Why am I not losing weight?

Perhaps it is your intake of macro nutrients. Try to eat less carbs and more protein.
Maybe your body was feeding on your muscles so your metabolic rate could have gone done.

In a healthy person, weight loss because they're not burning fat. The obvious question is "how is fat burned?" The key here is controlling insulin. What insulin does when it's increased is store glycogen in the muscle, once the muscles are full of glycogen it starts to store bodyfat. If you're not losing bodyfat, it's because you have found a balance that keeps your muscles full of glyocgen. The thing to do is, increase glucagon levels... gluacgon is the opposite of insulin, insulin is a storage hormone glucagon is a liberation hormone. What it does it's will take glycogen out of the muscle, and then start using fat for energy. This is fat burning. This is how to burn fat with diet, you can also burn fat with exercise.

What increases insulin? carbohydrates, it would help to lower them. This is your "supposed starvation mode" you can be on a low calorie diet and not lose any weight because your muscles are always full of glycogen. By lowering your calories, by default you lower carbohydrates as well. I believe this is why people lose weight when they reduce their calories.

When you exercise, this also depletes glyocgen from the muscle... which helps liberate fat from the body due to the increase of glucagon.

you've got a lot of quick add calories so it's hard to judge but it seems you're eating a lot of carbs and not much fibre. your fat(15) & protein(30) are low although perhaps you are getting more since there are quick add calories... try not using (a lot) of quick add calories so you can properly see what you're lacking?

you've got a lot of quick add calories so it's hard to judge but it seems you're eating a lot of carbs and not much fibre. your fat(15) & protein(30) are low although perhaps you are getting more since there are quick add calories... try not using (a lot) of quick add calories so you can properly see what you're lacking?

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how can you get advice if nobody has any idea what you are ACTUALLY eating?

log everything as close as you can even if you don't have a label to go off (like a diner with no nutrition facts or something). Just use a generic in the database so at least meats will say they have proteins and breads will say carbs, etc, since right now it looks like you are WAY low on everything and those quick adds may have been junk food empty calories in which case you are malnourished.

According to some people on this website, she's eating "above starvation mode" so her metabolism is high, and she's in a caloric deficit. SO she's losing weight according to some people on this site.

Thanks for your post both of you, you make a strong point.

I think the point about Quick Add calories has been made very well by several users, and I agree 100%.

If your quick add calories are high in fats or sugars, your body will focus on burning these foods first, rather than burning any stored fats. Please, please....try and get away from adding Quick Add calories....the database on here is HUGE so in my opinion there's no need to use Quick Add. Also, if the food that you are eating isn't in the database, just create a food. You'll be helping yourself for the future if you eat the same think again, and helping others too.

Hope that helps.

Are you exercising as well as dieting?

Hi! Yes! Thanks so much for all the replies everyone!

I live in South Korea so it's hard to avoid using quick add calories--most of the time I don't even know the names of what I'm eating, I just guess according to something similar that I recognise. Hmm... Maybe I'm underestimating the calories. I will try more though, I'll add in what the foods look like.

My BMI is 22.5. I'm 5'1 and I weigh 55 kilos. I want it to get to a BMI of about 21. I'm almost at the middle of the healthy weight range, but I think I could lose a couple more kilos.

I exercise every day. Either runnning or walking, and I do weight training 3 times a week.

It is possible that you're underestimating your calories if you're not sure about the food. Do you eat out a lot? It is definitely harder to stay on track if you eat out a lot because you don't always know exactly how the food is made, what's used to prep it, etc.

I looked at your log and there are days where it has you eating 1800 and 1600 calories? That seems like a bit much for somebody that is 5'1" at about 120'ish lbs and trying to lose weight. How is your diet profile setup, up-to-date with your recent weight loss? Aside from working out every day what's the rest of your day like? Inactive, fairly active, very active? I put your stats in my diet profile with a couple assumptions to see what it looked like. I put you in at 120lbs with a goal weight of 110 (just assuming) and it switched your daily calories to 1200/day.

Hi, no I don't eat out much but I do have to eat the cafeteria food (I'm a teacher). A lot of white rice. I hate it but it's all there is... my days are pretty tiring, I teach most of the day to little kids (lots of singing and dancing) so while they're not exactly workouts I do move around a lot.

Yeah, there are days I eat too much.. But I eat less during the week to make up for it. Also, I exercise a lot--pretty much every day. SO the days I'm eating up to 1600 calories, most likely they're days I'm burning up to 600 calories at the gym. I'm not kidding myself, there are definitely days (like last sunday) when I just eat too much.

Before I was on myfitnesspal I wasn't having so many slip-up days...

Maybe this is why I'm still 55 kilos... perhaps it's just the slip-up days keeping me at this weight... I mean, they're only once a week or every two weeks and I always go under the following day but... does that make a difference?

Too man cheat days can definitely be detrimental to your progress, but it happens to the best of us. I just finished off a bag of Reeses Pieces as I'm sitting here typing this. LOL

Do you replace the calories you burn at the gym?

You're logging a lot of 'quick add calories'. Perhaps if these foods were itemised e.g. showing their protein, carb etc. content, you could adjust your eating differently.

I agree. It's hard to tell if you are consuming too much sodium or poor nutritional food choices.