Fitness pal app and Weight loss injection is not working.

crankitupproductions
crankitupproductions Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Not really sure what’s happening, but adding all the ingredients and information as needed while also taking a weight loss injection, progress is very slow to minimal. The predicted/projected weight loss per the program is not working. Any help is greatly appreciated

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  • Theoldguy1
    Theoldguy1 Posts: 2,510 Member
    How long have you been at this?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,913 Member
    edited January 14
    Are your expectations too great?

    Did you implement any dietary or activity changes? I ask because I have friends on injectables who eat same old, same old. They’re expecting the jabs to do all the work for them.

    Likewise, we have new MFP members complain they’re not losing when all they added was the food log. Just jotting things down without making changes doesn’t magically occur in your body.

    It’s amazing what people get in their heads, and how their expectations have been set by checkout tabloids (my generation) and social media.

    If you did change things, how long ago? If you’re new to exercise, trying new foods, even flying over the holidays or for business, if you’re females and in the run up to that TOM, all can cause temporary weight gain.

    I gain four or five pounds of water weight following international or cross continent flights. I can easily gain two or three trying a new workout routine that makes me sore. Likewise, I can lose three or four following a couple hours of hot power yoga.

    It’s just water retention. It’s CRAZY how water affects the scale. And how that freaks people out.

    You need to give it four to six weeks. Don’t buy into the social media thing of “I lost 20 pounds in a month!!!!!”

    Regretfully, that doesn’t happen.

    I stopped closing my daily diary because MFP was giving me the “in four weeks you’ll weigh XX”. Even that was a ridiculous expectation and I didn’t need that pressure because, surely that meant I was failing, right?

  • Hungrycatapillar2025
    Hungrycatapillar2025 Posts: 95 Member
    Don’t the injections just stop you feeling hungry and decrease your appetite ?

    You still have to make the changes like eat healthier and eat all your calories every day, calorie deficit counts plus drink at 2-3 litres of water and move more or exercise more don’t you?

    Did you read the instructions?
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 144 Member
    edited January 14
    exactly what ARE you doing and what AREN'T you doing. Without knowing your actual numbers and the rest of your life habits it is hard to tell what is wrong. The person you need to be discussing this with is your doctor to make sure there isn't a medical reason first. my aunt tried to lose weight for years and nothing worked. They finally figured out what is wrong with her and now she is the smallest she has been in over 50 years.

    the formula for weight is Calories Burned - Calories consumed. If positive you will lose weight. If negative you will gain weight. So you need to verify your numbers. If you are consuming less calories than you are burning then you definately need to see a doctor.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,969 Member
    totameafox wrote: »
    exactly what ARE you doing and what AREN'T you doing. Without knowing your actual numbers and the rest of your life habits it is hard to tell what is wrong. The person you need to be discussing this with is our doctor to make sure there isn't a medical reason first. my aunt tried to lose weight for years and nothing worked. They finally figured out what is wrong with her and now she is the smallest she has been in over 50 years.

    the formula for weight is Calories Burned - Calories consumed. If positive you will lose weight. If negative you will gain weight. So you need to verify your numbers. If you are consuming less calories than you are burning then you definately need to see a doctor.

    This is correct, the bolded.

    But there's a twist: What some calculator or fitness tracker or other program say will be our calories burned is just a statistical estimate for demographically similar people. Most people are close to average, but a few can be surprisingly far off in calorie needs, high or low.

    On top of that, logging calorie intake can be a surprisingly subtle skill, with a learning curve. Many - maybe most - of us here have had some forehead-smacking moments when we discovered some systematic error in our logging that seriously needed to be corrected in order to make better progress.

    Finally, there's a lot of nonsense out in the world about how fast we should expect to lose weight. Someone who is severely obese can lose weight faster than someone who is less obese or overweight. The "20 pounds/10 kilos per month" kind of stuff we see online or in tabloids is unrealistic for most cases. Someone over 500 pounds/225 kilos might be able to do that with a super-limited eating routine. Below that, improbable. Hard, even for them. It's pretty common to see people show up here losing a pound or two a week (half a kilo or kilo), thinking that's slow progress. That's normal progress, good progress even. Maybe that's not the case for you, but you haven't said what progress you're hoping for, or have seen.

    The very best possible estimate of our personalized individual calorie needs is our own weight change results, as averaged over at least 4-6 weeks. If someone has menstrual cycles, they'd want to get a weekly average by weighing/comparing the same relative point in at least 2 different cycles. Until there's at least that much personal experience data, there's no basis to judge or adjust the goal. (Sometimes people expect results to be immediate, few days or a week. Not reliably going to happen, especially if a person has added exercise, changed range of foods eaten, or is a female with monthly cycles. Only averages over quite a few weeks tell the story.)

    If not losing on average over those time periods, it's likely time to reduce calorie intake a bit further, or add calorie-burning activity. For most people, acting on the food side of the equation will yield the better results.

    If we knew details about what you've been doing, we might be able to be more specific: How long you've been at it, current height/weight and age, whether you're exercising (what type, how much, how often), what your daily life activity (job and home chores) look like in general terms, how many calories you're eating, etc.

    You say "The predicted/projected weight loss per the program is not working", but you haven't told us what's predicted/projected, what you're actually experiencing, or what you mean by "the program".

    I'd like to help, but I don't have enough information to be specific. From personal experience, the quality of life improvement from reaching a healthy weight is more than worth the effort. That's why I'd like to help, because I want other people to have that result, too. It takes persistence, commitment, patience, and sometimes a little debugging of the plan. With more information, we might be able to help with that last part.

    Best wishes!
  • Mermaid828
    Mermaid828 Posts: 11 Member
    Most of the mainstream recommendations when taking a GLP1 is to eat until you are about 80% full, and have approximately 1 gram of protein per ideal body weight while maintaining a calories deficit. Need to add a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise 3 times a week.
    Obviously, this is just a generalization and not for everyone. Remember, there is not magic in the medication, you are the magic that makes it work.
    Disclaimer: I’m not a physician and this is not medical advice💜

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