Not losing weight
kayejames
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I am a 55 year old female, who has exercised and eaten a healthy vegetarian diet over the last several years . I have an under active thyroid and am also in peri menopause. About 7months ago I had my thyroid meds lowered as my endocronologist said I was over medicated, i also changed my HRT due to availability issues.Since all of these changes I have put on about 12lbs.I am 5ft 8"and now weigh 154lbs. I have logged into MFP and my calorie goal is 1200, as id like to lose 1lb a week. Im training 3/4 times a week at an intense boot camp .I do not eat my work out calories. Ive been doing this for three weeks but haven't lost any weight or inches. I'm getting so upset and really have no idea oh how to drop this weight .Any help would be really appreciated.
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The chart has your answer in there somewhere.3
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You're close to goal weight so your weight loss is going to be very slow anyway. On top of that, you've chosen 1 lb/week as your loss rate. I would suggest lowering that to 0.5 lb/week.
1200 calories is the minimum required for an obese woman. You should be eating more. I know it sounds counterintuitive.
Typically, people who drop a lot of weight at the beginning are shedding water. You might not have water to shed.
Do you weigh and measure all of your foods?5 -
I was eating 1100-1200 calories everyday, then I started eating 1350-1400 and that is when the weight started steadily coming off. Not sure if that will work for you but try it for a week...oh and drink plenty of water2
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When did you start the boot camp?
There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings0 -
Do you use a food scale, weighing and logging all your food/drink? No skipping, cheating or forgetting?
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p11 -
Maybe Im not giving it long enough, I was hoping for at least a couple of pounds in three weeks .callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »0 -
yes, Im weighing and measuring all my food , and tracking my water intake. Maybe I am not eating enough as I'm usually slightly under my calories most days. Its just SO scary to up my calories .Im scared to try it as Im worried Ill put more weight on .You're close to goal weight so your weight loss is going to be very slow anyway. On top of that, you've chosen 1 lb/week as your loss rate. I would suggest lowering that to 0.5 lb/week.
1200 calories is the minimum required for an obese woman. You should be eating more. I know it sounds counterintuitive.
Typically, people who drop a lot of weight at the beginning are shedding water. You might not have water to shed.
Do you weigh and measure all of your foods?0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »When did you start the boot camp?
There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
I started the boot camp three weeks ago . Ill change my settings to public .Any help would be appreciated and I might be missing something .0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Do you use a food scale, weighing and logging all your food/drink? No skipping, cheating or forgetting?
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1
Yes , im weighing and measuring everything .I log after every meal so I don't forget . The only thing I find difficult is logging my evening meals. I cook my own meals from scratch so am concerned I may not have the calories exactly right. Im trying to use vegetarian recipes that have the nutrition values stated so I can be more accurate.1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Do you use a food scale, weighing and logging all your food/drink? No skipping, cheating or forgetting?
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1
Yes , im weighing and measuring everything .I log after every meal so I don't forget . The only thing I find difficult is logging my evening meals. I cook my own meals from scratch so am concerned I may not have the calories exactly right. Im trying to use vegetarian recipes that have the nutrition values stated so I can be more accurate.
use the recipe builder. nearly all my meals (dinners) are calculated that way2 -
Two things, First boot camp may have you retaining some water due to newly increased exercise. Second you are not likely to lose 2 pounds in 3 weeks. You are very close to goal so it will take longer to lose. I understand your frustration but don't give up. Once you acclimate to the new exercise the water should be shed and you may see some fat loss that was masked. Try to ensure you weigh all food not measure as we often heap our tablespoon or cup and watch tastes here and there. I've caught myself overeating that way without even knowing it. One or two chips or a taste of hubby's dinner while I'm cooking it can add up particularly when you are working with such a small margin. If you continue you will get there. Good luck.6
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Read this thread, OP. @cheryldumais is probably right, that your muscles are retaining water due to your new exercise.
http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations9 -
cheryldumais wrote: »Two things, First boot camp may have you retaining some water due to newly increased exercise. Second you are not likely to lose 2 pounds in 3 weeks. You are very close to goal so it will take longer to lose. I understand your frustration but don't give up. Once you acclimate to the new exercise the water should be shed and you may see some fat loss that was masked. Try to ensure you weigh all food not measure as we often heap our tablespoon or cup and watch tastes here and there. I've caught myself overeating that way without even knowing it. One or two chips or a taste of hubby's dinner while I'm cooking it can add up particularly when you are working with such a small margin. If you continue you will get there. Good luck.
Thank you so much for all the help, Im sticking with it and will really keep an eye on any extras i may have.0 -
Yep. The "small margin" that Cheryl refers to makes changes really hard to see. I am trying to take off about .5 pound per week, and it's agonizingly slow. So slow, in fact, that I am tracking my weight daily so that by Christmas, I'll be able to see a difference due to a trend. One nice thing about it being slow is that I am eating BARELY below maintenance, so when maintenance time comes, there won't be a huge difference. (That's also the tricky part, because it's SO easy to have too many days that are basically AT maintenance...)
You can do this. One thing I am trying hard to do right now is focus on my logging/food choices (make sure that they're yummy things I want to eat, but will also give me some satiety) and getting to my workouts. I'm using the scale information as a daily "Hmm, how about that?" because some days it's up, others it's down. I'm a 51yo female, so it can jump all over the place and create chaos, except that when I look at a 90 day trend, THAT'S the information I am going to pay attention to.
Hang in there. Give yourself a fitness goal or something else to work toward. The scale will move, but if you have something else to focus on (new recipes? new workout plan?), you'll have a distraction from how slowly it's all happening
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Read this thread, OP. @cheryldumais is probably right, that your muscles are retaining water due to your new exercise.
http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations
lots of great information, thank you for posting it .0 -
I was eating 1100-1200 calories everyday, then I started eating 1350-1400 and that is when the weight started steadily coming off. Not sure if that will work for you but try it for a week...oh and drink plenty of water
I've found this too, though with more calories. According to MFP, I'm supposed to be at 1480. Usually when I would exercise, I wouldn't eat back whatever I lost (right now it is things like walking and Zumba, so max 500 calories) unless I was feeling hungry, and I wasn't really losing weight. But, I've found even just eating back half those calories, in case of overestimation/errors in my logging, has caused me to lose at a slightly faster rate. (counter intuitive to what I would have thought before this. "if a deficit is good, a bigger deficit must be better!)
I have an appointment with my nutritionist next week, and I've only lost about half the weight I was aiming for in that time (I've lost about 5-6 lbs instead of the 10-12). But, it will be interesting to see any % body fat changes and what recommendations she has for me. I know at the last point when looking at things, she told me "don't eat back your exercise calories"....but after a couple weeks of that I realized "Oh, when we were talking about that I bet I wasn't clear, so she was thinking I was depending solely on exercise for the deficit, she didn't realize I was eating at 500 cal a day deficit already".0 -
virginiajharris wrote: »I was eating 1100-1200 calories everyday, then I started eating 1350-1400 and that is when the weight started steadily coming off. Not sure if that will work for you but try it for a week...oh and drink plenty of water
I've found this too, though with more calories. According to MFP, I'm supposed to be at 1480. Usually when I would exercise, I wouldn't eat back whatever I lost (right now it is things like walking and Zumba, so max 500 calories) unless I was feeling hungry, and I wasn't really losing weight. But, I've found even just eating back half those calories, in case of overestimation/errors in my logging, has caused me to lose at a slightly faster rate. (counter intuitive to what I would have thought before this. "if a deficit is good, a bigger deficit must be better!)
I have an appointment with my nutritionist next week, and I've only lost about half the weight I was aiming for in that time (I've lost about 5-6 lbs instead of the 10-12). But, it will be interesting to see any % body fat changes and what recommendations she has for me. I know at the last point when looking at things, she told me "don't eat back your exercise calories"....but after a couple weeks of that I realized "Oh, when we were talking about that I bet I wasn't clear, so she was thinking I was depending solely on exercise for the deficit, she didn't realize I was eating at 500 cal a day deficit already".
That and the information nutritionists have can be sketchy and ill-informed. Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist with only a quick online course under their belt. If you actually want informed information you need to see a registered dietitian. These guys have a uni degree under their belt and continue with further training once they have graduated to keep up with current research.2 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »virginiajharris wrote: »I was eating 1100-1200 calories everyday, then I started eating 1350-1400 and that is when the weight started steadily coming off. Not sure if that will work for you but try it for a week...oh and drink plenty of water
I've found this too, though with more calories. According to MFP, I'm supposed to be at 1480. Usually when I would exercise, I wouldn't eat back whatever I lost (right now it is things like walking and Zumba, so max 500 calories) unless I was feeling hungry, and I wasn't really losing weight. But, I've found even just eating back half those calories, in case of overestimation/errors in my logging, has caused me to lose at a slightly faster rate. (counter intuitive to what I would have thought before this. "if a deficit is good, a bigger deficit must be better!)
I have an appointment with my nutritionist next week, and I've only lost about half the weight I was aiming for in that time (I've lost about 5-6 lbs instead of the 10-12). But, it will be interesting to see any % body fat changes and what recommendations she has for me. I know at the last point when looking at things, she told me "don't eat back your exercise calories"....but after a couple weeks of that I realized "Oh, when we were talking about that I bet I wasn't clear, so she was thinking I was depending solely on exercise for the deficit, she didn't realize I was eating at 500 cal a day deficit already".
That and the information nutritionists have can be sketchy and ill-informed. Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist with only a quick online course under their belt. If you actually want informed information you need to see a registered dietitian. These guys have a uni degree under their belt and continue with further training once they have graduated to keep up with current research.
I appreciate the concern, but that is what she is, actually a MS, RDN, CSOWM. I just go with nutritionist mostly out of habit, because where she works is the university that employees me "nutrition center". Plus, if you tell people in the real world (rather than here) that you go to a dietician, they assume diet and all the comments and such that come with that, whereas nutritionist comes with less baggage.
Her "bad advice" to me was because I wasn't clear on what I was doing, not because she isn't qualified and knowledgeable about what she does.3 -
Im so scared to increase my calories, as Im concerned I will put on weight .BUT its worth a try . I still keep thinking it should be just about less calories in and then I will lose weight .0
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virginiajharris wrote: »I was eating 1100-1200 calories everyday, then I started eating 1350-1400 and that is when the weight started steadily coming off. Not sure if that will work for you but try it for a week...oh and drink plenty of water
I've found this too, though with more calories. According to MFP, I'm supposed to be at 1480. Usually when I would exercise, I wouldn't eat back whatever I lost (right now it is things like walking and Zumba, so max 500 calories) unless I was feeling hungry, and I wasn't really losing weight. But, I've found even just eating back half those calories, in case of overestimation/errors in my logging, has caused me to lose at a slightly faster rate. (counter intuitive to what I would have thought before this. "if a deficit is good, a bigger deficit must be better!)
I have an appointment with my nutritionist next week, and I've only lost about half the weight I was aiming for in that time (I've lost about 5-6 lbs instead of the 10-12). But, it will be interesting to see any % body fat changes and what recommendations she has for me. I know at the last point when looking at things, she told me "don't eat back your exercise calories"....but after a couple weeks of that I realized "Oh, when we were talking about that I bet I wasn't clear, so she was thinking I was depending solely on exercise for the deficit, she didn't realize I was eating at 500 cal a day deficit already".
How is she measuring your body fat? If one of those scales, they are notoriously inaccurate. https://www.healthline.com/health/body-fat-scale-accuracy0
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