Need opinions please!

Fairysoul
Fairysoul Posts: 1,361 Member
edited October 4 in Health and Weight Loss
Still no weight loss, I am thinking maybe I need to change my active settings?? I really need advice here, I haven't seen a drop in weight in weeks, and I always stay withing my calories... my sodium is rarely over... I workout at least 4 days a week, so what am I doing wrong? I even drink lots of water like almost 12 glasses a day, and eat more veggies... My calories are at 1530, does it need to go down? I am a stay at home mom one four year old and one 6 month old, I am on my feet quite a bit, I clean and cook all meals. I exercise at least 4 times a week, in fact I am on the 30 day shred. I also go for walks and shovel snow often around here. My settings are on active. It's not what I eat because I eat small amounts of lean meats but mostly try to eat vegetarian, I really make all my own meals, we don't like pre packaged meals...

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  • A_New_Horizon
    A_New_Horizon Posts: 1,555 Member
    I woud try changing your setting to instead of being active, sedetary - I know you are on your feet alot, but it will change your calories. You can try that for a few weeks and see what happens. Sounds like you are doing everything correct but change is needed somewhere. Try reducing your calories to see what happens or you can zig zag your calories to shock your body. Best of luck to you, and I hope the scale starts moving again.
  • cskalaj
    cskalaj Posts: 94 Member
    Haha! I use this response to this question a lot...

    I was curious about this, too, so I played around with it and there is a less than 500 calorie difference for "calories burned from normal daily activity" for me (5'6 female) between if I put "sedentary" and "highly active" lifestyle. Furthermore, since I don't have SO much to lose, even though I put that I want to lose 2 pounds per week, the maximum it will let me lose with a sedentary lifestyle is 1.4 pounds per week because they never want you to go under 1,200 calories (which is healthy) so even if I said I was a "highly active" lifestyle and still said I wanted to lose 2 pounds per week, they only gave me like an extra 150 calories per day if I didn't exercise. So all I'm saying is that unless you have a lot to lose, the difference between "light" and "active" won't really do a lot except give you maybe an extra 50 calories per day.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    If you are logging your workouts and eating those calories back, you might lower the setting to whatever is the next level down after active. I don't remember the settings but surely there is something between sedentary and active. Moderately acitve or something like that??
  • Lisa_222
    Lisa_222 Posts: 301 Member
    How overweight are you? If you're not that far away from your goal, you might be not needing to lose pounds. Measure and see if you've lost inches. I know that happened tome when I wasn't dieting but was working out. total ten inches off and no weight loss. Seems impossible, but it can happen. 1500 calories doesn't sound like that much if you're doing good work outs. But you can go as low as 12. Just be sure you eat healthy.
  • Lisa_222
    Lisa_222 Posts: 301 Member
    How overweight are you? If you're not that far away from your goal, you might be not needing to lose pounds. Measure and see if you've lost inches. I know that happened tome when I wasn't dieting but was working out. total ten inches off and no weight loss. Seems impossible, but it can happen. 1500 calories doesn't sound like that much if you're doing good work outs. But you can go as low as 12. Just be sure you eat healthy.
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