extreme diet to healthy NOT WORKING HELP

You def. need to eat more.

Your muscles could also be swelling up and it could also be water weight. I had this problem at first too. I was doing everything I was suppose to be doing and it took about a month or so before the scale went down at all. Good luck

i highly doubt you are burning that much

Also, if you make your food & exercise diary public, then we can probably have a look and see if there's anything there that might need work.

But agree you are probably eating too little.

maybe try eating more.....

You for sure are NOT eating nearly enough, what is your body suppose to get its nutrients and things from if you are burning 3300 a day, which seems very high unless you are on like the biggest loser ranch with nothing else to do but dedicate your day to exercise. But for the sake of argument, lets believe its right, you are not eating enough, period!

I think you should be getting at least 1600 to 1800 calories a day. Eat some carbs and protein before you work out and protein after. Like Greek yogurt with a scoop of protein powder mixed in and an apple. Your body burns way more calories after you worked out too. And your body will retain water when you start working out. If freaks out thinking it needs to store it because you are sweating so much. After about six weeks your body will start shedding pounds. BUT! Don't let that discourage you because you will lose inches! Get a body measuring tape and take your measurements and then do it again in two weeks. I think inches are more motivational. I went from a size ten/twelve to a four and only lost 15 pounds because I put on so much muscle!

I am not saying you lying, but 3300 calories a day is a lot. Depending what you do and your weight obviously.

As an example:

A 165lb Runner would burn on average about 2800 +- calories during a marathon (26.2 miles)
A 210lb Runner would burn on average about 3500 +- calories during a marathon (26.2 miles)

So are you doing that sort of physical exertion on a daily basis ? Unlikely.

Also calories burnt is a difficult thing to measure, how are you doing it ?

The 3 main methods are:

Leaf Test Vo2 profile (tested with Vo2 max training at a given centre such as leaf)

First beat algorithm (heart rate combined with your given variables such as age/gender/weight etc)

Speed/distance (how much work at a given speed over a given distance) which is the least accurate yet the most common and can be out by a few hundred calories at times.

Most people i know measure calories based on there weight and how far they walked/ran etc and then guess for strength exercises such as weights which is hard to gauge.

The real key to it all is eating healthily, try to burn more calories then you put in and measure what you put in, alot of the information on MFP is user input based and i have found the nutritional data to often be a little incorrect for given measurements.

Make sure you read your food labels often in per 100g and divide or multiply by your food measurement to get an accurate nutritional output.

remember that 3500 calories is about a pound of weight, but weight is funny thing it can be muscle. fat or water weight, you can lose fat but put on weight by gaining muscle, you can lose weight by losing water but retain the same or even gain fat from food etc.

3500 calories = 1lb approx, so cut 250 calories a day from your diet, that is 1lb every 2 weeks, or 2 lbs a month. Doesnt sound a lot but over a year it is 24 lbs. of course you can do more than that and combines with exercise even more.

Eat more and often, every 2 to 3 hours, anything consumed is a meal, try 4 to 6 meals a day. (a snack like an apple is a meal in this context). Increase protein intake and reduce carbs but keep enough for energy, no carbs after about 8pm is a good idea.

Good luck

when I first started on mfp I was eating around the same amount as you, though not burning nearly so much. I asked for advice from the mfp community about why I was not losing weight and got the same answers - to eat more. I had never before bought into the 'you must eat to lose weight' thing but thought I would give it a try, since I've tried everything else.

I upped my calorie intake to at least 1200 a day, and I eat back some of my exercise calories too. For the first 2 or 3 weeks, I didnt lose anything. In fact, I think I gained a couple of pounds but luckily I had been warned this might happen and stuck with it. I then started to lose weight, not at a great rate, I am losing around 0.5 pound a week, but it is coming off.

So, in a nutshell, the advice that everyone else has given is sound - eat more and you will see a difference.

3300 a day includes your BMR - which is around 2000 a day (in my case I burn 1.4 calories a minute when I am inactive)

Her calorie burns does not sound all that wonky - I also have a Bodymedia Fit, and my calories burns range between 2800 (low exercise day) and 3600 (high exercise day)

yeah i realise that, i was assuming the poster meant from cardio and strength training, but if they meant BMR then it is within reason.

Though in my experience with people i know, gadgets often make things harder for them based on what they report.

For example a daily measure weight is psychologically weakening IMO, it needs to be done on a weekly basis.

The thing i have noticed with things like bodymedia is people tend to panic on a daily or even hourly basis and it detrimental overall, for the people i know of course, everyone is different so use whatever works for you.


Weight loss is calories in vs calories out, weight however can be fat, muscle or water, losing weight needs to be specific in terms of what you are losing and are you meant to or want to.


Cheers