Weight won't increase or decrease
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Anonymous
| Been trying calorie deficit for a month now. Despite exercise 20000 steps a day and eating 1400 calories, 700 below apparent maintenance I still am not losing weight. Yet when I binge and eat 5000 plus I stay the same weight. so frustrating |
Anonymous
| 1) a month is actually a short time frame. If you were actually weighing every bite of food and 100% accurately counting the calories, you would expect to only lose 6 lbs. 2) you are almost certainly wrong about your calories. In fact you say yourself you sometimes binge. That’s your body doing “calorie compensation.” Because all our bodies WANT to stay the same weight and will increase hunger to make it happen. |
Anonymous
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Forget calories. See other thread on obesity. What are you eating? I’m a healthy weight but like you my body likes it there. I have lost some weight (and feel better!) cutting down in all inflammation producing foods, adding gut friendly foods. Unfortunately I’m
Off my game right now and nibbling sweets and drinking wine and feel like crap… |
Anonymous
| Keep going OP it may take some time and you might want to drop down to 1200 per day for a week and see what happens. |
Anonymous
| Did those binges happen during the last month too? Try to actually stick to your calories and you will definitely lose weight. Initially the fat loss might be masked by water retention, but in a true deficit you would be definitely losing fat. I do DEXA scans for this reason when cutting. Sometimes the scale does not move at all but bodyfat does. But you need to drop the binges, because one 5000 calorie binge a week puts you straight back into maintenance. You might be better off increasing your calories slightly to make the deficit more sustainable and avoid binges. |
Anonymous
| 1400 calories seems like a lot. Especially if your only exercise is steps and you are a middle aged or older woman under 5'6" |
Anonymous
Never change, DCUM. Facepalm. |
Anonymous
Agree. Ridiculous. 20000 steps is actually loads of activity. I am a middle aged woman too and I lose a pound a week on 2100 calories. |
Anonymous
Do you not have much to lose? That can have a big influence on how hard it is to lose weight. I’m 50, 5’7’’. I don’t weigh myself, but I wear a 10/12. I’ve recently dropped a size to finally get back in my pre-pandemic wardrobe. I haven’t focused on calories, but instead on eating lots of protein (about 125 grams), lots of fiber (25), and moderate carbs (125). I don’t worry to much about calories, but I’m definitely over 1400. For activity, I average about 12,000 steps a day. |
Anonymous
Look, OP has a lot of issues to unpack if she is going on 5000 calorie binges and doesn't do any real exercise beyond walking. |
Anonymous
op here. if you read my post I said exercise ex weights and cardio in addition to steps. also I'm 18 so not middle aged |
Anonymous
This is simply impossible. Your math is wrong somewhere. |
Anonymous
Oh god, honey. You are 18? Stop dieting right this minute and focus on eating nutrient dense food and paying attention to your hunger cues. Do not go down the path to fifty years of miserable dieting. I look back at my weight at 18 and I felt like a flipping moose but if I had maintained - as your body is trying to do - I would be a much smaller person. Stop dieting. |
Anonymous
What is your height/weight? What brought you to a middle aged parent website? |
Anonymous
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What type of walking are you doing?
What are you eating? What body type are you? |