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172 lbs and didn't lose anything for 20 days

melersoync
melersoync Posts: 4 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi guys! I am 5'7 and 172 lbs. my goal is to be 145 at least as i have aleays been around 130lbs but i would be happy to be 145. The scale is not moving for 20 days. I try to work out and eat around 1300 cals. What am i doing wring?

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  • PishPosh1
    PishPosh1 Posts: 1 Member
    You might consider trying the KETO diet. I've tried many and this one is finally working for me. Check it out on You Tube.
  • melersoync
    melersoync Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks guys but keto is not good for me . It caused depression
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  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,360 Member
    How are you measuring your food?
  • melersoync
    melersoync Posts: 4 Member
    I lost fast at the beginning. About 6 lbs last month when i started now for the last 20 days it stopped
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    I'm 5'7 too. I weigh every bite on a digital food scale and log every tiny bit of it. If you don't have a digital, highly recommend it.
  • leanjogreen18
    leanjogreen18 Posts: 2,492 Member
    You can try eating maintenance a few days and take a deficit break. May help.
  • fattothinmum
    fattothinmum Posts: 218 Member
    20 days isn't long. I've gone 3 months with no real movement, but finally shifted another few this week. Patience is hard when the first chunk of weight goes so much faster.
  • Arapacana1
    Arapacana1 Posts: 117 Member
    I just stalled for three weeks as well, in spite of weighing every morsel of food and working out. But it was just water weight due to ovulation/ new exercise/TOM, and now it's coming off nicely again. Sometimes you just have to be patient
  • klaak
    klaak Posts: 47 Member
    Little_Miss_Kriss wrote: »
    PishPosh1 wrote: »
    You might consider trying the KETO diet. I've tried many and this one is finally working for me. Check it out on You Tube.

    This is just sillyness, the type of diet does not matter, its the calories in, calories out that do, people should eat the way that works for them and will sustain them for a lifetime

    Hey there :) my two cents: not every type of diet works for everyone, whatever the reason is...it's true. I have been eating a clean, whole food, organic, gluten free, low glycemic diet for years and exercise with cardio and weightlifting yet I was just getting fatter and fatter while sticking to about 1000-1200 net calories a day. I tried various tweaks to my diet, calorie level and exercise and no results, just kept getting fatter.

    I also recently started the ketogenic diet (still using organic, whole foods not packaged, processed ick) and I saw the scale move down by day 5. This hasn't happened in over 10 years!!! I'm convinced weight loss involves much more than calories in/calories out. If it was that simple, I wouldn't have had problems with weight gain. Of course, if that works for you that really is AWESOME and keep it up, but it's not true for everyone. And definitely NOT silliness. If you are not seeing results after you've put a good amount of time in, I'd say (from experience lol), try something different.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    klaak wrote: »
    Little_Miss_Kriss wrote: »
    PishPosh1 wrote: »
    You might consider trying the KETO diet. I've tried many and this one is finally working for me. Check it out on You Tube.

    This is just sillyness, the type of diet does not matter, its the calories in, calories out that do, people should eat the way that works for them and will sustain them for a lifetime

    Hey there :) my two cents: not every type of diet works for everyone, whatever the reason is...it's true. I have been eating a clean, whole food, organic, gluten free, low glycemic diet for years and exercise with cardio and weightlifting yet I was just getting fatter and fatter while sticking to about 1000-1200 net calories a day. I tried various tweaks to my diet, calorie level and exercise and no results, just kept getting fatter.

    I also recently started the ketogenic diet (still using organic, whole foods not packaged, processed ick) and I saw the scale move down by day 5. This hasn't happened in over 10 years!!! I'm convinced weight loss involves much more than calories in/calories out. If it was that simple, I wouldn't have had problems with weight gain. Of course, if that works for you that really is AWESOME and keep it up, but it's not true for everyone. And definitely NOT silliness. If you are not seeing results after you've put a good amount of time in, I'd say (from experience lol), try something different.

    There is no way anyone could be gaining weight or not losing on 1000-1200 diet unless they're 4'5". The only way not losing weight at little calories would happen would be due underestimating food intake and over estimating exercise...or not logging food correctly. Been there, done that.

    You're losing weight on keto now because you're depleting your glycogen stores and losing water weight from cutting down on carbs.
  • jdb3388
    jdb3388 Posts: 239 Member
    edited September 2016
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    I was gonna type a long thing, but this saved me some time.
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