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Do u eat any fried foods or bread or pasta I don't I goes straight to fat now every time I look at food I look at it as fuel not taste and what is ur job like if its not a active job u might want to work out more and u need to eat less calories than it allows u for results and if ur still not losing weight than u may be gaining muscle and it weights more than fat

beccabryan30 wrote: »

Do u eat any fried foods or bread or pasta I don't I goes straight to fat now every time I look at food I look at it as fuel not taste and what is ur job like if its not a active job u might want to work out more and u need to eat less calories than it allows u for results and if ur still not losing weight than u may be gaining muscle and it weights more than fat

A whole lotta no here.

1. If it's been less than 3 weeks since you last saw a drop on the scale, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. Give your body some time to catch up with the changes you're making.

2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.

3. Consider buying a food scale. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.

4. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Some of them are WAY off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.

5. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.

6. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.

7. If you weigh yourself frequently (more than once or twice a week), consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.

By the way...keep a close eye in what time you you eat tour last meal. Metabolism.

peggykirkby wrote: »

By the way...keep a close eye in what time you you eat tour last meal. Metabolism.

your body can't tell time.

motomom258 wrote: »

peggykirkby wrote: »

By the way...keep a close eye in what time you you eat tour last meal. Metabolism.

Since i started dieting i do not n eat anything after 6 pm, is that ok

Meal timing is going to have very little impact on your weight loss. If you like not eating after 6, then it's great. If you want a late-night snack, that's okay too as long as you stay within your calorie and nutrition goals for the day.

bah . . . I just thought of something. By a measuring tape at a clothing store. You might be losing inches but not pounds due to all that zumba.

AllonsYtotheTardis wrote: »

peggykirkby wrote: »

By the way...keep a close eye in what time you you eat tour last meal. Metabolism.

your body can't tell time.

It doesn't need to tell time. The clock is for your brain to see that a couch potato...or a person at rest, with metabolism in rest mode...will burn fewer calories than a body that's moving around...

And yes, I AM aware that the body's metabolic system doesn't just disappear when one sleeps.

Eliza618 wrote: »

How much protein are you eating? Also some fruits has alot of sugar. Adding protein shakes and stay away from saturated fats will help you lose. Eat oatmeal for breakfast with stawberries every morning. Don't skip breakfast. If you could post what you are eating will really help us to help you. Good luck.

Again, where to start... (what is with all the bro science on this threat?!)
- Protein is important for repairing and up keeping existing muscle. It has jack all to do with weight loss unless that is the macro you feel the most full on, then you might want to focus on that to get the most bang out of your food buck
- sugar has jack all to do with weight loss. I practically live on sugar from fruit and have lost just fine! Sugar might cause cravings. If it does that for you, or if you have a medical condition, lower your sugar intake. Else don't even bother looking at it
- Protein shakes are great if you are bottoming out on your protein macro, but they are also calorie laden. If you struggle to meet your calorie and protein intake, they are awesome. Else just have some chicken and get the same result for less calories.
- saturated fats tend to be in high calorie foodstuffs, yes, but there is nothing inherantly wrong with them unless you have a medical condition. If you want saturated fats in your diet, have saturated fats in your diet! They don't affect weight loss at all
- oatmeal and strawberries for breakfast every day? Why?! Seriously, why?! Ignore this. If you want to start your day off with Kentucky Fried Chicken, start your day off with KFC!
- if you want to skip breakfast, skip breakfast. Intermittened fasting is a thing and if you are not hungry in the morning but know you like a big meal at dinnertime (or something), then by all means, skip it! Your body does not tell time. Period!

All that is needed for a weight loss is to eat at a deficit. I don't think your diary is open OP, but even without seeing it, I can guarantee you that you are not eating at a deficit. Weigh everything you eat in grams, log it, log exercise, eat 50 to 75 percent of your exercise back and you will lose. It really is as simple as that. You eat more than you burn, you gain weight. You eat what you burn, you maintain. You eat less than you burn, you lose weight. There is no such thing as stubborn fat. Ergo: start weighing your food honestly and accurately and you will start losing.

Eat whenever you want, don't be hungry. For starters, are you sure the scale you stepped onto is accurate/the same as at your doctor's office? I've lost almost 60 lb so far this year and I eat almost constantly. If you killed all the caffeine in your diet, that might be it... caffeine is a metabolism enhancer. I don't drink water hardly ever (yes, I know, terrible me) but was starting to have blood pressure headaches, mostly from what MFP helped me to recognize was a high sodium content. I switched from diet soda to unsweet tea, which is damn near water, and my blood pressure headaches went away, but my body kept receiving the life-giving caffeine. So if you experienced withdrawals and are missing your caffeine, you might consider tea.

I quit smoking recently and that seriously stalled out my weight loss. I wasn't eating more and I was actually exercising more as an effort to try and get the nicotine out of my system and give me something else to think about, and I still didn't lose any weight at all for about 3 weeks. So while I know that my own experience is unique and yours differs from mine, I really feel that your completely cutting out a stimulant might have something to do with it.

And just to make yourself feel better about your weight, you might want to consider weighing at the beginning of the day in as little as possible, just after having taken your morning poo. *lol*

Go to settings --> diary options --> diary settings and select 'public' for diary sharing.

As for muscle: you might get some 'newbie gains', which is what we call muscle definition from basic use of muscles. This is not growth! You can't grow muscle in a deficit--your body needs spare calories to 'make' them. So, unless you have actually been in a surplus all this time, you haven't gained muscle mass, just some definition, perhaps.