4 Weeks in, no weight lost.

I completely understand, I was running everyday for 5 weeks and was not losing weight. I found it was in my eating, so I did a body cleanser using 5 Oranges daily, eating green raw veggies and chicken breast and lots of water. That helped break it after 3 days and I began losing weight again on my 1200 calories per day.

That happened to me too. It's very common. There are lots of posts about this. Be patient. I started losing inches immediately, but the pounds just recently.

Keep at it. They will shed off soon.

bump. havent lost in about a month and i go to gym 6 days a week. at 215lbs i should be LOSING!

What are you set to lose per week, and are those the last 20 lbs before your goal weight?

By looking at your diary, you may need to eat more. You should be eating back your exercise calories or half of them anyways. Maybe try changing your workout routine. It does take time! Did you get your measurements when you first started? And measured since then? You may not see the numbers going down on the scale, but you will on the measuring tape:bigsmile: Good luck!

I stalled a few weeks ago too. After a lot of reading on these boards I decided to up my daily calorie goal from 1200 to 1500. I have consistently lost a pound every week since.

What are your stats (height, weight, age) and what do you do for exercise? I am 200 lbs, 5'11" and 29 years old and I eat 3000 calories a day to lose weight. I also do P90X2 and have 12% body fat. But even when I was at 18% body fat, I was eating 2600 calories. It's a good chance you are under eating causing your body to conserve. Below is a very good link that can tell you caloric needs.


http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/

Looking at your food diary I noticed something you could try that has helped me-> lowering your carb intake.

Under "my home" and then "goals", change your setting to carb 40%, fat 30%, protein 30%, and try to stick with that ratio. I have my setting at lose 1 pound a week and try to stick to those macronutrient ratios. I don't worry if I go over on protein and some days I do that on purpose.

Good luck

Sometimes you need to up your calories. I wasn't losing a thing on 1,200 for 3 weeks and upped it to 1,300 and really started to see results!

Just shock your body, maybe try a diet like the sacred heart diet. Or even do no carbs for about three weeks. You will see a change. You also should change up your workout. If you were doing for example only 30mins of running try 45 or 50 mins...........
Also stay on s strict diet, like only veggies and try to cleanse your body

I've been using MFP for almost a full month now. I've been tracking diligently and haven't missed any days. I'm trying to lose my last 20lbs, but I just can't seem to shed them. I've been under my calorie goals, working out several times per week and eating balanced.

I am looking for some advice and help here as I am starting to get a bit frustrated.
Thanks

Hi again, I looked some at your diary and it seems, in general, you're in-taking a lot of sugar. Besides upping your calories like bast2112 wisely suggests, I'd suggest adding the sugar column to your diary so you can keep track of this as well as lowing your sugar intake (primarily lowering sugar that is non-fructose). here's a helpful article one this (it is one person's knowledge and experience on this matter) http://naturalbias.com/how-to-eliminate-sugar-from-your-diet/
To add sugar to your "nutrients tracked" in your diary, click the FOOD tab, and then the Settings tab under that.
Also, have you ever calculated your BMR (Basic Metabolic Rate)? This is under the "tools" tab. This will calculate the amount of calories you'd burn in a day if you laid in bed all day. I'm becoming more and more convinced that one should never go below their BMR calorie intake (an expert at a fitness center I used to go to even told me to not go below 1500, my BMR). I imagine your BMR is definitely more than you have been consuming (esp. this last Sunday).

Hope this helps at all--take care!

Try looking at and reducing your carbs, which is basically sugar. When you eat grains (bread, rice, pasta, etc.) it turns to glucose fairly rapidly. (Less rapidly if it is whole grains, but still provides your body an insulin rush.) This then can result in your body storing the carbs/glucose as fat. Pretty much what you DON'T want to do.

I've been eating a low carb diet after readying "The Diabetes Solution" and then "The Primal Blueprint." I'm a diabetic, so my first concern is my blood sugar and less about weight. However, that said, my husband and I are both eating low carb, feeling full/satisfied and definitely losing weight.

Everyone is different, just thought I'd offer what has worked for me.

I'm tracking my diabetic journey and goals on my blog at: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/golf4birdies
Or if you want to check out the website about low carb eating and all the reasoning behind it, go to www.marksdailyapple.com.

Hope that helps. Good luck!

Hey everyone,
I am 27 years old, 6' tall, 222 pounds. I run a few times per week and do weights (rushfit) other days.
I was 380lbs in my teens and lost that weight doing Atkins but this time around I want to be healthy.

I am going to up my calories to jump start my metabolism and try eating back some of my workout calories as suggested.

I want this to work so I am willing to do whatever it takes.

Based on your stats, you should be eating around 2700 calories a day total.

BMR is around 2193
Moderately active with working out 5 days a week

TDEE = 2193 * 1.55 = 3399
CN = 3399 * 0.8 = 2719


If you eat that along with 35% carbs, 40% protein and 25% fats and stress ST more than cardio, you should be able to cut pretty well. Also with this method, you do NOT eat exercise calories as it's a part of the TDEE calc.