Not loosing at 1500

clafairy1984
clafairy1984 Posts: 253 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Feeling rather disheartened at the moment. Eating around 1500 calories a day and not loosing. I'm 5.4 and weigh 180 lbs. I log everything a day ahead. Exercise 2-3 times a week. Been almost a month and no change.

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  • DeficitDuchess
    DeficitDuchess Posts: 3,099 Member
    Are you, using a; food scale?
  • paialopala
    paialopala Posts: 8 Member
    edited January 2017
    Sounds like you have plateaued, I am definitely no PT but you might need to do 1 or 2 things because your metabolism has possibly calibrated to what your currently doing and it needs a kick in the *kitten* in the right direction. 2 ways of doing that: work in 2 high intensity training sessions a week; and/OR a cheat meal.
    How the cheat meal works is that is kicks the metabolism into digesting the excess calories and resets it into 'high-burning' mode. so the cheat meal is just as much metabolic as it is psychological. Absolutelty blow it out your *kitten* with the cheat meal, you may feel sick & wanna puke, and it's your body's way of saying "um, excuse me but what the hell?....we've only had to deal with brassica's, protein and clean fats...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" But that one cheat meal will jumpstart your body to up it's fat burning/metabolising game and you will benefit results as long as you eat clean & stay active for the other 6days meals. Good luck. Hope you get some downward movement in your numbers asap!
    The high intensity training works in the same manner: shocks the body from its normal homeostasis due to high levels of output. On a low cal diet it will force the body to create energy by using fat stores to make energy available for the body to burn = cals burnt.
    :wink:
  • stylzemail
    stylzemail Posts: 33 Member
    Calories too high for your body height. Try this : Breakkfast - un-cooked oats *oatmeal dry- add apple juice in it and raisins a little sugar. LUNCH: eat popcorn Dinner: Meat and veggies of some kind. NO Pork ( makes people gain weight and causes body sickness)- eat chicken or fish . Eat like this every day . . . Once a month have a cheat day -when you can have pizza or cake but that's only - one day a month.
  • stylzemail
    stylzemail Posts: 33 Member
    No not a sugar crash because. It's different types of sugar.....appke juice is ground up apples- yet it sugar also.
  • stylzemail
    stylzemail Posts: 33 Member
    Popcorn for lunch .... yeah . . There is a true method for fat loss.
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  • spicyginger2006
    spicyginger2006 Posts: 70 Member
    Hi there, I have lost 72 lbs and right around my 40 lb mark I plateaued for about 5 months. That's right... I worked out 5 days a week and never lost a pound but stayed the same. I broke my plateau by running and sometimes with high resistance. Good luck sweetie, be patient.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,592 Member
    clafairy1984 wrote: »
    Feeling rather disheartened at the moment. Eating around 1500 calories a day and not loosing. I'm 5.4 and weigh 180 lbs. I log everything a day ahead. Exercise 2-3 times a week. Been almost a month and no change.

    1500 cal/day is maintenance for me.

    I lose when I drop it to 1350 cal + half my exercise cal.
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    stylzemail wrote: »
    No not a sugar crash because. It's different types of sugar.....apple juice is ground up apples- yet it sugar also.

    Not really. Apple sauce is arguably "ground up apples". Apples have fibre; apple juice doesn't. Fibre slows the absorption of sugar.

  • sammyliftsandeats
    sammyliftsandeats Posts: 2,421 Member
    stylzemail wrote: »
    Popcorn for lunch .... yeah . . There is a true method for fat loss.

    But if I eat popcorn for dinner, it will make me fat?

    Nah...

    OP, it is all about consuming less calories than you burn. You are eating at maintenance if you aren't losing anything. That means your logging is off, you are overestimating calorie burns, and maybe not using a food scale.

  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    paialopala wrote: »
    Sounds like you have plateaued, I am definitely no PT but you might need to do 1 or 2 things because your metabolism has possibly calibrated to what your currently doing and it needs a kick in the *kitten* in the right direction. 2 ways of doing that: work in 2 high intensity training sessions a week; and/OR a cheat meal.
    How the cheat meal works is that is kicks the metabolism into digesting the excess calories and resets it into 'high-burning' mode. so the cheat meal is just as much metabolic as it is psychological. Absolutelty blow it out your *kitten* with the cheat meal, you may feel sick & wanna puke, and it's your body's way of saying "um, excuse me but what the hell?....we've only had to deal with brassica's, protein and clean fats...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" But that one cheat meal will jumpstart your body to up it's fat burning/metabolising game and you will benefit results as long as you eat clean & stay active for the other 6days meals. Good luck. Hope you get some downward movement in your numbers asap!
    The high intensity training works in the same manner: shocks the body from its normal homeostasis due to high levels of output. On a low cal diet it will force the body to create energy by using fat stores to make energy available for the body to burn = cals burnt.
    :wink:

    NO, one cheat meal especially if you blow it out your *kitten*,(and to the point you want to puke? are you for real?) can cancel out your deficit for the week. you definitely wont lose that way,you dont shock or jumpstart anything. you burn fat in a deficit thats how it works. deficit does not equal low calorie either. eating clean whatever the definition is for that(everyone will have a different definition), means nothing. its about how much you eat not what you eat.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,272 Member
    stylzemail wrote: »
    Calories too high for your body height. Try this : Breakkfast - un-cooked oats *oatmeal dry- add apple juice in it and raisins a little sugar. LUNCH: eat popcorn Dinner: Meat and veggies of some kind. NO Pork ( makes people gain weight and causes body sickness)- eat chicken or fish . Eat like this every day . . . Once a month have a cheat day -when you can have pizza or cake but that's only - one day a month.

    ^ this is just silly and totally arbitrary advice.

    Eat pork (unless you have religious/ethical reason not to or don't like it or are allergic to it) or chicken or fish or beef or rabbit or tofu or quinoa or popcorn or whatever - and eat whatever for breakfast, lunch, tea, supper,snacks and you dont have to eat the same every day at all.

    Eat less than you burn - that's it.

    Yes, check your numbers and your logging to make sure you are doing this - but No arbitrary silly nonsensical rules to it.

  • serindipte
    serindipte Posts: 1,557 Member
    From looking at your profile picture? You've done an AMAZING job already..

    Just taking a glance at your diary, some entries suggest you may not be using a food scale. This is why that is such an important part of logging:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnpUYmr0OM
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    clafairy1984 wrote: »
    Feeling rather disheartened at the moment. Eating around 1500 calories a day and not loosing. I'm 5.4 and weigh 180 lbs. I log everything a day ahead. Exercise 2-3 times a week. Been almost a month and no change.

    Use a food scale. Seriously. Weigh everything. Use cups and spoons for liquid only. My stats are close to yours and if I am sedentary, I will lose 1lb per week on 1200 (awful), and 1lb per week on 1700. It's obvious that you are not weighing your food.
    Do NOT listen to anything the person below posts, please. Their advice is dangerous.
    stylzemail wrote: »
    Calories too high for your body height. Try this : Breakkfast - un-cooked oats *oatmeal dry- add apple juice in it and raisins a little sugar. LUNCH: eat popcorn Dinner: Meat and veggies of some kind. NO Pork ( makes people gain weight and causes body sickness)- eat chicken or fish . Eat like this every day . . . Once a month have a cheat day -when you can have pizza or cake but that's only - one day a month.

    Stop. It. Your posts are so full of woo and VLCD cheering it's not funny...your advice is DANGEROUS. What is "body sickness"?
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    edited January 2017
    paialopala wrote: »
    Sounds like you have plateaued, I am definitely no PT but you might need to do 1 or 2 things because your metabolism has possibly calibrated to what your currently doing and it needs a kick in the *kitten* in the right direction. 2 ways of doing that: work in 2 high intensity training sessions a week; and/OR a cheat meal.
    How the cheat meal works is that is kicks the metabolism into digesting the excess calories and resets it into 'high-burning' mode. so the cheat meal is just as much metabolic as it is psychological. Absolutelty blow it out your *kitten* with the cheat meal, you may feel sick & wanna puke, and it's your body's way of saying "um, excuse me but what the hell?....we've only had to deal with brassica's, protein and clean fats...WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" But that one cheat meal will jumpstart your body to up it's fat burning/metabolising game and you will benefit results as long as you eat clean & stay active for the other 6days meals. Good luck. Hope you get some downward movement in your numbers asap!
    The high intensity training works in the same manner: shocks the body from its normal homeostasis due to high levels of output. On a low cal diet it will force the body to create energy by using fat stores to make energy available for the body to burn = cals burnt.
    :wink:

    1. Metabolism runs 24/7. Where do people get the idea that the metabolism needs to be started like a car? VROOM!!!
    2. No need for HIIT at all. Weight loss is ALL about calorie deficit.
    3. cheat meals can derail progress very easily. Once again, the metabolism does not need to be kick started. I am pretty sure OP is not dead as the metabolism stops when someone dies.
    4. Don't have to go low cal. All one needs to do is eat less calories than they need to maintain their current weight/TDEE...that's it.
    5. Cheat meals will NOT jump-start the body fat burning process. Eating less calories than you need to maintain your current weight will cause fat loss if you keep it up, though.
    6. Weight loss isn't about the foods that you should or shouldn't eat. At the risk of sounding like a broken record....." All one needs to do is eat less calories than they need to maintain their current weight/TDEE...that's it." Yep.

    Please post scientific sources for all you claims, please...I'm sure many would like to read the sources.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,089 Member
    stylzemail wrote: »
    No not a sugar crash because. It's different types of sugar.....appke juice is ground up apples- yet it sugar also.

    Apple juice is not ground up apples. It's the liquid you get when you apply an enormous amount of pressure to apples. It has little to no fiber, depending on whether it is filtered.

    And your overall prescription of the same meals everyday (oatmeal for breakfast, popcorn for lunch, chicken or fish with veggies for dinner) is unnecessarily restrictive and won't lead to weight loss unless the amounts of those food that someone consumes leaves them in a calorie deficit. And a calorie deficit based on completely different foods from the ones you recommend would work just as well.
  • clare_harte
    clare_harte Posts: 11 Member
    edited January 2017
    From personal experience, I was either putting on weight or plateauing because I :
    A )wasn't measuring food
    B )not logging properly
    C ) fooling myself that "one more" wouldn't add much
    D ) wasn't drinking enough water or eating enough clean, good fibre

    Readdress and scrutinise your meal plans, exercise,activity level and then get into a routine, stick to it and account for cheat-treats when out socialising etc
    Good luck!
  • Karie2017
    Karie2017 Posts: 215 Member
    http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
    Eat healthier, weigh and measure your food, increase exercise, cut out as much liquid calories as possible and drink more water, get plenty of rest. Cause it's true if you don't get the rest you need you will crave all the junk food which could cause you to cave in to that. I've done that.
  • mactaffy428
    mactaffy428 Posts: 61 Member
    stylzemail wrote: »
    Calories too high for your body height. Try this : Breakkfast - un-cooked oats *oatmeal dry- add apple juice in it and raisins a little sugar. LUNCH: eat popcorn Dinner: Meat and veggies of some kind. NO Pork ( makes people gain weight and causes body sickness)- eat chicken or fish . Eat like this every day . . . Once a month have a cheat day -when you can have pizza or cake but that's only - one day a month.

    NO.... just, NO

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