Losing motivation

You may be eating more than you think. Are you using a food scale?

You may want to open your diary temporarily so we can see if there is any obvious problems.

Also, do you need to eat low carb for medical reasons or for satiety? If not, and you are not enjoying it just stop. To lose weight you need to be in a calorie deficit. It doesn't matter what you eat.

It all depends on how much you have to lose and your height etc. Someone who has 100 lbs to lose should expect to lose more than three pounds in three months at 1400 calories but someone with 10 lbs to lose might be thrilled with 3 pounds. Muscle gain is very hard to do at a deficit. I'm not an expert but most on here who are would say it's not possible. So what is going on? If you have alot to lose and you are not losing then I would suggest monitoring your intake more closely and forget about "cheat" days or meals for a while. Those can often be tracked back to people's problems. Low carb makes little difference in rate of loss after the first week or two once the water weight is gone. In all honesty calories are king. If you don't have much to lose I would say be patient. My last 20 lbs took a year to lose. If you give us more information you will likely get more useful help. For example, gender, height, weight, goal weight etc. Are you weighing your food on a food scale? That is the other most common question.

jenniferanderson3888 wrote: »

Please don’t misunderstand muscle does NOT way more than fat. Muscle takes up less space than a pound. A pound is a pound

...but muscle does weigh more than fat. A specific volume of muscle weighs more than the same volume of fat.

If you want to claim that muscle doesn't weigh more than fat it just takes up less space, you also have to say that iron doesn't weigh more than meringue it just takes up less space. And in fact that nothing weighs less or more than anything else, it just takes up different amounts of space...

You don't really need motivation. You really need habit/routine. One is impossible to maintain day to day - the other is not.

Make accurate logging your habit. Get that right. Then adjust. Once the logging/weighing accurately is habit, motivation won't matter.

When you do what's habit even when motivation is not there, guess what? That can become motivating in and of itself. Everybody can do this when they're motivated. Those that succeed do this when they are not. But it is not magic - it's just habit.

Usually when people say that they are implying they think they lost a (hypothetical) 2 pounds of fat and magically replaced it with 2 or more pounds of muscle, right?
This is often accompanied by no supporting evidence of sufficient time or even of an exercise program which could have caused that muscle to grow, but that is another problem.

That is my point - they are implying they replaced two disparate body tissues of differing chemical composition and volume (we agree on this, I think) with the exact same (or even "appropriate") weight of muscle to make this possible.
They are saying their "weight" and/or size (mass) is not changing in a given number of days or weeks, so maybe they already lost X amount of fat and replaced it with X (or even Y) amount of muscle.
Supporting this way of thinking leads to even more skewed expectations than they may already have, IMO.

They are thinking, from my point of view, in terms of their weight, not the volume or composition.
Causing cognitive dissonance at least gives them reasons to ask more questions instead of saying "Yeah, that is right. Sort of..."

I understand why it is an easy "shorthand" way of saying what most people think they mean.
I even accept that there may not be a clear way to get the point across to people without actually making it sound more complicated.
But it is exactly this sort of miscommunication and intermingling of terms and measurements that caused the Mars Climate Orbiter to crash into the planet it was supposed to be checking out.

Anyway, I cannot change the world. But in my corner of it I hope to educate people at least.

Live like you wanna live.