Can't seem to lose weight

You're doing fine. The one thing I would ask though is are you methodically weighing and logging your food, or eyeballing things. When you are close to ideal weight it makes a big difference.

What kinds of numbers where you expecting to see?

153 pounds, that's not overweight. What do you want to lose, what numbers? Your not losing because your body doesn't want to. I'm concern, have you seen a medical doctor, if not do so and get some realistic numbers. I'm not judging n don't mean to sound so hard , just concern. What do the charts say? Please stay in contact! Always here for you Gayle

Consider dropping the pills and focus on the the nutrition and workouts.

Nutrition - what is the breakdown of the 1200 cal in terms of protein, fat and carbs in grams? How much of the carbs are sugar? Are the foods you're eating prepared by you?

Workouts - 20 mins jogging daily is good. Consider adding workouts that will build your leg muscles, such as squats and deadlifts. Leg muscles are the largest in the body and increasing their size increases how much calories you're going to be burning in general.

Expectations - As others have mentioned, you're doing well. I think you can double how much you're loosing per week by doing more weight training and nutritional tweaks but loosing more than that per week is a bad idea because you'll be dealing with loose skin. Slow and steady is better.

Honestly 1 lbs per week is really good, it's within the healthy range of weight loss. Ditch the Garcinia, a calorie deficit is all you need to lose weight.

Preetib24 wrote: »

Hi there,
I am 5'7 female (23yrs old) and as of right now I weigh 153lbs. I have been eating 1200 calories everyday and have been making sure everything is whole and natural. I also go for a jog/walk every day for 20 min and then come back and do some abs or arm exercises (on alternate days). I heard great reviews about Garcinia pills. I began taking them 3 weeks ago but I am not seeing a great loss. I take them at the correct time and dosage. I also take CLA tablets after my meal once a day. I also have green tea after every meal and have been drinking 2 liters of water daily. In the past three weeks I've only lost a pound per week. Am I doing something wrong? Any advice would be great. Also any recommendations on how to improve my stamina while doing cardio? Thank you!

You are doing everything right! You are eating at a deficit, getting some exercise, and losing a pound per week.

In other words: PERFECT execution!

If your expectation was to lose more than a pound per week, you will have to adjust your CICO equation by bumping up the amount of exercise to create a larger deficit. The weight loss won't be linear (some weeks may be less than a pound, some may be more), but you could shoot for 1 - 2 pounds per week. However, having been there and done that - I can attest to the level of fatigue and grumpiness that you will endure will increase once you lose more than a pound per week. So warn your friends/colleagues ahead of time. ;-) Anything over 2 pounds a week (unless it is sheer water weight) is starting to get unrealistic and not too healthy. If you weighed a lot more, maybe 1-3 pounds per week would be the max. But at your current weight, 1 pound is more realistic and just remind yourself it won't be linear. Remember, you are losing fat, muscle, glycogen stores, and water as you lose weight. You are staying hydrated which is good. I would suggest some sort of weight training to retain as much muscle as possible as you lose more weight.

20 minutes a day of cardio won't do it though if you want to bump up the CO side of the CICO equation. You'll need to bump that up quite a bit more. Stamina increases as your body adapts to the training stress. It sounds like you have done a block of 3 weeks at 20 minutes a day, so that's a nice adaptive period under your belt already and sounds like you could start to bump those runs/walks up to 30 minutes, then 45, then 60, etc... .

Recap: A pound loss per week is excellent - so you should not be frustrated. It takes weeks, months, and sometimes years for people to reach their weight goal due to the time it takes. There are no shortcuts. You have to earn it. ;-)

If you lose more than one pound a week it's like to be gained quicker, also think water weight, but above all, don't allow the scales to dictate how you feel. Do you feel lighter, better? Are your clothes feeling better? Sleeping better too?