My weight is frozen or something

How long have you been at this? The human body is not a static thing. It takes time, it dips up and down, you eat too much salt one day and gain 3 pounds on the scale but drink a lot of water the next day and are down 4 pounds on the scale and maybe you were on your feet a while one day and that swelled them up a little or maybe the scale is on a slight incline on your bathroom floor because you kicked it when getting out of the shower -

The point is that small changes one way or the other, say within 2-5 pounds, are bound to happen for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with weight loss. It doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. It just means you have a body.

And one thing I've found that helps, especially in the beginning, is to pay more attention to inches lost rather than pounds loss. My first month I lost only 5 pounds but 6 inches overall. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt and hang in there. If you continue to do the right thing, the next right thing will happen.

MyOnlyNara wrote: »

quirkytizzy wrote: »

How long have you been at this? The human body is not a static thing. It takes time, it dips up and down, you eat too much salt one day and gain 3 pounds on the scale but drink a lot of water the next day and are down 4 pounds on the scale and maybe you were on your feet a while one day and that swelled them up a little or maybe the scale is on a slight incline on your bathroom floor because you kicked it when getting out of the shower -

The point is that small changes one way or the other, say within 2-5 pounds, are bound to happen for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with weight loss. It doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. It just means you have a body.

And one thing I've found that helps, especially in the beginning, is to pay more attention to inches lost rather than pounds loss. My first month I lost only 5 pounds but 6 inches overall. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt and hang in there. If you continue to do the right thing, the next right thing will happen.

I've been doing this for almost 30 days now...Started late last month. I was happy to see numbers go down on scale...but the past few days it just froze. Anyway, thanks for your response. appreciate it.

A month and you lost 14 pounds? You might want to up the calories so you don't lose so quickly because you risk losing muscle mass as well.

You are eating too few calories. A male should eat 1500 a day at least. Less and you run the risk of illness, poor hair and nail growth, and an excess loss of muscle.
You should also be eating back at least 50% of your calories burnt through exercise.

With between 30-40lb to lose 1-1.5 lb a week is what you should be aiming for initially. Closer to your goal and 1-.5 lb a week.

Please up your calories to a healthy sustainable level.

Cheers, h.

It is perfectly normal for weight to be the same for ages days. My weight fluctuates by a few pounds from day to day so ususlly I am NOT at my lowest weight. The main issue here is beefing to educate yourself regarding the wright loss process. I encourage you to read the sticky posts at the top of this and sll MFP forums. They provide valuable and helpful info regarding realistic expectations and process.

Weight loss is not linear. Here's my daily weights for the last two months.



Notice all the gains? Then notice the overall trend.

I also agree with those saying you should up your intake. First, as a guy it is going to be very hard for you to get enough nutrition to keep your body healthy at a lower intake (1500 should be your minimum). Second, your body can only use up so much of it's fat stores in a single day, when you run too high a deficit, the additional energy your body needs will come from other sources, such as muscle. What you are doing is counterproductive to what you are wanting to do (I am assuming here that you would like to preserve your existing muscle mass while decreasing your fat mass).

Have a cheat meal.....a big one cause ur Cals are low