help! Not losing any more weight?

Give it time. You've lost what? 11 lbs in a month or has it been longer?. :flowerforyou:

Some weeks you will lose. Some you won't. There might even be weeks you gain a bit (TOM water retention is always fun).

Just be patient.

How long has it been since you lost weight? 11 pounds in a month is amazing progress. You can't expect that to be the norm, as a lot of the initial loss is water weight. Your losses now should be about .5-1 pound per week since you're at a low weight barring your height.

smithac96 wrote: »

@bpetrosky Im 5'3 and my goal weight is 120. I usually eat most my calories, however after my workouts sometimes at the end of the day when I complete my log it tells me Im under
@Liftng4Lis I use size charts to determine most of my portions (size of a 3 oz steak, etc) I measure other things such as fruit and veggies in measuring cups
@editorgrrl only .5 a week? Originally I set my goal at 2 per week

2lb/week would be way too aggressive for you, that's for people that are very overweight. Once you're a healthy weight, 0.5-1lb/week is a good goal.

If you're not weighing your food, you may be eating a lot more than you think. Try weighing the portions you would have eaten for a few days and see how many calories you're actually eating, it's probably a lot more than 1000-1200.

Ironmaiden4life wrote: »

Without know your stats my bet is you've successfully managed to put your metabolism in the crapper.

Me precise thought. Why why why do people always try to eat as little as they possibly can?

Ironmaiden4life wrote: »

smithac96 wrote: »

Hello, this past month I've started adjusting my diet and easily went from 140 to 134. I added in some exercise and now am at 129. However I can't seem to get any further. I log anywhere from 1,000-1,200 calories on here and workout 5-6 days/week. I also have a fitbit and keep track of my steps. I eat alot of veggies, some fruit, eggs usually for breakfast, greek yogurt for snacks, meats, and occasional treats (dark chocolate, dark chocolate covered fruit). I avoid eating too much bread/pasta and my only dairy comes from my yogurt. I dont understand why I can't shed anymore weight??

Without know your stats my bet is you've successfully managed to put your metabolism in the crapper.

You may need to look at reverse dieting for a short while to help heal your body and then restart at a more appropriate intake for your goals.

I second this possibility, especially if you're not eating back your exercise calories. It's a strange paradox that you have to sometimes eat more to lose weight, but if you don't eat enough to maintain your body, your body will rebel.

i have lost 51lbs in around 20 months. my loss has slowed but i am around 15lbs from where i should be. i am noticing i have to be really accurate in weighing and activity or i stay where i am. i have been at 145 for around a month now after losing 4lbs. it seems to be this way. my target is .5lbs per week mostly my deficit is around 300 per day which is manageable.

Ironmaiden4life wrote: »

smithac96 wrote: »

Hello, this past month I've started adjusting my diet and easily went from 140 to 134. I added in some exercise and now am at 129. However I can't seem to get any further. I log anywhere from 1,000-1,200 calories on here and workout 5-6 days/week. I also have a fitbit and keep track of my steps. I eat alot of veggies, some fruit, eggs usually for breakfast, greek yogurt for snacks, meats, and occasional treats (dark chocolate, dark chocolate covered fruit). I avoid eating too much bread/pasta and my only dairy comes from my yogurt. I dont understand why I can't shed anymore weight??

Without know your stats my bet is you've successfully managed to put your metabolism in the crapper.

You may need to look at reverse dieting for a short while to help heal your body and then restart at a more appropriate intake for your goals.

A month is a little too short a timeframe for this to happen, I think, but by undereating like this she is possibly on her way.

OP, reset your goal to something safer, say 0.5lb/week, and tighten up your logging. Try eating back half of your exercise calories and adjust up or down after a few weeks if you need to. Also, if you haven't started a resistance/weight program, that will do wonders for your body shape, way WAY more than just dieting and cardio alone.

smithac96 wrote: »

I changed my weight loss goal to .5/week and that shot me up to eating 1600 calories a day. Will I need to up my portions? My portions right now are used on a small plate (not a dinner plate) 1/2 is veggies, 1/4 is meat, and 1/4 is a carb of some kind. That's how my plate is for lunch and dinner (unless I just have a salad). Then my snacks would be 1/2 cup of grapes or berries, a greek yogurt cup, and if Im still under my calorie intake I usually eat another greek yogurt since theyre high in protein. Even with that Im eating when I dont feel hungry simply to hit my calorie intake.

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smithac96 wrote: »

Im confused with logging in grams. Most my foods I log from measuring. 1 cup grapes or 2 large grade A eggs. 8oz of tea. When I make a sandwich I log everything separately. 2 slices whatever bread, so many slices of lunch meat, and whatever sauce. How would I start logging everything in grams?

The label on your bread will say something like one slice (50g) = x calories. Weigh your bread. If two slices is 150g, that's three servings.

Peanut butter will say something like 2T (32g) = x calories. Put your spoon or knife on the scale and tare it (zero it out). Then scoop out your peanut butter and weigh it again. If it weighs 100g, that's 3.125 servings. (100 divided by 32.)

Edited to add that you can weigh the entire jar of peanut butter before & after you scoop our your serving, if that's easier.

smithac96 wrote: »

Im confused with logging in grams. Most my foods I log from measuring. 1 cup grapes or 2 large grade A eggs. 8oz of tea. When I make a sandwich I log everything separately. 2 slices whatever bread, so many slices of lunch meat, and whatever sauce. How would I start logging everything in grams?

Depends on the food:
Basic foods and ingredients (meats, fruits, vegetables): Look for USDA entries and entries without the * in the database. These will often have a serving size option in grams (100 g or 118g or 1 g, etc). Weigh your portion, and divide by the serving size and use that for your entry. Example, a plum DB entry has 100 g. Your plum weighs 88 g (assuming you've already subtracted the pit). Your serving size entered in MFP is 0.88.

Packaged/labelled foods: In the US, the nutrition label often has a serving size like "3/4 cup (85g)". If you've matched the product in the DB, the serving size on the dropdown is often listing only the 3/4 cup size, but you can go by the labels gram weight. Ex. a cereal has 3/4 cup (85g) for a serving size. You weigh out 120g in your bowl. Enter 120/85 = 1.41 for your serving.

smithac96 wrote: »

thankyou very much! Hopefully between this and changing my calorie goals I can get down the last 9 (or maybe 10) pounds!

You've gotten some good advice. But since the advice could generate cognitive dissonance, forgive me for running through it again ;-)

1: Your deficit goal may have been too high, given your current weight. Eating at a smaller deficit (and eating protein at 0.7g to 1.2g per lb of lean body mass, as well as lifting weights) is likely to better protect your lean mass during weight loss.

2: based on your description of how you've been recording your food intake, you have been eating more than you think. In other words you don't know at what caloric level you've been eating but it sure doesn't seem likely that it was just 1,000 Cal.

This implies that even though your new caloric target may be higher than before, the actual amount of food you end up consuming when you hit that target may actually prove to be the same, or even less than before.

smithac96 wrote: »

Update: I have been weighing all of my food on my new scale for the past 6 days and I ate less than 1,000 calories a couple of days. The other days were right about 1,200. Even though I am not hungry, should I increase my intake? I burn an average of 2,000 calories a day (sometimes more depending what workout day it is) and have started weight lifting 2 days/week to ensure I dont lose any muscle mass. My bmr is 1,422.

While lifting is a big help in preventing muscle loss, it's not sufficient. You also have to ensure that your deficit is not too large (because there is a physiological limit on how much energy your body can recover from stored fat -- roughly 30 calories per pound of fat each day -- and at 129 pounds, even assuming 30% body fat percentage. you are hitting that limit, especially on your heavy workout days or days you eat less than 1000 calories).

You also have to be getting enough protein to maintain your muscle mass -- even when you don't lift, and even when you're not "building" muscle, your body is constantly tearing down and rebuilding muscle, and protein is the building block of muscle. I would suggest at least 80 grams a day (.8 grams per pound of lean body mass, and assuming 80% of your 129 lbs is LBM to be on the safe side, although if you've just started lifting and you just dropped 11 lbs in a month on what sounds like a VLCD, odds are you have less than 80% LBM). Some people are likely to suggest more protein.

Congratulations on getting a scale and weighing your food! It's so much more accurate than relying on volume measurements.

I'm curious whether you're seeing any loss now -- you never answered the initial questions about how long it took you to lose the first 11 lbs (although you seemed to imply about a month) or how long you had been stalled before your OP. I just saw this thread for the first time today, and my thought was Stalling after a month? What else happens to women once a month that can cause water retention and mask weight loss?