Nothing is Working

I'm doing cardio 45 min. six days a week, weight training 3 times a week and eating 1000 calories a day. The scale doesn't move. NOW WHAT DO I DO.

If you are an adult, sedentary woman, the absolute minimum you should be eating is 1200. If you are working out, a male, or a teen, you should be eating more than that. If you are several of those things, you should be eating a lot more than that.

Original Post by marian87:

I'm doing cardio 45 min. six days a week, weight training 3 times a week and eating 1000 calories a day. The scale doesn't move. NOW WHAT DO I DO.

 how do you do all of that on only 1000 cals a day? If I did that I would feel light headed and nauseous by the end of my work out unless I was overdosing on caffeine. Not healthy..not healthy at all, and not sustainable.

I know all about the not enough food thing, but if I eat much more than that I gain weight. That's whats making it so frustrating. I feel like I've tried every twist and turn.

I'm the same way. But no matter what, the scale won't move. I tried spending weeks eating under 900 calories and weeks of over 2000 calories. I doubled my cardio workouts and keep with the weight training. Still nothing.

What are your stats, and how long have you been undereating?

Do you have any fat to lose?  If not, stop trying to lose.  Use the tools here to calculate a maintenance diet, and eat that much.  Stay off the scale if you don't want to see a small gain, but for your health's sake you need to start giving yourself enough food.

If you do need to lose fat, I would still suggest that you do the same thing, use the tools to figure out a maintenance diet, and eat that maintenance amount of good, healthy, whole foods until your body forgives you for starving it on a 1000 calorie diet while making it work so hard.  Then you can start losing weight in a healthier way, creating about a 500 calorie deficit and keeping above 1200 calories total  if you are an adult, and 1500 if you are younger.

Have you tried instead of weighing yourself measuring you arms, legs, waist and so on.  With all the weight training maybe your toning and becoming leaner that way.

you should be eating 1200 at the minimum and that is if you are sendentary. if you feel you gain some weight at first let your body/metabolism catch up.. it will adjust itself. just make sure you are getting yourself the nutrition you need!

In order to lose weight, you need to eat approximately 500 calories per day less than you are burning. If you eat much less than that, then your body will go into survival mode and hold on to all of your calories for dear life! 1000 calories per day is not nearly enough. The average female burns around 2000 calories a day, not including what she burns at the gym. With the amount you work out, you should be consuming between 1500-1800 calories a day, plus lots of water.

Hope this helps.

I am 5'2 and weighed 100 lbs up until I had my son. I gained 20 lbs, 20% MORE body fat and 10 inches on my waist. My plan was to lose just 10 lbs and a few inches off my waist.

In my food log, I average about 300 calories per meal and 100 calories for snacks. I drink 8-10 glasses of water plus fruit drinks or smoothies mixed with protein powder. Without the fruit drinks, I barely make 1000 calories per day and I'm always full.

It has been 3 months since I started exercise. In the last couple weeks since I stepped up the cardio I've lost an inch off my chest, stomach, and hips. But I only wanted to lose the stomach. It all seems to be just kicking in now. Hard to tell for sure.

You're not telling the whole story. Specify height/weight/age. How do you look in the mirror ? OBJECTIVELY -- ask a friend.

1000 cals? Are you sure? What protein/fat/carb ratio that you're consuming, and especially what are your sources of carbs?

Original Post by marian87:

I'm doing cardio 45 min. six days a week, weight training 3 times a week and eating 1000 calories a day. The scale doesn't move. NOW WHAT DO I DO.

Anybody and everybody will lose weight on 1000 calories, especially considering that's consumed not net..........your obviously eating, binging, lying to yourself or miscalculating the numbers. Your damaged metabolism is obviously your problem, can't you see that? if not seek professional help.

stay off that scale. its deceiving, and if you dont get what you expected, often discouraging. keep up with your regime, although i do agree that you need to start eating more.. a lot more. 1000 calories a day cant be doing any good on your metabolism