Can anyone help - why am I not losing weight (using MFP)

[LindaBoughtAPeaShooter]

Trying to walk more (have an injury which means no running)
Eating my 1200 per day and not cheating! Only time I eat more is if I have done some exercise and recorded it (am using map my walk) and therefore have extra calories available iykwim.

Standard day:
Weetabix, handful of raspberries, skimmed milk

Cous cous (40g dry) with cooked chicken and salad, 1/2 tsp olive oil

Chilli, 40/50g rice, veg

Snacks: freddo frog (end of day treat), grapes, metcalfe sweet and skinny popcorn pack (74kcal)

What am I doing wrong?? I'm so disheartened, I've stuck to it so well but in 4 weeks I've only lost 3 lbs (didn't lose any this week)

Help!!

I've been using MFP since New Year. I eat all my exercise calories! I've lost a stone.

I do a lot of exercise and find if I dont eat my exercise calories I don't lose weight.

If I have 200+ calories left over daily then my weight doesn't shift. If I come in nearer 0 calories a day left, I lose.

Dontsufferfools thank you for that. Just today Ive sorted out a v800 for my severely disabled son along with MFP and Ive been wondering about the exercise calories. My son is far from inactive and in a period of 2.5 hours today he'd achieved 40 percent of his activity goal and walked 7000 steps. We are aiming to steal the equivalent of 0.5 kilos a week from him but Im being a realist and if takes to Christmas to reach is first goal of 2kg then so be it.

dont that's strange. I've never heard of a larger calorie deficit producing a smaller loss.

What a load of Betty swollocks.

Sorry bit of a snort laugh there. Is that what amphetamines are called these days.

Lol 'speed tea'

Go away

Never heard of eating more calories producing a bigger weight loss, I guess its probably just a timing issue and once or twice it appear that through eating more you lost weight the next day or something when in reality your body was due to lose a bit of fat anyway.

Fat doesn't come off immediately. It really makes me laugh when I see a thread about weight loss and a poster will say "ooh I had a glass of wine" last night and today I was heavier so I know I can't have a glass of wine as I immediately put on weight. And they really believe it sadly.

Fat does tend to come off in chunks, fat cells will lose the fat but fill with water initially, almost as if they are waiting to make sure that there is definitely no more fat coming their way, once they are convinced that's it they are done with and needed no more, they release that water and whoosh you get a lb or 2 of weight loss.

I generally lose weight in 10-14 day periods, I won't lose anything for about 2 weeks and can go up and down in that 2 weeks by up to 2lbs and then suddenly whoosh I will lose 2-3lbs for good.

If I were to keep eating the 200 calories more a day during that period I will ultimately lose less weight when the fat loss whoosh comes.

In fact I have just proved it, I spent 10 weeks eating about 1300 calories a day and lost 15 lbs over a 10 week period (in 10-14 day losses not every week) and this last 5 weeks I have upped my calories to about 1500 a day but kept the exercise at the same level and I have only lost 5 lbs over a 5 week period (again at 10-14 day losses not a linear same amount every week)

Also most nutritionists now admit that the Starvation Theory is a load of bollox and you can't eat too little. WW use to peddle this one out about eating your exercise calories or whatever but I think they have eventually given up on that one as it was not up to date advice.

Fat doesn't come off immediately. It really makes me laugh when I see a thread about weight loss and a poster will say "ooh I had a glass of wine" last night and today I was heavier so I know I can't have a glass of wine as I immediately put on weight. And they really believe it sadly.. You are talking about fat going on though, not coming off. And it DOES just take a few hours from consumption for your body to decide what it's taking for energy/waste/fat etc.

That makes sense loubilou