Eating 1200 calories but no weight loss. HELP!?
Errilan
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Hey there, I'm Morgan.
SW:142
CW:132
GW:115 ( Reconsidered with good coaching
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I started losing weight a year ago and got down to 128. I took a break for a few months and stayed around 133. Recently I started eating 1200 calories a day. Mind you I understand that not all calories are the same. I eat clean for the most part ( I enjoy equate meal shake in the morning). I exercise five times a week at the gym. Aswell as track everything through my Fitbit Surge. So, I'm a bit dumbfounded as to why I'm gaining weight and not losing weight! I'd understand if I weren't so bloated and flabby. It feels like I'm just gaining bad weight.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
P.S I eat 6 small meals. Every three hours.
SW:142
CW:132
GW:115 ( Reconsidered with good coaching
)I started losing weight a year ago and got down to 128. I took a break for a few months and stayed around 133. Recently I started eating 1200 calories a day. Mind you I understand that not all calories are the same. I eat clean for the most part ( I enjoy equate meal shake in the morning). I exercise five times a week at the gym. Aswell as track everything through my Fitbit Surge. So, I'm a bit dumbfounded as to why I'm gaining weight and not losing weight! I'd understand if I weren't so bloated and flabby. It feels like I'm just gaining bad weight.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
P.S I eat 6 small meals. Every three hours.
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All that is fine, but do you weigh your food before you log it?7
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How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?2 -
I weigh my veggies and meat for accuracy.kommodevaran wrote: »All that is fine, but do you weigh your food before you log it?
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I've been using an app called myfitnesspal and I was surprised at how much sugar I was consuming, while staying within the calorie limits set for my age/weight. I suggest you look at your sugar consumption. I started losing 2 lbs. a week when I got my sugar intake under control3
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I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
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Are you weighing your food and logging accurately? This is where most people go wrong.
And how long have you found weight loss to have stalled? As I'm sure you have heard many times weight loss is not linear and you need to give it a good 4-5 weeks before you know for sure you aren't losing any weight.
Also exercise can cause weight gain at first from water retention.4 -
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.5 -
I've been using an app called myfitnesspal and I was surprised at how much sugar I was consuming, while staying within the calorie limits set for my age/weight. I suggest you look at your sugar consumption. I started losing 2 lbs. a week when I got my sugar intake under control
You do know THIS is myfitnesspal?! :laugh:50 -
I used to stay around there about three years ago. I'm 21. If it's too low then I wouldn't mind staying around 110-115.TavistockToad wrote: »
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.
Everything? I need a new scale then
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I used to stay around there about three years ago. I'm 21. If it's too low then I wouldn't mind staying around 110-115.TavistockToad wrote: »
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.
Everything? I need a new scale then
Your BMI is in the normal range at the moment. Your goal of 105 is a BMI of 18, which is "underweight".
You goals are your business; but weight loss is slow when you are not heavy.9 -
I used to stay around there about three years ago. I'm 21. If it's too low then I wouldn't mind staying around 110-115.TavistockToad wrote: »
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.
Everything? I need a new scale then
Your BMI is in the normal range at the moment. Your goal of 105 is a BMI of 18, which is "underweight".
You goals are your business; but weight loss is slow when you are not heavy.
Her goals are her business but mfp guidelines clearly state that unhealthy weight loss should not be promoted. A goal weight that is underweight is unhealthy.11 -
It's hard to tell what might be going on without seeing your diary and getting some more information (like how long you've been stalled, how recently you switched to 1200 calories and what you were doing before that). Could you open your diary, even for an hour or so, so we can take a look? Without that, we're kind of just guessing at what might be going on.0
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I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
104 lbs is underweight for your height. You are currently at a healthy weight. When you are trying to get to the low range of what is healthy, it is going to be difficult and you need to be exact. And the danger is you will need to eat too little to get to that weight and will open up the possibility of losing muscle mass or not getting enough nutrition.- Consider aiming for a bit higher weight.
- Set MFP to lose 0.5 lbs per week.
- Weigh every thing you can possibly get on the food scale and log every single thing accurately and consistently. This includes packaged foods, yogurt, peanut butter, etc.
I'm 5'4" 130 lbs. I'm happy here but aiming for 120 to see how it feels. I would be scrawny at 105, and I'm pretty petite. I also eat @ 1800 cals to maintain, so I can eat 1500 cals to lose weight and I'm not very active.
How much you eat is more important than what you eat for weight loss. If you aren't losing, you are eating more than you think. And PLEASE reconsider your goal weight. Best of luck2 -
I used to stay around there about three years ago. I'm 21. If it's too low then I wouldn't mind staying around 110-115.TavistockToad wrote: »
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.
Everything? I need a new scale then
Your BMI is in the normal range at the moment. Your goal of 105 is a BMI of 18, which is "underweight".
You goals are your business; but weight loss is slow when you are not heavy.
I definitely did not know that the weight I was working towards was under BMI. When I used a free app for BMI it said 105 was the lowest of healthy.
I'm adjusting my goals. I'm trying to lower my body fat percent then start really working towards muscle gain. When I first tried to achieve the body I was looking for all I did was get heavier and bulky. I want to be lean
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What kind of exercise? Open your diary if you really want people to help.
You many not be logging calories your eating that you are unaware of. Cooking oils, sugars, alcohol, drinks are common surprise calories.0 -
Um....no
Unless you are eating sugar (found in veggies, fruit, dairy, grains, candy, etc. ) and you are not logging it....then sugar is not the issue.
Calories are calories. Meal timing is irrelevant. Eating "clean" is irrelevant. These things may help you stay consistent. These things may be more nutritious, but they won't stop you from losing.
Being very close to goal means weight loss will be very slow. Expect (maybe) 1/2 pound a week. Water weight can mess with the scale. Unless you have been stalled for several weeks (I had a 5 week "plateau" once ).....but I wasn't weighing all my food on a scale....logging or water weight are the most likely suspects.10 -
What do you mean by that? If you mean that you're overeating sugary foods and that's causing you to eat more than 1200 calories, it could be impacting your weight loss. If you mean that you're eating 1200 calories but that sugar is somehow causing your body to hold onto fat, that's BS.5 -
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Looking at your food diary there are days where you don't log at all and others where you don't finish logging. You need to start weighing and logging all the food you eat to see exactly how much you're eating. My guess is you're eating more than you think.8
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I wasn't logging dinner for a time and found I was going way over my calorie goal for the day.3
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I used to stay around there about three years ago. I'm 21. If it's too low then I wouldn't mind staying around 110-115.TavistockToad wrote: »
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.
Everything? I need a new scale then
Your BMI is in the normal range at the moment. Your goal of 105 is a BMI of 18, which is "underweight".
You goals are your business; but weight loss is slow when you are not heavy.
bmi is not accurate and not everyone looks the same at the same weight. put those stats into mybodygallery and you will see for yourself0 -
I used to stay around there about three years ago. I'm 21. If it's too low then I wouldn't mind staying around 110-115.TavistockToad wrote: »
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.
Everything? I need a new scale then
Your BMI is in the normal range at the moment. Your goal of 105 is a BMI of 18, which is "underweight".
You goals are your business; but weight loss is slow when you are not heavy.
bmi is not accurate and not everyone looks the same at the same weight.
All BMI is, is a sliding scale of weights at corresponding heights least and most statistically associated with illness.
There is evidence to suggest there are some people who are in the overweight (or in more extreme cases obese) scale don't belong there statistically due to high muscle mass ...though these people know who they are as it's pretty obvious and they are a minority.
But there is not much in the way of evidence to suggest it is not a good indicator of health for the underweight. In short, you should try not to be in the underweight section of the BMI scale because it does statistically increase your chance of certain illnesses. Since OP is aiming to get into the underweight section your rhetoric that it is not accurate is not relevant.
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TavistockToad wrote: »
I used to stay around there about three years ago. I'm 21. If it's too low then I wouldn't mind staying around 110-115.TavistockToad wrote: »
I am 5' 4. I weigh my veggies and meat.TavistockToad wrote: »How tall are you?
Do you weigh everything you eat?
Isn't 105lbs under weight given your height?
You should be weighing everything. You're eating more than you think.
Everything? I need a new scale then
Your BMI is in the normal range at the moment. Your goal of 105 is a BMI of 18, which is "underweight".
You goals are your business; but weight loss is slow when you are not heavy.
Her goals are her business but mfp guidelines clearly state that unhealthy weight loss should not be promoted. A goal weight that is underweight is unhealthy.
While on the whole BMI is a good guide me and my flatmate at the same height but entirely different shapes. For starters her boobs weigh about half a stone more than mine so it does depend on your personal body shape as to how low is safe for you to go in terms of weight. Not everyone fits into the nice neat health promotion created box.
That said I'd generally aim for the 'healthy' bmi minimum and see how you look/feel before going lower.3 -
This. You have to weigh every thing you eat, no just meat and veggies. Weigh everything that isn't a pure liquid. Weigh peanut butter, cooking oils, cereal, pasta, rice, soup, salad dressings...everything. Weigh pre-packaged food, too.Looking at your food diary there are days where you don't log at all and others where you don't finish logging. You need to start weighing and logging all the food you eat to see exactly how much you're eating. My guess is you're eating more than you think.
Choose accurate database entries. Log everything all the time.
Um....no
Unless you are eating sugar (found in veggies, fruit, dairy, grains, candy, etc. ) and you are not logging it....then sugar is not the issue.
Calories are calories. Meal timing is irrelevant. Eating "clean" is irrelevant. These things may help you stay consistent. These things may be more nutritious, but they won't stop you from losing.
Being very close to goal means weight loss will be very slow. Expect (maybe) 1/2 pound a week. Water weight can mess with the scale. Unless you have been stalled for several weeks (I had a 5 week "plateau" once ).....but I wasn't weighing all my food on a scale....logging or water weight are the most likely suspects.
^^THIS.2 -
I'm 5"2 133lb, haven't needed to weigh anything except rice. I find I need to up my excercise to sweat. Sometimes eating more one day a week has helped me. If u over exercise and under eat sometimes u don't lose weight. Also lots of water and fibre. My diary is public too. Currently losing 1lb per week.2
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Also strength training eg push-ups instead of lots of cardio helps me look less flabby...still working on it2
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I began weighing EVERYTHING today and I was about 300 calories under the truth.4
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