Why am I not loosing weight

Honestly, it's mostly math that makes you lose weight. To lose weight you need to be burning more calories than you're consuming.

Are you tracking your calories? How many are you eating?

billiehart wrote: »

Hi my goal is 1000 calories a day but I barely eat that much and im exercising buy doing my bike 20 mins a day a dvd and walking loads

Please stop eating less than 1000 calories. That's a sure way to burn out or hurt yourself.

Opening your diary might help to get you more specific advice too, if you're comfortable doing so.

These are my general tips. Maybe something will help you out.

1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so, 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 if you don't already have one. 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. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.

5. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. If you weigh yourself frequently, 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.

9. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.

billiehart wrote: »

I did 1200 first week and as I put a pound on reduced it to 1000. Seriously fed up I've been so good

Weight will constantly fluctuate. I weigh daily and from Friday to Sunday I was up almost three pounds, which I know was because hormones. I'm now almost down to where I was Friday. Stick to the goal MFP gave you and make sure you're logging everything accurately (which usually means using a food scale to weigh foods/cups to measure liquids, and being mindful of the exercise calories they give you). If you stick to that and don't lose for 3-4 weeks, then it's time to adjust something, but dropping below 1200 can usually do some damage to your body.

billiehart wrote: »

Thankyou all ill get a weighing scale for food. Do you think it may be something to do with water retention. I'm going to continue as im 5 ft 3 and weigh 12 stone and seriously hate how I look. Thanks for advice if anyone else has any please give it

Yes, it absolutely could be water retention. New exercise routines tend to come with a couple of pounds of extra fluid in your muscles to help cushion and repair them. Could also be hormonal, depending on where you are in your monthly cycle. Could be caused by sodium, stress, fluctuating carbs, waste in your system, or any number of other reasons. That's why it's so important not to judge the success or failure of a program on one bad weigh in.