a few calories either side)
Or use one of these.
http://www.thefastdiet.co.uk/how-many-calories-on-a-non-fast-day
http://www.health-calc.com/diet/energy-expenditure-advanced
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html
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heres whats working for me. Increasing water intake, cutting out added sugar (natural sugar is fine) watching sodium intake.Weighing and measuring everything . And eating less processed and fast foods. My biggest vice was pop , which was difficult to stop. I started with switching one can per day with carbonated lemon water and eventually gave up pop all together . Another thing to remember is not to drink your calories. Alcohol, Fruit juices, and coffee/tea with cream and sugar add up very quickly. Stick with it . I wish you luck0
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Oh it drives me crazy when my husband decides he needs to lose 20 lbs and he loses it in no time (2 months maybe?), simply by cutting BACK (not cutting OFF, but cutting BACK) on the amount of chips he eats. Seriously....
That said...I echo the folks who said to start using your food scale to weigh your food. Everything. Account for EVERY SINGLE THING you eat. Including condiments like mayo or jam. And for me drinking water helps curb my hunger, and it does help with hydrating your body so you can avoid retaining water...which adds to the scale readout.
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Thank you all for your help x0
No, just the thing, not an app 
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