Help ! Not loosing weight ! :(
danosmom2014
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so started my journey March 1 of this year I have lost about 40lbs but since June 1 I have not lost any weight... I even changed my workouts to more intense and longer! I eat lean meat veggies and little fruit cause of the sugar and cheese and water and occasional diet coke 1 x a month , it's been 3 months? I feel lighter but the scale hasn't changed and as of last night it says I'm 5lbs heavier then I was.. I don't understand I watch what I eat and I go to the gym 4 days a week for 1 hr and 30 mins I do body pump walk and bicycle.. Help please give some feed back its really discouraging I started at 297lbs I was 256lbs and for whatever reason now the scale says 262lbs, I need advice and something to help fix what's going on
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Have you been measuring yourself? It's very possible that you may not be losing weight but are losing inches.
Also, have you been using a food scale? If not, it is possible you are overeating. It could always be water weight as well. There's a lot of information missing here for anyone to really be able to help fully other than assume.0 -
Diary is closed so we don't know what you're eating - how many calories of food a day ? Do you weigh & measure accurately ?
Losing 40 lbs in 3 months and then nothing in three is odd.0 -
Do you weigh ALL your food in grams on a food scale so not using cups and spoons
When you lose weight you have to adjust your calorie intake every 10 pounds.
This because your body needs less calories when you get lighter
So it could be the case that you eat at maintenance level
Could be.....
Also fluctuations can be the case.
But if you dont lose for a longer time period ( longer than 6 weeks) than you eat more than you think.
so tighten up your logging
Open your dairy for members here so they can help you out
And you already did a great job0 -
Re check your food tracking. Are you weighing everything or using cup measurements and or eyeballing amounts? Are you recording everything you eat and drink? forgetting a couple of items everyday could add up to a significant calorie amount missing from your logged intake over a week.
If you're deficit was too aggressive when you started then you may need to reverse diet to maintenance calories, stay there for a couple of weeks and then start over with a smaller more sensible deficit. Aim for 1 - 2lbs loss per week after the initial water and glycogen losses and expect that to slow to 1lb a week after a few weeks.
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your deficit isn't what it should be.
re-examine your logging habits.0 -
How do you "watch" what you eat? Do you eyeball portions and figure it's close enough? Or do you measure everything on a digital food scale?
Also, just as an aside: unless you have a medical condition, you don't need to limit sugar, from fruit or anywhere else. And if you like diet soda, drink it. It's fine, even though there is a lot of fear mongering out there about chemicalz that can killz you.
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Look to your logging.0
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I snack all day, I eat I boiled egg and yogurt for breakfast it hen a snack a couple hours later which is some carrots then at lunch is chicken and veggies then snack celery and cheese stick then dinner which is some type of lean meat with veggies and then if I'm hungry again later on I eat a yogurt and I have 2 cups of coffe a day0
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It's very frustrating0
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You mentioned exercise and "watching" what you eat. You need to be in a deficit. It's time to start weighing all your food. Winging it only lasted you so long (congrats on your loss by the way). Unfortunately, you are no longer in a deficit.0
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danosmom2014 wrote: »I snack all day, I eat I boiled egg and yogurt for breakfast it hen a snack a couple hours later which is some carrots then at lunch is chicken and veggies then snack celery and cheese stick then dinner which is some type of lean meat with veggies and then if I'm hungry again later on I eat a yogurt and I have 2 cups of coffe a day
So how many calories is that? Are you even tracking calories?
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I don't really log my food ither but I also eat the same stuff every day0
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It's around 10500
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danosmom2014 wrote: »I don't really log my food ither but I also eat the same stuff every day
That right there is your issue. As you're nibbling, you're eating more than you think.
Why not change your meals here to be windows of time instead? ie: 7am-11am, 11am-3pm, etc? That way you could just log within a window of time, rather than picking a particular meal.
It's fine if you want to just munch throughout the day, but you really do need to log everything you eat if you're trying to lose weight and it's not happening.
~Lyssa
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danosmom2014 wrote: »I don't really log my food ither but I also eat the same stuff every day
Then you are etaing more than you think and the result is you are at maintenance or more and you will not lose until you adjust your intake so you are at deficit.
This is a food logging and calorie counting website. Its an essential skill to ensure you cna control your intake. Start weighing and logging your food so you are at deficit, then you will lose.0 -
Yes and I did log before and I had stopped , no need of the foods the same but got it, gotta lower my calories more, bye how much?0
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danosmom2014 wrote: »Yes and I did log before and I had stopped , no need of the foods the same but got it, gotta lower my calories more, bye how much?
you're eating 1050 ?
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danosmom2014 wrote: »Yes and I did log before and I had stopped , no need of the foods the same but got it, gotta lower my calories more, bye how much?
Did you stop around the same time weight loss slowed down?0 -
If you enter your deatils intyo MFP it works it out for you. It calculates what maintenance is and then deducts 250 calories from that for every 1/2lb a week you wish to lose. Sensible weight loss is 1-2lbs a week.
How tall are you and how old?0 -
danosmom2014 wrote: »Yes and I did log before and I had stopped , no need of the foods the same but got it, gotta lower my calories more, bye how much?
You could be eating the same food, but the portions can be different. I've had "medium apples" be 30-40 calories different, and I would not have known that unless I weighed.
I'm having issues finding the link, but there's a video MFP members like to link to that explains how a calorie deficit can be wiped out by not weighing food. The foods were the exact same, but "eyeballing" the portions compared to weighing caused over a 600-700 calorie difference (if I remember correctly).0 -
macgurlnet wrote: »danosmom2014 wrote: »I don't really log my food ither but I also eat the same stuff every day
That right there is your issue. As you're nibbling, you're eating more than you think.
Why not change your meals here to be windows of time instead? ie: 7am-11am, 11am-3pm, etc? That way you could just log within a window of time, rather than picking a particular meal.
It's fine if you want to just munch throughout the day, but you really do need to log everything you eat if you're trying to lose weight and it's not happening.
~Lyssa
Yup, you have no idea how many calories it is and if you're not losing, it's way more than 1050. You don't need to lower your calories more, you need to weigh all of your food and make sure you're eating the amount MFP tells you to eat, which is never lower than 1200.0 -
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Well thank you il start counting again and get back to u all in a few weeks and see if there's a change, and I'm 5 6 21 a years old0
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So your maintenance is c2400 cals at sedentary.
Enter your details into MFP but it should come out as roughly.
2150,1900, 1650 , 1400 to lose 0.5 1, 1.5, 2lbs per week. You really need to weigh and log all your food accurately so you can guide yourself to those target levels. If you are eating back exercise calories and using MFP then eat no more than 50% of those.0
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