Not losing weight 6 miles of walking atleast 3 times a week

Are you counting calories and logging everything with as close to 100% accuracy as possible (i.e. using a food scale)?

It also sounds like you're not eating enough calories. How many cals does MFP say to eat?

You need to start logging. Until you do you have no idea how much you are eating.

Sorry to hear about your miscarriage. I would say what everyone above is but I am going to go a different route. Let's say you are logging all your foods and not eating more. 6 miles is a lot every day and you definitely should be losing some weight. Sometimes stress stops us from weight loss. You did just go through something very traumatizing. Also I would throw a little jog in the mix during your walk. Street light to street light. Walk to a street light, then jog to the next and repeat. You will get your heart rate up and the pounds will go down. Good luck.

Quinoa is actually quite calories dense. A very small serving adds up very quickly. (Sigh ...)

Until you really know how much you're taking in, it's hard to figure the numbers out.

Exercise is for fitness--weight loss is all about food. While exercise can help create a little extra room with what you can eat, you can't rely on it solely to create your deficit.

Believe me you really need to track to see results in this type of situation- I had a similar one. I put on 20 pounds after some female health issues and a hysterectomy. Once I was feeling healthy I started walking then going on hikes, doing a little yoga, eating clean, etc. but I barely lost any weight and kept regaining it anyways.

Then I joined a gym, got a personal trainer and did weight lifting 3 times a week plus cardio and my walks and hikes... still no weight loss!

I was very frustrated thinking how could it be I'm active & working out and eating right and just not losing weight?!

But as soon as I started tracking & counting calories I realized I was eating a lot more calories than I should be - with snacking, using too much oil or butter for cooking, eating high calorie foods that I thought were healthy... it all adds up. Also the more I exercised the more hungry I was, and the more I ate so I was never in a caloric deficit.

Do yourself a favor and just figure out what your calories should be and track your food. It will be so much easier and actually work. (Do continue to walk & exercise though, and do more as you feel strong enough. It's not absolutely necessary but it does help and feels great).

mrsghosh wrote: »

Not using food scale but my day looks like this: 1 cup oatmeal in morning , veg salad sometimes quinoa with veg lentils for lunch and wheat Roti and veg. 2 coffee plus 2 snack

Are you logging salad dressings? Adding anything to your oatmeal? Really the quality of the food matters very little if at all, it's the overall calories that matter. I dunno about you but I love salads, especially with lots of dressing, usually 3-6 tbsp of dressing which can, unless I buy light versions, easily add 300 or more calories to the salad. Oil and vinegar dressings are just as bad, 1 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil is 120 cals, so 2-3 tbsp of that type of dressing may be healthy for you but it can be over 300+ calories easily. Add honey or syrup to oatmeal, sugar, etc. and bam more calories. I had to start weighing my condiments to get them under control. I also switched to lower calorie vinegar based dressings which helped drop the calories a bunch. Light or low fat dressings can be helpful as well. My wife loves to add nuts and seeds to her salads which ups the calories even more. Quinoa, at least every brand/recipe/mix I've used/eaten/etc. is usually fairly high calorie but a good source of protein.

Just some thoughts. A food scale is cheap on Amazon, usually you an even find them under $20, I think mine was $24 delivered.

As far as the walking you're doing good with that, keep it up. Maybe walk faster if you want to burn more calories. Usually where there is plenty of exercise, like in your case, but the weight is not going down, it's the food that isn't accurately being logged.