Help please, 1200 for 40 days and not a lb!
amyclasby232
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I started my diet and it was going really well, I lost 10 lbs over six weeks and was really pleased. I have eaten whole foods, fruit, veggies, meat etc
Over the last 40 days I am still only eating 1200 per day and only gone up to 1500 on some days I.e a dinner out Max 4 times in 40 days .
I want some advice and not comments like you must be eating more because even the calories in my squash go into my tracker and everything is weighed!!
Help please
Over the last 40 days I am still only eating 1200 per day and only gone up to 1500 on some days I.e a dinner out Max 4 times in 40 days .
I want some advice and not comments like you must be eating more because even the calories in my squash go into my tracker and everything is weighed!!
Help please
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Are you weighing your food?3
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Yes I am weighing it and entering it all in as I go0
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Are you doing anything different now than you were over a month ago??
A stall for that long does raise logging questions except you've already said you do that...0 -
The only difference I have is a change of job but they are both not physical and desk jobs. I've tried to not get disheartened but today is day 40 and I'm not sure what to do next.0
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...OK well you can ride it out for a few more weeks doing what you have been. I wouldn't want to suggest lowering your calories as they are fairly low as it is. Hopefully you'll find you'll start losing again....can you squeeze in some sort of daily workout? Say a 20 min resistance training workout like the 30 day shred - that would help create a bit more of a deficit plus you'll see the benefits from that within a matter of weeks
When we change from normal routine the body adapts but it takes time.( It's a bit like starting maintenance after being in deficit for so long, it takes the body a while to work out how to use up the extra cals/energy.) Hoping that's the case for you and the scale starts moving soon.
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Hi! You haven't lost a single pound in 40 days. Are you working out? What types of workouts do you do? If you lift weights you may be cutting still, but you should still lose inches. Can you give more info as to what else you do to lose weight? How much do you weight and what is your goal weight?0
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I found this guy on Youtube Michael Kory, and he talks about the macros. I have reached a plateau too, and he provides good ways in how to count them and how many calories you should be eating based on your MBR. You should also try to work out. He suggests to do weights and after the weights to do cardio. I do CrossFit, but lately, not much but I will be adding some jogging so I can shed a bit faster. You are probably not eating the right amount of calories and your body is acting up. Google how to calculate your BMR and will give you the number of calories you should be eating. I noticed here, is giving me a low number but CrossFit is intense and those days I exercise, I should eat a bit more.0
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What is your current height and weight?0
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Hey, that is a great start so well done! At the start you will always find weight drops off quicker and then it will slow down a little. Don't forget to update your details as you lose weight as you now have a new weight. My husband lost 20kg using MyFitnessPal and his daily calorie requirements were constantly getting lower as a smaller body needs less energy.
If you have done this and still find you are not losing weight then make sure you double check all your calculations. We discovered small mistakes here and there, and once we added up all these errors we discovered he was eating hudreds of calories more than he should have been. For example, I had the weight correct on one his cereals but later discovered I'd been reading the actual box wrong!
Of course, you might consider having a medical check with your doctor as well. Are you taking any medications that could impact weight loss? Any medical conditions?
Best of luck
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I would go to the doctor and get checked to make sure nothing funky is going on. Then I would switch up my workout routine to something new and different to challenge my body.0
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makingmark wrote: »What is your current height and weight?
This.1 -
I'm 5ft2 and currently 11 stone exactly. I will try adding more exercise to my routine and hope I see a difference!! I don't work out but I'm active, I play tennis twice a week for two hours at a time and walk at the weekends.2
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You should also be taking body measurements. You may not be showing a loss but water retention can mask that, you may still be losing inches off your body. I take mine every two weeks.1
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amyclasby232 wrote: »I'm 5ft2 and currently 11 stone exactly. I will try adding more exercise to my routine and hope I see a difference!! I don't work out but I'm active, I play tennis twice a week for two hours at a time and walk at the weekends.
Tennis for 2 hours at a time IS a great workout as is walking.
Have you tried taking measurements as already has been mentioned? You could be losing inches which is even better than losing weight on the scales, that's what everyone else will notice 4 -
Are you weighing your food?
It's weird to me when people blame food weighing and logging. Nobody is perfect but I always lose when I'm logging and NEVER weigh my food. Granted I do alot of protein shakes, chobani, things like that, but I'm not going to weigh salmon and spinach it maybe it's a bit larger than my fist. If you log everything I find it hard to believe that an oversized piece of chicken is the problem after 49 days... It could be the working out but 1200 calories should be enough to to lose after 40 days. I feel like she's slowing her metabolism and should workout AND make sure she's getting enough calories...1 -
Are you telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?1
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I started losing with 1600 to 2000 calories a day back in December. As I have lost, now I am smaller, so I keep having to go lower and lower calories a day to experience any weight loss. I don't mind slow loss, but, like you NO loss is not acceptable to me either. Best wishes as you venture into more and more added excersize and eventually weight lifting like everyone else here.
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Are you weighing your food?
It's weird to me when people blame food weighing and logging. Nobody is perfect but I always lose when I'm logging and NEVER weigh my food. Granted I do alot of protein shakes, chobani, things like that, but I'm not going to weigh salmon and spinach it maybe it's a bit larger than my fist. If you log everything I find it hard to believe that an oversized piece of chicken is the problem after 49 days... It could be the working out but 1200 calories should be enough to to lose after 40 days. I feel like she's slowing her metabolism and should workout AND make sure she's getting enough calories...
That just means you're good at estimating your portion sizes. Not everyone is. Many times when people aren't losing, especially when they say they're on 1200 calories, they're using measuring cups (which can often give you more than you think) or they're estimating and what they think is 4 ounces of chicken is really 7 ounces.
As for slowing her metabolism down, adaptive thermogenesis takes a long period of time to really affect someone. Much longer than six weeks.2 -
Well, just some thoughts. If I go over my limit on calories even for one day, it takes me a long time to recover. So possibly you're higher calorie days are causing a problem.
Maybe try changing up what you eat. Are you eating a lot of carbs? Maybe try changing to more veggies and/or low carb for a bit.
There was the old weight watchers plateau breaking plan of varying your calories for a few weeks, ie 800 one day, 1600 the next, then 1200, 1400, back to 800.1 -
Are you weighing your food?
It's weird to me when people blame food weighing and logging. Nobody is perfect but I always lose when I'm logging and NEVER weigh my food. Granted I do alot of protein shakes, chobani, things like that, but I'm not going to weigh salmon and spinach it maybe it's a bit larger than my fist. If you log everything I find it hard to believe that an oversized piece of chicken is the problem after 49 days... It could be the working out but 1200 calories should be enough to to lose after 40 days. I feel like she's slowing her metabolism and should workout AND make sure she's getting enough calories...
The problem is that it's not just the piece of chicken. It's the bowl of cereal, the milk along with it, the pasta, the cheese. People are not good at estimating weights of foods.
And oh my god, let's not start the crap about damaged metabolism. This is incredibly rare and almost always the result of dangerous crash diets.
With not a single pound lost, that metabolism hasn't changed.2 -
OP, did you just join MFP recently?
I think you did, so tell us what app you are using as "your tracker" as you mentioned in your OP?
That tracker and how you set it up may be totally different than how you use MFP, so the calories you eat using that tracker and how you would eat using this one may differ..
Need more info on your backstory???0 -
I just use the diary as my tracker on my fitness pal, I haven't used any other tools and when it comes to weighing ingredients I do it all in grams and physically place it on the scale.0
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amyclasby232 wrote: »I just use the diary as my tracker on my fitness pal, I haven't used any other tools and when it comes to weighing ingredients I do it all in grams and physically place it on the scale.
Can you open your diary for us then? We can tell a lot by looking at the diary entries?
edited to add: what about exercise? Any exercise? And how many pounds are you setup to loose each week?
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Well OP you did not come back to the thread.. I did wait and even checked to see if you did open your diary for us.
Here are the absolute only things that I can add to this:
First do you have any medical conditions or are you on medication?
A 6 weeks stall is alarming in someone's weight loss.. And as much as you do not want to hear this, it can be due to eating too much, not on purpose but because of not logging all foods you consume like condiments, butter and oils, dressings, things that make it on the food but are not logged. Things you cook and prepare food with.
Also correct entries from the food database is essential. Weighed food in grams is excellent to use, but also making sure the chosen entries are correct for your food and food labels on all bought food you are using.
A lot of homemade entries in the database and it is hard to tell sometimes if you do not double check them when you put them on the diary.
Also, exercise calories... are you exercising? If you are, how are they calculated and do you eat them back in accordance to how MFP works?
How many pounds are you setup to loose each week?
And if you have not, did you recalculate your goals after the first 10 pounds?
In total honesty are there any cheat meals or cheat days?
Some misc info if you need to look at this closer: For everyday weighing, 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.
Last but not least, weight loss is not linear and if everything is 100% on point, there could be a case where you are burning fewer calories than calculators can predict. Since it has been 40 days have you considered a trip to doctors? It might be worth it or even to registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice as we cannot advise anything beyond this without knowing more about your individual situation.
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Are you weighing your food?
It's weird to me when people blame food weighing and logging. Nobody is perfect but I always lose when I'm logging and NEVER weigh my food. Granted I do alot of protein shakes, chobani, things like that, but I'm not going to weigh salmon and spinach it maybe it's a bit larger than my fist. If you log everything I find it hard to believe that an oversized piece of chicken is the problem after 49 days... It could be the working out but 1200 calories should be enough to to lose after 40 days. I feel like she's slowing her metabolism and should workout AND make sure she's getting enough calories...
I don't think the metabolism is the issue....but working out could make all the difference if she's off on her logging even a little.0 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »Are you weighing your food?
It's weird to me when people blame food weighing and logging. Nobody is perfect but I always lose when I'm logging and NEVER weigh my food. Granted I do alot of protein shakes, chobani, things like that, but I'm not going to weigh salmon and spinach it maybe it's a bit larger than my fist. If you log everything I find it hard to believe that an oversized piece of chicken is the problem after 49 days... It could be the working out but 1200 calories should be enough to to lose after 40 days. I feel like she's slowing her metabolism and should workout AND make sure she's getting enough calories...
I don't think the metabolism is the issue....but working out could make all the difference if she's off on her logging even a little.
Her metabolism is not screwed up. If she was eating 700 calories a day and has been doing this for quite sometime then this would alarm.
She is stalled in weight loss, not loosing too fast or anything else. THere is a lot of variables not disclosed in her OP..
I just can't do another "metabolism damaged" thread today.. I just can't..
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I have same problem, op. For the last few weeks i just fluctuate up and down a little with no weight loss. It's so frustrating. I can't exercise right now the way i used to, and everything just stalled. I eat within 1200 calories as well, but without my exercise there is no movement any more. And i can't imagine eating any less at this point. I eat no junk food at all, and there's no way i can cut back. Good luck, just hung in there for now and hopefully that should pass and you can continue with the loss again.0
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Do you have a lot of sodium in your diet? I don't add salt to my foods but I still get a lot of sodium in what I do eat and it'll mask my Weightloss for more than a month sometimes because I retain water so much.0
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