Y am I not losing weight?

TresaAswegan wrote: »

tenshi614 wrote: »

diannethegeek wrote: »

Just to reiterate:

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.

Ok, most.of this I do, I use the recipe builder thing and I do log everything, my fiance says I'm ocd about it. I am not always hungry, so I don't eat all the calories back, I usually only eat cereal 4 breakfast and a glass of oj, for lunch a salad or sandwich, or a sub from subway, I use the barcode mostly for everything and I do make sure it correct. I do have stress and a 1 yr old I deal with. But it has only been 2 weeks so I guess I'm just expecting 2 see results right away.

Do you measure the OJ and milk on the cereal? Are you counting all the "extras" on that sub? Veggies, cheese, condiments? Maybe you logged the condiments, but they were generous and gave you double that amount.
And as mentioned, the bar code method isn't very accurate without weight. I eat prepackaged cookies a few times a week, and I used to think "this is prepacked, it's probably right." Then I weighed it, and it weighs much more than the package says.
Many entries come up for "banana, small" but your idea of "small" may be 50 calories more than that entry.
This is where some people run into trouble with eyeballing.. I for one am "greedy" with my servings unless I weight things. A tablespoon of peanut butter? Ok, but I heap it up as much as I can! Weighing things prevents me from cheating myself out of a calorie deficit and feeling like I worked so hard for it.

synacious wrote: »

There was a post on these boards a few weeks ago where a user claimed how Fitbit was so off and gave them so many extra calories that they gained weight eating them. They then went on to state how they'd get 7000+ steps for driving without walking anywhere. Well, duh, no wonder you got hundreds of extra calories and gained weight eating them back. I blame that error on the user, not Fitbit. If you know you didn't walk those steps, why are you not logging into Fitbit and reporting that as driving time instead of whining about how it gave you extra calories and you gained weight when you're the one who chose to eat them? I also see people who think the TDEE number Fitbit gives are the calories you should eat back. People who assume they burned 1500 from exercise when it's their BMR + activity for the day thus far.

Erfw7471 wrote: »

neohdiver wrote: »

twinnermom441 wrote: »

You also may not be drinking enough water every day. You should be drinking at least half of your body weight in water. I drink a gallon of water every single day (well over the half my body weight). Sometimes more depending on my workouts-I sweat a lot!!!!!

You weigh less than 16.68 pounds? (A gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs)

The recommendation to drink at least half of your body weight in water daily (more than 14 gallons a day for most people) is dangerous misinformation. http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/water-intoxication

The common recommendation of drinking half your body weight is how many ounces to drink - I weigh 133 lbs. so I would drink approximately 70 oz.

nostressma wrote: »

Which scale does everyone use to weigh there food

koreangurl wrote: »

Could be that you are not counting calories properly? When I lost 40 pounds with the 3 week regime, reviewyu.com/3-week-diet-program-lose-20-pounds-21-days, it taught me how to introduce refeeds. I would introduce re-feed days every two weeks to prevent my metabolic from plateauing. In 5-6 months I've managed to lose 40 pounds. If you don't know, re-feeds is where you would increase your carbohydrate by 100 percent or more for one day. This will increase your bodies’ leptins levels, which is a fat burning hormone. When you stay in a caloric deficit for too long, your bodies leptins levels naturally drop. This was with light exercise, twice a week to ensure that I don't sit at my desk all day. You can learn more this in depth by googling it.