still nothing lost

[dgirllamius]

I've been going to the gym for 8 months now, 4 months shy of a bloody year and I've lost...wait for it....

2lb.

I just don't get it. This is the longest time I've ever stuck at trying to lose weight and nothing is happening.

 

[MrsRH]

What's your diet like?
you need approx 3500 cal deficit to lose a pound of fat.
That's an awful lot of exercise in a week!

 

[dgirllamius]

I've calculated what to eat through a TDEE calculator (scooby's workshop to be precise). This includes exercise whereas myfitnesspal doesn't, you add that later.

That told me to eat around 1900 calories a day with my current excerise to lose 1lb a week. Seems like a lot but I am overweight so my BMR is higher than what it would be if I was normal weight.

Even myfitnesspal gives the same calories (well it tells me 1450 WITHOUT exercise, I roughly burn 500 a time 5 times a week so 1450+500=1950).

I weight train 3 times a week for 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes HIIT training. 2 times a week I do steady state cardio at home for an hour.

Ive even tried eating less than 1950 and that didn't work either. I'm really stumped.

 

[marie-louise]

I would guess that you are over estimating the calories you are burning in the gym, a lot of machines and online exercise calculators are renowned for being inaccurate. I too understand that muscle is more dense than fat and exercise leads to more water and glycogen storage but still only 2 pounds in 8 months? The calculations must be wrong somewhere. Are you measuring your food? Eating clean? Even calorie controlled ready meals are crammed with salt which means water retention. If I were you I would cut my calories to around 1700 a day, try to up your protein to curb any hunger, drink lots of water and cut out any processed food, lots of good green leafy vegetables! Give it a few weeks and hopefully you will get results!

 

[dgirllamius]

I use a heart rate monitor, the machines at the gym are way off what my HRM tells me.

I weigh everything, I use MFP to track calories, I drink 4.5 litres of water every day. I don't eat processed crap, everything I make is from scratch. I eat 100g of protein a day.

I was eating 1700 a day and nothing happened, since I upped to 2000 the pounds are slowly starting to drop. I certainly don't under estimate calories, everything I make I've worked out the calories (plus all the other nutrients, my notebook is full of it) and I weigh every single thing. I just think I wasn't eating enough for fuel my workouts. Eating low did nothing but since upping a bit its changed.

 

[marie-louise]

I'm glad you've worked it out! Good luck in your weight loss!x