Stopped loosing weight

aevans28
aevans28 Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Think I have plateaued - any tips of kickstarting my weight loss again ? I've been sticking - as accurately as possible to a controlled calorie intake . Was trying not loose weight without exercise but think I've hit a brick wall or undercounting Cals in fruit !!

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  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    How long has it been? Have you started doing any exercise regularly? "as accurately as possible" means what?
  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    Do you weigh all food you eat to know how many calories everything you eat has? If not then you dont really know how many calories you are eating and if you are not eating less than you body burns you will not lose. If you have been losing then you were eating less calories than you body uses. As your body mass decreases(you lose weight) so does your metabolic rate so you need to then lower your calories accordingly but without weighing all your food including fruit you dont really know how many calories your eating. If you dont already have one, get a digital food scale.
  • aevans28
    aevans28 Posts: 2 Member
    I've lost 12lb since I started calorie control - no exercise . I weight everything I eat - strictly under 1000 Cals per day . It has been working great to this last 3 weeks - no weight loss just maintaining - on same foods / fruit / veg - same portion size . I assumed I could continue on the weekly loss of 1.8lb that I have been doing seeing as I haven't been eating more
  • nixxthirteen
    nixxthirteen Posts: 280 Member
    Under 1000??? :(
  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    your diary shows a lot of measuring with cups. .5 cup of grapes or pineapple, quick add calories, etc. This may work at first but once you lose some weight and you metabolism slows, your margin of error decreases and these type of items and entries then need to be weighed on a digital food scale to be precise on the amount of calories your truly eating. An example is you have an entry for 1 cup of oranges for 62 calories and just below it is 0.5 cup of grapes also for 62 calories. This can be way off if you dont actually weigh the oranges or grapes. Inaccuracies like this can add up and you end up eating more calories than you think.
  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    Oh, and yes. If you were truly eating less than 1,000 calories this is unhealthy and can cause your body harm. Once you start weighing everything and are accurate with your calories do not eat any less than 1,200 a day.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    betuel75 wrote: »
    your diary shows a lot of measuring with cups. .5 cup of grapes or pineapple, quick add calories, etc. This may work at first but once you lose some weight and you metabolism slows, your margin of error decreases and these type of items and entries then need to be weighed on a digital food scale to be precise on the amount of calories your truly eating. An example is you have an entry for 1 cup of oranges for 62 calories and just below it is 0.5 cup of grapes also for 62 calories. This can be way off if you dont actually weigh the oranges or grapes. Inaccuracies like this can add up and you end up eating more calories than you think.
    This. You're eating more than you think.

    Weigh absolutely anything that isn't liquid and measure liquids. And eat at least 1200 calories a day (1200 net with exercise). There's no need to starve to lose weight...
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    aevans28 wrote: »
    I've lost 12lb since I started calorie control - no exercise . I weight everything I eat - strictly under 1000 Cals per day . It has been working great to this last 3 weeks - no weight loss just maintaining - on same foods / fruit / veg - same portion size . I assumed I could continue on the weekly loss of 1.8lb that I have been doing seeing as I haven't been eating more

    Are you under a doctor's supervision in your current plan?
  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
    One thing that can happen with running a deficit of that size (800-1000 calories a day of deficit) is that folks slow down their activity - part of how the body compensates - so the actual deficit (calories in:calories out) is reduced. Another thing that can happen with a very low calorie intake is that there is a lot of water loss at the beginning which then slows down. Between the two, your weight can stall. Also, depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle, fluid retention can mask fat loss. Also I have to add that without resistance training (much cardio is contraindicated with that low calorie intake), and sufficient protein, you are also at risk for losing muscle which can be dangerous if carried on too long.
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