Not making any progress-what am I doing wrong?

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.

Yeah, what is this health insurance BS? If they're going by the (admittedly sometimes flawed) measure of BMI, even 140 would put you in the healthy range. That is so infuriating--there's a range for a reason!

Trixiegirl66 wrote: »

Kimny72, actually I am eating between 500 to 700 MORE calories since cutting out the gluten and dairy. Seriously, back when I would keep the calories around 1350, I had great difficulty in losing a mere 4 pounds. Look at my food diary, and you will see that I am eating between 1700 and 2000 on a regular basis, and have since lost a great deal of pounds and body fat since my birthday in June.

I have no doubt that people have lost weight while consuming gluten and dairy, but from the N.I.H and Dr. Hyman, to the dozens of university studies I have found on line, it seems that gluten and dairy are directly tied to many health conditions, not to mention obesity.

And while I didn't tell the OP it was the only way - I am certain this change in lifestyle is behind my recent weight loss and improved health.

Could you link to one of these studies? Because I have never seen anything scientifically viable that shows that either gluten or dairy can somehow cause your body to defy the laws of science.

And I have nothing nice to say about Hyman, so I'm just going to leave that alone.

OP has only had this problem for 2 WEEKS, she said she was doing well up until then. She doesn't need to cut two huge categories of food out of her diet, she just needs to be patient and let the water weight she has most likely gained dissipate.