Can't lose... I need help

Use a heart rate monitor to get a more accurate calorie burn and track every single morsel that you eat or drink. Do this and you will lose. Also, eat your exercise calories, your body needs the fuel. Good luck!

Welcome to MFP. It sounds as if you have been trying really hard to lose weight over the past year but hopefully now that you are on this site and start to track your intake and excercise hopefully you will start to see the results you want. Be sure to track everything accurately. I don't know if you did that before. MFP will set up your profile with the number of calories you need for your current body frame. Feel free to add me as a friend as support and encouragement from others really goes a long way to help achieve success. May I suggest to that you open up your food log so we can see what you are eating as that helps as well. Also it may give us some suggestions to use in our own diets. Wishing you all the best and look forward to seeing how you do. :flowerforyou:

Are you weighing and measuring your portions? I thought I was eating healthily until I really started measuring and counting.

Make sure you eat enough vegetables and drink enough water. Use a heart rate monitor to validate what you're burning when you work out.

try going back to square one~ measure everything to make sure you are counting it correctly. Log everything you put into your mouth. Try the Spike diet. Look it up on amazon. Be sure you are not working out too much. I am having trouble too, and that is what I am doing. Have not lost for 6 mos. Good Luck, Deb:flowerforyou:

A couple of thoughts-my first was the thyroid but you said you checked that. Can't hurt to check it again- especially if it has been a year since it was last checked. That can make you gain weight quickly. Another thought is portion size- maybe you could make your meal- prepare what you normally do, and then eat half of it. If in 30 minutes you are still very hungry, THEN finish the other part of it. Give yourself time to digest. Walk after you eat, and always take the stairs instead of elevator. It's the small things in your daily life that will make a difference, in addition to your workouts. Also, go easy on yourself. Perhaps all the stress is in fact making you gain weight. Are you on any other meds that could also be contributing to weight gain? Birth control or antidepressants? Talk to your doctor about it. There was also a medical study that proved that some artificial sweeteners also contribute to weight gain! Some people even take medication to speed up metabolism. If your doctor is not on your side, then switch to someone more supportive. Don't give up though! You'll figure it out.

Also, did you go to an endocrinologist or to a GP to check your thyroid? Do you know which thyroid hormones they checked (there are 2 I believe, some GPs or even endos may only test one of the two).

If you drink coffee or use artificial sweeteners, both could possibly been harming your weight loss. For many bother are fine, for a very few, coffee and some sweeteners can screw with their hormones and actually cause gain weight and water retention.

I just plugged your numbers into freedieting.com and it says you should consume 2200 calories for moderate fat loss. I'm not sure if MFP is saying 1800 or how you got to that number. If you are tracking things very strictly then maybe try adding 100-200 calories to your daily intake. Or as another member suggested, read the eat more to the lose weight topic to help you better understand the process. Regardless if you have been doing the same thing for a year with no progress, then you need to change something. You have to decide what that something is and give it time to see if it works.

First off, sorry that you aren't seeing results when you have been trying. But don't give up. Keep trying different things. It might take awhile for you to figure it out, but I think you eventually will.

I did want to comment on the thyroid issue. I would find out what was checked (most likely your TSH) and see what your numbers were. There is some debate on what actually constitutes hypothyroidism. You may be on the high level of normal and have low grade hypo that you doctor isn't treating because you are in the "normal" range but for you is still too high. I wouldn't give up on that yet.

My thought is that you were probably underestimating what you were eating and overestimating what you burned. There's no way that I believe that your TDEE (calories to maintain) is 1800, especially at 275 lbs with no thyroid condition. If you were not regularly logging, you could've easily forgot what you ate. Get a food scale and start weighing and militantly tracking your calories. If you must eat out, either eat 3/4 of the meal and log the entire portion or eat the whole thing and log 1 1/4 of the portion. Weigh everything you eat, don't eat out, don't take a bite of food without logging it. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but it's going to be hard for you to lose if you can't be honest with yourself. Logging everything on MFP will give you a clear picture of where you're going wrong, but it only works if you're honest.

ETA: If you are on a plan where you "eat back exercise calories," eat no more than 3/4 of them back. MFP estimates tend to be exaggerations.

Your diary is empty - exept for breakfast today....Not sure where you have been tracking, but can't seem to find anything om mfp