Disappointing Weigh In Today

I'm in the same boat. After getting some advice from my friends, I think it's due to not eating enough. Also, I have been reading that after a vigorous work out (zumba) you may retain water in your muscles, adding to your weight. But I really don't know the answer, I've just decided to increase my calorie intake and get closer to my goal, drink even more than the recommended 8 cups, take my measurements and use those as an indicator of lost inches rather than just pounds. I felt very discouraged too, just yesterday, but don't worry about it, you are doing great with the exercise. Just try to tweak things here and there and see what works.

Have you charted your weight based on your menstrual cycle? This may be TMI but I know I weigh more during my period and during ovulation and weigh the least right after my period ends. That could have something to do with it.

I wouls suggest just weighing yourself once a week, like every Wednesday as you have been doing. I found that the more I weighed myself the more frustrated I got. Measure by how your clothes fit.

My weigh in is Wednesday also. Scale only moved a bit this wee, but I generally eat exercise cals back and I feel better and usually lose about a pound each week. Eating those extra calories just seems to help my body function better.

Good Morning!
Have you taken your measurements?
Sometimes you wont notice your body changing and yet there is a gradual firming and changing of the weight distribution.
I would strongly recommend taking the inches of your neck, breasts, waist, hips, and butt. you can also do your biceps and thighs as well.
Also, the dynamics of every relationship is different but I would eat (withing reason) what you feel your body needs, maybe try eating half of your exercise calories back to start with and go from there.
Best of luck to you on your journey

I have been at the same weight for 2 weeks now

It appears to me that you aren't eating enough. All my research lately points to - don't eat less than your BMR. I moved my calories UP from MFP recommended to my BMR and lost 4.8 lbs in one week... I have about 100 lbs more to lose (I've lost just over 100 to date) and am eating almost 2000 calories a day - and losing just fine.

It really seems to be the case that you must eat more to weigh less.

Good luck!

I would eat back those exercise calories. If you don't want to eat all of them back you don't have to, but I'd at least eat most of them back. Not sure how much water you are drinking, but if you aren't drinking at least the 8 glasses I'd start with that as a minimum.

OMG .6 is better than going up 3 lbs. You should be grateful for what you have accomplished. There was a time, for about 4 months straight, that I didn't lose an ounce... a smidge... not even a feather's weight of anything. I would have felt successful losing .6. You can make a change today that will help.... go over your diary and check for high sodium or excess sugar that you might not need. Run around the block... eat some carbs and enjoy your life instead of stressing! It will all be ok :bigsmile:

figure out what your bmr is and try to net that many cals per day. i'm pretty sure your bmr isn't 1200 cals, and you're not even eating back your exercise cals! however, the "not eating enough" makes more of a difference when you have less weight to lose: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/TrainerRobin/view/myth-or-fact-calories-in-versus-calories-out-3500-calories-one-pound-and-should-i-eat-my-exercise-calories-62012

good luck :]

I definitely think you should be eating more. 1200 cal/day with 110 lbs to lose sounds incredibly low to start with. I'm 5'2" with 18lbs to lose and they have me at 1200/day? And, I used to agree with your husband until I understood weight loss. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as "eating less means losing more". It's not a completely inverse relationship like that. There is a threshold at which your body will say "oh no, she's starving me, I better hang on to every single calorie she puts in my body in case she always eats so little". Of course this level is probably different for everyone based on fitness, age, weight, etc. So on the days that you are doing quite a bit of activity, say your BMR is 1500 (calories you need to just exist in a coma), you're only eating 1200, and then you burn 400. You're giving your body a net of 800 calories to do what requires it 1500 to do. So it's hoarding the calories/weight. If you gave it the extra 400 back, and let it keep 1200, you're still set to lose. Say your TDEE is 2000 (what it would take on a normal day of activities to sustain yourself), and you're eating 1200/day, that's 800 calories a day x 7 days a week = 5600 calories per week which equates to a loss of 1.6/week (3500 cals/pound). The 1200/day already takes into account your loss. You need to eat exercise calories back in order to not set off the alarms in your body to retain what you're giving it. Does that make sense? You should be netting to 1200 every day in order to lose. I know it sounds weird to eat more to lose more. Also, I had to start looking at exercise not as a means to lose more weight, but as a means to be more healthy, fit, happy, and energetic (and a way to eat more!). Once I made that mind shift, it's been easy for me to lose the weight! I ate back all 3,000 of my exercise calories last week and lost 3.7 pounds. trust me, it works!

well what I would do is chane the number to 1400 and do not add exercise becuase it changes the amount of carbs fats sugar protein you can eat in a day

What? It's supposed to do that! If you are burning a ton of calories doing cardio, chances are your body needs more carbs to fuel the workout...and so on. (there are other examples, of course). There is nothing that has calories that doesn't have the other stuff, too....it may be low in fat but still have carbs (fruit / veggies), etc....