No real weight loss after solid 3 months trying

[Anonymous]

Maybe try zig zagging your calories - one day eating 1500, the next day fasting, followed by a day of 1300 calories, etc. Keep your body guessing.

I find that if I try to do too formulaic of a diet/exercise - ex: 1300 calories/day and a 3 mile jog every day, I will lose weight at first but then my weight loss slows or stalls as my body adjusts the deficit.

When I mix things up with both my calories and exercise levels I get much better results. Plus I get to indulge a little on my heavier calorie days which makes me feel less deprived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this still does not explain how a person eliminating 500 calories per day would not lose weight over a 3 month period, especially when adding in the 4x week power walking.

Seems that it would not matter if a person is 5-2 or 5-11, or if one weighed 217 or 199. 500 calories less per day should result in some weight loss over a 3-month period. That is a lot of calories to give up.

Calories in calories out is horse puckey, that’s what.

[Anonymous]

I’ve just started the 5:2 diet. Eat regularly 5 days a week, 500 calories 2 days a week. With very little effort, I’ve already lost 4.5lbs in 3 weeks. I think the fact that my body never gets used to the calorie deficit has helped. My metabolism never gets a chance to slow down.

Since you are trying to lose weight, maybe eat 1500-1600 for 5 days and 500 for 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this still does not explain how a person eliminating 500 calories per day would not lose weight over a 3 month period, especially when adding in the 4x week power walking.

Seems that it would not matter if a person is 5-2 or 5-11, or if one weighed 217 or 199. 500 calories less per day should result in some weight loss over a 3-month period. That is a lot of calories to give up.

Calories in calories out is horse puckey, that’s what.

It isn’t. But if a person isn’t truly weighing their food and measuring, they probably THINK they cut 500 when they didn’t.

[Anonymous]

I’m 5’8 and weigh 170 and to lose weight I have to eat 1400 And I exercise ... a lot. They say it’s really kitchen not exercise anyway. If you are this annoyed, I’d go test your resting metabolic rate - it takes like ten minutes -
GW does it ....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this still does not explain how a person eliminating 500 calories per day would not lose weight over a 3 month period, especially when adding in the 4x week power walking.

Seems that it would not matter if a person is 5-2 or 5-11, or if one weighed 217 or 199. 500 calories less per day should result in some weight loss over a 3-month period. That is a lot of calories to give up.

Calories in calories out is horse puckey, that’s what.

It isn’t. But if a person isn’t truly weighing their food and measuring, they probably THINK they cut 500 when they didn’t.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

People are pretty bad at truly tracking calories in terms of being 100% accurate and consistent. They think that eating "healthy" is enough but if you are not weighting and measuring everything and tracking it you are very likely under estimating calories. They also tend to use exercise as an excuse to eat a little more ("I worked out today i can eat X) when in reality they did not really burn that many extra calories.

At the end of the day it will always come down to calories, if you are not losing weight you are eating too many calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 5’8 and weigh 170 and to lose weight I have to eat 1400 And I exercise ... a lot. They say it’s really kitchen not exercise anyway. If you are this annoyed, I’d go test your resting metabolic rate - it takes like ten minutes -
GW does it ....

I would bet that you can actually eat more than 1400 calories. At your body weight and exercise level you could probably still lose weight eating more like 1500-1700 calories. I know I can and I am 5'5" and currently 155 lbs working to get to 140. There is nothing special about me or my metabolism.

[Anonymous]

I also don't really believe in calories in/calories out. I'm 5'8" female at 150 lbs and can eat about 2000 calories of healthy foods and still lose weight but if I eat 1700 calories of junk I gain. Bodies are weird.

[Anonymous]

Op, there is a difference between what *should* be working for you and what actually *does* work for you.

If the weight isn't coming off the way you want it to and you legitimately have weight to lose then you need to adjust your calories downward until you are seeing results.

If the weight isn't coming off with what you're doing, you need to do more. I would suggest lowering your carbs and adjusting your calories down a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also don't really believe in calories in/calories out. I'm 5'8" female at 150 lbs and can eat about 2000 calories of healthy foods and still lose weight but if I eat 1700 calories of junk I gain. Bodies are weird.

how are you measuring this "gain"? If you step on the scale the day after eating a heavy, salty, junky meal you will weigh more. This is NOT real fat gain. This is just some water retention. If you eat 2000 calories of healthy food and weigh less the next day, you just release some water. You can't look at these one time measurement to say you gain or don't gain when you eat certain foods. Measurable fat loss doesn't happen overnight. Even if you eat the exact same foods every single day your weight will still fluctuate some from day to day.

you need to look at the scale over a longer period, like a month, of consistently eating a certain way to really know if that is causing you to lose or gain weight.

Look up the guy who did the Twinkie diet. He lost weight eating just Twinkies because his calories were controlled and he was in a deficit.

That is how weight works. Your body needs energy to function, eat enough energy/calories you stay the same weight, eat too much energy/calories your body stores that energy as fat or muscle if you are lifting heavy, don't eat enough energy/calories and your body uses fat or muscle to get that energy and you lose weight.

[Anonymous]

I love this infograpic of what fat loos really looks like. There are a lot of weight fluctuations, but the trend will go down over time if you are in a deficit. I weigh myself daily and can say my weight fluctuates all the time and looks very similar to this. But over time the trend goes down when I stick to a consistent calorie deficit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree that yoga isn't really exercise. It's a complement to exercise and helps with balance and flexibility. But on days I do yoga class, I still work out because yoga isn't a workout.

Arguing about yoga is the very antithesis of yoga! LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this still does not explain how a person eliminating 500 calories per day would not lose weight over a 3 month period, especially when adding in the 4x week power walking.

Seems that it would not matter if a person is 5-2 or 5-11, or if one weighed 217 or 199. 500 calories less per day should result in some weight loss over a 3-month period. That is a lot of calories to give up.

Calories in calories out is horse puckey, that’s what.

It's really basic physics. Calorie burns and calorie need vary wildly from person to person, and people's perceptions of how much they are eating and how much they are exercising vary even more, but for an individual over the long term who is not in the extreme throes of disease, your weight is determine by calories in versus calories out.

Here are thousands of pages of accounts of normal people who have lost lots and lots of weight by tracking their calories (and many other methods, like IF and Keto and veganism and etc.):

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/success-stories

Note that OP's original question was "why am I not losing weight after cutting 500 calories?" Some questions for OP:

1. Do you weigh every solid that goes in your mouth and measure every liquid, look up the calorie counts in a reliable database and log everything every single day with zero "cheat days" and zero estimating?

2. Were you doing that for several weeks BEFORE you cut calories? If not, how do you know that you are eating 500 calories less now?

3. Were you gaining weight before? Do you know your exact maintenance calories? Is it possible you were in a 500 calorie surplus (many people are) before and now you have reduced to maintenance? If you are eating at a certain calorie level now and your weight is not changing over the medium term, then that's maintenance for you. To lose weight, you'd need to go below that.

4. Are you eating back exercise calories? If so, how are you calculating calorie burns from exercise? Most people wildly overestimate this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also don't really believe in calories in/calories out. I'm 5'8" female at 150 lbs and can eat about 2000 calories of healthy foods and still lose weight but if I eat 1700 calories of junk I gain. Bodies are weird.

Agree 100%
After you eat cake (sugar) your body insulin spikes more and tells your body to store it as fat.
VS same calorie :
Healthy fats/proteins (salmon) your body insulin spikes very little fill full longer you store less fat.
I think the best you can do is very low carbs with IF for fat loss.

[Anonymous]

Because you're not overweight, OP. 5'2" and 127lbs is fine. I think you need to see someone about be eating disordered.