Not seeing any results :(

kickstartweightloss
kickstartweightloss Posts: 24 Member
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So this week I upped my exercise and since Monday 2nd I have burnt 4098 calories at the gym. However I haven't lost any weight at all nothing I have still been eating around 1200 calories a day so I don't see why its not paid off.

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  • pjcfrancis
    pjcfrancis Posts: 121 Member
    Sometimes I find I get "stuck" at a weight for up to a week. Looks like you're doing everything right. Keep at it and things will start to shift.
  • CaoimheMariexo
    CaoimheMariexo Posts: 122 Member
    You probably are just gaining muscle as well and the scale can't show that. I suggest stop weighing yourself and instad take measurements because the scales can be verry discouraging. Goodluck :blush:
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    Sorry but shes very unlikely to be gaining muscle eating at a deficit, also its not clear whether shes doing any exercise that would build muscle either.

    The common answer to all these why am I not losing weight is that you are eating more than you think and burning less.

    The fallback position is that weight loss is not linear and you seem to want instant results. Without further details and looking at youir diary its hard to know whats going on. If your math is correct then keep on doing the same thing and it will kick in eventually. If your math is not correct or at least the application of weihing food and recording burns is off then you may not be at a deficit and you will not see anything kick in.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    CaoimheMariexo wrote: »
    You probably are just gaining muscle as well and the scale can't show that. I suggest stop weighing yourself and instad take measurements because the scales can be verry discouraging. Goodluck :blush:

    sorry, but OP is not gaining muscle on 1200 calories per day ..

    newbie gains maybe..but I doubt OP is on a progressive lifting program….
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    999tigger wrote: »
    Sorry but shes very unlikely to be gaining muscle eating at a deficit, also its not clear whether shes doing any exercise that would build muscle either.

    The common answer to all these why am I not losing weight is that you are eating more than you think and burning less.

    The fallback position is that weight loss is not linear and you seem to want instant results. Without further details and looking at youir diary its hard to know whats going on. If your math is correct then keep on doing the same thing and it will kick in eventually. If your math is not correct or at least the application of weihing food and recording burns is off then you may not be at a deficit and you will not see anything kick in.

    OP, all of this.

  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    OP - is this your first week tracking? if yes, it is way too early to start worrying.

    BUT

    do you own a food scale?
    do you log everything?
  • coraborealis80
    coraborealis80 Posts: 53 Member
    Honestly, in addition to what others have said, you're probably overdoing it. Excessive stress on muscles can actually cause weight gain. It makes sense if you think about it. Swelling and water retention come with over working out. In addition, very few gym machines give correct deficits. My doctor told me straight up not to count any of my exercise toward my daily calories.
  • tim293
    tim293 Posts: 2 Member
    4000 calories burnt is just about 1lb of body fat, water weight can swamp the measurements of a single pound and make it hard to notice.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    It's most likely water retention to repair your muscles from the added exercise. It should go away by next week.
  • TheRoseRoss
    TheRoseRoss Posts: 112 Member
    How do you know that you've burned 4098 at the gym? Because a calculator that you plugged data into tells you so?

    Some of the things I have learned is that it's very easy to over estimate how much work you're doing in the gym, and just as easy to under estimate how much we're eating. For example, I've been a gym rat for over 2 years now. A few months ago I found myself exercising with a weight, struggling to get to the last rep, putting down the weight, sitting up and thinking "good job!" Then I turned to write it in my log book. I looked to a week earlier and found that I had performed the exact same exercise with twice the weight. Yet here I was, "struggling" with half the weight that I normally use. The reason is because my mind said "this (reduced) weight is what you normally struggle with, so you should be struggling now." My mind said it, my body believed it, and I struggled. Pissed off, I grabbed the heavier weight that I had used a week before and redid the exercise.

    Had I not kept track, I would have walked out of the gym having used half the weight that I normally do, but would have been absolutely certain that I had "given it my all."

    I think that you should consider not just calories, but your macro nutrients as well. Getting 1200 calories, but half of them being from fat is not a good thing. And also, don't get caught up on the idea of "losing weight." You want to "lose fat." Let's pretend that your body composition is 50% fat, but your goal is to lose "weight." You can lose 100 pounds, but if your body is still 50%, you've got a lot of work to do. However, what if you lost "only" 25 pounds, but dropped your body fat to 25%? You look better, and you're healthier as a result, even though you only lost 25 pounds of weight, as compared to the 100 pounds of weight in the earlier example.

    If you've "upped your exercise," but you're still not seeing results, it's likely that:
    1. You haven't allowed enough time to see results
    2. You're exercise isn't intense/frequent enough
    3. Your diet isn't on point

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