Not losing lbs

Without any more information on offer the only answer can be to consume less.

However if you give details such as height, weight, age, activity, exercise, calories, how you measure calories accurately, time without weight loss etc etc more details answers could be provided.

Are you weigh all food on a digital food scale
Measuring all liquids ?
Logging every thing you consume ?
We are similar weighs heights but im 47 I'm on 1400 a day I do not eat exercise calories and I walk 1-2 hours a day I lose weight
So your 100 extra could be as age but if your strict on weighing etc you should be losing ?

amandabrookshaw wrote: »

I eat the exercise calories should i not do that and i have started to weigh my food and drink

Try eating about half your exercise calories.

Have you set yourself to lose about 0.5 lbs/week? Is that why you're at 1550 cal?

I have a chronic underactive thyroid condition so my weight loss is slow, but I only eat about 1500 cals aday & try to ignore the excerise ones (just walking to the station each day & some cycling at weekends plus loads of gardening) except at weekends when I go loopy on food & don't bother log in!!, I'm quite short at 5'8 3.4" & weigh an obese looking 190 lbs, i put the wrong weight in when i first joined mfp so it looks like I have lost 70lbs...my problem is that as a vegan I go over my sugar allowance each day & far under on my salt allowance, suggest you have just one day a week when you avoid all processed food..also get your thyroid glands checked out! ROme wasn't built in day & the reason why i STOPPEd going to WEIGHT WATCHERS was because I was there with folks who would gloat about the 5-6 lbs they would loose every week compared to my .50 lb, our body chemistry is different for each & everyone of us...

Get hold of some digital scales to measure your food and a jug/spoons to measure liquids like dressing, sauces and milk. Also unless you are using a HRM you may be overestimating your burns so just eat back half those cals. Also don't eat back most of your walking cals unless you have set your profile to sedentary otherwise you'll be double dipping. Could you open your diary and make it public in the settings so people can find any problems with your logging, it'll be easier to help?

Chances are you are overestimating your burns and underestimating your cals if you are guessing. You started a thread not long ago asking advice about losing 35 pounds by summer and I am giving you the same advice if you have not started weighing/measuring your food properly. x Good luck, you can do it x

EDIT: I'd also like to add give it time it's not been that long and exercising can make you gain temporary water weight whilst you are simultaneously losing fat and can mask your loss, it will come off but its usually best to give it a few weeks. But my main advice is open your diary and see if we can spot any problems in the meantime. x

MFP doesn't necessarily grossly exaggerate the burn from exercise ... but you do have to choose the light/low/slow options. I may feel like I'm putting in a huge effort, but I'm probably not, and so I pick the slow walk, the light and easy bicycle ride, etc.