Why am I not losing weight??!

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  • ashleymmc20
    ashleymmc20 Posts: 39 Member
    I didn't even read the other responses, but I can just bet everyone is telling you that it's because you're not eating enough. I'm having the same problem! I was doing the same thing, working out like my life depended on it and eating 1200 or under. I didn't realize I was in starvation mode. I just upped my calories to help out my metabolism yesterday. And I did a little research:

    With my height and weight, my metabolism will naturally burn 1548 calories a day, even if all I did was just lie in bed all day. And if I get enough water, it may even burn 2000 calories. So, to keep my metabolism burning ALL THE TIME, I raised my MFP calories to 1540. That way, all day long, my metabolism will have something it can burn so it won't burn out. It's like a fire... if you don't throw something on the fire to fuel it, it goes out and you have to work to get it started up again, which can really slow down progress. You can go to this website and figure out how many calories your own body burns naturally :http://health.discovery.com/centers/heart/basal/basal.html

    3500 = one pound. If I can keep up with the calories I burn during my workouts and remember this, I will almost be able to track when I will lose my next pound! If I can burn at least 279 calories each day for a week, I'll loose a pound a week. Double that number, and I'll loose TWO pounds per week. But I would have to consider raising my calorie intake a little higher if I were to work out that much, just to take care of my metabolism.

    I hope that helped you.
  • 123456654321
    123456654321 Posts: 1,311 Member
    It seems no matter what I do I can't lose the weight. Drinking tons of water, eating 1200 calories or more. I recently started taking my measurements and they haven't changed much, only in my arms and thighs really. I gain most of my weight in my stomach and haven't lost anything there. I'm just so frustrated, feel like giving up.

    Again, youre not eating enough. If you are burning 1000 calories a day you should be eating closer to 2000 calories a day. Also, it's impossible to gain 3 1/2lbs of fat over night. IMPOSSIBLE. So it's most likely that you are bloated (either from your foods, drinks, lack of enough water or the most common reason.....that "time of the month.")

    Eat more, eat healthy and keep up the workouts. If you do that for a month and are still not losing anything, talk to a doctor.
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    It seems no matter what I do I can't lose the weight. Drinking tons of water, eating 1200 calories or more. I recently started taking my measurements and they haven't changed much, only in my arms and thighs really. I gain most of my weight in my stomach and haven't lost anything there. I'm just so frustrated, feel like giving up.

    Again, youre not eating enough. If you are burning 1000 calories a day you should be eating closer to 2000 calories a day. Also, it's impossible to gain 3 1/2lbs of fat over night. IMPOSSIBLE. So it's most likely that you are bloated (either from your foods, drinks, lack of enough water or the most common reason.....that "time of the month.")

    Eat more, eat healthy and keep up the workouts. If you do that for a month and are still not losing anything, talk to a doctor.

    Agreed. You should eat moar phood. Healthy, of course, but moaruvit.
  • kimmerroze
    kimmerroze Posts: 1,330 Member
    Sorry, I thought I made my diary public, I will check into it. Also, what's the point of working out hard if I have to eat back more calories? What is a healthy deficit?

    Look at it this way. Here is an example

    Lets say that for your body to neither gain weight or lose weight you need to eat

    1800 calories

    well in order to lose one pound you would need to exercise and burn 500 calories. that would bring your defict down to

    1300 calories eatin NET meaning you actually ate 1800 calories and then you exercised 500 a way.

    IN THIS CASE you would NOT eat your calories back.

    BUT MFP does this..

    it takes that 1800 maintainence calories and subtracts 500 off the top for you RIGHT AWAY and puts your intake at

    1300 calories... so REGARDLESS of whether or not you work out you will lose weight.

    So IF you work out it would drop your deficit below 1200 calories which is super unhealthy. so mfp calculates those calories back into your diet...

    1300-1000=300net calories (this is UNHEALTHY! so it adds them back in)

    300 calories + 1000 = 1300.

    1300 is still below your 1800 maintainence calories meaning that you will STILL LOSE WEIGHT.

    Working out is for more than just creating a calorie deficit. its for strengthing your body and giving yourself a healthy heart and cardio vascular system.
  • mangirl
    mangirl Posts: 93
    If you're burning that many calories, and keeping your caloric intake that low, you could always be converting fat to muscle based upon what your workout consists of. Muscle weighs more than fat, so that would explain why you're not losing weight. A good way to check yourself is to include your measurements in your weekly checks. That way, if you do go up a pound (not uncommon), but you lose an inch or two, you know that your gain is a postive gain and not a negative one.

    There is more to nutrition and fitness than losing weight!

    converting fat in to muscle? TROLL, I hope....
  • kimmerroze
    kimmerroze Posts: 1,330 Member
    If you're burning that many calories, and keeping your caloric intake that low, you could always be converting fat to muscle based upon what your workout consists of. Muscle weighs more than fat, so that would explain why you're not losing weight. A good way to check yourself is to include your measurements in your weekly checks. That way, if you do go up a pound (not uncommon), but you lose an inch or two, you know that your gain is a postive gain and not a negative one.

    There is more to nutrition and fitness than losing weight!

    converting fat in to muscle? TROLL, I hope....

    I was hoping the same thing.
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    If you're burning that many calories, and keeping your caloric intake that low, you could always be converting fat to muscle based upon what your workout consists of. Muscle weighs more than fat, so that would explain why you're not losing weight. A good way to check yourself is to include your measurements in your weekly checks. That way, if you do go up a pound (not uncommon), but you lose an inch or two, you know that your gain is a postive gain and not a negative one.

    There is more to nutrition and fitness than losing weight!

    converting fat in to muscle? TROLL, I hope....

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  • Devani34
    Devani34 Posts: 48 Member
    Your going to get a thousand different opinions, but without being able to see your food diary it's hard to figure out what the problem is.

    I agree. What is your daily intake then maybe some solutions could be determined.
  • deanna71382
    deanna71382 Posts: 17 Member
    Thank you, this was very helpful!
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