Can't loose weight even with diet and exercise!
anahdz2013
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Hello I have been trying to lose weight for about two years already I managed to lose about 1 to 3 pounds and then stay the same. I don't eat fatty meats basically chicken breast salads A lot of vegetables beans. I hardly ever eat out and I exercise one hour three days a week. I don't understand why I cannot lose some weight can anyone help?
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you mentioned nothing about counting calories and maintaining a deficit19
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You don't eat at a calorie deficit. Try logging your food, eating at a deficit and seeing what happens.13
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How much of that healthy food are you eating? How intense are your workouts?5
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It looks like you are new to MFP. Did you set up your account? Do you know what your calorie limit is, and are you logging your food intake every day? Of course, I don't know what your goal is or your starting weight, or anything else relevant for that matter, but if you follow MFP advice you will lose weight.
You don't have to exercise to lose weight (you just eat fewer calories than you burn). That said, is there a reason why you don't exercise every day?8 -
anahdz2013 wrote: »Hello I have been trying to lose weight for about two years already I managed to lose about 1 to 3 pounds and then stay the same. I don't eat fatty meats basically chicken breast salads A lot of vegetables beans. I hardly ever eat out and I exercise one hour three days a week. I don't understand why I cannot lose some weight can anyone help?
Weight loss comes down to calories. I see you are new to the forum - are you new to MFP? If so, set up your account and log your food accurately and consistently. Most of the time, people are eating more than they think, I know I sure was! Read the sticky posts at the top of the forums, they are really helpful too. Good luck!5 -
Be sure to get your thyroid gland tested. If it is underactive you will never lose weight. Also some medications cause weight gain or difficulties in losing, so check that our too.23
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I'm a bit confused. Diet and exercise are the only things that make you lose weight. What you eat is irrelevant. You don't even have to exercise to lose weight. But you need to eat fewer calories than you burn. If you aren't losing weight, you have to eat less than you do now. I think you are asked to set up your account with your stats and goals when you sign up. Have you tried logging your food intake here, in your diary, and hitting the goal MFP gave you? If not, why not? If you have, what is difficult?6
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Desdemonad wrote: »Be sure to get your thyroid gland tested. If it is underactive you will never lose weight. Also some medications cause weight gain or difficulties in losing, so check that our too.
While I do agree some medications can cause weight gain, I respectfully disagree with this statement regarding a Hypothyroidism.
As a sufferer I would certainly agree that losing every pound is a struggle. (Like everyone one else. ) Our body constantly fights us for every pound. While it is challenging it is not IMPOSSIBLE.
I do agree however. If you haven't done so already, have bloods done to check Thyroid, Diabetes and hormone levels.
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eat less6
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Yes, I can help you...
Doctors (and people in general) do NOT understand there are some people that cannot lose weight through calorie restriction. I have that problem. When I would finally prove to the doctors that I was not over eating, they would simply say that they did not know how to help me. I had a business partner that thought my week at her house was her opportunity to prove that I was overeating. She wrote down everything edible in her home. At the end of the week, in amazement, she said that I ate less than her. She was 5 foot tall and I was 5 foot 10 inches tall. A kaiser doctor made me increase my calories because I was very tired. That doctor told me that I would die still fat and never lose a pound in the process.
I have now found something that works. It is a combo of 1700 calories and 30 carbs. From my heaviest to now, I am down 43 pounds. I do have lymphedema which makes water weight a problem.
Write to me and I will talk with you. I am not a doctor and will only tell you what foods to try. Everybody told me to eat less and exercise more. That does not work for me.72 -
Nothing like some bad advice first thing in the morning.26
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Yes, I can help you...
Doctors (and people in general) do NOT understand there are some people that cannot lose weight through calorie restriction. I have that problem. When I would finally prove to the doctors that I was not over eating, they would simply say that they did not know how to help me. I had a business partner that thought my week at her house was her opportunity to prove that I was overeating. She wrote down everything edible in her home. At the end of the week, in amazement, she said that I ate less than her. She was 5 foot tall and I was 5 foot 10 inches tall. A kaiser doctor made me increase my calories because I was very tired. That doctor told me that I would die still fat and never lose a pound in the process.
I have now found something that works. It is a combo of 1700 calories and 30 carbs. From my heaviest to now, I am down 43 pounds. I do have lymphedema which makes water weight a problem.
Write to me and I will talk with you. I am not a doctor and will only tell you what foods to try. Everybody told me to eat less and exercise more. That does not work for me.
you're losing weight because eating 1700 cals gives you a calorie deficit.32 -
Yes, I can help you...
Doctors (and people in general) do NOT understand there are some people that cannot lose weight through calorie restriction. I have that problem. When I would finally prove to the doctors that I was not over eating, they would simply say that they did not know how to help me. I had a business partner that thought my week at her house was her opportunity to prove that I was overeating. She wrote down everything edible in her home. At the end of the week, in amazement, she said that I ate less than her. She was 5 foot tall and I was 5 foot 10 inches tall. A kaiser doctor made me increase my calories because I was very tired. That doctor told me that I would die still fat and never lose a pound in the process.
I have now found something that works. It is a combo of 1700 calories and 30 carbs. From my heaviest to now, I am down 43 pounds. I do have lymphedema which makes water weight a problem.
Write to me and I will talk with you. I am not a doctor and will only tell you what foods to try. Everybody told me to eat less and exercise more. That does not work for me.
Even if it does work for you, which I'm sure most people are skeptical of, the OP should try a calorie deficit first. They just made an MFP account and probably don't know much about calorie counting in general. Even you would have to concede that not losing while eating low calorie is a rare anomaly. So, the OP should go the less complicated route for now and just count their calories.9 -
As others have said:
First get your MFP account set up properly, including your activity level. Ignore "deliberate" exercise in this - just because you exercise 3 times a week does not make you active, it depends what your job/daily life entails! So if you have a desk job, set it to sedentary. Then stick to the daily calorie limit.
Next, buy a food scale - never ever measure in cups, handfuls, "average portion", or you cannot be sure of your calories.
Finally, be honest when estimating your exercise calorie burn - being tired after a walk doesn't necessarily mean you were walking very briskly!
Come back to us in a month if you are tracking accurately and still not losing weight
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Hi, I think the advice you're given here to count calories is excellent, by tracking every morsel you eat or drink - if it is calorific - you will lose weight. The best exercise is to push your chair away from the table. It is very hard I know but with MFP works.anahdz2013 wrote: »Hello I have been trying to lose weight for about two years already I managed to lose about 1 to 3 pounds and then stay the same. I don't eat fatty meats basically chicken breast salads A lot of vegetables beans. I hardly ever eat out and I exercise one hour three days a week. I don't understand why I cannot lose some weight can anyone help? 3 -
Yes, I can help you...
Doctors (and people in general) do NOT understand there are some people that cannot lose weight through calorie restriction. I have that problem. When I would finally prove to the doctors that I was not over eating, they would simply say that they did not know how to help me. I had a business partner that thought my week at her house was her opportunity to prove that I was overeating. She wrote down everything edible in her home. At the end of the week, in amazement, she said that I ate less than her. She was 5 foot tall and I was 5 foot 10 inches tall. A kaiser doctor made me increase my calories because I was very tired. That doctor told me that I would die still fat and never lose a pound in the process.
I have now found something that works. It is a combo of 1700 calories and 30 carbs. From my heaviest to now, I am down 43 pounds. I do have lymphedema which makes water weight a problem.
Write to me and I will talk with you. I am not a doctor and will only tell you what foods to try. Everybody told me to eat less and exercise more. That does not work for me.
I developed lymphedema. The kick in the *kitten* I needed to lose weight was my doctor's telling me that weight loss would help me avoid flare-ups. He didn't give me any advice beyond that except for the gem that sent me here. See, I was under the impression that Weight Watchers was the only way anyone could ever achieve sustainable weight loss unless they had way more willpower than I did or were "outdoorsy/sporty types". A previous GP even wrote me a prescription for WW so they'd waive the registration fee (going back about 15 years). But I'm now a freelancer and WW weekly fees are a drain on the wallet I don't need. When I mentioned that, he gave me one pointer: "People do lose weight and keep it off without WW."
And that was it. No 'restrict carbs' or 'imposed calorie limit' from him. No 'avoid certain foods'. I remembered calorie-counter paperbacks and figured it was 2016 and there was probably a website for that now. MFP came up on the first page of hits when I Googled "Online calorie counter". It put me on 1780, not for any medical condition—it never asked. But I'm 5'3 with an SW of 254lbs. I started with that. Minimal exercise. Just getting off my kitten for a 25-minute walk daily was a big deal at first. No attention to macros. And I started getting results.
Ten months later? I'm down 80.4 lbs. Still eat about 50% carbs and love it. I do pay attention to protein and iron and let the other stuff fall where it falls (which usually means carbs on target or slightly over and fat around 60% of target.) Oh and my lymphedema flare-up took about ten weeks to respond to medication—it took a few tries to find the right antibiotic and then it took three courses, but it hasn't acted up again in almost eight months.
I'm not saying your doctor was wrong. My lymphedema was caught early at the first flare-up. I'm in compression stockings and that plus weight loss will (hopefully!) keep it under control. Just because I don't need the advice you got doesn't mean that it wasn't good advice... for YOU. But, just like diet and exercise, I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all solution here either.
Calorie deficit is the ONLY way anyone can lose weight (I'll make an exception for amputation, but I don't think anyone's going to go around recommending THAT treatment for weight loss). Medical issues may effect the rate of loss, but if calories out exceed calories in, weight loss WILL happen.19 -
I had the same problem, so I quit the gym, ate less and lost 6 lbs per month until I got to my goal weight.4
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Desdemonad wrote: »Be sure to get your thyroid gland tested. If it is underactive you will never lose weight. Also some medications cause weight gain or difficulties in losing, so check that our too.
You can absolutely lose weight with thyroid issues. It's just slower than for others. I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis.8 -
I'm guessing you're new to myfitnesspal?? Give it a try for a few weeks. (Using mfp that is, its a calorie counting tool) you will see.1
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OP has left the building!4
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I can't really add anything more than the other comments I see here. But I just wanted to point out that just because you're eating salads doesn't mean they are low calorie. Just look up some of the calories in restaurant salads and you'll see my point. Just as an example many BK salads have more calories than in a whopper.5
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Hello yes I have been logging in my meals I get frustrated sometimes and stop. I am only able to exercise three times a week because I work 12 hour shift's three other days of the week. I am at 5'3 and 170 pounds right now and My goal is to be 135 to 140 pounds. And example of what I eat in a day is two boiled eggs in the morning with a cup of coffee with Stevia. Then at lunchtime I eat a salad with boiled chicken breast. For dinner I eattwo more boiled eggs and a half a cup of oatmeal. For snacks in between meals are usually eat either apples a little container of organic hummus with snap peas or a banana. My exercise consist of using a maxi climber in which i burn 750 cal in 50 minutes then I do 10 minutes of ab work. What am I doing wrong?2
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You're probably not burning 750 cals in 50 minutes...
How many cals are you eating? Log everything for 4-6 weeks and hit your calorie goal...6 -
anahdz2013 wrote: »Hello yes I have been logging in my meals I get frustrated sometimes and stop. I am only able to exercise three times a week because I work 12 hour shift's three other days of the week. I am at 5'3 and 170 pounds right now and My goal is to be 135 to 140 pounds. And example of what I eat in a day is two boiled eggs in the morning with a cup of coffee with Stevia. Then at lunchtime I eat a salad with boiled chicken breast. For dinner I eattwo more boiled eggs and a half a cup of oatmeal. For snacks in between meals are usually eat either apples a little container of organic hummus with snap peas or a banana. My exercise consist of using a maxi climber in which i burn 750 cal in 50 minutes then I do 10 minutes of ab work. What am I doing wrong?
Can you open your diary??
Exercise calorie burn is most likely not accurate.3 -
You don't even HAVE to exercise to lose weight as long as you are counting all of the calories you eat and actually maintain a deficit.2
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@aeloine - agreed. In the "Calories In/Calories Out" concept the food that one eats is the "calories in" and the body "doing its thing" and one's day-to-day activities are the "calories out". So, just make sure that the "calories out" are higher than the "calories in" and fat loss happens. Obviously, the larger the gap the more fat loss. There is an appropriate "gap size", depending on several things.
Cardio and training simply add to the "calories out" side of the equation.
The key is to (A) log everything correctly and (B) compare what should happen vs how your body is responding. If there is a 'disconnect' there then review the logging. There *might* be something that is less than accurate there. Maybe. But not necessarily.
Start there. As a general point....2 -
Hashimoto's Thyroid issue here too and post menopausal - yep it's harder to lose but I just expect it to be slow (.5 pound a week is good for me). I just try not to think of myself as on a "diet" - I've completely changed my way of eating for weight loss and health. I'm eating 1400 cal. a day- macros are 30 carbs/35 protein /35 fat
I don't lose when I up my carbs more. I'm 5'3 CW 188 (goal is 150).1 -
Yes, I can help you...
Doctors (and people in general) do NOT understand there are some people that cannot lose weight through calorie restriction. I have that problem. When I would finally prove to the doctors that I was not over eating, they would simply say that they did not know how to help me. I had a business partner that thought my week at her house was her opportunity to prove that I was overeating. She wrote down everything edible in her home. At the end of the week, in amazement, she said that I ate less than her. She was 5 foot tall and I was 5 foot 10 inches tall. A kaiser doctor made me increase my calories because I was very tired. That doctor told me that I would die still fat and never lose a pound in the process.
I have now found something that works. It is a combo of 1700 calories and 30 carbs. From my heaviest to now, I am down 43 pounds. I do have lymphedema which makes water weight a problem.
Write to me and I will talk with you. I am not a doctor and will only tell you what foods to try. Everybody told me to eat less and exercise more. That does not work for me.
I completely believe you. I have even mentioned this before. Some people do excel with extra calories, I dont know why ,I cant explain it ,but I know its true. I am not one of these people, I lose weight by eating less and moving more, however, I notice that after I eat more calories once or twice a week ,not junk food though, it gives me a little kick and then I lose like whoosh 2-3 lbs. Some things just are. Cue the woos lol.12 -
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