Help! too many options which to do....nothing working

She said she has gained 2 kg's and lost no inches :P

Are you drinking water? how much?

It is a most annoying place to be in and one which would cause alot of people to quit (myself included). When i started it took around a year to lose 28lbs and i then upped my game, increased the cardio and lost over 84lbs the following year.

Battle through it, improve your fitness etc. and increase effort as you improve and you should start to see the changes you want to see, just not as fast as you would probably like.

Well I guess someone had to correct me eh, if I were you Hun I would look into exactly how much exercise you are doing your body could be in starvation mode I have been in the same place as you are and as soon as I started eating bk the calories it was moving again hope this helps xcx

Is this the only exercise you do daily? Maybe try eating speed foods xcx

counting cals does nothing for me either.
once i started low carb, the weight started dropping off of me.

good luck to whatever you decide!

Try using MFP as designed.

Go into your settings and set yourself to lose 1lb a week - no more no less. This will give you a deficit of 500 calories a day. If you are totally honest with everything you track, this works by the sheer laws of thermodynamics and won't leave you feeling deprived.

Do exercise you love, but preferably a mix of cardio and strength, five or six days a week. Eat back 80% of your exercise calories to allow a margin of error.

Make healthy food choices most of the time, but when you don't at least make sure you hit your calorie target. For at least one week, weigh everything and double-check portion sizes until you can eyeball them accurately. Log everything, even that bite of someone else's cake.

Don't keep changing programmes when something doesn't work after a week or two. Stick with it and you'll get results.

I notice you haven't filled in your profile. Set yourself some goals for the next week, month and six months. Get your MFP friends to support you.

You've got this! :flowerforyou:

The reason I ask about how much exercise you do daily was because if you did it twice and only consumed 100 calls bk that could be the reason but you do it once on certain days so I dout that's it,maybe getting bk to basics with mfp might be an idea sorry I can't help more xcx

You are not in STARVATION MODE, for goodness sakes.

If you are actually *gaining* weight, I think I know the problem: you are just eating too many calories. Stop this. If you want to "eat more to lose weight," you had better exercise a heck of a lot more to get rid of those extra calories.

Set a reasonable calorie limit, based on MFP suggestions. LOG EVERYTHING ACCURATELY. EVERYTHING. Exercise doing whatever you like, but do it regularly. Stay at your recommended net calorie level each day as best you can. Ignore everything else. Do this for a month and see where you are. Oh, and don't forget, LOG EVERYTHING.

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Youre consistently going over your calories and DEFINITELY eating all of your exercise calories back. Maybe try sticking to maintaining a deficit and eating some healthier snacks such as nuts and fruit

Can I suggest maybe going to a dietian or something. Maybe ask them for qualified advice

I agree with Berry 100%. Use MFP as designed. Set it to lose 1 lb per week. And be honest and as accurate as possible with your calorie counts.

As far as what has happened in the last couple of months, I'm going to make a lot of assumptions here based on what you have posted. I've looked at your diary for the last couple of weeks.

Based on what I have calculated as your BMR, you are just barely eating to lose .25 - .5 lb per week. That is only 250 calories per day. There is nothing wrong with that. That is good. Nice and slow wins the race. So based on that, for two months you are on track to have lost 4 lbs in the last two months. Give or take some of the days that you went over.

What makes it bad though, is that your sodium intake is way way high. I know myself that if I have a couple of bad high sodium days that I can gain 5 lbs over night. If this is the case with you, then you are masking the fat loss with water retention. The cure for that is to make sure you are drinking enough water to flush the sodium out.

Lets look at your diet now. You really need to cut out the processed foods and take outs. You really need to sit down and get serious with yourself and your goals. You need to decide if weight loss is going to be a short term goal or a long term way of life. I prefer the latter because the former leads to yo yo dieting and morbid obesity. And it messes with your self esteem. Until you get to know how to lose weight and what your body is capable of and how it reacts, you need to cut out the KFC.

Eat lots of fruits and veggies and lean proteins. A great start would be to start cooking at home. At least then you are fully aware of what calories are going into your food, which is going into your body. Restaurant counts are just guesstimates at best. If you only have a few hundred calories to work with a day, you don't want to be messing up a good day with a take out.

And finally your exercise. How are you measuring your calorie burn? If you are using the MFP counts, they tend to be on the high side. If you are using an HRM, than awesome.

It's great that you have incorporated weight training into your exercise. Keep that up.

It really sounds like you have a good knowledge base to get the job done, you just need to refine your techniques a little.