Why aren’t i losing weight!?
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Inches don't disappear because you're not getting results. I am starting to wonder if we just have a measuring our results problem.
Water retention makes weight fluctuate much faster than fluctuations caused by changes to your fat level.
If you are influenced by hormonal weight fluctuation, exercise weight fluctuations, sodium weight fluctuations due to suddenly eating take away (because if you're averaging well under 3K mg of sodium a day on an overall basis, on a day that you eat domino's you're certainly taking in much more sodium than usual), you are quite possibly driving yourself batty over a perfectly normal weight loss.
Please go back and plug in your weight numbers on a trending weight app (as previously discussed). Trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com/libra android/happy scale iphone are all known to work fairly well. Others may also exist.
How much are you actually losing?1 -
sugaraddict4321 wrote: »One more thought - you say the fitbit is saying you regularly burn over 2,000 calories. Another member reviewed your diary for 30 days and said you averaged 1700 calories. If both numbers are accurate, that's (roughly) a 300 kcal deficit per day, which would translate to 2.5 pounds for the month (or just over half a pound per week). This could easily be "hidden" by water weight fluctuations thanks to sodium intake and TOM - particularly when you are only weighing once per week. I weigh daily, and my numbers can fluctuate up to 5 or 6 pounds from one day to the next depending on sodium intake.
It's hard not to keep changing things from one week to the next when you don't see the dramatic results you're hoping to see. Try to follow a set plan for 4 weeks as others have outlined above and see how it goes. Then you'll have a more accurate picture of how much you're eating and burning and where you need to make adjustments.
Good luck!sugaraddict4321 wrote: »One more thought - you say the fitbit is saying you regularly burn over 2,000 calories. Another member reviewed your diary for 30 days and said you averaged 1700 calories. If both numbers are accurate, that's (roughly) a 300 kcal deficit per day, which would translate to 2.5 pounds for the month (or just over half a pound per week). This could easily be "hidden" by water weight fluctuations thanks to sodium intake and TOM - particularly when you are only weighing once per week. I weigh daily, and my numbers can fluctuate up to 5 or 6 pounds from one day to the next depending on sodium intake.
It's hard not to keep changing things from one week to the next when you don't see the dramatic results you're hoping to see. Try to follow a set plan for 4 weeks as others have outlined above and see how it goes. Then you'll have a more accurate picture of how much you're eating and burning and where you need to make adjustments.
Good luck!
thank you yes that’s a good way of looking at it. i think i definitely need a consistent and sensible 4-6 weeks x0 -
Inches don't disappear because you're not getting results. I am starting to wonder if we just have a measuring our results problem.
Water retention makes weight fluctuate much faster than fluctuations caused by changes to your fat level.
If you are influenced by hormonal weight fluctuation, exercise weight fluctuations, sodium weight fluctuations due to suddenly eating take away (because if you're averaging well under 3K mg of sodium a day on an overall basis, on a day that you eat domino's you're certainly taking in much more sodium than usual), you are quite possibly driving yourself batty over a perfectly normal weight loss.
Please go back and plug in your weight numbers on a trending weight app (as previously discussed). Trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com/libra android/happy scale iphone are all known to work fairly well. Others may also exist.
How much are you actually losing?
since janurary:
week one -4lbs
week two +4lbs
week theee -4lbs
week four -1lb
week five -1lb
week six -1lb
week seven -2lbs
week eight - maintain
week nine - maintain
week ten - +7lbs
week twelve -1lbs
week eleven - +1lbs
week twelve - +1lbs
week thirteen -6lbs
week fourteen +4lbs
week fifteen +1lbs
maybe i need to look back at what i did week 4-7!!0 -
sugaraddict4321 wrote: »One more thought - you say the fitbit is saying you regularly burn over 2,000 calories. Another member reviewed your diary for 30 days and said you averaged 1700 calories. If both numbers are accurate, that's (roughly) a 300 kcal deficit per day, which would translate to 2.5 pounds for the month (or just over half a pound per week). This could easily be "hidden" by water weight fluctuations thanks to sodium intake and TOM - particularly when you are only weighing once per week. I weigh daily, and my numbers can fluctuate up to 5 or 6 pounds from one day to the next depending on sodium intake.
It's hard not to keep changing things from one week to the next when you don't see the dramatic results you're hoping to see. Try to follow a set plan for 4 weeks as others have outlined above and see how it goes. Then you'll have a more accurate picture of how much you're eating and burning and where you need to make adjustments.
Good luck!
many thanks for this thought, very good point, my weekly weight loss records is posted above xx0 -
Inches don't disappear because you're not getting results. I am starting to wonder if we just have a measuring our results problem.
Water retention makes weight fluctuate much faster than fluctuations caused by changes to your fat level.
If you are influenced by hormonal weight fluctuation, exercise weight fluctuations, sodium weight fluctuations due to suddenly eating take away (because if you're averaging well under 3K mg of sodium a day on an overall basis, on a day that you eat domino's you're certainly taking in much more sodium than usual), you are quite possibly driving yourself batty over a perfectly normal weight loss.
Please go back and plug in your weight numbers on a trending weight app (as previously discussed). Trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com/libra android/happy scale iphone are all known to work fairly well. Others may also exist.
How much are you actually losing?
since janurary:
week one -4lbs
week two +4lbs
week theee -4lbs
week four -1lb
week five -1lb
week six -1lb
week seven -2lbs
week eight - maintain
week nine - maintain
week ten - +7lbs
week twelve -1lbs
week eleven - +1lbs
week twelve - +1lbs
week thirteen -6lbs
week fourteen +4lbs
week fifteen +1lbs
maybe i need to look back at what i did week 4-7!!
I would get the trendweight app and log daily if I were you, I actually think that will calm your anxiety over the weekly weigh ins and fluctuations. You are likely trending in the right direction but you can’t separate the signal from the noise.
Agree with all the above advice about starting fresh with reasonable goal rate of loss, accurate activity level, MFP recommendation for calorie target and trusting FitBit adjustments, maybe about 50% at first. Super agree with the advice about consistently using a food scale, and upgrading to a digital one.
With all this great advice just implement it, trust it, and then adjust after 6-8 weeks if the weight loss doesn’t occur.2 -
Inches don't disappear because you're not getting results. I am starting to wonder if we just have a measuring our results problem.
Water retention makes weight fluctuate much faster than fluctuations caused by changes to your fat level.
If you are influenced by hormonal weight fluctuation, exercise weight fluctuations, sodium weight fluctuations due to suddenly eating take away (because if you're averaging well under 3K mg of sodium a day on an overall basis, on a day that you eat domino's you're certainly taking in much more sodium than usual), you are quite possibly driving yourself batty over a perfectly normal weight loss.
Please go back and plug in your weight numbers on a trending weight app (as previously discussed). Trendweight.com/weightgrapher.com/libra android/happy scale iphone are all known to work fairly well. Others may also exist.
How much are you actually losing?
since janurary:
week one -4lbs
week two +4lbs
week theee -4lbs
week four -1lb
week five -1lb
week six -1lb
week seven -2lbs
week eight - maintain
week nine - maintain
week ten - +7lbs
week twelve -1lbs
week eleven - +1lbs
week twelve - +1lbs
week thirteen -6lbs
week fourteen +4lbs
week fifteen +1lbs
maybe i need to look back at what i did week 4-7!!
One interesting point I noticed which you may have not yet considered in the big picture: Your most noticeable gains happened in week 2, week 10 and week 14. The only thing missing would have been something similar in week 6, because each of those are on 4-week cycles (i.e., roughly a month apart). Guess what else happens in women in somewhere around 4 week cycles? And is known to cause significant weight fluctuations?
Just something worth taking into consideration as a data point when you're trying to make things add up.8 -
Somehow i never had an issue with weightloss due to not logging 100%.
Id say im about 85% and i lose every week. I never weigh a peace of toast if label say 100 calories. Or an apple , egg etc. I logg 72 cals for an egg every time.
I weigh coffee creamer, butter..stuff that comes out of a container. But if it's pre measured or pre weighted for you i don't even bother. So i say,my accuracy is around 85% overall.
But i have never had issues losing over it.3 -
Somehow i never had an issue with weightloss due to not logging 100%.
Id say im about 85% and i lose every week. I never weigh a peace of toast if label say 100 calories. Or an apple , egg etc. I logg 72 cals for an egg every time.
I weigh coffee creamer, butter..stuff that comes out of a container. But if it's pre measured or pre weighted for you i don't even bother. So i say,my accuracy is around 85% overall.
But i have never had issues losing over it.
have to say i have always done exactly the same and it’s never stopped me losing weight, i did it in the very beginning years ago but after a while you kind of get a good gage at things.
i think i need to work out how many calories to eat for the exercise i’m doing to still be in a deficit and lose but sustain it, once i’ve done that i’ll be fine at hitting that calorie deficit by the methods iv usually used. x
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thanks everyone for all your advice!!
my plan is to increase calories intake to 1800 a day and see how i get on with that. if this amount stops me over eating and still keeps me losing weight then that’s fine, while i could eat more this is still 400 calories a day more than i have been aiming for which is a snack or mini meal even that could be enough itself to stop me struggling.
if i know i doing well to have a 1,800 goal day ending at around 1,600/1,700 i should feel much better than aiming for 1,400, needing more so going to 1,700 but stressing iv gone over and ending up over eating from aiming too low. if i can trust i’ll still lose weight at the new goal i think i’ll be much happier.
i’ll consistently do this for 4-6 weeks and weigh daily to see long term trend rather than worrying about weekly results to avoid stress from fluctuations.
I am not going to go to the extreme of measuring every g on electronic scales although i can see the benefits of doing this, i think for now i am okay as i have been doing, i will probably need to do that later down the weight loss road when i have less to lose and have to be more careful.
i think for now my issue is allowing myself to eat 1,800 a day rather than trying to eat 1,300 because of a fluctuation, not being able to because of my activity and then causing another gain by over eating by giving up!!
so hopefully iv worked this out with all your help so thank you so much for those who took their time, actually listened to post and went beyond the ‘you’re over eating’ response to offer useful support. thank you!!! good luck on all your journeys!! Xxxx
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