Hi Everyone,
About two months ago, I started eating EXTREMELY healthy and exercising in hopes of losing weight (my goal: 40lbs). However, despite my best efforts, I haven't lost a single pound...in fact, something weird has been happening. My weight fluctuates DAILY between 245 and 240, never above, and never below.
My eating habits are as follows:
Breakfast: Either a homemade vegetable juice or 2 eggs
Lunch: Carrot Sticks, Celery, Cucumbers, and Peppers with handful of nuts, hummus with rice crackers and a fruit.
Dinner: One serving of vegetables, some sort of meat.
I only drink water (around 2L per day).
I've started the Couch to 10K program, and right now I'm jogging around 4-5k three times a week, slowly increasing distance and time every week. Is it possible to lose 'inches' but not weight? Some say you won't lose weight because you're building muscle...but I'm jogging, so I won't be building as much muscle...thoughts?
However, despite doing all this, I haven't lost a single pound. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to why this is happening?
Thanks.
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Thread: Not Losing Weight
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06-16-2011, 07:39 PM #1
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Not Losing Weight
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9/8/10 - 245 lbs
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06-16-2011, 07:42 PM #2
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You are eating too much, do you eat that EVERY single day? If not, are you counting calories? If you are eating under 2000 calories, you are in a deficit, you are eating at maintenance which is probably like 3300 or something including exercise if your weight hasnt changed.
There is always someone less fortunate, with real hunger, with real adversity, who made something of themselves. What is your excuse?
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06-16-2011, 07:44 PM #3
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If you haven't lost anything in two months, you're doing something seriously wrong. Are you counting calories? Have you calculated maintenance calories? If the answer is no, this is most likely your problem.
"Eating healthy" is good. But it's no substitute for counting calories and eating at a deficit.
Your weight is bound to fluctuate daily. To limit this weigh yourself in the morning after using the bathroom.
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06-16-2011, 07:44 PM #4
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06-16-2011, 07:44 PM #5
Are you bingeing on milkshakes and not telling us? That diet looks awful by the way, eat more meat.
Lift weights, or you'll look terrible when you get to your goal weight (it happened to me, it'll happen to you.)
Bottom line is, at your weight, you should be dropping calories very quickly and very easily with a diet like that. You need to count calories, if you aren't dropping weight you are eating too much.
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06-16-2011, 07:47 PM #6
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06-16-2011, 08:00 PM #20
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Honestly, I don't eat a lot at all! I'll take 1 or 2 full sized carrots and cut them into strips, maybe half a cucumber and two stalks of celery. After you introduced me to the 'interwebz' I found out that nuts have quite a large amount of calories, so maybe I should eat less than a handful. And no, I'm definitely not cheating myself by binging on milkshakes or any other form of junk food; if I were, I'm pretty sure I'd be able to figure out the problem.
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9/8/10 - 245 lbs
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06-16-2011, 08:03 PM #21
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06-16-2011, 08:05 PM #22
I'm gonna be one of the guys that aren't douche bags here.
Basically go to http://caloriecount.about.com/, and type in the food and size. And it'll give you how much calories it is. Do that for everything you eat, that doesn't have a label. And write it down on a log. Read the stickies "How to lose fat for noobs II" and follow that like it's the holy fatloss bible. You could be THINKING you're eating healthy and not a lot, when you're really eating too much . Nutrition can be surprising sometimes. And remember, it's very normal to lose only 1-2 lbs a week. Cause you're prolly putting on muscle for the first time.
And second, stop weighing yourself randomly throughout the day. You can be holding water or even sweated off the water when you weigh yourself. Once a week, wake up in your boxers or panties, and weigh yourself (empty stomach). And use THAT to track your weightloss.
TL&DR: Shame on you, go read it!
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06-16-2011, 08:10 PM #23
We aren't be d-bags. Let's examine the facts:
He's coming to us asking for help.
- He's guessing at his intake
- Almost every poster here has told him to count and not guess
- He's keeps reinterating he doesn't eat a lot
It's stupid for us to waste our time trying to help a guy when he doesn't want to listen to our advice.
Cliffs to OP:
Track your intake (cals, macros)
Keep track for 3 weeks
Come back and provide results to us so we can critque if needed.
He's obviously eating more than he thinks. I am 99.99% sure of that.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat...different.htmlLast edited by TelusLob; 06-16-2011 at 08:20 PM.
Aug of 2010 - 330 lbs <--- Never Forget
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06-16-2011, 08:13 PM #24
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06-16-2011, 08:30 PM #27
From the link I put above:
"It might not be fun, it might not be sustainable, but it will happen. As a buddy of mine once asked: “Why don’t you ever see a fat person come out of a concentration camp?” But that’s essentially what a fat person claiming they can’t lose weight on 500 calories per day is suggesting can happen. Because in the face of low enough calories and sufficient activity, weight has to be lost. Or the person dies. Nothing else can happen. Yet folks seem intent on believing that somehow the basic laws of the universe apply to everyone but them."Aug of 2010 - 330 lbs <--- Never Forget
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06-16-2011, 08:49 PM #30
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You know what, I came on here looking for advice. I don't have any experience counting calories, and I had no idea on how it's done. All I needed was advice on how to count calories, and suggestions. But instead I got some arrogant pricks whose posts reek of sarcasm every time I ask I question, or answer someone else's question. I was met with the attitude of 'you're an idiot'. If I really was eating copious amounts of food, or binging on junk food I really won't be here looking for advice, because any idiot with a half brain would be able to figure out that eating a bag of carrots and four cucumbers for lunch and those midnight 2L Milkshakes would be a problem. But that's not the case here. I followed 'lovinit's suggestion and entered all the food I ate today into the fitday calorie diary and it came up at roughly 2,000 calories which seems to be right in the 'fat loss' zone according to other websites I've checked (thanks lovinit for recommending that website). So sorry for wasting your precious time.
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9/8/10 - 245 lbs
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