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

[Endorphins]

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

You've been asked a couple of times, but haven't yet answered - what are you eating? You say you eat 'healthily' but what does that actually comprise?

The OP shouldn't lose any more weight because she's already lighter than a lot of other posters and they don't like it.

Nail. Head

Muscle weighs more than fat. How toned do you look , are you at the measurements you want to be at? That’s what you should go by not weight.

Honestly, stop focusing on the number on the scale. I've had eating disorders my entire life, still struggle with it now, and the first sign I'm falling back into it is obsessing over the numbers. I don't know how much I weighed when I was recovered fully and happy, I didn't check. I just focused on my body shape and how I felt physically and mentally.

Sorry, low sugar muesli, fat free yoghurt, scrambled eggs, chicken breasts, fruit, lentils and pulses, vegetables, quite a bit of plant based foods, brown bread, salads etc. Snack on nuts, popcorn, skinny coffee etc

At weekends I generally have a takeaway of maybe a chicken burger with chips or an Indian etc. These meals are calorific as I don’t hold back, but it’s my treat for the week 💁‍♀️ I should probably give them up and see if it makes a difference!

Also I only drink a couple of glasses of wine on a Friday night, that’s it for the week

If your daily deficit is maybe only around 300-500 based on your 1300-1500 daily intake then those calories at the weekend will really not be helping unfortunately. I’m basing your daily deficit on my BMR but in a good two stone heavier than you however not breastfeeding.

Apparently it’s 3500 to lose a lb which obviously requires a deficit of 500 per day. If you think about it you’re just hitting that Monday to Friday then it’s all going tits up at the weekend.

I’d calculate your BMR online and go from there. Take off 500 calories and there’s your goal calories for the day and any extra burned from exercise is a bonus. Don’t eat them back.

Yes definitely, I’m going to have to find a lower calorie alternative treat

A full Indian meal can easily have 1000 cal if you "don't hold back" then a another 500 cal in the wine. I daresay that would make a massive difference to your weight loss if you ditched the takeaways and either measured out 125ml glass of wine or switched to 50ml gin and diet tonic. I think you're cancelling out the good work over the week at the weekend.

Quite possibly you are eating back any deficit you are making during the weekend takeaways.
I completely get where you are with wanting to lose weight. I'm 5ft 8 and weigh the same as you and I am also trying to lose weight.
You need to address the weekend eating

It’s so frustrating OP.

Like another OP I fully recommend the switch to gin!

Also I think you will get a lot of odd replies on here, better to ask on somewhere like mfp. Here I see people refer to themselves as 'slim size 12' and get angry at anyone that actually states that is not slim

Those are the same people saying a size 16 is healthy because it's the 'national average'

Not forgetting that BMI is a rubbish measurement because the many average citizens who are Olympic athletes don't fit into it.

I also think you get a lot of posters on this kind of thread saying they looked 'gaunt' and 'ill' at a perfectly healthy weight for their height. On another thread people were saying they looked like they had an eating disorder at 10 stone and 5'7"...

This actually can be the case. I am 5ft 2 but I have a big frame - wide shoulders and hips. I went down to 8st 5 about 7 years ago and it really didn't suit me.

I’m the same height as you but probably heavier and my BMR (calorie requirement if I stayed in bed all day) is around 1300 calories a day so with exercise and breast feeding I’d say you’re possibly not eating enough and hence you won’t lose weight.

Unless you are only 4foot3 , that’s quite a healthy weight already ?

Lobster and don't forget The Rock

Sorry, low sugar muesli, fat free yoghurt, scrambled eggs, chicken breasts, fruit, lentils and pulses, vegetables, quite a bit of plant based foods, brown bread, salads etc. Snack on nuts, popcorn, skinny coffee etc

All looks pretty good from a quality point of view. However, I think back to what my trainer says to his (usually male) clients. They say to him: 'Seriously Chris, can't think why I'm not shifting the weight; I'm only eating chicken, rice and porridge'. And Chris replies: 'Yes, Andy but how much?'

So what I'd ask you @Endorphins is: How much muesli? How many chicken breasts? How many slices of bread?

Going back to the weekends, I'd hazard a guess that an Indian takeaway could amount to 1500 calories — and that's without starters or poppadoms. And alcohol adds to the count, too.

I'm starting to sound like a right old joysucker, I know, but weekends and evenings are often where things mount up without you realising.

You can do it: I was older than you when I shifted my excess six stones of (non) baby weight Good luck

Not everyone needs to be at the bottom of the healthy weight range to look and feel healthy. Some people may want to be that size but that is a different matter.

Full disclosure- I am fat, but honestly not saying this from a place of envy. You exercise a lot, which is amazing, you track your calories during the week, which is a lot of effort, and you enjoy the weekends. Your weight is static, and very healthy. Why not accept your new shape and enjoy your life? It sounds very balanced. The only way you will drop weight is by calorie counting and restricting at the weekend too, and reducing calories every day, and doing this for months if not years, because you will only lose very slowly. Is it worth it???

Unless you are only 4foot3 , that’s quite a healthy weight already ?

The OP would still be "quite a healthy weight" if she was over a stone lighter. She might also be happier with what she sees in the mirror.

The only way you will drop weight is by calorie counting and restricting at the weekend too, and reducing calories every day, and doing this for months if not years, because you will only lose very slowly. Is it worth it???

And that's what I do. Every day. Is it worth it? Yep. Absolutely. Without a shadow of a doubt

Well cool! As long as it's worth it

Not everyone needs to be at the bottom of the healthy weight range to look and feel healthy. Some people may want to be that size but that is a different matter.

Of course, and all I and some other posters are saying is that wanting to be that size is still healthy and not some sort of indication of an unhealthy relationship with either food or their body.