been working so hard but weight is stuck?

kibuuka675 wrote: »

Sorry if ive not been very informative on my fasting days i dont go over 500 on my normal days its around 800!1000 not more the 1200 i weigh 189 lbs last time i checked , yes im logging everything im 30 yrs old im 5.5 in height. I am naughty i weigh myself aaaallll the time

Yeah, you aren't following the 5:2 lifestyle correctly.

On the 5:2 fasting lifestyle, you eat 5 days at your maintenance calories and 2 days at 500 calories. (For example, if I were to do it, I would eat 2200 calories on 5 days and 500 calories on the other 2 days.)

If you are going to keep your calories low, stop doing the 5:2 lifestyle and just eat the same amount of calories everyday. You should eat at least 1200 calories a day (you could probably eat more since you aren't super short or older in age). It's hard to get all of your vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients in when you eat under 1200 calories.

vickiesmirch wrote: »

I feel you...I have quit drinking...went on 1200 cal diet and started exercising the last 6 wks and only lost 5 lbs...wth...I am counting everything...but sometimes I dont eat all my calories...any suggestions?

Working out 6x a week and eating only 1200 calories isn't enough for your body. Its gonna go into starvation mode and hold onto fat.

I have been in this also lately. Working out harder Trying to eat less. Best of luck. Will keep pushing! !!!

AllanMisner wrote: »

If you don’t feed the machine, it shuts down functions to survive. Why do people think they can shut down their calories and magically the weight falls off? It is a game of diminishing returns. Instead, focus on full health and wellness.

That is kinda a silly analogy. When you have an overweight person you are talking about a car with a full tank and another 30-50 gallons of gas sitting in the backseat. You are basically saying if you don't stop for gas every 15 min your car will stop. That is not how it happens. If you have a full tank you do not need to stop for gas for a while. Now if you are talking about a race car (athlete) and you want to drive it fast as you can, you have to stop for gas more often because they use more gas have smaller tanks and no fuel sitting in the back seat. People don't function exactly like cars but studies have been conducted on seriously overweight people that suggest that with medical supervision (and vitamins) they can stop eating for months at a time and their bodies will burn from the stored fat. I think the record is a little over a year. This person had a metabolic rate reduction of like 50 cal a day below the normal after that fast. That is an extreme example and still all we see is 50 cal of damage to the metabolism. That is hardly the wrecked metabolism MFP people love to scare the new people with. We tell people to eat at a higher range not because there is a single valid study that suggests that low range hurts them (with a proper vitamin supplement) but because most people starve and binge when they diet too strictly.

As of august 24th i was 305lbs today i weight in at 255lbs i am a boxer and i use to have the same problem worked my *kitten* off then wouldnt lose or gain then i realized that if you want to lose weight its 70% deit 30% work out i cab reccomend a low cal high protein i still enjoy my junk every now and then but after about a month of pulling thru with healthy eating the junk food will start feeling like *kitten* making you not want to eat more itll be tough but soon as you make it fast the fold withdrawls it gets alot easier and with weight lose youll just wanna continue the hard work keep it up and good luck