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Why am I not losing weight?

gymgirls01
gymgirls01 Posts: 2 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello, I am just starting out on my weight loss journey. I am a 68 year old woman and for the last week I have been faithfully logging my meals, exercising and drinking water. I am following a high protein diet, moderate fat, low carbs with a caloric intake of 1200. My macros has been planned for me by a specialist according to my height, weight and age. She said I should lose between 1 to 2 pounds a week. I have not lost any weight and it has been almost three weeks now. Please offer me some suggestions as this isn't working for me. Do I need to be more patient? Another woman, one year older and about my same height and weight told me she has lost over 30 pounds in the first month. This is making me so frustrated! :/

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  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,267 Member
    edited February 22 Answer ✓
    I’d say stay the course. Our bodies do all sorts of things that cause the scale to shift or not shift. How are you calculating your 1200? are you using a digital food scale? Can you make your diary public so we can check your logging?

    I’m calling BS on your friend who lost 30 in a month 😉 Maybe she got an amputation. Kidding.

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  • gymgirls01
    gymgirls01 Posts: 2 Member
    Hello and thank you for reaching out to me. I will try to show my diary. I do use a food scale to weight out my protein. Your comment about the other woman made me laugh....thank you, I needed that! :)
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,324 Member
    A week is not long enough and your friend did not lose 30 lbs in a month
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,702 Member
    tomcustombuilder wrote: »
    A week is not long enough and your friend did not lose 30 lbs in a month

    Not without the removal of some organs or part of a limb!
  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,267 Member
    edited February 22
    gymgirls01 wrote: »
    Hello and thank you for reaching out to me. I will try to show my diary. I do use a food scale to weight out my protein. Your comment about the other woman made me laugh....thank you, I needed that! :)

    I would use your food scale for as much as possible! I use it to measure pasta and oatmeal before I boil it. I use it for peanut butter. For grapes. For chips. For a slice of Publix sourdough bread. For sliced apples. Grams and ounces are much more accurate than choosing an entry that says “medium size apple” or eyeballing. I only use measuring cups for cooked rice, really.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,532 Member
    I think I am getting the hint from csplatt though I am not able to see your diary myself.

    I was already about to post about using the scale for protein. I mean using it for protein in terms of ensuring you hit a certain minimum? That I can understand! :)

    Logging is an interesting experiment. It can serve many uses. You could use logging as a restriction: I am logging to ensure I can't have this or that. Or you can use logging to discover all the things you CAN have and to MAXIMIZE the goodies you can fit in your day, subject to you meeting your targets.

    To do that you really should seek to log everything to the gram before putting in in your mouth :wink: But then you can look at things and see what's worth it to you and what isn't.

    Most of us discover that there is a LOT of "slack" of extra calories that mean next to nothing to us in terms of enjoyment or satiation and yet we take them in during our average day. Calories like that don't cost us much effort to lose or substitute with something more meaningful.

    But in order to discover that low hanging fruit we do have to have logs that reflect what goes into us. And then review them.

    Why did the mention of weighing protein bring this to the forefront? Cause considering a good 10 years of logs I don't think that I've often had the reaction: "Oh my kittens" look at how expensive and underperforming this protein based item was. But I've often had the opinion that some items that I've eaten have underperformed. And it has mostly been items based on fats or fats combined with sugars or fats combined with salt. Because that's how the math tends to work. At least based on my logging! :-)

    So yeah: I would weight nuts before I would weight chicken, as an example. And I would definitely weight chocolate covered nuts before beef. Though truth be told, I would actually weight all of them... and still do! :smiley:
  • Kiwi2mfp
    Kiwi2mfp Posts: 174 Member
    Did that friend happen to give birth in that month? Because, besides that event, the only way a person can lose that much in one month is if they are morbidly obese or (as mentioned above) they had a body part amputated. I would guess you aren't accurately tracking if you aren't losing at 1200 calories. Getting an accurate food scale would likely benefit you. Also, be sure you are staying hydrated. Water weight can really mess with the scale.

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