Why Isn't the Weight Coming Off?

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Foods~ I am guessing to much sugar and sodium

You're not eating enough!!!!

You can't burn over 1,000 calories a day, eat none of those calories back, and expect your body to let go of weight. Your body is like "oh no we're not getting enough food, time to store up some fat!"

consider changing your macros to 40 carb/ 30 fat/ 30 protein and make sure you meet your fat and protein goal. Also make sure you are eating most of your exercise cals.

You are not eating near enough! With the exception of Monday & Wednesday, you are way too far under your calorie goal. Trust me, I know it's hard to wrap your mind around eating more to lose weight, but it works.

Its realy true when people say its 80% diet. This week take a step back with the excersise and focus on clean eating , natural carbs. ECT. And just relax your doing awsome changes for your body , and it will happen. ;-)

I think it would help if you tracked your sugar, I see alot of fruit juice loaded with sugar as well as the yogurt and cereal. sodium is generally at the top range daily, would try to drop that back and definately ramp up the water. I would never lose weight eating that much carbs. Would decrease that some and increase the protein. You need to be eating back some of those exercise calories and might be in starvation mode for not doing so.

Too few calories and too many carbs.

When I had trouble losing weight, but was working my tail off and watching my intakes my doctor looked at my diary and noted that I was eating way too many carbs. I try and keep my carbs at no more than 10g's per meal (including my fruit/veggie carbs).

It looks like everyone says not eating enough and sodium intake and I would probably agree. I know it says 2000mg of sodium but I know I never even get close to that. It looks like a majority of your sodium is coming from frozen dinners or whatever it seems you are eating for lunch. I would look at maybe eating a turkey/tuna sandwich or something instead. Not as convenient, but it'd cut the sodium in half and add some needed calories.

Also eating clean is when I started to see much better results. Instead of 300 calories of crackers or bread or something I ate some sliced turkey and a few pieces of fruit. Dinner would be pasta with fresh veggies instead of a microwaveable meal. Slightly more time and money, but if your gonna do something, do it right...

You don't eat enough. The min is 1200 net. You can't eat 1200 and burn 1200, that leaves nothing to fuel your body.

You are starving yourself and burning muscle in the process.

If you want to exercise that much, you have to eat more. MFP has a built in defict so you need to keep the net calories at 1200 unless under Drs ordered.

Less processed will help but main issue here is the lack of food!

Best of Luck!

I burned over 4100 calories this week, and I only lost .2 lbs. POINT TWO. That's it.

Please check out my food/exercise diary and tell me what you think! What is going on here?

I picked up the pace on exercising this week because what I was doing before wasn't showing results either. ARgh.

Thanks for any insight!

~Lisa

Hi Lisa. I want to start off by saying that scale weight loss and fat loss aren't the same thing.

It's stated that a healthy weight loss is 1 -2 pounds a week. This is talking about fat loss and not scale weight loss.

The scale doesn't have to barely move, in order for a person to lose pounds of fat.

Have you consider tracking your body fat percentage? It will help you see the difference between scale weight loss and fat loss. There's a formula you have to use.

I burned over 4100 calories this week, and I only lost .2 lbs. POINT TWO. That's it.

Please check out my food/exercise diary and tell me what you think! What is going on here?

I picked up the pace on exercising this week because what I was doing before wasn't showing results either. ARgh.

Thanks for any insight!

~Lisa

Your macros look way out of whack. 80 grams of protein and 200-300 grams of carbs? And yes, your sodium is way too high, coming from the processed dinners. If you are going to eat nuts, stick to almonds, not peanuts.
There isn't anything in your exercise log that I can see, so I can't tell what kind of activity you are doing, but you may need to increase your exercise intensity level.

Looks like to me that you've received a lot of honest advice and have a number of things to try to see what works for YOU! I do agree, though, that using processed foods could be an area you may try to improve. I am so guilty of the same, thing, though… they are quick, easy, and easy to track nutrient-wise… so do what I say, not what I do ;0). Really, the reason I'm replying though is your profile states you are concerned about diabetes. So am I. Type 2 runs on both sides of my family, one mostly weight related and the other side not weight-related at all. My advice it to go out to the American Diabetes Associate site and read… they have a ton of great information, even if you're not diabetic yet. Yes, you need to "dump" the ADDED sugars from your diet and the fruit juices. Fruit is fine, but eating whole fruit is a whole different process for your body than just drinking the juice. I love, love, love orange juice, but I limit myself now to ½ cup on each weekend day only. However, during the week, I eat whole fruits (fresh preferably… but winter is coming) at almost every meal.

Remember… it's really not just about the number of calories, it's also about the quality of calories - including the ratio of your carbs, proteins, and fats. I don't think there's any magic number that meets everyone's needs, so start somewhere and use a little trial and error to find out what works for you!

Best of luck… BTW, there should be some sort of entry in the exercise database for energy burned keeping up with 8 kids! :happy:

glad to hear the good update!!