Failing to lose any weight!!

honeyb128 wrote: »

Sorry I haven’t responded to everyone I didn’t get a notification! I lost 5.5 stone in a year and I have 24lb left to lose. I’ve been training in the gym since the 27th December and I’m not losing a thing.. I’m not breastfeeding and I’m tracking everything I eat. I was on 1600 cals a day and I began to gain weight so I have dropped to 1200 cals a day but still nothing xx

By 'tracking' everything you eat, does that include using a food scale? Have you read the infographic upthread ^^? Your answer is somewhere in there.

You've lost lots of lbs and you're visibly losing inches, right?

You didn't respond if the avatar picture is recent or older and whether you're already within the normal weight range.

If the Avatar is current, and in any case if you're already within the normal weight range and you're training 5 days a week at the gym you will get nowhere, at this point, by just eating less and less in an attempt to see large scale changes.

Do you want to see a large drop that has nothing to do with fat? Just stay at home without going to the gym for 72 hours... and watch the numbers change.

You may want to combine a much smaller deficit with a lot of patience, a weight trend, and awesome gym performance.

When attempting a smaller deficit, it might be beneficial to be more accurate with measuring calories in / out in order to achieve one that is neither too large nor too small.

Diet break could definitely be of some benefit too, as others have mentioned.

Past that, please re read the part where your say you've lost inches, you are more lean, but you're unhappy because you're not seeing any results!

As I said you just want to see a number? Stay home for 72 hours with your feet up in the air.

Something tells me that you're much healthier and strong at the higher number while killing it at the gym.

Wow! you have really done a great job. I lost 108 pounds total but hit a 3 month plateau after about 85 pounds. I did the diet break and it jump started my weight loss again. Read the link above and give it a shot. Remember you don't go back to overeating, you just eat at maintenance for a week or two.