Not losing weight at all

gpjevach
gpjevach Posts: 2 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I am a 56 year old male and healthy. My weight is 183 pounds I want to get down to 175. After using Fitness Pal for 4 months and sticking to 1600 calories a day and a sedentary lifestyle not lost 1 pound period my weight will fluctuate by 5 lb but it always comes back to around 183.

Any help would be appreciated thank you. George

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  • gfish219
    gfish219 Posts: 5 Member
    edited June 2017
    Get a scale to weigh your food to get more accurate calorie info. It's really easy to eat 2 or 3 times the amount of calories you think you're eating.
  • kcn2bluesky
    kcn2bluesky Posts: 187 Member
    gpjevach wrote: »
    I am a 56 year old male and healthy. My weight is 183 pounds I want to get down to 175. After using Fitness Pal for 4 months and sticking to 1600 calories a day and a sedentary lifestyle not lost 1 pound period my weight will fluctuate by 5 lb but it always comes back to around 183.

    Any help would be appreciated thank you. George

    The great thing is that you have found your maintenance! That 5 lb fluctuation on the scale is normal for a maintenance range.

    Since it's highly unlikely that your maintenance calories are 1600, you are consuming more calories than you think you are.

    To reduce your weight:
    • Drop one of your snacks (if you eat snacks)
    • Reduce your portion sizes slightly
    • (best option) Purchase an inexpensive digital food scale, weigh everything you consume accurately, and log it using accurate database entries.

    Hope that helps!
    Karen
  • size102b
    size102b Posts: 1,370 Member
    edited June 2017
    Digital food scale weigh everything.

    Track everything.

    Measuring jug for caloried drinks. If you drink alcohol that's where lots people go wrong not measuring tracking.

    Carbs how many are you eating as I've aged carbs effect my weightloss.

    Tape measure is your friend you could be 160lbs a size 10 or 185lbs a size 10 scales don't really indicate success.

    Medication can hinder as water retention.

    Hormones ?

    What are you eating more unprocessed food sometime help with weightloss keep you full.

    How much exercise are you doing ?

    Water intake ?

    Sleep ?
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Eat less or move more or do both.
  • Derf_Smeggle
    Derf_Smeggle Posts: 610 Member
    Flow chart to figuring out where we might be making errors:

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