3 weeks & no weight loss???

[Aquablue62]

After a sedentary life, I started running and watching my intake.  I meet my goals, 15,000 steps, 60 mins high activity, burn +2800 cal, intake 1300 or less....and my weight has hovered from 160 to 157 and back to 160.  I am stumped!!!  I really needs some assistance to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[josephz2va]

I'd suggest these additions:

 - Isopure Zero Carb (all three meal times mixed with 16 oz blender bottle)

 - ALC CLA (all three meal times)

 - Thermogenic (two meal times - breakfast/lunch)

All of which are sold on Amazon for less than local retailers sell. I've been stuck for a while until I started back on it Friday. 4 pounds down in 3 days.

[robbackatya]

You should track your intake realitive ot you weight not a static equation. It will give you are more dynamic number.

[Suzanne123]

What are these? 

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@josephz2va wrote:

I'd suggest these additions:

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@josephz2va wrote:

I'd suggest these additions:

 - Isopure Zero Carb (all three meal times mixed with 16 oz blender bottle)

 - ALC CLA (all three meal times)

 - Thermogenic (two meal times - breakfast/lunch)

All of which are sold on Amazon for less than local retailers sell. I've been stuck for a while until I started back on it Friday. 4 pounds down in 3 days.

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@josephz2va wrote:

I'd suggest these additions:

 - Isopure Zero Carb (all three meal times mixed with 16 oz blender bottle)

 - ALC CLA (all three meal times)

 - Thermogenic (two meal times - breakfast/lunch)

All of which are sold on Amazon for less than local retailers sell. I've been stuck for a while until I started back on it Friday. 4 pounds down in 3 days.

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@josephz2va wrote:

I'd suggest these additions:

 - Isopure Zero Carb (all three meal times mixed with 16 oz blender bottle)

 - ALC CLA (all three meal times)

 - Thermogenic (two meal times - breakfast/lunch)

All of which are sold on Amazon for less than local retailers sell. I've been stuck for a while until I started back on it Friday. 4 pounds down in 3 days.

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All of which are sold on Amazon for less than local retailers sell. I've been stuck for a while until I started back on it Friday. 4 pounds down in 3 days.

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[Figlet]

Be cautious about supplements. If they are strong enough to help you, they are strong enough to hurt you. If they aren't strong enough, you just have expensive urine.

Supplements are not regulated, tested or "certified" by anyone other than the producers.

[SaltyElephants]

Are you sure you're counting calories properly?  Keep in mind that ellipticals and other gym equipment tend to overestimate your calorie burn (I generally halve what the machines tell me).  And a lot of people don't really know what a "serving" of food is, so you could be underestimating your calories.  If you don't have a kitchen scale, you can use this website to determine portion sizes.  It's really useful.  

[Colinm39]

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@SaltyElephants wrote:

Are you sure you're counting calories properly?  Keep in mind that ellipticals and other gym equipment tend to overestimate your calorie burn (I generally halve what the machines tell me).  And a lot of people don't really know what a "serving" of food is, so you could be underestimating your calories.  If you don't have a kitchen scale, you can use this website to determine portion sizes.  It's really useful.  

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@SaltyElephantsThanks for the excellent site link for the serving size. I will be passing this on to other Fitbitters when there is a need..

Have a great day.

[robbackatya]

The problem is you, but not you. Most don't realize you have to manually make adjustments to your data to get a correct number. Also don't believe people that tell you you have to weigh everything, measure, make sure you calobrate every peice of gym equipment to get an accurate number. You just need the correct algorthim. Everything you do should be relative to your weight loss if that is what you are concerned with.

The problem is that the equation that most sites including fitbit uses can be off by as much as 67%. They use standard Mifflin with EER to figure out someone's BMR(Basil Metabolic Rate).
See below which states that someone with the exact same lean body mass(currently the most accurate way to measure BMR) can be off by 67%. The point is Fitbit like all other sites in trackers expect you to manually adjust your numbers and the fact is your number will change daily.
Don't listen to others about what your caloric intake should be you need to find that out for yourself by analysis or putting it into a calculator that automatically makes the adjustments for you like HSK.
Bottom line the current equations are static and we are not so you have to adjust daily to get an accurate number.
So rule number one you "don't use a static equation for a dynamic person."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate

Thus there are differences in BMR even when comparing two subjects with the same lean body mass. The top 5% of people are metabolizing energy 28-32% faster than individuals with the lowest 5% BMR.[11] For instance, one study reported an extreme case where two individuals with the same lean body mass of 43 kg had BMRs of 1075 kcal/day (4.5 MJ/day) and 1790 kcal/day (7.5 MJ/day). This difference of 715 kcal/day (67%) is equivalent to one of the individuals completing a 10 kilometer run every day.[11]