30 days and zero weightloss? Help

I've made my diary public for anyone wanting to help.

I'm 26 years old
Height of 175cm
Weight of 75kg

psuLemon wrote: »

manuel_kasko wrote: »

Hey everyone,

So I've been logging and tracking for about 30 days or so now and I haven't achieved any weight loss. I've been sitting steady at between 74.5-75kg

Recently I started taking some fat burner (Optiburn) to see if that helps. It's only been a week using that and still nothing.

My average over the week is around 7500kj. I've had a couple of days where I didn't track because of the meals I was eating out but I kept it reasonable.

I regularly go to the gym and do weight training, around 3-4 days a week. Could it be that I'm gaining muscle just as fast as I'm losing the weight? I didn't think that was possible when eating in a deficit.

First, drop the fat burner. They are worthless. Second, no you won't be gaining as much muscle as fat. Even in a surplus with a good progressive overload program, are males limited to around 2 lbs per month. At 1800 calories, I'd highly doubt you would gain much if any muscle.


Third, are you using a food scale? How many unlogged days are we talking?

Yes a food scale and scanning anything that's packaged. Most of my dinners are pre packed meals with nutrition information on them.

Unlogged days would be about 2-3 over the past 30-35 days. However they haven't been days full of cheat meals or anything like that.

Breakfast has pretty much consisted of bread and cottage cheese or bread and eggs. Weighted and scanned.

Lunch has had a mix of packaged meals and home made. Again those were weighted and scanned.

Dinner as mentioned has been nearly always pre packed or simple easy weighted stuff.

cerise_noir wrote: »

Diary is still closed, sorry!
*at the time this was posted.

At the time of my original post, I had made it public. Maybe it takes a little while to take effect?

I just checked and it's still showing as public on my end. Hopefully it will change for you soon

quiksylver296 wrote: »

Are you exercising and eating back those calories? All of them, or a portion of them?

Not tracking the exercise because I mainly do weights and not cardio. From my understanding the app can't track burnt calories from weight training due to there being too many variations.

My work is fairly sedate, sitting at a desk all day and moving computers around the office etc every now and then throughout the day (Gov IT support)

The app originally gave me a goal of around 1500cal due to the sedate job setting. So I upped it myself to 1750 due to factoring in that I'm going to be working out 3-4 days a week and that would go untracked.

Online calculators put my maintenance at 2200 calories. So I'm currently eating in a 500 calorie deficit.

StaciMarie1974 wrote: »

Diary still closed.

Go to settings. Go to Diary Settings. Scroll to bottom, choose Public for Diary Sharing.

For things you are scanning, are you weighing them also? Package contents can be off by 20% and still meet FDA guidelines. I buy low cal bread that is supposed to be 2 slices = 41 grams and 2 slices is usually 45-49 grams. Just an example.

As mentioned, I'm checked the diary settings 2x now and it's still showing as public for me. Must take a while to get it done.

I have noticed some things I scanned were entered incorrectly and so I fixed them on the spot.

However I haven't been weighing scanned stuff like bread. I've just presumed that 2 slices was 2 slices.

I have been weighing and entering things such as oil and butter. Don't really have condiments on my meals but if I do then I enter them as well. Such as gravy.

StaciMarie1974 wrote: »

Are you checking diary settings or privacy-profile settings?

I've now checked it for the 5th time now.
Settings, diary settings, diary sharing (public)
It's been like that since I posted the original comment. Not sure wtf is wrong with it but it's 10000% correct.