Scale Won't Budge!

[alaska1204]

So I am a chronic binger. I got down to my "perfect weight" last year but, due to bingeing have gained all but 7 pounds back. Over the last month and a half I have been improving on little things here and there and have avoided having large binges. Over the last couple weeks, I have really up'ed my game and have been eating clean, nonprocessed, and mostly vegetarian; have cut out diet sodas (my third day), have been working on drinking around 90oz water a day; have been exercising 6 days a week doing various P90x3 routines, walking, pilates, and dance; have been burning approximately 2500 calories give or take a day, and have been eating only 1300-1500 calories per day. I have not seen the scale move at all!!  I am working on cutting down my fruit intake (as sometimes I will have 3-4 servings per day, while also monitoring my carbs (they have been averaging around 180g per day from fruits/beans/and limited amounts of whole grains like oat bran and quinoa). I am not sure what else to do. I don't want to push myself too strict for fear of bingeing but I am getting frustrated. I even have been covering up the scale for the past few days when i get on it for fear of not losing again!  Any suggestions as to other tweaks I can do to get myself losing again?

[trainer]

Your poor body is probably very confused! I'd say take your measurements and pay attention to them for awhile, esp. your waist. As you add lean mass and drop fat mass you will be denser (muscle is more dense than fat) so you will lose inches but not lose weight. Once you gain enough muscle your metabolism will increase enough that you will lose fat however. So, for now get active! Move, dance, walk, take classe, learn a new activity, get busy! Stop worrying about the scale and just move. Pay attention to your measurements and keep eating healthy. You will start to drop in weight once your body realizes you aren't going to binge/yo yo any more.

[alaska1204]

Thank you so much for that! It helped immensly! 🙂

[SunsetRunner]

To prevent binging, don't restrict any foods. Eating healthier most of the time is good (since these foods contain the nutritients the body requires while being lower in calories), when craving for a certain food *there are no good or bad foods*, allow to have some but in moderation (the body can be missing some nutritients and sending out a craving for a particular food..) or trying to revert back to it's happiest weight range when going under / above this range to much).

When eating / drinking nutritient lacking food for example (prepackaged foods, wine, pizza, any 'junk food'..), these are higher in calories but nutritient lacking, when eating / drinking those first, the body can still be hungry searching for the nutritients it needs (asking for even more food), it's perfectly ok to have those foods / drinks but with care.

Always eat what your body desires to nourish the body the most and be satisfied quicker than eating to have to eat something but not really wanting that certain food and going to eat the food the body has been craving first anyway.