Not losing weight

Are you counting calories and making sure you're in a deficit by logging your food? Eating good and working out are great, but you have to make sure you're eating less.

How are you managing your food portions (e.g. scale, measuring cups, eyeballing)?

Eating healthy isn't necessarily eating in a deficit and a deficit is what makes you lose weight. (Eating healthy is great for health, but if you're not burning off more than you're taking in, there won't be a weight-loss.)

drosee91 wrote: »

Yupp, counting calories on this app everyday!

Then it sounds like you need to tighten up your logging if you aren't losing. This can include any of the following: making sure EVERYTHING that crosses your lips is logged, using a food scale to weigh all solids and measuring cups for all liquids, double-checking that the entries you choose match the nutrition label or USDA database, utilizing the recipe builder over any "homemade" or "generic" entries in the database, and being mindful of exercise calories burned and eaten back.

Just an aside on top of this, it's likely even if you do this you still won't lose for about a week since you started exercising and your body will be retaining more water. But that is temporary and you would then start seeing losses with accurate logging.

drosee91 wrote: »

I don't eat the calories I burn off, that is the only thing I could think of that would halt my weight loss. I've been super strict! But also the retaining water makes sense, I didn't think of that!

It wouldn't stop weight loss. You should be eating some of them back though if you're following MFP's goals.

Do you mind opening your diary? We may be able to find an issue better by looking at it.

drosee91 wrote: »

I measure using a scale, measuring cups, and measuring spoon. Occasionally I'll eyeball but if anything I put a little less than I think just in case

Do you use a food scale for all solid (including prepackaged and prewrighed items) and semi solid foods? Do you use cups/spoons for all liquids only? Stop eyeballing (unless it is restaurant food). Do you weigh high calorie foods such as butter, peanut butter and mayo?

Do you log fruits, vegetables, cooking oils, condiments, beverages (and additions to them), bites/tastes? If yes, then you just have to give it more time. Starting a new exercise routine and hormones can cause stalls (water weight).

drosee91 wrote: »

Sure! How do I do that?

Settings-->Diary Settings-->scroll to the bottom to change your diary from Private to Public

Tighten up your logging a bit and give it some more time. The longer you do it the better you get at it. It took me about 3 weeks of logging and working out to start seeing progress on the scale. Water retention, as PP have mentioned, may also be a culprit. Good luck to you!

In cases like the turkey burger (I'm assuming Friday night when you don't have dinner logged?), just find a similar item in the database.

You say you're weighing things, but I don't see many items showing ounces. And there are some other days that are partially logged or not at all.

There are a few reasons you might not be losing weight.
1.The most obvious one is that if you're incorporating weight lifting and cardio at the gym....you are building muscle!!!! Especially at the beginning, people build muscle really fast. Go by your body measurements (waist, hips, thighs) and how your clothes fit.
2. Are you accurate in your food. I would recommend using a food scale and measuring cups. Most people underestimate how much they are actually eating.
3. Are you eating healthy and consistently. Remove prepacked foods. I don't care if the package says it's healthy, most prepackaged "health foods" are as bad and sometimes worse than a candy bar. Unless it's a true protien bar aimed at weight lifters, most protien and meal replacement bars are crap. There's a reason weightlifter's (including me) hate protien bars, they taste terrible!!!! There's no sweeteners in them (artificial or otherwise), no berries, no honey, no chocolate. But to get to my protien requirements for my goals, I need to supplement one a day into my nutrition plan.

malibu927 wrote: »

BabyBear76 wrote: »

There are a few reasons you might not be losing weight.
1.The most obvious one is that if you're incorporating weight lifting and cardio at the gym....you are building muscle!!!! Especially at the beginning, people build muscle really fast. Go by your body measurements (waist, hips, thighs) and how your clothes fit.
2. Are you accurate in your food. I would recommend using a food scale and measuring cups. Most people underestimate how much they are actually eating.
3. Are you eating healthy and consistently. Remove prepacked foods. I don't care if the package says it's healthy, most prepackaged "health foods" are as bad and sometimes worse than a candy bar. Unless it's a true protien bar aimed at weight lifters, most protien and meal replacement bars are crap. There's a reason weightlifter's (including me) hate protien bars, they taste terrible!!!! There's no sweeteners in them (artificial or otherwise), no berries, no honey, no chocolate. But to get to my protien requirements for my goals, I need to supplement one a day into my nutrition plan.

1. It's extremely difficult for a woman to build muscle, and it's not going to happen really fast (we're talking 1/4-1/2 pound a week under the most optimal situations, including a calorie surplus)
2. Food scale, yes. Measuring cups, only for liquids. This is part of the conclusion reached.
3. There is nothing wrong with prepackaged food or protein bars if one wants to incorporate it into their diet.

What she said. All of it.

BabyBear76 wrote: »

There are a few reasons you might not be losing weight.
1.The most obvious one is that if you're incorporating weight lifting and cardio at the gym....you are building muscle!!!! Especially at the beginning, people build muscle really fast. Go by your body measurements (waist, hips, thighs) and how your clothes fit.
2. Are you accurate in your food. I would recommend using a food scale and measuring cups. Most people underestimate how much they are actually eating.
3. Are you eating healthy and consistently. Remove prepacked foods. I don't care if the package says it's healthy, most prepackaged "health foods" are as bad and sometimes worse than a candy bar. Unless it's a true protien bar aimed at weight lifters, most protien and meal replacement bars are crap. There's a reason weightlifter's (including me) hate protien bars, they taste terrible!!!! There's no sweeteners in them (artificial or otherwise), no berries, no honey, no chocolate. But to get to my protien requirements for my goals, I need to supplement one a day into my nutrition plan.

No one builds muscle "very easily" in the beginning. Intramuscular water retention is what is responsible for the swelling of muscles in the beginning.