Why am not losing weight?

[Anonymous]

I've been trying to for 4 months. Calorie calculators give me very different results but most suggest I would need to eat 1800- 2000 calories a day to lose an lb a week.

I've usually eaten around 1500- 1600 calories a day with one cheat day a week where I usually have around 2400 - 2600 (which calorie calculators tell I need to maintain my weight)

But so far I haven't lost any weight. I've lost an inch here and there but nothing to speak of really.

I'm following a high protein, high fat and low carb diet. I make almost everything from the scratch to be sure there are no hidden sugars anywhere.

I work out 6-7 times a week, mainly cardio. I do weight a few days a week to but even there I make to work out big muscle groups or several muscle groups at once and every 15 min I do a one min sprint so it's still kinda cardio.

I just don't get why I'm not losing any fat. I just got a skinfold caliper and appearently my bodyfat percentage is 26% . But it's hard to measure yourself in some areas, so I'm not quite sure

[may04]

I've tried the low carb high protein diet and it didn't really work well for me. Switch to eating more vegetables that are high in fiber, lean meats such as chicken and fish (occasional red meat), and alternate eating whole grain type-carbs every other week or 2 weeks without one week with (without going overboard and endulging).this worked a lot better for me and switching up carb intake helped jump start my metabolism.

I'm not sure about how many calories perday would be best (because there's no details on current height/weight), but 1300-1500 is always my range when working out.

Also only drink water.

[candlewax]

Get rid of the high fat and do more cardio. Your protein and carbs should be about the same, tbh. Both are important energy sources when you exercise.

[Asker]

I'd disagree, I'm in med school and I've done a lot of research on this. Fat doesn't make you fat, sugar makes you fat (or insulin, more accuratley). And carbs are just sugars by the end of the day. You body can deal well with carbs out of fruit,veg and beans but with eating stuff like pasta and bread you're not doing your body a favour

[candlewax]

Honey, I have a degree in exercise science. You can argue all you want, but a high fat, high protein diet is NOT helping you lose weight. Brag about being in med school all you want but the nutrition you all learn is very basic and not related to exercise at all. Try another argument, please. Keep up the high fat and protein diet and welcome a heart attack or some lovely cholesterol levels if you'd like. Again, fats should be lower, and protein and carbs balance out to almost the same. Google it

[Asker]

that's exactly the thing there is so much wrong stuff about nutriton out there. Even a lot of doctors will recommend that you should eat a lot of grains when most people would be way better off eating more protein.

We didn't learn anything about it in med school so far, that's what I said I did research and all those bio and chem classes just help me to understand the underlying processes

[Asker]

with high fat , I obviously don't mean I eat tons of butter but drink whole milk instead of skimmed, eat full fat yoghurt instead of non fat. As you probably know therr are good and bad fats. Most people eat too much of the bad fats and a lot of people of try to eat healthy don't eat enough fats at all.

I'm feel great since I'm on this diet, I have more enrgy and my exercise results have improved greatly, I'm just not losing weight

[candlewax]

How much cardio are you doing and what's a sample of what you eat daily?

[maiez]

Dont work out big muscle groups with heavier weight, do lighter weight to tone them up. Because if you got heavy on your big muscle groups you will gain more muscle and gain some weight, (muscle weight).

Keep your calories, just don't take in snacks. If you can't do no snack, then eat green beans or celery as the only snacks.

You aren't losing fat because you are doing cardio and quick exercises, running gains muscle. Walking burns fat because its less resistance and it burns your sugar. Good luck to you!

[martyfellow]

Elementary, my dear Anonymous..The one cheat day,is canceling out the six wll behaved days.

You need to either cut out the cheat day, or work out more to burn more calories.

Most people need help with the planning. I'd suggest signing on with Weight Watchers or a similar group.

They will lay out a plan that includes some cheat times, but in a carefully calculated way, so that you still lose weight every week.

[Asker]

But on the cheat day I never eat more calories than I would need to maintain my weight, so shouldn't just not lose weight on that day?

On the rest of the day my calorie calculater always tells I should be 10lbs lighter in 5 weeks, but after 15 weeks I'm not even 1lb lighter.

As I said, my goal is 1500 cal a day but often I'm below that, around 1300 cal, which is over 1000 cal less than I need in a day, so shouldn't that be enough?

[Asker]

If you do the average per week I'd need 7X2400 = 17500cal and I eat 6X1400+2500=10900. So even assuming inaccuraties I should be losing weight

[martyfellow]

You obviously need helpw ith the counting! I'd recommend Weight Watchers for that reason; they're pros at it.

[Asker]

Weight Watchers is just another way of countig calories, I counted mine religiously, so where exactly do you think it goes wrong?

[Asker]

I did WW for a while but it doesn't work for me because most of the stuff I eat has 0 points and along with the other stuff I end up having maybe half as many points as I should even though I ate more calories. But even when I did WW I didn't lose weight obviously

[martyfellow]

I guess you're doomed.to be fat

[jugoso]

If you have a hi-tech phone, download myfitnesspal, it will show you how much calories you need to eat and how much calories are in your food.

If you aren't losing as much weight as you want, try to decrease your caloric intake and don't have a cheat day..

[Asker]

I do use my fitnesspal. I often eat around 1300 cal so a bit under my goal and if I eat even less than that, it tells me to eat more

[smilesgirl]

Try reducing your sugar & carb intake (as much as possible) You should say BIG results & feel better as well.

[thisgirllyssa]

do sleep enough at night? that might be a factor...

[Asker]

usually about 7 hours but I have a light sleep so maybe a bit less

[throwit]

I thought girls are only supposed to have 1500 cals a day? Maybe that's why

[Asker]

depends on your exercise level. If you have an office job and don't work out at all you should eat about 1300 cal to lose weight and about 1700 to maintain it. At least when you're my height. But if you workout everyday and have a lower than average Boyfriend you def need more. That being said, I often only 1300 cal and still get no results

[Anonymous]

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[Asker]

I saw that post before, no I don't do any of that stuff

[Girlfriend12]

Try something different do not eat the same food and eat what ever you want just small sizes

[Anonymous]

Your probably gaining muscle. Muscle weighs way more hen fat