Why am I not losing weight?

[Anonymous]

I'm 5 feet 2.4 inches and 124lbs.

I was 115lbs but I developed bad eating habits to lose weight (sort of like an eating disorder) and used laxatives etc and just gained weight. I want to lose weight in a healthy way so 2 weeks ago i started a diet.

I jumped rope 5 days (jumped around 2,000 times each time), and ate around 1300-1400 calories. At night before I go to sleep I would do ab exercises and some push ups and planks.

And I never eat junk food ever, and rarely eat chips (around 1-2 times a week), and I eat healthy carbs like fruits and brown rice and whole wheat toast, etc.. and I eat mostly lean meat,.. I don't know what I'm doing wrong...

I feel like I've gained weight instead... i thought it was water weight from my period but it hasn't been disappearing for 3 days after my period.

[Anonymous]

Drink a LOT of water, like 8-10 glasses a day. This will start up your metabolism and speed it up, which is like laxatives but will actually help and is very healthy. Also, cut down the rice and bread, quinoa is a healthy alternative to rice. Lean meat is okay, but contrary to popular belief you need some of the fatty parts too, thats why they're there. Eating small, regular meals will also help with speeding up your metabolism. Do NOT starve yourself and then binge eat, or even just starve yourself, because this will bring your metabolism to a stop and it will take a while to get it going again which will slow the weight loss process. Stay active and work out, but don't push yourself past the point where it hurts, it should just ache in a good way. Make sure you're doing all exercises correctly because there's a danger of injuring yourself If you for example, do sit-ups wrong, you can injure your back. Take care of yourself, and the best of luck to you :)
Source- my mother is a professional weight loss consultant, and has brought me up using these tips, im very slim and healthy. I find when I go away for a while and eat differently, I put on a lot of weight quickly, so it's not like I am just naturally thin.

[523206720]

Instead of doing cardio - build muscle. For every pound of muscle you gain - you burn an extra 50 - 100 calories at rest so if you gain 5 - 10 pounds of muscle - you can lose 1 pound a week doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! (but you do have to do SOME work to maintain those muscles).

[Theguyoverthere]

It's hard to say as each person is very different. My only suggestion would be to check how many carbs you're eating. Your carbs may be on the high side.

[Klaatu51]

basically which time of day do u weigh? it dpends... also it'd be better to weigh at da SAME time each day