Why am I not losing weight?

NessieG90
NessieG90 Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone!
New to this and already feeling disappointed.
I'm at my heaviest I've been and would like to lose 1/2-1 stone.

I have been doing Jillian michaels body revolution for 3 weeks now working out 6 days a week, a mixture of cardio and strength.

I also have altered my diet to eat healthier. I track my calories each day and try to stick to 1500 calories a day.
My typical day diet would look like this:

Breakfast - 1 weetabix, semi skimmed milk and 1 banana

Lunch - tuna/chicken salad with lettuce peppers cucumber with 1-2tbsp of light salad cream

Dinner - chicken and vegetable stir fry with Cajun spice (no sauce as too much sugar!) or salmon salad and new potatoes

Snacks - watermelon, Apple, carrot sticks, sometimes Special K bar or muller light yoghurt.

Sometimes if I am under my calorie count I will have less healthy food like a breakfast biscuit or even sometimes a magnum! But this isn't often as I'm trying hard to stick to this.

I thought I may have seen a slight decrease in weight but it's just nothing.

Any tips?

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,147 Member
    With only 7 pounds to go, logging needs to be pretty tight. Can you open your diary? Are you using a food scale?
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Exercise is for fitness, but weight loss happens when you follow a calorie deficit. If you aren't losing weight, you are eating too many calories.
    Buy a digital food scale and weigh all of your solid foods, measure all your liquids. You'll be surprised how far off you can be on calorie counts. Eating smaller portions of foods you like will still get you under your calorie deficit, and you will lose weight.

    Also read the first post in this thread: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1235566-so-you-re-new-here
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    Considering you've added exercise in the past few weeks, and appear to have a reasonable (guessing, based on no other data than 1500 Cals/day) deficit, I'm going to go ahead and guess that you're retaining water, which may mask "real" (aka, fat) loss.

    Of course, it may be that you're underestimating your intake, but working out 6 days a week, at around 1500 Cals/day? Probably not unless you're really far off with your logging.
  • NessieG90
    NessieG90 Posts: 3 Member
    Okay thanks for the advice. I will try weighing everything and see how I go.
  • NessieG90
    NessieG90 Posts: 3 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
    Considering you've added exercise in the past few weeks, and appear to have a reasonable (guessing, based on no other data than 1500 Cals/day) deficit, I'm going to go ahead and guess that you're retaining water, which may mask "real" (aka, fat) loss.

    Of course, it may be that you're underestimating your intake, but working out 6 days a week, at around 1500 Cals/day? Probably not unless you're really far off with your logging.

    I log everything after I've eaten it just to make sure I am on track but maybe as I'm not weighing everything I'm possibly off with the calories?

    I must admit my water intake is ridiculously low. I could try and increase this to see if that helps.
  • SaffronSunrise
    SaffronSunrise Posts: 182 Member
    It's sooo easy to get off track if you're not weighing. I would be a mess if anything happened to my scale & am thinking of getting a back-up in case something happens to this one.
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