No movement on the scale!!!!!!!!!!

Are you weighing your food? How much do you have to lose? How long have you been logging and keeping a caloric deficit?

If you're not making progress, then start by tightening down your nutrition. Weigh and measure out your portions. Really push yourself hard in your workouts. Give it some time.

I wouldn't fret if you gained 1 lb over the weekend. Our weight fluctuates from day to day all the time by a couple lbs. Take a step back and look where you were a month ago. Do you weigh less? Are your measurements reduced? Have you been relentlessly focused on nailing down your nutrition and pushing hard in your workouts? If so, and you have not made progress, then we can make an adjustment.

The pound you gained over the weekend is more likely to be water retention than anything else. I wouldn't put too much stock in that.
How are your measurements? Are you gaining or losing inches?
Personally, I've found that when I plateau, I usually need to change something. Either my cardio (intervals, incline walking etc), or my diet, usually does the trick.

I know you said that you are not new to MFP but It looks like you just created a brand new account. How long have you been back at it? And what have you been using to count your calories? Are you tracking weight? Could this be part of normal fluctuations?

Try 2 refeed days. And take a rest from the gym. Also switching up your macros can change things quite a bit. The body is complicated. You might just stay the course and all the sudden BAM! 5 LBS

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.

I f you are being honest with yourself about your food intake all you can do is be patient sometimes when we work out a lot we retain water but then give it a bit and it goes away just make sure you are being honest about your foo intake every bite matters

Aaronee wrote: »

VintageFeline wrote: »

You refer to cups. If that's how you're measuring your solids it's not accurate. A food scale is what your solids should be weighed with.

What are your stats and how much do you have to lose?

I am using whatever is on the packaging for my nuts, seeds, dressings, honey, dried fruits, soups and crackers, breads or tortillas if I eat any. etc
I am 5'4. 37 years old. 146 lbs. I don't have any rolls but a nice layer of fat on top. I have always had a muscular build (since high school dancing for 4 hours per day) and bulk quickly. I have used MFP many times. It usually doesn't take this long to figure out what my body is doing or what it needs.

Welp this is why you're not losing. You need a food scale. Never trust whats on the packaging, the amounts could be 20-30% higher than what the package says in favor of the customer.

I just weighed my bread slices for dinner, the package says 2 slices at 52 grams is 130 calories. Yeah it weighed 61 grams, my 130 calorie bread slices were 150 calories!

Now do the math on all those packages of food you're trusting and just scanning and logging. This is why you're not losing weight. Get a food scale, weigh everything.

Bxqtie116 wrote: »

Sometimes it's not how much you eat but what you eat. Everybody's body is different and some foods may work against you. For me, it's bread and starchy carbs. Carbs turn to sugar which then gets stored as fat. Some people can eat it with no problem, but for me, when I eat too much of it, my weight goes up. You have to go back on your diary and see what works and what doesn't.

This is scientifically untrue.