Why am I not losing 2 pounds

sargarcia67 · April 10

I did all the steps for 2 pounds a week but only losing one. Am I doing something wrong? Any help

Is appreciated

AnnPT77 · April 10

What's wrong with losing a pound a week? That's a good rate.

Also, if you've only been doing it for less than 4-6 weeks, not enough time to get a reasonable average weight loss trend, you may just be seeing a water retention effect, not slower fat loss.

I hope you realize that the calorie estimates assume that we're statistically average, but we individual humans can vary from that average? Most people are close, but some can be noticeably far off (high or low) and a rare few very far off. Your 4-6 week results - or a whole menstrual cycle if you have those - will give you enough experience data to personalize your calorie estimate . . . assuming your logging has been consistent and reasonably accurate, of course.

So cheat meals/days or other logging inaccuracies can also be a factor. (Logging can be a surprisingly subtle skill: There's a learning curve.)

Best wishes!

yirara · April 11

Everything what AnnPT77 said. Also, you don't provide us any more information on your current stats. Thus as a general advice: MFP assumes a minimum amount of nutrition as healthy. You can chose the highest weightloss rate, but if you have too little weight to lose you'll lose slower. The minimum given to any female is 1200 calories per day, for a male 1500. Thus if you got this number then your weightloss goal is too high and you won't reach it. A smaller body can only lose so much body fat per given time, plus you need sufficient nutrition to stay healthy, and to maintain the diet.

tomcustombuilder · April 11

unless you're overweight by quite a bit 2 pounds is probably a little too aggressive. You haven't really given any information about yourself so any real suggestions are a wild guess at best.

One thing to understand is you can log all the data and figures and numbers calories and whatever in an equation and it does not mean that it is going to go just like that in real life. You have time frames to wait you have water shifting you have the potential of your tracking and calories overtime is not accurate. You have data entries from food that is crowdsourced on this site that may be off so the only real way to figure things is to stick with a weekly calorie amount for 4 to 6 weeks as mentioned above and go from there as far as any kind of changes that you need to make.

age_is_just_a_number · April 11

as always, agree with Ann.
you need to give it time.

Why am I not losing 2 pounds

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