Can not lose weight

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.

Keep in mind that 2 pounds per week is the max healthy recommendation unless you're very obese and under the care of a doctor. Aiming for more than that is a recipe for disappointment.

Do you weigh everything you eat on a food scale, in grams?

Some of your days listed are 400 and 500 calorie days? Is that accurate? And you're still doing 60 minutes of cardio on those days? How did you calculate this 1000 calories a day?
What is your current weight goal? Are you within the healthy range already? Still overweight? It's hard to know without knowing your starting weight and goal weight. If you don't have a lot of weight to lose, there's not a lot of room for error - especially at your height. It means one day eating over can wipe out an entire week's deficit.

It does seem like you need to be more accurate with your logging. But even if you were logging accurately, 1000cals/day along with an hour and a half of cardio and weight training seems pretty aggressive. If you were logging accurately, that would probably be a net of 800 calories or less per day which would definitely be resulting in weight loss.

what is your current body comp - weight? BF? goal weight/BF?

If you want to really test it, get frozen prepared (lean cuisine, weight watchers, Annie's, etc) meals for a week that have accurate calorie counts and see what happens?

Lots of info already above. Why are you aiming for 1,000 calories though? that's pretty low, with also working out. Use the calculator and figure out the proper amount of calories you need and get better with the logging.

Sorry for all the frustrations. Since the somewhat guessing hasn't worked before, its time to really figure it out, especially if the thyroid is in range now.
I'm 4 10" I certainly still eat over 1,000 calories a day.

pattysanderson71 wrote: »

And re hunger.... I feel hungry most of the time. Only time my stomach is not growling is for an hr after I eat.

These are the things that keep me satisfied...

Carb, protein, fat every meal.
Water
7-8 hrs of sleep to keep stress hormone at bay otherwise you will be hungrier the next day

You may want to play around with your macros and see what keeps you satisfied on a lower calorie amount. I played around and found 40% Carb 30% protein and 30% fat does the trick.

Oh make sure your carbs have a lot of fiber that helps too.