WAH! Why aren't I losing anything?!

oddly enough you may not be eating enough.

otherwise i couldnt tell ya. I havent really lost anything and ive been doin this since late june :sad:

You could be gaining muscle? It weighs more than fat. I would give it some more time to really check your results. Keep up the hard work!

Edit: Just saw your calorie intake, you might be in "Starvation Mode", might wanna switch up the diet

You need to eat more. You could be in starvation mode.

You probably need to eat more! I know that's not fun to hear, but I've done the same thing. What ends up happening is your body is storing fat because it thinks you're starving it. Of course, I don't know how much you weigh, but fitnesspal will tell you how approximately how many calories to eat. You can lessen that by a hundred or so, but it's really pretty right on for how much to eat for maximum weightloss. If you don't eat enough, you won't lose weight.

A big factor that most people don't consider is their salt intake. I agree that you should eat more, but also monitor the amount of sodium you are consuming. I was eating 1500 calories a day, exercising for at least an hour 6 days a week, and didn't lose a pound. I went back and looked at my sodium intake from someone advising me to, and on some days I was eating 4500 mg of sodium! You should have no more than 2300 a day, but shoot for 2000mg.

so eating more calories will help me lose? Is my body hanging onto stuff because it is not getting enough?

You should be eating a MINIMUM of 1200 calories per day NOT INCLUDING exercise calories. If you use MFP or another online calculator to determine calories burned, I'd recommend eating about 50%. If you use a heart rate monitor, anywhere from 75-100% of the exercise calories.

When you eat too little your body feels like your starving it so it conserves food--eg turns it to fat. SInce what you want is to burn fat and calories the last thing you need to is to make your body think that storing fat is a good idea! There have been lots of threads of starvation mode if you want a more detailed explanation of it--a lot from people who found that when they increased their daily calories they began to lose weight!

Definitely need to be eating more. You are starving yourself and your body is very confused when you do this. The only way to burn fat is to fuel your body. You are going to lose valuable muscle by not eating enough even with the exercise. Not good. Eat more and keep going with the exercise - this is how we speed up our metabolism - by EATING... good luck! :bigsmile:

Sweety 975 calories your body is starving and depending on how long you been going like this everything you eat could be storing as fat try to eat atleast 1200 calories like these other ladies has suggested:flowerforyou: :happy:

You often hear muscle weighs more than fat, but think of it this way - if you place an ounce of muscle next to an ounce of fat, the fat pile will be much larger, because muscle is more dense. So the goal is to reduce fat and increase muscle mass which may not show up in weight loss (at least not right away). My advice is not to put so much emphasis on weight. I followed a 1200 calorie diet and exercised 6 days a week and after 3 weeks lost about 2 pounds. Aargh. But, I have a scale that also measures % body fat and found that I had reduced body fat by about 3 %. Yay! I also reduced my metabolic age by 9 years! This helped me to deal with the fact that I hadn't really lost any weight. Now 40 days in, I have lost a total of 10 pounds and body fat, as well as inches, continues to drop. That's the kind of encouragement I need to keep going. So, perhaps it will help to think of it in different terms

Echo echo echo....


Raised my calories 800 + binges to 1200 steady and finally at 1450 I started losing...AND I eat at least 1/2 of my exercise calories. Sounds strange huh? But it is true.

I know this reasoning blew my mind when I first joined MFP, but it's been a godsend in making this lifestyle change doable.

Definitely eat more. No one should go under 1200 calories without speaking to their doctor first. The human body needs food for fuel and your metabolism will slow down to compensate. That's my two cents.

It might have to do with your lack of calorie intake. You need a specific amount of calories for your body to not store fat. If it thinks it is going without, it will store what you put into it.


Good luck!!