Why am I not losing weight?

I''ve being going to the gym for a month now, and have been given an excellent program designed for me. I burn at least 500kcal every second day, but usually more, and more often. This is done doing both weights and cardio. I have a BMR around 1650, and have been told to eat 1500kcal a day. I''ve stuck to it religiously. In theory, I should have lost weight, or at least lost fat and put on muscle, but I haven''t seen any changes in me at all. What is it that I''m missing?

I am a 5''3", 175lbs, 21yo female who desperately wants to be 45lbs lighter.

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1st I applaud you for the ambition and desire to lose weight. I lost 45 pounds in 19 months. I don''t do gyms or whatnot. All I did is consume 500 less calories than I eat. I also try to walk 2 to 3 miles a day. I''m also not in a hurry to lose the weight. It took me 10 years to gain 60 pounds and I expect to take 3 years to take it all off.

Losing weight involves a lifestyle change, will power, and above all patience. Not just a change in diet and not repetitions at some gym. If you try to do it too fast your body will go into some type of survival mode and you will get weird cravings for food and crash the diet and binge.

Some facts here. Each pound of body fat is about 3500 calories. 500 calorie deficit a day would take 7 days to lose a pound. Just that alone will allow you to lose 45 pounds in 45 weeks. Muscle weighs more than fat so if you are working out and building muscle while losing weigh you could see slower results from that too. Your body requires more calories at 175 pounds to maintain that weight than it needs at 130 pounds so if you are currently consuming 2500 calories now just to maintain that weight and you cut your food intake to 2000 calories as you lose weight you should keep decreasing your calorie intake proportionally to keep losing weight. There are charts on the internet that can help. Just search for them. As exercising for me goes, I burn only 450 calories in a 3 mile walk in the cold wet snow. It''s easier for me to just give up the 400 calorie pop tart. Take an account of what your average day''s caloric intake is from the types of food you are eating and go online and find a chart of your body''s daily calorie requirements are and do some simple math to figure out how much food to reduce. Then just make smaller portions of what you are eating now. One of the things I got into while on a weight loss diet regimen was to start making my own food from fresh ingredients. I made myself work for my calories instead of buying mass produced crap loaded with artificial and preserved whatever. I also take a break from the diet and maintain a weight for several months or even let it go back up a tad before starting again. I do this so I relieve stress on my body. My thinking is that when I''m losing weight my body is actually consuming itself to make up the deficit. I want to give it a break to rest. Notice my weight loss scheme involves mostly what I consume and not much about exercise? Exercising is ok, I consider those calories lost a bonus but as I stated before I get greater and faster benefit just cutting out some of the crap I eat.

Next is to make sure you are eating a balanced diet. Not too many carbs and sugars and too few meats or vice versa. Stay away from sugars and stay well hydrated. Drink a lot of water. Can''t stress that enough.

Last part and probably the most important is the psychological aspect of dieting and weight loss. If you adjust your consumption of calories as above with a healthy well balanced diet with some exercise you will ajust to it pretty easily. Kind of like a set it and forget it once the routine is established. Don''t make your weight loss objective such a priority of your life to a point where you are constantly thinking about it. Not only will that cause you unnecessary stress and anxiety it will depress you. Just relax and enjoy life while your doing it and don''t worry about it. You''ll get there.

• U could be gaining musclet at same time so the loss I weight is not showing try taking measurements
• Mix up your calories every now and then. If you constantly eat 1500kcal per day, drop it down to 1400kcal for a week or so. You need to keep tricking your body so it won''t get stuck in a rut. The same thing happened to me. You reach a plateau, so you need to make small changes.
• Rejoice! That’s the holy grail of fat loss. How can you tell if you’re losing fat and gaining lean body mass? Track your body fat percentage over several weeks. You may see your weight staying the same but your body fat percentage dropping.
  If you don’t think that any of these reasons apply to you, you may want to discuss your concerns with a doctor. Be sure to keep a detailed log of your foods and activities so that your doctor can get a better idea of the whole picture.