What I'm doing wrong?

[urszula]

Hi!
I'm trying to lose weight in last 2 weeks and my weight is still the same. Before anyone will say that I need to cut back on food please look at my food tracker. I’m being honest with this diary. I don’t eat too much. I’m trying to pick food high in fibre. No sweets, no fried food, no white bread, no fizzy drinks. I’m really trying to eat healthy. In the morning I’m doing some exercise. I also drink about 2 L of water very day and I take cod liver oil, vitamins and minerals and apple cider tablets before dinner. I’m focusing on losing weight all the time but after 2 weeks I don’t see any results. I don’t want to give up but this is a bit upsetting.
Is there something what I’m doing wrong?
Many thanks

[Skailark]

No..i think you are doing great with your exercise bit and food. Before i go further to answer your question just have to ask you how much weight have you lost in the past and at what pace? and if you are trying to lose weight, how much more to go?

[NoLeafClover]

Well for starters it looks like you're doing a lot of weight training, which will increase muscle mass, so even if you're burning a little more fat than you are building muscle, your weight will stay the same.

Secondly, how tall are you? If you're approaching your ideal weight, it will become harder and harder to continue shedding pounds, due to the increasing efficiency of your body. Your goal line is way to steep to be realistic--you should be trying to lost no more than a couple pounds a week if you want to have any chance to keep it off, especially this late in the game.

Third, you've only been at this for about 2 weeks. The problem is, it is very difficult to get an accurate measurement of weight from day to day, and to use it to identify a trend... after all, your body is a water pump, much in the way a car is a gas pump--you can't get a measurement of dry weight when you don't know how full the tank is. Your weight will bounce around a lot on a day-to-day basis. Use a good scale and take measurements in fractions of a pound, then average them across a period of time, such as a week, and compare it to the previous week.

Finally, you're starving yourself--you're going to send your metabolism into remission. Your body wants to store fat, because it's the most efficient way to conserve energy. If your body encounters an energy emergency, it will burn glucose, muscle, ANYTHING to preserve the fat. In the end, you'll only make yourself less healthy. I speak from experience here, and had done pretty much the same thing up until recently, and it just doesn't work.

Exercise more. Do less resistance training and more cardio. Elliptical machines or running is ideal, though biking or swimming is OK too. Try to keep tabs on your heart rate, and identify your zones. The best place to be for burning calories and fat is between 30% and 70% of your heart rate threshold (the maximum heart rate you can sustain). Get your heart rate there, and keep it there, for an extended duration of time (at least 30-40 minutes), at least 3 days a week.  Eat more. if you eat maybe 200 calories a day less than you burn in a day without exercise, and then exercise enough to burn another 300 calories a day, you'll lose a pound a week. If you want to lose more, burn more, but don't eat less, or your body will start shutting down and burning lean muscle mass and generally burning fewer calories throughout the day, fighting your efforts.