Scales say no

natg1rl
natg1rl Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I’ve been consuming less than the recommended kjs for about 2 weeks now & every day the app says I should weigh 82-80kg in 5 weeks but it’s been 2 weeks and I haven’t lost any weight!! It’s quite disheartening. Is anybody else having the same issue??

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  • Silentpadna
    Silentpadna Posts: 1,306 Member
    Almost everyone has this issue at some point because of the nature of fluid fluctuation. You need a bigger time window to know for sure.

    In the meantime, are you weighing and logging everything?

    What are your stats? (i.e. ht/wt/age)

    How fast is your goal and what is MFP telling you to eat?
  • TravisJHunt
    TravisJHunt Posts: 535 Member
    Yep agree with above and will add are you logging absolutely everything. I see the wine glass in the profile photo is why I ask. Many people skip the liquids but things like wine, chocolate milk, pop, etc are some of the worst calorie culprits that people don't take into account. There are calories in these things and they need to be included when adding up what you ate for the day.
  • Pickle107
    Pickle107 Posts: 153 Member
    Currently experiencing this. I'd been losing at a good pace then suddenly a 2 lb increase. Last week I lost the 2 lb but only an additional 0.25 lb. This week my weight has been the same or higher. I'm hoping it's just hormonal or water weight as I've been having a (weighed) portion of Pringles on a couple of evenings.
  • emilysusana
    emilysusana Posts: 416 Member
    I appear to stay the same or gain for about two weeks of every single month, but my weight loss trend is downward at a predictable rate. Fluctuations are the name of the game, even when you’re doing everything right for weight loss. Just ensure that your logging is accurate (read the threads, make the changes if necessary, sooner not later), and you will trend downward, too.
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    if you mean the message that comes up when you close your diary that is notoriously incorrect most of the time. no one does the exact same daily.

    Here are some guides to help you. the key things would be to use a food scale on all foods to ensure you have a much more accurate idea of calories in.

    also note if you started new exercise or increased exercise your msuscles may be retaining extra water to repair themselve which is masking weight loss but will disapate soon enough.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1318741/in-5-weeks-youll-lose-10lbs-why-is-it-not-working/p1

    why use a food scale?
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1


    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1399829/step-by-step-guide-to-losing-weight-with-myfitnesspal

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10503681/exercise-calories-do-i-eat-these-a-video-explanation/p1

  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    Here is a good read on helping to understand the bathroom scale:

    http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/
  • texasredreb
    texasredreb Posts: 548 Member
    edited March 2019
    I started MFP on March 11. I lost 10lbs the first week and .02lbs total for the since then. I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and the weight will catch up.
  • Strudders67
    Strudders67 Posts: 1,059 Member
    I'll agree with all of the above but the first thing I picked up on is you saying that you've "been consuming less than the recommended kjs for about 2 weeks now". Why are you eating less than is recommended? Others can explain much better than I can, but that really isn't a good idea for many reasons.

    Put your stats in to MFP, choose to lose weight at a sensible rate per week (ie don't select 2lb/week unless you have over 100lbs to lose), look at how many calories it allocates you a day and eat that many calories. If you do any exercise, track that and eat those calories as well. Your NET calories (food calories minus exercise calories) a day should be roughly in line with what MFP allocates you.

    Definitely look at the links that Panini911 and NovusDies included - what you've posted probably crops upon these boards about once a week; it's very common for people to not lose weight for a few weeks and then to suddenly drop, so don't be concerned by that.
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