Not losing weight!

msf60
msf60 Posts: 4 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
HELP!! Can't understand why I've been on 1200 cal. for 2 weeks, measuring everything and I haven't lost anything.

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  • delimanager640
    delimanager640 Posts: 12 Member
    Very frustrating. Watch salt and stress. Add exercise. Don't give up.
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    edited July 2016
    By measuring, do you mean by cups or a food scale? Measuring cups are notoriously inaccurate. Typically when people stall, they are either underestimating intake or overestimating exercise.

    It should be noted that 2 weeks is not long in regards to weight loss. If there isn't a change within 6 weeks, that's when you start to look at inaccuracies.
  • fatoomalrowaiei
    fatoomalrowaiei Posts: 95 Member
    If you are exercising you might be gaining muscles. For me personally i just look at my body if it changed or not and not check my weight. But yeah either muscles or you are not looking at the nutrition of your food well
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    fatoomalrowaiei wrote: »
    If you are exercising you might be gaining muscles. For me personally i just look at my body if it changed or not and not check my weight. But yeah either muscles or you are not looking at the nutrition of your food well

    No... Not muscles. It takes longer than 2 weeks to gain muscle. OP hasn't specified how they're calculating their calories. Also, calories are king for weight loss.
    vespiquenn wrote: »
    By measuring, do you mean by cups or a food scale? Measuring cups are notoriously inaccurate. Typically when people stall, they are either underestimating intake or overestimating exercise.

    It should be noted that 2 weeks is not long in regards to weight loss. If there isn't a change within 6 weeks, that's when you start to look at inaccuracies.

    ^This. OP, if you don't have a food scale, get one and weigh everything that isn't liquid, and make sure you log correctly, too. Double check the database entries against the food packaging as many entries are notoriously inaccurate. Log everything always, even cooking oils, condiments fruits and veg.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member

    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.
  • msf60
    msf60 Posts: 4 Member
    Thank you everyone for the advice! I have been using a scale but I also use measuring cups (which I won't be using anymore), it does make sense, it could make a difference.
  • wakkiephone
    wakkiephone Posts: 1 Member
    Eat Clean Food and give 3 hours break after each meal and if u feel hungry in the middle try eating protein rich food like protein shake or 3 spoons of yogurt you'll see immediate effect.

    my meals for dinner and lunch is always rice with chicken and in the middle i make my own garlic bread of sliced bread. and most important make one day of the week where u can eat anything you want but still be in the limits of your calories.

    your body adapts to your new routine when u r on diet so when u eat as u desire on cheat day it makes your metabolism fast which makes u burn fat more.

    its my personal experience so i sharing with u what is working for me. Good luck
  • msf60
    msf60 Posts: 4 Member
    I've only lost about 3lbs. in over a month, can eating about 300 + calories out of the 1200 as late night snacks, slow down the weight loss?
  • SophieSmall95
    SophieSmall95 Posts: 233 Member
    edited August 2016
    msf60 wrote: »
    I've only lost about 3lbs. in over a month, can eating about 300 + calories out of the 1200 as late night snacks, slow down the weight loss?

    how quick you lose weight depends entirely on your caloric deficit. So yeah eating more calories will slow down weight loss, eating less will speed it up.

    Though bare in wind weightloss often does not occur like clockwork. Some weeks you might not see the scale move, others you might see a big jump.

    Essentially you're being too impatient. You didn't gain the weight in 2 weeks, so don't expect it to come off that fast.
  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
    msf60 wrote: »
    I've only lost about 3lbs. in over a month, can eating about 300 + calories out of the 1200 as late night snacks, slow down the weight loss?

    Nope, meal timing is irrelevant. It doesn't matter when you eat your calories. However...leaving 1/4 of your calories for late-night snacks means that you're only giving yourself 900 calories during the day, which is really low (and can lead to unintentional cheating during the day). The only reason to cut down on the snacks would be if it made you so hungry during the day that you went over your calories.
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    edited August 2016
    msf60 wrote: »
    I've only lost about 3lbs. in over a month, can eating about 300 + calories out of the 1200 as late night snacks, slow down the weight loss?

    In addition to what the previous poster said, 3 lbs is still a good rate of loss, though it sounds like you might be eating more than you think. Do you have a lot to lose? If you're fairly close to a healthy weight, it will come off slowly anyway.

    ETA: Timing of meals doesn't matter. I eat fairly late quite often.
  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
    fatoomalrowaiei wrote: »
    If you are exercising you might be gaining muscles. For me personally i just look at my body if it changed or not and not check my weight. But yeah either muscles or you are not looking at the nutrition of your food well

    LOL...putting muscle on in two weeks....really?
  • marleneramirez0412
    marleneramirez0412 Posts: 1 Member
    Can anyone help me out with nutrion to loose weight I feel I'm not eating right stuff because I'm working out and eating less but not loosing weight at all I'm actiolly gaining
  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
    marleneramirez0412 wrote: »
    Can anyone help me out with nutrion to loose weight I feel I'm not eating right stuff because I'm working out and eating less but not loosing weight at all I'm actiolly gaining

    Could you open your diary and start a new thread specifically for this question? You'll get better advice if we can see your diary and if we're all responding directly to a thread that is just about your question.

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