Why am i not losing any weight?

It doesn’t go away all at once

Sometimes you can gain weight or stay the same weight if you’re building muscle while losing fat, because muscle weighs more.

Two weeks isn’t that long, Give your body some more time.

Do not weigh yourself everyday, weigh yourself once a week at most. It will keep you from being discouraged and give you a more accurate idea of your weight loss.

If you’re concerned about your progress you need to discuss it with your doctor.

And remember to snack, on celery sticks, carrots, small portions of nuts, it will keep you energy up and your belly from screaming at you. Peanut butter is amazing for knocking out hunger pains and being good for you.

That’s the basics.

@Comedian: She said 2 weeks. :)

@asmonet: Yea I messed up

Try exercising for like 2 hours a day. not all at once though. Like an hour in the morning and an hour at night

It doesn’t have to be torture. Exercise away 300 calories/daily and eat 300 calories less daily. One week will = about 1 lb. weight loss. Peanut butter is delicious but is pure fat..

You can be eating properly and still be overeating. Try more vegetables, fruit and complex carbs. (No white food except cauliflower.)

http://www.drcarolle.com/healthy_04.htm

Scroll down to middle of page to see various kinds of exercise and calories burned per hour.

@gail: Oh? It helped me. :)

That’s wonderful, as. I find it hard to stop at 1 T. You also have a young metabolism. (Supermarket PB has lots of salt and sugar, also.)

@As; what else were you doing for weight loss? (I assume that’s what we’re talking about.)

Munch throughout the day on healthy snacks, if I had craving for more than an hour give in to it – within reason cause it ain’t going away at that point, eat four small meals a day, cut out spreads/sauces/sweeteners, drank water and the occasional glass of milk (breakfast. i love milk. so much), park away from where im going, take stairs, read a book on work breaks instead of going to mcdonalds to keep my mind on something else while i ate my good girl food, and when I did want a sauce, like dressing instead of light options which I just – no. Gross. I just halved my portion and eventually got used to it…. little things add up.

Oh, and i cut out white foods. And eat as many delicious fruits and veggies as i want.

It wasn’t a diet in any real way, just a big change. Still working on it, 15 lbs in two months so far. Woo! It’d be faster if I was allowed to exercise. :’( (I have tendinitis in both ankles and another sports injury in both as well. I’m broken. )

Oh, and my peanut butter is ground fresh at an organic store and is chunky and delicious. With one ingredient. Peanuts.

Sounds smart, sane and sensible. 15lbs in two months is perfect. Sorry about the tendonitis, however. Can you swim in a pool somewhere?

Try the Almond and Cashew butters from the health food store. Expensive but also delicious and mono-ingredient.

Nah, nowhere that won’t charge me a hundred dollars a month, slow and steady is it for me. But it’s all good, lose weight, and the feet get better. :)

Asmonet, you have some good ideas.

Curiouscamel, Losing weight is really hard, and good on you for making the attempt! I have struggles with my weight for years, and it doesn’t help right now that I am in a really cold climate and all the food is cooked for me. I really like being on my own food schedule. The thing I was, and that I will pick back up again in two weeks was eating about 5–6 SMALL meals a day, instead of the 3 big ones we are so used to. My normal food regime was something like: A small bowl of high fiber cereal or oatmeal in the AM, at about 10 am I would have a half of a cheese sandwich (whole wheat with Tillamook Sharp Cheddar), at noon I’d have a small lunch (my favorite was flatbread with melted cheddar and chicken), then at 2 or 3 pm I’d have a Yogurt, at 6 I’d have a small dinner. That was usually more than enough to keep me going all day (I work behind a desk all day, I don’t really need that many calories). I lost about 13 pounds in a month and a half.
I will be starting a better exercise plan, so I will probably eventually need more calories.

The important thing it to stave off the hunger. Fiber and protein are excellent at keeping you fuller, longer. Th important thing to remember about fiber is: make sure you drink plenty of water when eating foods that are high in fiber. Fiber is what keeps us, for lack of a better word, regular, but it does nothing but get us constipated if there is no water to help it do its job.
Water is one of the most important things you can add to your diet. Also, be careful about beverages you drink. I don’t know how old you are, but if you are of drinking age, those sugary delicious bar drinks are just loaded with empty calories. People think they are on excellent diets, but then drink all of their calories at the end of a hard week. So be careful, but give it some more time. You’ll see a change soon.

Think about it this way… you didn’t put all the weight on in two weeks. It took years and years, if you lose a few ounces a week so be it.

you have to change your ways. exercising is good but eating right is a whole different thing. cut out diet sodas and drink water. broil or grill your meat and stay away from fried foods. eat less simple carbos like chips and cookies and load up on complex carbs like pasta. but keep in mind, when you eat complex carbs like pasta and rice, you must use those natural sugars thru exercise or else it will just rot inside you as fat sugar. eat vegetables and fruit.

keep this in mind: what you dont like to eat is what you need to eat.

Journal your eating for a week. There is an affliction called “calorie amnesia” that haunts all of us. keeping track of what you’re eating can help.

If you HAVE to have peanut utter, try this low fat Peanut butter

You may also want to check your portion sizes. We are living in a supersized world. Portion sizes on labels are smaller than you think, way smaller than restaurant portions.

Also avoid processed foods. You would be much better off making a chicken and vegetable dish from scratch than eating a frozen one.

Here is the scoop on portion sizes:

“Relating the portion size of a serving to everyday items is an easy way to visualize what a true portion size looks like.

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Woman’s fist or baseball – a serving of vegetables or fruit is about the size of your fist
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A rounded handful – about one half cup cooked or raw veggies or cut fruit, a piece of fruit, or ½ cup of cooked rice or pasta – this is a good measure for a snack serving, such as chips or pretzels
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Deck of cards – a serving of meat, fish or poultry or the palm of your hand (don’t count your fingers!) – for example, one chicken breast, ¼ pound hamburger patty or a medium pork chop
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Golf ball or large egg – one quarter cup of dried fruit or nuts
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Tennis ball – about one half cup of ice cream
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Computer mouse – about the size of a small baked potato
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Compact disc – about the size of one serving of pancake or small waffle
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Thumb tip – about one teaspoon of peanut butter
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Six dice – a serving of cheese
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Check book – a serving of fish (approximately 3 oz.)”

What diet are you doing now? What does your typical day look like?

stop eating stuff that “manufacturers” say are healthy. dont load up your shopping cart with “lean” cuisine type stuff. get in the habit of cooking your own meals. do not deny carbs, but keep them at bay. if you go on carbless diet, you’ll start shaking like a hype.

I’m trying to get back to my original weight—six pounds, ten ounces.

3500 calories = 1lb. without exercising a woman burns aprox 11 calories per pound in daily activities to maintain her weight. A 100 lb girl could eat 1100 calories and maintain. If she eats more she will gain, if she eats less she will loose. Add the exercise and she can either loose faster or eat more. It’s all math. Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables blocks out the high calorie foods to keep yur daily calorie count low.

@astro;
Have you told your family you want to be cremated?

Astrochuck, you crack me up!!!!! Mine is much more attainable!
10 lbs, 6 oz (the inverse of your goal weight, it seems), yeah, but i weigh like ten times that or something now, so i’ve pretty much given up. i’m a hopeless fatty…

La Chica: Not a hopeless fatty. You just need the right motivation. I was trying to lose weight for months after gaining 20 lb very quickly. I just needed to right motivation. Right now for any time I fail to meet a weight goal, I have to pay my dad $10 per pound I miss. For someone just starting out in the world, that’s not the easiest. The goal are reasonable, and I haven’t missed yet. Which is good, because I’m attached to my money. But you might not be—or at least not enough for that to motivate you—so find something that will motivate you and really go after it.

I gave mtself a tummy tuch when I got to 135. I started at 212. Kept it off for 3 yearss!

lol, empress, it’s a joke. 10 lbs times 10? that’s 100 lbs…
i guess i should have put a ~ to indicate that i was kidding, i just thought it was obvious…

@LaChica: I mis-read it in that I thought you meant you were looking to lose 10 pounds. Sorry!

no worries!

thanks everyone for the advise!!

@judi wow the calorie intake for your weight and what you burn of was interesting thanks