Why am I not losing weight?
If the scale has not moved in weeks, one of four things is almost always happening: you eat more than you think, you move less than you think, water is masking fat loss, or the timeline is simply too short. Here is how to find which one is yours.
The math is right, the inputs are wrong
Underreporting is human, not a character flaw: studies find people underestimate intake by 20 to 40 percent, mostly through oils, sauces, bites while cooking and weekend drift. Two untracked tablespoons of olive oil is 240 kcal.
The other side moves too: when you diet, your body quietly reduces non-exercise movement, fidgeting, walking, standing. This alone can erase a few hundred calories of your planned deficit without you noticing.
Water hides fat loss for weeks
Fat loss is smooth; scale weight is not. New training, more carbs on a day, salt, stress and the menstrual cycle all shift water by one or two kilograms, easily burying a real 0.4 kg per week fat loss.
Judge the weekly average, not the daily number, and give any change three to four weeks before you call it a stall. A single flat week is noise.
How to actually diagnose it
Tighten tracking for two honest weeks: photograph and log everything, including oils and drinks, and keep your step count from drifting down. If the average trend still does not move, lower calories by about 10 percent or add daily steps.
Equil makes the audit painless: photo-scan meals so nothing slips through, see your true weekly trend instead of daily noise, and keep your deficit protected, it will not tell you to eat back exercise calories while you are cutting, a mistake most apps still make.
Stop tracking by hand
Equil reads your food, glucose, sleep and training, then adjusts your plan in real time. Not another logger, a coach.
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