sick of not losing weight

There is no need for you to be drinking a protein shake. You aren't burning enough to warrant it. Looking over your diary, it's very highly unlikely you need the protein. Add in the fact you are trying to lose instead of gaining muscle mass. Cut it out and replace with simple grains.

You have to choose between cutting or gaining muscle. If you are cutting fat, then cut fat. You can't do both reliably.

This is bad advice, when you are in a caloric deficit you should have a higher % of your diet dedicated to protein to avoid losing muscle while losing fat.

Exact opposite what bodybuilding.com is saying. You either cut fat or you gain muscle. You have to choose what your goal is, you can't do both reliably. Looking at the diary there is no way the OP is lifting enough to warrant a protein shake over food. If she is she isn't logging it as 150-400 calorie burns is a pretty poor weight lifting session. Bad advice is telling someone to drink a protein shake when they are trying to lose weight as a protein shake itself goes against that theory. There is weight loss shakes and there is protein shakes. Muscle enhancing protein shakes not the greatest thing in the world to be chugging if you want the scale to go down. She is drinking a great brand of protein shakes though.

I would only suggest a protein shake is she is not able to get 25-30% with her regular diet. If it takes a shake to get her their then she should have one, if she can get there with clean food that is the preferable way.

I agree, I still wonder since I read that said she is lifting that she is putting down her burns for the weight sessions. It might be beneficial to have a HRM if you don't and start recording those as well. I know I started doing that because on some heavy lifting nights it can get into 500-600 cals burnt pretty fast before I even hit cardio.

Weighing and measuring food is so important. Keeping a diary is essential. Sometimes you lie to yourself about how much you eat.

Don't weigh yourself so often. Weight fluxes so much from day to day. It is the long term that you see the true results. Allow yourself to weight just once a week or every 6 weeks. Often times if we weigh one day and see a great lose, we might be tempted to reward ourselves with food. I am doing mine once a week. :flowerforyou:

Have you had your thyroid levels tested?

She is already skinny, trying to lose a very small amount of weight. Eating low calories and see-sawing not straight gaining. Thyroid levels is very highly unlikely an issue.

I like you! you called me skinny!!!
I don't log the weight sessions but I do about 40 mins 3 x a week, on top of a couple of 40 min cardio and now 30 DS 20 mins a day, hard to exercise in the w/ends as I can't get to the gym. (hence the see sawing)
I'm also not at all new to working out so its not anything like the sudden shock of weight training, have worked out at gyms for 20 years.
I think its gotta be the protein shakes, and its easy to see all I have to do is cut them out and if thats the issue the results should show up pretty quick, if everything else is as good as I think it is......I know you shouldn't weigh yourself every day but that said if what you are doing works I know from experience you will see a steady downward slide, if you have the balance right.
Just gotta keep tweaking to I get it but boy it does your head in sometimes!!!

I see saw a bit, I was always told it's from the muscles repairing themselves and filling with water.

I do a lot of lifting and usually on my rest days I'll see a slight bump in weight (a couple pounds) then it'll drop for a few days. I weight myself same time in the morning. It's interesting.. Like this last week it went like this...

(I started the week at 303.2) Wed: 305.4, Thurs: 304.8, Friday 302.8, Sat 301.4, Sun 300.2.. today I'm back up to 301.6 and will probably gain more tomorrow morning even though I'll put 2 hours in at the gym tonight. Then most likely Wed. it'll start heading back down. That's just how the weight loss has went for me since really lifting weights the last 2 and a half months. I only log mfp once a week or so on my weight but I log my weight daily on my phone. I make a zig zag going down instead of a nice bell curve.

As for the skinny comment looking at your picture you look pretty solid skinny. I just call it how I see it :-D

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just a note I eat LOads OF VEGES, BUT FREQUENTLY DON'T LOG THINGS LIKE LETTUCE AND BROCCOLLI/GREENS AS THE CALORIE amount is so small and one can never eat too many greens. So there is no day that I never eat any veges, in fact lunch and dinner are based on veges. Don't eat much fruit though.
Thanks for some interesting comments, I think I'll ditch the shakes and substitue with something really plain like an apple or some oats and milk.It wouldn't take long to see if thats the issue.

Everything has calories- even vegetables!

maybe you should try logging EVERYTHING - all the exercise, all the food (fruit, veg, whatever) and then see what your actual calories in and out looks like after a couple of weeks...

I agree with this!!!
And.... looks like you are doing too much cardio...try decreasing that a bit and make sure you are eating your exercise cals!!! A body needs fuel when training!!
And don't worry about the weekends off...your body needs rest.
If you don't have much to lose...use other means besides the scale as a gauge...the Pant-o-meter, others compliments, mirror, how your energy is and how you generally feel. It will happen. Binders on and hang in there!!