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Did you adjust your TDEE number to reflect the increase in activity? It's not a static number and needs to be re-evaluated when your weight/lifestyle change.

False, you were underestimating how much you ate. You can't stop losing weight on a deficit of that much. You just changed the way you track and happened to "increase" the calories you ate.

10 days is not a plateau.

If working hard is a daily thing, you're body/muscles are retaining water to help repair the normal damage that is done by exercising. I bet if you didn't go to the gym for 2-3 days, you'd see a 3-4 pound drop in weight.

Am I the only one that wakes up, gets on the scale, goes to the restroom and gets back on the scale to see how much I lost?

Just in my limited experience, my HRM is within 70 calories of the treadmill tracker at the end of my 30 minute (6 MPH) run. When I run on the elliptical, I generally either ignore the calorie burn or take 75-80% of the number posted. I know some folks might be like "wtf, you shouldn't ignore the cardio", but there is…

quoting someone (SezxyStef) from another post because it's very accurate: Be wary of elliptical calorie burns, they are often over stated on machines and monitors alike. Anytime where your whole body is not moving (ie: you're holding onto the railing or supports of the machine), the formula's used for caloric burn are not…

+1, I heard the same thing.

So you're saying I need to drink more coke?

http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/

As long as you reevaluate your dietary goals every now and then as you drop weight, you won't plateau. People tend to not realize that their daily intake requirement changes (for the less) as they lose weight. So what was once a deficit, is now maintenance. Thus they "plateau".

Under ideal situations (eating right, lifting right) a male can gain approx. 1/4 pound of muscle a week. There is a snowball's chance in hell that he is losing fat and gaining muscle at the same rate.

If what you say is true... It is physically impossible for you not to be losing weight. You're at a very significant calorie deficit(1500-2000 a day using rough calcs on the web). That equates to a 1 pound every 1.5-2.5 days (whether it be muscle or fat, who knows). You are losing weight. The fact that you said your boots…

Polar H7. $50-$60 on Amazon. Bluetooth's into phone (Android and iPhone) so no watch needed. It doesn't sync to MFP, but it's not that big of a deal for me to just enter the number from one to the other.

30 minutes with 15 pound weights is not a significant calorie workout. With a very conservative estimate that 50% of the 30 minutes is resting (it's probably more in the 70-ish% range). So yes, my statement was true.

Don't count it. It's a minuscule amount in the grand scheme of things and you only set yourself up for overestimation.

Honestly, nobody gives runners on the street a second thought other than to not hit them. Don't use "people will judge me" as an excuse not to go out and run.

NO. :noway:

Oh, I agree that the values are low for any 1 session. But if we look at Gustaaf for example, he's doing 40 minutes x 3 times a week. That would give around 400 calories burned a week. And I know many of MFP users take the calorie intake/output as the bible of what they're eating/burning. So they'll eat back 200-300…

Attempting to log calorie burn of strength training through the cardio section will result in a massive overestimation of calories burned. Use the strength training tab to keep track of what you did and how you're progressing in strength, not as a caloric tracker. Heart rate monitors do not work in estimating calories…

If you do not have the brain chemistry imbalance that it fixes... it does nothing. I've done it and had absolutely no effect on focus or brain clarity. In a normal person, it does give a bit of energy boost. But think of it as your body being awake and ready to go, but your brain is just normal. Which can be quite…

http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/ I'll leave that here for your reading as well.

If you don't want to believe me, thats ok. But just google "do heart rate monitors work with strength training" and you can read all the studies and papers and realize that HRMs do NOT work with strength training. Not all heart rate increases are the same. They are not caused by the same thing. They do not result in the…

No, it won't. The relationship between caloric burn vs cardio is not the same as caloric burn vs strength training. HRMs are only good for steady state cardio work.

Your calorie burn for strength training is super high. You can't use a HRM for strength training, it will not give you an accurate number.

No. :noway: Stop spreading this myth.

http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/ Also, have you been to a doctor to check for any illness that may be preventing weight loss?

Many women get scared because they start lifting and notice significant gains rather quickly. They then think "o. m. g. i'm going to get huge and bulky!". When in reality, all that is happening is your nervous system is adapting and spreading new "connections" to existing muscle fibers. This allows for a greater force to…

Yes. HRM's are designed for steady state cardio. You will not get an entirely accurate number while doing intervals.