Stubborn weight loss

mmohring8247 · June 2022

My weight is not budging. After almost two months of increased activity, calorie counting, and really trying to change habits. Getting discouraged.

yukfoo · June 2022

If you're not losing weight despite your best efforts then you're not in a deficit. Plain and simple. You don't say anything about your stats, male/female, starting weight, eating habits or exercise ect... but regardless , burn more calories than you eat = weight loss. My guess is that you're tracking improperly and what you are eating is underestimated and your exercise is overestimated. Try dropping your calories by 200 for 15 days. Weight yourself (naked) every morning after your morning constitutional. If you're honest with yourself about your tracking you will see a difference. If you don't. Then drop another 100 calories and so on. If you choose not to be honest with your tracking then you're only fooling yourself. Honestly, in the end, no-one but you really cares if you succeed or not. Good luck on your journey

Apartment1510 · June 2022

you need to be honest with yourself. are you weighing everything you eat? are you being super strict to where you binge, and have to start over the next day?

sijomial · June 2022

If you really want help you need to give people data to work with.
Blank profile, private diaries and no useful information about you given in your post.

If you just want to rant then goal achieved but if you want help or guidance to succeed at weight loss you need to try a bit harder than a two line post.

snowflake954 · June 2022

Agree--give your stats. Sorry, but so many people post just like you, saying they're not losing despite counting and exercising. When we delve deeply there are mistakes being made. So, if you don't want to just spin your wheels, and if you don't want to give your stats, then look carefully at these areas: 1. Calorie counting, weigh and measure everything. 2. If exercising, check that what you're logging for a calorie burn is as correct as possible (there are numerous past threads on how to adjust this). 3. Check the activity level you plugged into MFP, it could be too high.

Please don't get discouraged. Many people need to adjust to find their "sweet spot" where they can lose without suffering. It can take awhile. As mentioned above, you can just take 100 calories off your daily goal, until you start losing. Do this gradually--100 cal a week. All you need is the correct data to see where you need to be to lose. Remember, he wins who eats the most and still loses. That's where you want to be. Good luck. Patience, and never give up.

Xellercin · June 2022

Well first question: what was your weight doing before you started all of this? Were you maintaining or gaining?

Stubborn weight loss

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