Why aren't I loosing body fat?

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  • terar21
    terar21 Posts: 523 Member
    What are you trying to "shift" exactly? What changes do you feel like you need to make in your body? Stronger? More muscle? Slimmer?

    I'm 5'2" 118. Down over 25 pounds and 115 is my goal. My focus is body fat percentage as well so my goal is to hit 115, maintain it through the summer with continued heavy lifting to see some small recomp, and then go into a calorie surplus for adding muscle (i intended to go straight into a bulk once hitting my goal but I'd rather not bulk through summer).

    My point is, you may want to really evaluate your goals and plan of action when trying to lose weight when you're already in the healthy range. Often times, being within the "healthy range" and dropping lower isn't going to get you the results you want.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    OP - fat is going to come off from where it wants to come off…but given that you are already at a smaller weight, I think you would benefit from either eating at maintenance and doing a recomp or setting MFP to .5 pound per week loss and adding in a heavy lifting program like strong lifts, new rules of lifting for woman, or starting strength…(that is if you want to lift heavy)..

    I would also say.

    Log everything you eat into MFP
    get a food scale and weight all solids and as man liquids as possible…



  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    imzsaifie wrote: »
    I haven't logged consistently much.

    I have updated myfitnesspal goal and it now says I need to eat 1,700 calories do I then need to burn 1,700 calories a day in order to burn fat?

    If u havent logged consistently then you truly have no idea what your exact calories daily are. Until you start weighing and measuring all your foods ,and logging them daily and accurately, then nobody here can help you to see where you've went wrong. You must log everything you consume and must weigh and measure everything!! Otherwise, you are wasting your time
  • imzsaifie
    imzsaifie Posts: 10
    Maybe that's where I am going wrong, I haven't been logging consistantly but I am going to do so from now on.

    Thankyou to people who have posted helpful comments
  • ravikrishna
    ravikrishna Posts: 51 Member
    Till now I've lost exactly 20 kgs and need to reduce another 12 kgs. Believe me, fat loss, happens with Calorie deficit and calorie deficit only. Out of this 20kgs lost, much of the time, I never hit any gym and just control my food intake, even though, I don't count the calories now. I've come from 38" size jeans to 30" size jeans now.
  • scottacular
    scottacular Posts: 597 Member
    imzsaifie wrote: »
    i am really struggling to loose body fat around my lower stomach and hips!

    I go to the gym 4-5 days a week and do an hour workout which includes HiTT cardio and weight training I also do yoga twice a week! I eat sensibly in the week concentrating on my sugar intake. On the weekends I am not a cautious, I do drink alcohol nearly every weekend although I did just give up alcohol for 40 days for lent!

    I am seeing no changes on my body and I still have body fat that I need to shift! Where am I going wrong?
    Help!!!

    Hi there (I'm trying to start off by being nice, this is difficult for me),

    I'm just going to cover some key points here:

    1) You can't spot reduce where the fat comes off your body, you can only reduce it in general and eventually everything evens itself out.

    2) Quantity of gym sessions isn't as important as quality, in fact the better your gym sessions are generally the less time you need to spend there. But going there almost every day isn't a negative, just a thought.

    3) Sugar intake is irrelevant, macros intake is vital. You need to figure out how many carbs, fats and protein your body needs to function efficiently to burn fat. Eating 'sensibly' is overly vague, you need to know exactly how much of everything you are taking in. A calorie deficit is key, also eating plenty of fibre and drinking lots of water helps your body to...shift things.

    4) The alcohol will more than likely be having a negative impact, it does tend to have a lot of calories for zero nutritional value. I'm not saying give it up, but you may need to moderate your intake.
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