what am I doing wrong?

[Anonymous]

I had to get on the scale at the doc the other day and I was shocked. I’ve gained 10-12lbs in the last 4 years. But my clothes are the same and I see muscle. The number is messing with my head but I don’t think the scale tells the whole story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh man. I don’t know. I think I would walk less and weight lift more. Walking is time consuming with not a huge payoff. Keep up the peloton 2x week and instead of all that walking do longer and heavier weight sessions.

Agree with this though keep moving daily but incorporate more weights. Are you lifting heavy? Muscle will give you more return for the weight loss.

OP here, yeah I was wondering if I needed to up my weights. I feel like they're heavy (I use weights that make it hard to complete a set) but maybe that's the case?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m very similar to you. 5’2” and started at 145 after my last baby. I did intermittent fasting and only ate between 11am and 6pm for 8 months. I was able to lose a consistent 1-1.5lbs a week. I started tracking my calories closely for the last 15 pounds and have been maintaining at 107lbs now for and year and a half. I focused on dieting, not exercising.

Drink a lot of water, fill up half of your plate with vegetables and do not snack between meals. Two 700 calorie meals (at 11am and 5pm). Black coffee and water. It will suck for 6-8 months but then you will be slimmed down and feel so much better.

Don’t eat bites off the kids’ plates! Yeah, food is wasted but you aren’t a garbage can!

OP here, thanks for writing! I feel like I do this already, I never snack off my kids plates, eat a restricted calorie diet and regularly exercise, but yet nothing changes. It's so, so frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Prioritize sleep, low stress, intermittent fasting, and a good cheat day to reset things. For me sleep and low stress are the most important things though. If I'm not getting close to 8 hours and I've been stressed, it's like my body panics and just doesn't process food like it should. I've also found that if I don't have 1-2 cheat days a week my body becomes used to the lower calorie intake and just adapts instead of losing weight.

[Anonymous]

Get an Inbody scan to see if it's fat or muscle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get an Inbody scan to see if it's fat or muscle

Or fluid retention. I had a procedure done on my leg vein and immediately lost 5 lbs. My leg had seemed slightly swollen, but I had no idea. This was 2 months ago, and I never regained it.

[Anonymous]

There's no way you're doing 1200 calories. Too low to maintain.
How low is your 'low carb'... if you have pasta rice potatoes bread crackers cookies more than twice a week, you are not low carb.
You're trying to do everything when you should just intermittent fast...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's no way you're doing 1200 calories. Too low to maintain.
How low is your 'low carb'... if you have pasta rice potatoes bread crackers cookies more than twice a week, you are not low carb.
You're trying to do everything when you should just intermittent fast...

I eat banza pasta maybe once a week, I eat cauliflower rice, I do eat rice cakes twice per week instead of bread and I don't eat cookies. I rarely eat potatoes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You may be consuming too little calories, OP. If you are only consuming 1000-1200 cals per day and doing all of the exercises like you claim, then your body is probably adapting to too few calories and is lowering your basal metabolic rate. Increase your calories to 1500-1800 per day. After exercising, your caloric intake will probably be around 1200-1500. You will lose weight slowly. You are starving yourself too much and your body is adapting. If you consume more cals, you will also build more muscle with all of the weight lifting, which will also help to increase you basal metabolic rate.

Can you cite reputable scientific support for the notion that eating at a calorie deficit prevents weight loss and increasing calories causes weight loss? I’m aware of multiple studies — most famously the Minnesota starvation experiment — that demonstrated the exact opposite.

[Anonymous]

Weigh and measure everything.

Then eat a little bit less than that and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Move to Europe. I lost 15 lbs when I moved three years ago. I’m in my late 30s. I think it’s all the hidden sugar in the US food supply.

[Anonymous]

Bodies aren't supposed to stay the exact same size our entire lives. Especially women's bodies. Your body likes being where it's at right now and that's okay.

[Anonymous]

It’s counterintuitive, but add about 2-300 calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You may be consuming too little calories, OP. If you are only consuming 1000-1200 cals per day and doing all of the exercises like you claim, then your body is probably adapting to too few calories and is lowering your basal metabolic rate. Increase your calories to 1500-1800 per day. After exercising, your caloric intake will probably be around 1200-1500. You will lose weight slowly. You are starving yourself too much and your body is adapting. If you consume more cals, you will also build more muscle with all of the weight lifting, which will also help to increase you basal metabolic rate.

Can you cite reputable scientific support for the notion that eating at a calorie deficit prevents weight loss and increasing calories causes weight loss? I’m aware of multiple studies — most famously the Minnesota starvation experiment — that demonstrated the exact opposite.

DP but I hear this from trainers who have very specific fitness goals. The people trying to lift heavy and gain muscle are eating way more calories and than they burn. BUT then they want to cut and they will drop below their burn amount to lose that weight/fat.

For a normal person interested in losing weight, being in somewhat of a calorie deficit is the way to go. But a huge deficit like a 1000 calories or more is probably messing with metabolism.

I am kind of stuck because I want to lift heavy and gain whatever muscle I can but also lose some fat at the same time. Haha

[Anonymous]

OP - how are you tracking calories?