Why am I not losing?

I weigh myself once a week. Usually on Wednesdays.

Try changing up your excercise routine...I've heard that can really help a lot! Also, you'll drive yourself crazy looking at the scale every day...try weighing in once a week, and see if that works for you. Good luck on your weight loss journey!

How many calories do you eat? If you're working out more but not eating more, it may stall your weightloss.

You need to change up your workouts. Your body gets used to the workout. You need to burn 3500 calories to lose one pound and THAT is a lot. But you can do it. I started using a heart monitor that tracked my calories burned more efficiently and this really helped to motivate me MORE!
Are you creating a calorie deficit?
Make sure you are drinking your 100 oz of water a day. This will help with cravings. Decaf herbal teas at night will also help curb cravings. Try a decaf green tea.
Don't get discouraged. Losing weight it a battle. NO JOKE. And 20 lbs is no joke.
Just keep being consistent.

Stop weighing yourself daily! So many things can make your weight move up and down and it can really be a disappointment when you know you are following plan to see the scale go up a pound. Pick a weigh in day and stick to it! Once a week!!

Try swapping out some of the sweet carbs for protein. This will help with weight loss and help with the cravings. Good luck and keep up the journey. Remember that you didn't gain the weight over night and you won't lose it over night. Just keep following the calorie counting and exercise routine and you will start to see results again!

Sadly a lot of the first 20 pounds can be mostly water weight and give you a false impression of how fast and easy you will lose. I know this from experience.

If you can manage to lose just one pound a week, you are living with a 3500 calorie deficit every week That's a lot of calories. Way more than a day's worth of food for someone at maintenance. If you look at it that way, a slower loss is still pretty impressive.

You have to accept that it's going to take time, and that's not fun, especially if you're like me and gained it much faster than you can possibly lose it, because even when someone says 'hey, you didn't gain it all in a week, don't expect to lose it all in a week,' you grumble to yourself, 'I gained it in a year, and it will take longer than a year to lose it'. Yeah, that sucks. But your body is designed to hold onto food. It's survival, it doesn't want to be hungry. We live in a totally unnatural state today where we get far less exercise than we used to and have access to as many calories as we want. This is a recipe for weight gain, not weight loss. It's amazing we can lose at all. Everything in our evolutionary history is designed to make us hold on to those precious calories. Don't beat yourself up when it slows down, you are going against everything nature intended by putting yourself in a calorie deficit and staying that way.

Okay, that's what I keep telling myself, anyway.

Don't weigh yourself. Instead, measure your waist line, just above your belly button.

Have you revised your MFP set-up since your weight loss?

Also, I don't know what type of exercise you do, but I find that a variety of exercises are more effective than the same one all the time. And a cure for boredom too.

I would suggest only weighing in once a week, the same day and time and without clothing
also drink plenty of water
change up your exercise routine from time to time
I would also try calorie zig zagging...where you eat maybe 1100 cals one day and 1400 the next
also I think it is helpful when you have alot to lose to only concentrate on 10 lbs at a time so you dont become overwhelmed
I hope this helps good luck the most important thing is to not give up, just stick with it, it takes time. I have lost 102 lbs but it took me 21 mths, it didnt come off very quickly but it did come off, just hang in there and CONGRATS on the 20 lbs

You're really not going to get anything but guesses here if no one can see your diary, we have no idea how many calories you're eating, if you're eating your excercise cals back etc...

Recently I added some things that helped --drink more water-a glass before every meal; smaller portions; and go by the 80/20 rule of giving yourself one "splurge" meal a week of something you really like. (These came from Bob Harper of Biggest Loser.)

Sometimes when you feel like your stuck you can try to switch something up because your body can get used to a routine and often the diet is the easiest thing to change. I would try a new eating pattern for a few weeks just to mix it up. I was stuck at about 20-25 lbs and then switched from simply a low calorie diet to a high protein diet and eliminated wheat and starches from my diet totally, getting the same amount of calories though and have lost an additional 10 lbs over a month or so. I liked what someone said about eating a big meal early. Breakfast should be your largest meal because that sets your metabolism for the day. Then you can really start watching and cutting portion sizes the rest of the day. Just a few thoughts!

ugh../still learning how this forum works...

How many calories are you eating per day? I would say to use the calculator on the Scooby website to figure out your tdee, and eat at a 15% cut for sustainable weight loss. Check out the group "eat more to weigh less" on here for tips, advice, answers to lots of questions, and over 5,000 people who believe in it and are living it out!

What a great website, thanks for mentioning it! The calorie calculator doesn't give you an option for maintaining weight (though I'm a long way from that), and the calories seem really high to me, but I have a lot to learn....

You're welcome! I love that website! I think the gain muscle, lose fat option would be for maintaining weight, and then gain muscle option would be eating at a surplus.

The calories can seem like a lot at first, but eating more will really help boost your metabolism. You can try adding in full-fat options (yogurt, cheese, milk, etc), avocados, nuts, nut butters, protein shakes.. easy ways to up the cals in a healthy way. Feel free to message me with any questions you have, and you can always send me a friend request if you need support from someone who eats more

Might be too much cardio. I know that sounds crazy, but when you do long periods of cardio (over an hour a day) your body can start to destroy muscle to fuel the long workouts, espeically if you are eating low calorie to begin with. This muscle destruction can lower your metabolism.

Try switching to high intensity interval training, weights / strength training, or mixing these things with the cardio.

I do a lot better on weight training than heavy cardio - but I'm a guy. I'm sure there are some women out there whose bodies react similarly.

This too!! Reduce cardio and do some strength training! It will do wonders for a woman's body!