Frustrated!!!

Can you open your diary to the public? Usually a stall in weight loss is logging inaccuracies.

Pizza and cheese burgers are irrelevant, you can eat those and lose weight as long as you're in a caloric deficit.

Low carb is irrelevant for the same reason as above.

You have the right idea. Weight loss happens when you burn more calories than you eat. Weight training helps ensure that the weight loss is primarily fat.

colganteam wrote: »

ok . Over the last year, I lost about 45 pounds. Keep in mind I am over 400. I have been stuck since about November at the same weight. I will admit I do not do perfect every day, but I never go over 2000 calories. I am not eating cheeseburgers or pizza etc.

I do 90 minutes a week of strength training with a personal trainer. I feel like when I pick up books or talk to people it's all low carb. Low carb gets me sick or really low energy. I am a leader of several sales people and I need full energy.

I need some advice to get my weight loss cranking again. I just started walking a lot more and bought a Fitbit to try and get my steps really high.

All your answers are right here: http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/

Why Am I Not Losing Weight: 11 Reasons You’re Failing To Lose Fat

Are you eating the same number of calories now that you were back in November? If so, it is time to cut them down.

Two methods to cut them down:
1) Simply cut 100-200 calories out from this point forward.
2) Get better at counting calories. If you are not already, weigh all solids, measure liquids using a liquid measuring cup, and log them using verifiable nutrition info such as that from the USDA or food labels. If you haven't already been doing this, starting it will likely reduce the number of calories you are eating. People are generally off when eyeballing their calories, which is fine when you first start losing (I did it too and think that most people should start this way) but at a certain point you often need to tighten up your methods.

I was having the same problem. MFP told me to stay under 2,000 calories, so I just adjusted my calories down by 200. That helped a bit.

First of all, you shouldn't even be considering consuming 1000 to 1200 calories per day. 1200 calories is the minimum recommended amount for women. The problem isn't that you're not seeing a loss because you need to cut down to 1000 to 1200; your problem is that you think you're eating 2000 calories or less every day and you're not. Period.

You said you are over 400 pounds. If you ate 2000 or under a day you would have definitely lost a good amount of weight since November. Not only are you underestimating your calorie intake, but you are so erroneous that you've lost nothing in months. Due to that, I'm going to suggest a food scale for you. It's not necessary for weight loss, especially the larger a person is, but due to the amount of error here it seems like your weight loss is pretty much going to be contingent on it from this point forward. I guarantee you will be surprised at how much more you're actually eating than what you thought you were.

At 400lbs your TDEE, especially if you are able to be relatively active, is significant. You burn a lot at that weight.

You ought to be able to easily lose at a rate of 2lbs+ a week with a 1000 cal deficit while eating close to 3000 Cal a day.

UNLESS

--You are truly sedentary (and by that I mean not achieving 2500 steps a day)

--You have a medical condition that has significantly altered your TDEE. This includes both likely and unlikely options and would best be handled by a lab and doctor and testing if you feel you need to go there.

==> the most likely by a landslide situation: You are not estimating correctly what you eat.

Grab a little book with a pen and a pocket scale capable of doing up to 2 or 3kg with 1g or 0.1g precision.
Record EVERYTHING that will go in your mouth in your book.
The mint. The glass of water. The coffee.
BEFORE you have it.

Transfer it into MFP when you go home choosing verified, or self verified (USDA database, back of packaging, nutritiondata.self.com), database entries.

I've seen people log 1oz of orange juice... that's a pretty small glass. Spices have calories. So does Pam spray even if it says it is 0. and mistakes do happen.

Plug your weight in observations into a trending weight program (Libra Android, Happy Scale iphone, www.trendweight.com or www.weightgrapher.com).

Re-evaluate what your logging says you should be losing vs what you're losing based on the trending weight program.

Talk to a doctor if necessary--for most people it isn't.

Watch your activity. Your knees might prefer that you use a pool for exercise as opposed to putting pressure on them via walking or more intense activity.

shdyldy180 wrote: »

SingingSingleTracker wrote: »

colganteam wrote: »

ok . Over the last year, I lost about 45 pounds. Keep in mind I am over 400. I have been stuck since about November at the same weight. I will admit I do not do perfect every day, but I never go over 2000 calories. I am not eating cheeseburgers or pizza etc.

I do 90 minutes a week of strength training with a personal trainer. I feel like when I pick up books or talk to people it's all low carb. Low carb gets me sick or really low energy. I am a leader of several sales people and I need full energy.

I need some advice to get my weight loss cranking again. I just started walking a lot more and bought a Fitbit to try and get my steps really high.

All your answers are right here: http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/

Why Am I Not Losing Weight: 11 Reasons You’re Failing To Lose Fat

That was pretty good...

It snapped me out of a plateau 2 years ago - that's for sure. Blunt and to the point, but I prefer that to all the hand holding. ;-]