Why am I not losing weight?

Don’t give up! It is only 2 weeks in and can take some time to start seeing results. Also slow and steady better for long term change.

I was similar weight/height as you. So not loads to lose and also quite sedentary. I started in July and lost 9lbs up to Christmas and for the first time in a long time wasn’t in the overweight BMI. Weight mostly stayed off over Christmas (couple of pounds gained) and I’m back on it again now.

I’ve tracked all calories in the NHS weight loss app. Avoided processed food and eaten more whole food. And upped exercise a little. Doing some resistance exercises morning and evening. Weight loss has been very slow. But it has stayed off and I feel I’ve made a life style change.

You can do this. 2 weeks in is such early days. Don’t go back when you’ve already done the hard bit of making life style changes. Results WILL come. Good luck.

Weight training, walking. Alternate and do one daily.

We are only into the second week! Give it time and keep going!

So you are pretty young and not menopausal or anything.

Yeah I’d massively up your exercise, try and burn 400 a day and keep your calorie intake around 1500. You can get little walker machines too that you can store easily. Just walk while you watch TV when the kids are in bed?

It should work for you 1.5 lbs a week no problem

Just keep going, throw in some resistance or weights, lots of fluid and just keep going. Sometimes it takes me weeks to start losing weight and then it drops quickly and continues. It’s so easy just to give up when it’s about to start paying off.

Drop 100 calories and add 1000 steps if you’ve lost nothing in another week or so.

Could be cortisol? You must be run ragged 4 kids and 12 hour days, this might lead to insulin resistance, cut out the pasta, insulin resistance loves pasta, I use the skinny pasta from b n m tastes like pasta but almost zero cals. I'd have the turkey sausages but have loads of mushrooms and grilled Tom's too.

Not sure I’d ever think of yogurt as “dense”

I really recommend the fast800 method. I really struggle to lose weight but this worked for me. Currently (post Christmas!) doing 5 fasting days/2 normal but will swap it back around when I'm back within my target weight

Not sure about calories, but that doesn’t look like a great diet to me. I would cut down on the ultra processed crap.

E.g omelette with mushrooms and avocado instead of all the ultra processed meat. Full fat Greek yogurt - not fat free which likely has sugar as a fat replacement. Skip the honey. I would avoid white pasta, but if you must, make sure it’s a very small portion and stick some chicken or other protein in it.

Oh come on, don’t be disingenuous. If OP asks why she isn’t losing weight and you reply mentioning the things in her list that you’d avoid because they’re too calorie dense then obviously the implication is that you’re advising her to do the same.

I dont know why you’ve blown this up into a row though, I was perfectly entitled to put an alternative opinion and I didn’t do it rudely.

Oh I see and I agree.

Jesus. Can’t you read? I wasn’t suggesting SHE remove it. I said I avoid it.

Yes it does. It’s a brilliant, healthy protein source. And the previous poster had suggested avoiding it because it was too calorie dense - that was what I objected to 😁

The yogurt has protein in it.

Thats mostly fruits so a lot of sugar.

Agreed. I was taking issue with suggesting she remove (sorry, “avoid”) the only protein sources in her day and replace them with more veg because a couple of hundred calories on yoghurt and chicken sausage was deemed too much.

We did those starve yourself, live off vegetables diets in the eighties and nineties and look where that got us. Skinny fat and starving with no muscle, knackered metabolisms and rebound weight the minute we started eating again.

My point is just that protein is important, especially when on a diet. Cutting it out to save a few calories is going to backfire in the long run.

Edited to add - obviously vegetables are very important! In case I implied otherwise. Just that protein is necessary too, even a vegan would say that.

Agreed. 30 minutes of high heart rate 3 times a week even if that's doing a YouTube workout at 6am. I ran 50 minutes on a treadmill today and burned over 400 calories.

Listen to the new year day episode of the Zoe podcast on Spotify- CICO has been categorically debunked by science. Counting calories/weighing every gram is not the (long term) answer! Plant-based variety is where it's at - again, check the Zoe podcast/website for details.

id cut down on carbs and processed food (sausages and bacon). I’d also consider adding more good quality protein and look into adding fibre and upping activity at the same time. Have you heard of the Zoe podcasts at all? I find them useful.

🤣🤣 salad doesn't count as vegetables 🤣🤣

Sausages and bacon may be a source of protein, but there's nothing great about them. Processed meats are known carcinogens, one of the few foods that are.

Fish, chicken, eggs or vegetable sources of protein would be so much better.

My original message:
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Have lost 11 lbs. I’m sure it’s because I’ve increased my exercise. I make myself do a 3km run to work and back every day - 6 km, and a 5 km walk at the weekends.
Also, I avoid “dense” food like yoghurt and nuts. A tiny bit of meat every couple of days but LOADS of veg and
I make sure I eat 5 proper portions of fruit and veg a day - usually a banana, apple, orange, grapes and carrots. Try introducing loads more veg instead of pasta.”

Where does it tell her to cut out yoghurt? You’re arguing for the sake of it and derailing the thread.

Sausages and bacon are processed foods and not ideal.

You did literally tell her to cut it out. Low fat Greek yoghurt is hardly calorie dense and protein is really important if you actually want to lose fat not muscle.

The chicken sausages aren’t calorie dense either, nor is turkey bacon, and again they are great sources of protein. Maybe the bacon is more processed than is ideal, I’ll give you that.

its honestly bad advice to tell her to remove the only protein sources and replace them with more fruit and veg.

I’m following avidly as am also losing.

in your shoes I’d go down to 1000 calories OP - good luck ❤️

I’m placenarking cos hearing about your progress will inspire me ❤️