Been counting calories for over 50 days and nothing.

I would suggest you visiting your doctor before moving forward. It could be your thyroid.

double post. sorry

Visiting your food diary, just observing a few days....I think you should try watching portions. Replace more of the heavy/high calorie choices with healthier/low calorie ones.

If you're drinking water and not logging it, great. But if you're NOT drinking any water. Give it a go! Give your body what it needs so it won't be inclined to retain every drop, fearing it will never be replaced.

Just my suggestions....hope either or both will help :drinker:

I'm hypothyroid and it's sooo frustrating! I am 'stuck' as well and am thinking that perhaps my meds need an adjustment again since I have lost a bit of weight. For now tho, I continue to exercise each day and try to eat healthy, hoping one of these days my metabolism will kick in again. Hang in there, it just may take some time, if you do have a thyroid issue. Don't get frustrated by reading other posts by some who seem to lose much quicker. Ive learned it's quite a feat to lose ANY weight with thyroid problems, our one pound may be equivalent to someone elses five lbs:) good luck you'll get there!

It may be something medical and that you should consult your doctor. It could be your thyroids but we can't say for sure until you get it checked out. Doctors are real supportive for those who are trying to lose weight. You might need to get some test done etc Hopefully with some results he/she can steer you into the right direction. Thumbs up for starting. There are people here who will support you, so keep us posted on your progress.

Breeze4ever888

I agree that more fresh, clean, whole foods and water could help. However, if your net calories are on target for 50 days I would think you'd see SOME change. I would also suggest seeing a doctor.
If there is nothing medical going on, maybe try switching things up and confusing your body a bit. I did 3 weeks of high protein/ high fat/ extremely low carbs (like atkins) with only daily activity for exercise (I am very active though). Then I went back to my normal, healthyish diet, just counting calories, and reintroduced daily workouts. I dropped 2 pant sizes in 5 weeks! (Oddly, I have only "lost" 6 pounds, but the new pants don't lie!)

I would def get yoursefl checked out at the Dr's as almost 2 months and no loss at all sounds a bit odd... Provided that you have been sticking to the plan of course.

Little things like milk in tea / coffee / a small glass of OJ/ Olive Oil to cook your lean meat / dressings on salad etc.. all add up and if you are not logging things like this then you could be taking more calories than you think?

Also a few days being really under goal then a day being quite over goal isn't really condusive. It just means you are confusing your body. Weightloss is all about perserverance and stability.

I try to be consistently within 100 cals of my goal each day.

Also you have to think about the type of foods you eat - I could have fast food every day and keep myself under my daily allowance but I wouldn't be healthy?

Booze is anothe factor, I love my wine but I try to drink very occasionally now as it creates water weight (also if I drinkt oo much it makes me hungry and I get terrible hang over munchies the next day!)

one of the tabs on this site is labeled FOOD, within the FOOD tab is a tab labeled RECIPES. The recipe tool is awesome it allows you to enter all your ingredients and gives you back the nutritional breakdown. Its very helpful.

I would urge you to monitor your sodium, drop one of the other things you monitor....maybe fiber (if you eat whole grains and lots of fruits and veggies you're probably doing well with your fiber anyway). The MFP site sets your sodium "goal" as 2,500 mg/day. This should really be considered the very most outer limit. Most professionals advise you to consume no more that 1,500 mg/day of sodium! To do that you really need to avoid processed foods and learn to make your own from fresh ingredients.

You may want to do a search on this site for "clean eating". It will bring you many threads where how to eat clean is discussed. One of the main ideas is to eliminate as much as possible refined carbs such as white flour, white bread, white rice, white pasta and anything with added sugar(s). These refined foods are void of most nutritional value and take up way to much space in a diet that is calorie restricted.

good luck and happy eating!

Your breakfasts are not great - try fruit and plain yogurt or oats/meusli and I agree with the water v alcohol intake. you actually need water to metabolise fat from your body - I wouls also focus more on trying to eat your 5 a day....fruit is very good for you

good luck I hope you soon see results

It's really only possible to be one or two things.

1) Thyroid. See your doctor. If it's not that...

2) You are eating more calories than you think you are eating and/or burning less calories than you think you are burning for maintenance and exercise.

For me, it was number 2. I started out the diet in November, and didnt lose squat for 2 months. This was largely due to me being so haphazard about my calorie counting, and using too much guesswork and not enough real COUNTING. By January, I was actually weighing all my portions and being pretty nazi about making sure I counted literally EVERYTHING I put in my mouth (down to the 1 calorie tic-tac)....and I bout a 23/7 monitor so I know exactly how many calories I burn every day. Weight has been flying off like clockwork since, was 305 in December, I'm 238 today. Heck, at this point I dont even think about logging my calories, it's just something I do on auto-pilot. The hardest part for me was a couple months ago when I made the transition from myfitnesspal's food database to bodymedia's database & software, because MFP's database is clearly superior but I need to use BM's for their tracking/reporting with my monitor. I weigh once a week, and before I do I always sit down and count out how many calories I've eaten vs. how many I've burned in the days since my last weigh in, and with just a few exceptions I've been able to guess accurately what I was going to weigh. It's pretty cool.

Keep working at it, and try not to be too impatient. I know it's hard, I felt the same way you did two months in. Go see your doctor and make sure it's not a medical issue, and if it is talk to your doc about what kind of options you have. Otherwise, sometimes you just sort of have to 'keep at it' until you get the hang of it. I know it feels like you are the only person on the planet that has this much difficulty with it, but you arent. We've all been there, keep going and it will get better.

Thanks everyone for the replies!

I do not drink a lot of water, it's true. I will work on getting that up.

Regarding the alcohol consumption and take aways, the past two weeks have been really bad. We've been traveling and food generally results to the easiest thing.

Most of my cooking is in fact homemade. I live in NZ so some of the things I can find the closest approximations to are package things. I do do a bit of guessing as brand matching. I should try to find closer ones or actually put the info in myself for packaged food that not in.

How do you count the homemade soups/casseroles/pizzas/breads/etc other than finding each ingredient and putting it in by itself?

I think I will be scheduling an appointment next week to see about my thyroid.

Thanks again for the replies!

You can create a recipe in your foods and add a serving to you meal.