Frustrated

These would be my suggestions:

1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. Give your body some time to catch up with the changes you're making.

2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.

3. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.

4. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.

5. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.

6. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.

7. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.

8. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.

9. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.

mrstinashort wrote: »

I’m pretty consistent with same foods daily. The only variety is dinner. (Tonight taco salad w blue corn chips). Yes I include all water & 2 c black coffee. Apples, spring mix salad 2 tbsp dressing, 2 organic eggs etc. bell peppers to snack. I’ve ate more cheese lately than ever before, that may be a cause. Jogged almost 20 miles this weekend. Walk all day at work. Not sedentary at all. Was 133 few days ago now 138!! Goal is 125. Nope, uterus free! Oh well I’ll try another 2 weeks, then I’ll try some diet pills if need too. Thanks for your time trying to help me.

Okay, you're only trying to lose 10 lbs. You should really only be expecting to lose @ 0.5lbs per week, and that small amount can easily hide behind normal fluctuations on the scale. You are going to have to be patient, and switching from one method to another is just going to exacerbate water weight and digestion fluctuations and keep you spinning your wheels.

Focus on logging accurately and consistently, and give it time.

I am very clear on how it is lost. Start here and then start reading the actual studies. It's quite eye opening. Because common belief on weigh loss in the last 40 years has worked so well the obesity and overweight in the developed world is what now 30%. Yeah CICO works great! Not!!! https://youtube.com/watch?v=5F5o0a4p_3U&t=11s

Based on your description of your diet, it could be hormonal. If you don't get enough carbs, your body will go into a hormonal starvation mode and your metabolism will slow.

Have 15-20g carbs for breakfast, 30-40g before your workout, 20-30g after your workout, and 10-15g or so in your snacks and whatnot throughout the day, cutting carbs out entirely in the evening. Make sure they're high-quality carbs: whole grains, legumes, fruit, dairy. This will fill up your 400 remaining calories and will also let your body know that you're not starving, thereby increasing leptin levels, decreasing cortisol levels, regulating insulin, and revving up your metabolism.

Also, insulin isn't as cut-and-dry as previous posts suggest. Insulin is what tells your cells to take up the macronutrients in your blood--in other words, it's what tells your muscle cells to take up protein. It's not healthy to have low insulin levels all the time. What you want to do is avoid high/frequent insulin spikes (which are generally caused by eating simple carbs like white bread/sugar and which result in excess fat storage) and instead focus on gentle and drawn-out insulin "hills" (which you get from consuming complex carbs along with protein and fat and which help your body absorb the nutrients it needs as it's using those nutrients). If you're interested, I'm happy to break down the science of this process on a more detailed level. Understanding insulin (and leptin and cortisol) is such a key if you're eating for fitness!