5 months of no results

It's hard to tell as there's cups, oz and grams in your entries, are you weighing calorie dense items such as meat on a food scale?

When did you last see a loss on the (people) scale?

You started lifting weights for the first time and you've been training intensely for some time now. Is it possible that you're gaining muscle faster than dropping fat?

Did you take any biometrics upon starting with the personal trainer? % body fat, body part measurements? How do they compare from then until now?

czechwolf52 wrote: »

TR0berts wrote: »

I just took a quick look at two days. There are a number of "slices" and "pieces" and other non-weight items in your diary. Those items really should we weighed, first of all. It may seem tedious, but those items may be throwing off your Calorie counts.

I assure you that I weigh most everything and look at serving sizes. For example, the sargento cheese slices has a serving size of 3 slices but I only had 2 of them, or .67 servings. I also know things like meat "shrinks" when it cooks so I make 3 cooked ounces a serving. If I eat at home I weigh everything, unless it's individual slices or wrapped.

Yeah - you really should weigh those items. There was a thread a couple of months ago where the woman finally decided to weigh the prepackaged food she had been eating and found the weight listed on the package was nowhere near the actual weight - the Caloric total was muuuuuuuuch higher.

One individual item - such as a slice of cheese - being off? Probably not going to be a big deal. But several items? That could easily add up. And since you're not losing weight, that's the easiest thing to verify.

The story about the shrinking cooked meat being logged as 3oz. Does this mean you're eating prepared meals from other sources not prepped by you? I have no issue with this, but since you're not losing you might consider making all your food yourself for maybe about two weeks just so you can log 100% accurately and see how that affects the scale

I hope i never run into this problem .. normally when I don't see the scale move I know the problem .. it's scary to think if you do everything right you may still not loose weight


Good luck

I stopped losing weight when I first started my weight loss journey(I too had lost in the past without weighing anything). I lost at first (this time around) without weighing and then about 5 months in I stopped and I started gaining. I kept trying by moving more and eating less, nothing was happening. I came here 2+ years ago and was told to get a scale and start weighing everything. It was a real eye opener how much food can be off. a slice of bread may be listed 43g for example but could weigh as much as 50g a slice, I was shocked.

once I started weighing everything(I do mean everything),I started losing the weight again. my protein powder says 50g a scoop,if you fill it to the top its sometimes more,a protein bar? said 88g for the whole bar,was actually 100g for the whole thing. its very easy to think you are eating less when you arent. And what worked in the past doesnt always work in the future. I noticed this time around I have to work out harder and weigh everything. before I could lose without even trying.now thats not the case.

As you get older your metabolism also slows a little(its still about CICO).hormones change and so on.just try weighing everything for a month and see what happens(make sure you use correct entries too as MFP has entries that are off). so weigh,cross reference to make sure entries are correct and go from there. if you dont lose anything then its time to see a dr to see if you have any underlying issue.