Day 30 lost nothing

catic
catic Posts: 156
edited November 8 in Health and Weight Loss
What am I doing wrongh? I upped my calories to 1500, I exercise, I'm staying within my calorie range. And I weight the same. WTF?

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  • prism6
    prism6 Posts: 484 Member
    Are you losing inches? how much do you want to lose?
  • jlnk
    jlnk Posts: 188 Member
    Can you open your food diary?
  • catic
    catic Posts: 156
    I haven't checked my inches since the I first took my measurments. I would like to lose 30lbs. I am 170 want to hit at least 140.

    How do I open my diary?
  • catic
    catic Posts: 156
    OK, I think it's open now..
  • vwlgirl
    vwlgirl Posts: 40 Member
    I also am having the same results. I have been very strict with my foods and exercise since the New Year and have not lost any weight OR inches?? I am frustrated. Any suggestions???
  • jonski1968
    jonski1968 Posts: 4,490 Member
    Having a quick look at your diary....I think you should try dropping your carbs after luchtime and maybe adding another smaller meal...Try it for a week and see how it goes...Sugary carbs are Baaaad..
  • kerri_lm
    kerri_lm Posts: 4
    snap and im not even looseing the inches :-(
  • ava33
    ava33 Posts: 26
    Don't know if some days you're just not logging all meals but you seem to have calories left over a lot of times. Try and eat all your calories consistently or at least try and meet your BMR (http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/).
  • 1a1a
    1a1a Posts: 761 Member
    Don't know what food related problems you are having (maybe inaccurate tracking meaning you eat too much, maybe not eating enough) but I can suggest you do TurboFire, I found myself losing the most doing that work out series.
  • Naomi_84
    Naomi_84 Posts: 197 Member
    You don't seem to be eating much and not many fruits or veggies. Increase your veg uptake, drink 8 glasses of water a day and on your home page ensure you are netting at least 1200 calories a day after exercise. Many days you are coming under this and this may be a reason your body doesn't want to shed the fat. Also start measuring yourself, all the exercise may be increasing your muscle but you may be losing inches. Good luck!
  • lisabstrong
    lisabstrong Posts: 165 Member
    I took the liberty to look at your diary for the last week or so....you are eating too much chemical foods and you are not eating vegetables. Have a look at the Eat Clean diet by Tosca Reno. She is on Facebook and talks about what foods to eat and portion sizes. Its a combination of eating veggies/fruit plus protein every three hours Ie 3 meals and 2 snack, limiting breads and pasta and instead going for whole grains like oatmeal, brown rice,quinoa or teff grains.

    Good luck. Tosca helped me change my life, flatten my tummy and losing 44 lbs so it works.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    If you have your weightloss set at 2lbs a week, try it at 1lb a week for a while.
  • catic
    catic Posts: 156
    Thanks for all the tips! I will definitly check out that FB page.

    I am logging everything I eat, except I don't log the water I drink, I do drink more then enough water. I know I do not eat enough fruit/veggies....
  • Faye_Anderson
    Faye_Anderson Posts: 1,495 Member
    I was told to track sodium and sugar, I try not to go over these. The only time I ignore the sugar count is when it's made up of fruit and veg, I have been consistently losing between 1.5 and 2.5lb a week. This is what has worked for me :smile:
  • catic
    catic Posts: 156
    What about orange juice? I'm addicted to it and drink it every morning. I even water it down so I can drink more. But it's so much sugar...if I cut that out?

    What about a protien smoothie in the morning or lunch or something?
  • SteveTries
    SteveTries Posts: 723 Member
    My personal view is that there are a couple of things you could change that ought to improve your results.
    I would suggest the following:

    a) reduce your individual meal sizes a little and recover the reduced calories by having a portion of fruit mid morning and mid afternoon
    b) with the exception of your fibre cereal all of your other carbs are high sugar, high glycemic index which (if I understand correctly) is releasing glucose rapidly into the bloodstream and giving you an insulin spike that will be taking your body out of fat-burning mode each time. Replace your carb sources with low to moderate GI sources
    c) personally I get better results from a lower Carb diet than you are using. I try to keep the carbs to 30g-35g per meal. Again I believe this is avoiding insulin spikes and keeping my body in fat burning mode all day long.

    I would echo cverey, 2lbs a week isn't realistic for most people. It takes 3,500 calories defecit to burn a pound of fat, so for 2lbs a week you'd have to be 1000 calories below maintenance level every day!
  • catic
    catic Posts: 156
    I have set the guidline to a 1lbs a week loss
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,426 MFP Moderator
    My personal view is that there are a couple of things you could change that ought to improve your results.
    I would suggest the following:

    a) reduce your individual meal sizes a little and recover the reduced calories by having a portion of fruit mid morning and mid afternoon
    b) with the exception of your fibre cereal all of your other carbs are high sugar, high glycemic index which (if I understand correctly) is releasing glucose rapidly into the bloodstream and giving you an insulin spike that will be taking your body out of fat-burning mode each time. Replace your carb sources with low to moderate GI sources
    c) personally I get better results from a lower Carb diet than you are using. I try to keep the carbs to 30g-35g per meal. Again I believe this is avoiding insulin spikes and keeping my body in fat burning mode all day long.

    I would echo cverey, 2lbs a week isn't realistic for most people. It takes 3,500 calories defecit to burn a pound of fat, so for 2lbs a week you'd have to be 1000 calories below maintenance level every day!

    Unless you have an intolerance to carbs, there is no reason to do low GI foods or low carbs. Low GI foods really don't do anything in terms of long term weight loss. Below is a quote from acg67 (a member of the forum) that just posted a study in the below thread. As long as you stick within your macro's or more importantly your calories, you will lose weight. Here is the kicker, since food is your fuel source, you have to ensure you are eating enough of it and not eating below your metabolic rate or you will be at risk of slow your metabolism.


    To answer the OP's question, if you see your not losing at 1500 calories, you have two options, eat more or exercise less. The first option is the better option as there are so many benefits of exercise besides weight loss. I would bump your calories up another 300. It may appears that you are very high on your carbs. My suggestion is two things; eat 1800 calories and go into your goals and change your carbs to 40%, protein to 40% and fats to 20%. Additionally, what kind of exercise are you doing? Are you weight lifting? If not, you should start and lift heavy so you fail at 8-10 reps.



    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/384002-are-carbs-evil?error_user_id=252210&error_username=psulemon&page=2


    besides the fact that GI is mostly irrelevant to the avg person

    An 18-mo randomized trial of a low-glycemic-index diet and weight change in Brazilian women

    http://www.ajcn.org/content/86/3/707.abstract

    Conclusions: Long-term weight changes were not significantly different between the HGI and LGI diet groups; therefore, this study does not support a benefit of an LGI diet for weight control. Favorable changes in lipids confirmed previous results.

    Reduced glycemic index and glycemic load diets do not increase the effects of energy restriction on weight loss and insulin sensitivity in obese men and women.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177201

    In summary, lowering the glycemic load and glycemic index of weight reduction diets does not provide any added benefit to energy restriction in promoting weight loss in obese subjects.

    Long-term effects of 2 energy-restricted diets differing in glycemic load on dietary adherence, body composition, and metabolism in CALERIE: a 1-y randomized controlled trial

    http://www.ajcn.org/content/85/4/1023.abstract?ijkey=57903af923cb2fcdc065ffd37b00a32e22f4c5cf&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

    Conclusions:These findings provide more detailed evidence to suggest that diets differing substantially in glycemic load induce comparable long-term weight loss.

    No effect of a diet with a reduced glycaemic index on satiety, energy intake and body weight in overweight and obese women.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17923862

    CONCLUSION:

    This study provides no evidence to support an effect of a reduced GI diet on satiety, energy intake or body weight in overweight/obese women. Claims that the GI of the diet per se may have specific effects on body weight may therefore be misleading.
  • DiannaMoorer
    DiannaMoorer Posts: 783 Member
    What about orange juice? I'm addicted to it and drink it every morning. I even water it down so I can drink more. But it's so much sugar...if I cut that out?

    What about a protein smoothie in the morning or lunch or something?
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    I think you do drink a lot of orange juice. That is a lot of sugar with very little fiber. Try upping your protein count to at least 30 in the morning. Cut way back on carbs that are not green vegetables. Eat more veggies!!!I I think your carbs are too high and your protein is too low. Don't worry about going over your protein count. It's easier to lose weight when you cut back on carbs and go up on your protein. Good luck. keep us posted.
  • Dtho5159
    Dtho5159 Posts: 1,054 Member
    I looked back 4 days into your diary and saw next to no fruits or veggies. Definitely make sure you get them in AND make sure you drink enough water.
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    As I have read here many times, it is IMPERATIVE that you eat almost all of your calories for the day. It cannot be stressed enough.
  • catic
    catic Posts: 156
    Thanks for the TIPS.
    GOAL: eat more fruits/veggies.

    so hard
  • SteveTries
    SteveTries Posts: 723 Member

    Unless you have an intolerance to carbs, there is no reason to do low GI foods or low carbs. Low GI foods really don't do anything in terms of long term weight loss. Below is a quote from acg67 (a member of the forum) that just posted a study in the below thread. As long as you stick within your macro's or more importantly your calories, you will lose weight. Here is the kicker, since food is your fuel source, you have to ensure you are eating enough of it and not eating below your metabolic rate or you will be at risk of slow your metabolism.


    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/384002-are-carbs-evil?error_user_id=252210&error_username=psulemon&page=2

    How on earth can you read that study (and I mean the study and not the abstract) and conclude that GI levels have been proved to have no impact on weight loss? Are you just parrotting someone else's sloppy conclusion????? Sorry to be so forthright but you made statements above that absolutely assert something that has not been at all proven and in doing so expressly stated my advice was wrong.

    That study used a caloric defecit of just 100-300.
    Nowhwere in that study can I find what carb levels were in the diet
    It recorded a 1.9kg loss on the low GI vs 1.3kg loss on high GI. It dismissed that as not being statistically relevant!
    There didn't seem to be any control that prevented the low GI group from consuming twice the carbs of the high GI if they wanted
    The conclussions drawn we based on the weight of each group 9 months after calorie restriction ended.

    You used THAT to invalidate my approach?

    Please read what I wrote again. I personally use and find effective a low-moderate carb level when dieting. I aim to keep my body in a constant fat burning state by keeping insulin levels constant and avoiding spikes from high glucose levels. I chose to use low GI sources as it means I can eat more at one sitting and feel fuller. I never said you couldn't achieve the same from high GI
  • Verbalcody
    Verbalcody Posts: 24 Member
    its always simple. you are eating too much, not excercising enough. period. your counts are probably wrong or you cheat. 30 days at a defecit, even severely undereating, will lose you weight. no way it wont.
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