To ask why I’m not loosing weight with all the excercise I’m doing?!

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So I excercise 6 days per week and eat healthy 5 days per week!

I do 3 days of weight and strength training
2 days of running, generally about 7k each time
1 day of yoga for 60 minutes

I track via MFP and generally have about between 1300 and 1500 cals per day

On the weekend I relax the cal counting but don’t binge

I am still breast feeding my 2 year old and she feeds multiple times per day and throughout the night

I weigh 9 and a half stone

There is loads online about starvation mode. Very little evidence that it exists in the way people think it does around dieting.
Long term yo-yo dieting can impact your metabolism but it's not something that will happen when you're just losing weight in a caloric deficit.

Anything outside of 'Eat less calories than you burn' and 'Move more, eat less', is something that's been made by the diet and exercise industry to look valid when really it's not. If they can keep us confused, we can't get it right by ourselves, so they can make money out of us. That's where we are right now. That's why this conversation is happening.

Essentially, it doesn't feel nice to eat less calories than you burn, so we will look for any alternative to this. It's biologically counterintuitive. We instinctively don't want to do it. We will use anything to excuse our failure to drop our calories sufficient to lose weight.

How about this article, does that help?

Not really. I'd already looked at that and it doesn't appear to dispel the myth.

"This article investigates the concept of starvation mode, including what you can do to prevent it from happening."

If it doesn't exist, why would you need anything to prevent it from happening?

need to do anything...

The myth isn't that it exists. The myth is that it makes much difference to healthy weight loss plans. You'd want to prevent it because it's not healthy.

Does that help?

Starvation mode absolutely does exist but not in anyway related to people dieting. It's an excuse that people use when to excuse the fact they are eating more than they realise. Having a few hundred less calories a day will not result in starvation mode

It's common bullshit spouted to overweight people at slimming world who havent had a loss that week. 'Oh it's ok Susan, you probably aren't eating enough and your body has gone into starvation mode' - never mind that Susan is 18 stone, eats loads of crap and is completely sedentary - it must be 'starvation mode'.

There is a biological effect of long term calorie restriction, but really, it's highly unlikely to affect your average dieter.

When I stop losing I have a week of higher calories to shock the system and then bring them back down, I don’t gain during that week of extra but lose a KG or two the next week

Another one here who lost half a stone in a week both times I stopped breastfeeding.

Easiest and quickest way to see a difference is to cut the alcohol altogether, but if you are happy with a much slower progress and to work with life (like i am doing) then definitely keep the booze!

Also, if you want to go crazy, relax one single meal at the weekend, not an entire weekend, but calorie count it too..... As someone above has said, you need a deficit of 3500cals per week to lose 1lb, so if you are happy with half a lb each week then it's only 1750 cals a week to be in deficit which is much easier. So factor this in when calculating how much you can let loose on a Saturday evening. Good luck

If you don't drink then that's not relevant. I suppose you could say the same about chocolate if that's something you're not prepared to go without. But that still wouldn't be relevant to me!