Scale NOT moving

marialuna78
marialuna78 Posts: 5 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hey guys! So I have been tracking and doing everything right for the past 3-4 weeks. Scale does not move. At all. Nothing. Nada. It is soooo frustrating! I am doing macros and always meking sure to est below tdee, at least 400-600 calories/day. I am eating less than I need every week for maintenance and nothing is happening. I only need to lose 10 lbs and it is not happening.

Can anyone give any ideas?

Thanks so much!

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  • marialuna78
    marialuna78 Posts: 5 Member
    marialuna78 wrote: »
    Hey guys! So I have been tracking and doing everything right for the past 3-4 weeks. Scale does not move. At all. Nothing. Nada. It is soooo frustrating! I am doing macros and always meking sure to est below tdee, at least 400-600 calories/day. I am eating less than I need every week for maintenance and nothing is happening. I only need to lose 10 lbs and it is not happening.

    Can anyone give any ideas?

    Thanks so much!

  • marialuna78
    marialuna78 Posts: 5 Member
    Apologies for the typos... iphone and being in a rush do not mix well!
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,384 Member
    Yeah, what they said ^^

    With 10-15 to lose, it's going to be slow and you need to be very accurate. My last 15 pounds took nine months to lose and I was making 13 out of 14 meals every week myself from scratch and using a digital food scale set to grams for everything I ate.

    Accuracy and time along with a SMALL deficit off Maintenance (like no more than 300 calories deficit per day.)
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    The graphic above is your best resource. For me it just took more time. I had a decent initial loss, and then stalled for about three weeks. Since then, I consistently loss a pound or two a week. My body kind of went in shock from a change in diet and exercise and held on to its weight for dear life.. before finally saying 'ah what the hell'.
  • cupcakesandproteinshakes
    cupcakesandproteinshakes Posts: 1,111 Member
    What they said above. If you aren’t losing then you aren’t in a deficit. Inaccurate logging is the number one culprit.
  • suzesvelte
    suzesvelte Posts: 134 Member
    I think this issue is mainly about how small the difference is between losing/ gaining and maintaining .. while it's obvious that eating huge calorie excesses will gain you weight, actually maintaining isn't very much different to losing .. and whatever you are doing now it what you will have to do FOREVER to maintain. And that's where it's hard to stick.

    It's obvious that many people over-estimate the difference and the fact that even quite small increases will add weight again. Ditto even quite small increases will stop you losing ... so this is the reality check when you are near your goal weight. I never go crazy on over-eating but I always steadily increase in size because my idea of "normal" eating is still a bit too calorie heavy in small ways that undermine my maintainance ... I know I especially have to watch extra slurps of calorie dense foods as mentioned above, and snacks like nuts or crackers which are so easy to snaffle ... it all counts. It all needs constant vigilance when you're not a "natural" for maintaining a healthy weight.
  • StaciMarie2020
    StaciMarie2020 Posts: 68 Member
    If the scale does not move at all: get a new scale. A person does not have one single weight. It will vary slightly thru the day based on the mass of what we consume and at some point expel. If your scale always has the same exact number (such as 157.9 each time) then something is not right with it. Change the batteries, change the scale, try stepping on it while holding a couple of gallons of water.

    Other than that, it is a matter of accuracy and patience in terms of logging. If your scale is fluctuating in the same general 2-3 pound range now as last month, you may need to give it more time. But it never hurts to make sure your logging is accurate. Weigh all solid food. Measure liquids. Try to have as much control over your food as possible when starting out, so less eating food prepared by others and try to stick to food that you KNOW the calorie contents. Prepared by others = guestimate and that could be hundreds of calories per day of mistaken logging.
  • MySlimGoals
    MySlimGoals Posts: 754 Member
    Like above can you zero the scale each time you use it and weigh on it with different weights (holding heavy items). Nearly all scales have a memory and they return to the last weight unless it is off by a good amount. It's the manufacturer's way of making their scales seem faster but is annoying if you are wanting to see small changes. I weigh with weights then zero my scale and do my real weight every time I want to take my weight and this solves the issue.

    Otherwise, the chart above is a good resource and a truckload of patience as well. When you have a small amount to lose it takes longer to come off.
  • jhanleybrown
    jhanleybrown Posts: 240 Member
    If exercise is a factor in your deficit, MFP exercise calories in my experience are a lot higher than actually burn. I needed to lose 20 lbs (now 15...woot woot) and was incorporating additional exercise and going nowhere. I was accurately recording cals in...I researched my main forms of exercise and found MFP to be 30-50% over the most accurate formula I could find. My current loss rate is 5-6 lbs/month. Two months in but month one was a loss due to above.

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