Can not loose weight!

Small salad with two strips of chicken for the entire day?

Was that for Breakfast?

Lunch?

Dinner?


Where is the 1200 calories? If you eat 3 meals 400 calories each, then you are at 1200... and closer to healthy. What you describe is not healthy nor sustainable. No-one can eat only a salad and two chicken strips every day. Maybe for a week or two.

What did you eat a week ago?

A month ago?

You mention the last 3 days, those are just a drop in the bucket in losing weight. You can eat healthy all week and have a bad weekend and all that healthy eating will not help you lose weight.

Open your diary

adriandeno29 wrote: »

I didn't log over the weekend. Was so busy with my two older kids being dancers in a sweet 16 and running here ad there... i only eat once a day maybe twice. I have been trying really hard to eat in the mornings but it's hard for me.

Weight solids with a food scale and measure liquids. Log everything for no less that 4 weeks and then see where you stand.

I'm a grazer and I was eating much more than I though I was. I only knew that after I started logging like it was my job.

Also, you don't have to eat in the mornings if you don't like eating in the mornings. It's not when you eat and drink or how often but how many total calories you eat and drink.

Eat more

adriandeno29 wrote: »

Trust me I don't eat much .. i have been logging my food on here for 10 days and it won't give me a change because I'm not hitting the goal of 1250 calories . Some days I'm only at 400...

I believe you when you say how much you eat. CICO (Calories in calories out) is not helpful in several ways. You have reduced your calorie intake (Which seems really low. I am a similar weight and eat around 1900 cal a day) and your body may be thinking it has to hold on to what it has, so it may be compensating by reducing energy expenditures.

In theory, you should be losing weight, but it may take time. But if you maintain this low calorie level, you will more than likely lose muscle mass and lose energy before weight disappears.

Do you know your macros? (carbs, fat, protein).
I personally am carb sensitive and cannot lose weight with higher than 50g carbs a day, and I usually eat less than that because it raises my blood glucose, which raises insulin levels, and insulin is THE main hormone for storing fat. And it increases hunger.

MFP can tell you what your calorie intake should be based on sex, height and weight and how much you want to lose per week. I would stay closer to that. Your current level is BELOW starvation levels and would make it hard for you to get enough energy and nutrients.

adriandeno29 wrote: »

adriandeno29 wrote: »

smotheredincheese wrote: »

It just doesn't add up for you to never eat over 1200 calories a day yet still be 100 pounds overweight. Somewhere, at some point, you must be consuming extra calories. You say you had a glass of tea, is that sweetened tea? How much sugar is in it? Do you typically drink several of those in a day?

No just one 8oz glass and unsweetened tea

My doc is going to order several tests because something isn't right

Hiyah i think the tests are a good idea, but in the mean time weigh and log everything you eat for at least a month and see how you go. i know its a pain especially being busy but logging is a real eye opener. good luck

Log everything, using a food scale. Even if you are eating once a day, you could be eating more than double what you think you are eating. Use a food scale for a couple of weeks, and log every single thing you eat.

One of the lies I used to tell myself all the time, and I truly believed it, was that there's no way I could be eating that much. I absolutely knew my weight was not caused by the food I was eating, therefore something had to be wrong. After all, most days all I ate was a bowl of cereal. I went to the doctor, completely convinced there was something wrong but nope, nothing was wrong with me. All tests came back normal.

Then I got a food scale, slapped myself in the face and really took stock of what I was actually eating. Sure, those days where I only ate a bowl of cereal, those bowls were sometimes 75 percent of the total calories I should have had all day. Even if I ate nothing else but that, and even if I did that 3-4 days a week, there were days where I ate a lot more and not only wiped out whatever deficit I may have had, but added a surplus for the week.

Get a food scale. Get completely 100% honest with everything that goes in your mouth from the time you open your eyes until you go to bed, including condiments, oils, "bites" of this and that, and do it every, single day.

There is absolutely only ONE reason why you cannot lose weight, and that is because you are eating more calories than your body is using. Medical issues can cause a slower metabolism, so its a good idea to get some tests done, but even with medical issues, calories rule all.

I started at 170 pounds, 44 years old and 5'1" tall, and I could eat 1400+ calories a day and still lose.

Second bit of advice, give it time. Once you start truly logging accurately, weighing and tracking everything you eat, be patient. Start with a reasonable loss rate so that you can eat more during the day and not deprive yourself or feel hungry all day.

Oh, and your body doesn't store fat if it thinks you're not getting enough calories, so please ignore that advice. It's bunk.

it could be a metabolism thing

How can someone not lose weight if they eat like 400 calories a day? Surely the body needs more than that just to function? Even with a screwed metabolism and thyroid problems, someone who is overweight should lose weight if they eat 400 cals a day? Or even if they are struggling to reach 1200 cals? Surely 200lb takes more than 1200 cals a day to maintain weight? I don't understand it.