Not Losing Weight on a 1000 calorie/day deficit
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Pollywog_la wrote: »3dogsrunning wrote: »I found if I eat less carbs it helps jump start weight loss. Are you eating pasta,rice ect? If you are try cutting back on those type of carbs.
That's because carbs are stored as glycogen in your muscle and require water to store them. When you cut carbs, your glycogen levels go down along with the water and you drop weight. But, as soon as you eat carbs, you replace those levels and weight goes back up. It's a temporary loss.
One of the many reasons why scale weight should only be one part of tracking progress.
But also, carbs raise blood sugar more than protein, and fat barely registers. And your body throws out insulin to get that glucose out of circulation...and some of that will become fat if not burned off.
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Omg. Just wait. Also, 1000 calories a day diet, or a 1000 calorie a day deficit?
Both sound wrong. You should be eating 1200 calories a day MINIMUM. And I highly doubt you could burn enough calories to have a 1000 calorie deficit.
I see I'm not the only person who doesn't quite agree with this, I almost daily hit a 1200+ calorie deficit and i stick to my intake of 1200...That's because carbs are stored as glycogen in your muscle and require water to store them. When you cut carbs, your glycogen levels go down along with the water and you drop weight. But, as soon as you eat carbs, you replace those levels and weight goes back up. It's a temporary loss.
One of the many reasons why scale weight should only be one part of tracking progress.
Also I don't quite agree with this either, but everyones body is different, I did cut out carbs for my initial 6 weeks but now I can eat them daily and I am still dropping, but perhaps the calorie deficit is a reason for that, or maybe because I don't eat them regularly? I don't know...
The best thing is to see a doctor and a nutritionalist as well as a personal trainer, that what I did before I started, the doctor looks at your health and family background and advices on what your goal should be for your health also if you might have any problems when it comes to loosing weight, the nutritionalist looks at your current diet and then advices you on what needs to change and why, then the trainer looks at your fitness levels as well as the previous information and he tells you what you need to do physically... It really helped me to speak to professionals. Also much like training alone isn't the answer nor is diet alone, for the best results you need to combine them both. I initially dropped weight just from the Dukan diet and thought it was great when i hit 75kg (from 87kg) but then gained it back over holidays, now I lost with diet and exercise and I wont lie when I hit 75kg the second time i was smaller, and i looked better, and now I am 72kg and even smaller... exercise with the eating plan makes a massive difference.
Another thing I have noticed, when you are not overweight it is harder to shift the weight, you need to work harder, if your weight and hight are in the green with the BMI then you will have to be very strict and train very hard to loose the extra weight, this is just what I noticed personally for myself, it was so easy for me to loose 1kg (2.2lbs) a week when I was over 75kg but now I have to push the training and be clean on the diet to maintain that weight loss, and its hard.
But like I said before, everyones body is different, see a doctor and nutritionalist and see what they advice.
I am talking about the inital weight loss "jump start".
Drop carbs - drop water weight. It is a common technique used by those who have to make weight and by bodybuilders pre-comp.0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Omg. Just wait. Also, 1000 calories a day diet, or a 1000 calorie a day deficit?
Both sound wrong. You should be eating 1200 calories a day MINIMUM. And I highly doubt you could burn enough calories to have a 1000 calorie deficit.
I see I'm not the only person who doesn't quite agree with this, I almost daily hit a 1200+ calorie deficit and i stick to my intake of 1200...That's because carbs are stored as glycogen in your muscle and require water to store them. When you cut carbs, your glycogen levels go down along with the water and you drop weight. But, as soon as you eat carbs, you replace those levels and weight goes back up. It's a temporary loss.
One of the many reasons why scale weight should only be one part of tracking progress.
Also I don't quite agree with this either, but everyones body is different, I did cut out carbs for my initial 6 weeks but now I can eat them daily and I am still dropping, but perhaps the calorie deficit is a reason for that, or maybe because I don't eat them regularly? I don't know...
The best thing is to see a doctor and a nutritionalist as well as a personal trainer, that what I did before I started, the doctor looks at your health and family background and advices on what your goal should be for your health also if you might have any problems when it comes to loosing weight, the nutritionalist looks at your current diet and then advices you on what needs to change and why, then the trainer looks at your fitness levels as well as the previous information and he tells you what you need to do physically... It really helped me to speak to professionals. Also much like training alone isn't the answer nor is diet alone, for the best results you need to combine them both. I initially dropped weight just from the Dukan diet and thought it was great when i hit 75kg (from 87kg) but then gained it back over holidays, now I lost with diet and exercise and I wont lie when I hit 75kg the second time i was smaller, and i looked better, and now I am 72kg and even smaller... exercise with the eating plan makes a massive difference.
Another thing I have noticed, when you are not overweight it is harder to shift the weight, you need to work harder, if your weight and hight are in the green with the BMI then you will have to be very strict and train very hard to loose the extra weight, this is just what I noticed personally for myself, it was so easy for me to loose 1kg (2.2lbs) a week when I was over 75kg but now I have to push the training and be clean on the diet to maintain that weight loss, and its hard.
But like I said before, everyones body is different, see a doctor and nutritionalist and see what they advice.
I am talking about the inital weight loss "jump start".
Drop carbs - drop water weight. It is a common technique used by those who have to make weight and by bodybuilders pre-comp.
It might look good on the scales but does it actually jump start fat loss?
Is the goal to lose weight or lose fat?0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Omg. Just wait. Also, 1000 calories a day diet, or a 1000 calorie a day deficit?
Both sound wrong. You should be eating 1200 calories a day MINIMUM. And I highly doubt you could burn enough calories to have a 1000 calorie deficit.
I see I'm not the only person who doesn't quite agree with this, I almost daily hit a 1200+ calorie deficit and i stick to my intake of 1200...That's because carbs are stored as glycogen in your muscle and require water to store them. When you cut carbs, your glycogen levels go down along with the water and you drop weight. But, as soon as you eat carbs, you replace those levels and weight goes back up. It's a temporary loss.
One of the many reasons why scale weight should only be one part of tracking progress.
Also I don't quite agree with this either, but everyones body is different, I did cut out carbs for my initial 6 weeks but now I can eat them daily and I am still dropping, but perhaps the calorie deficit is a reason for that, or maybe because I don't eat them regularly? I don't know...
The best thing is to see a doctor and a nutritionalist as well as a personal trainer, that what I did before I started, the doctor looks at your health and family background and advices on what your goal should be for your health also if you might have any problems when it comes to loosing weight, the nutritionalist looks at your current diet and then advices you on what needs to change and why, then the trainer looks at your fitness levels as well as the previous information and he tells you what you need to do physically... It really helped me to speak to professionals. Also much like training alone isn't the answer nor is diet alone, for the best results you need to combine them both. I initially dropped weight just from the Dukan diet and thought it was great when i hit 75kg (from 87kg) but then gained it back over holidays, now I lost with diet and exercise and I wont lie when I hit 75kg the second time i was smaller, and i looked better, and now I am 72kg and even smaller... exercise with the eating plan makes a massive difference.
Another thing I have noticed, when you are not overweight it is harder to shift the weight, you need to work harder, if your weight and hight are in the green with the BMI then you will have to be very strict and train very hard to loose the extra weight, this is just what I noticed personally for myself, it was so easy for me to loose 1kg (2.2lbs) a week when I was over 75kg but now I have to push the training and be clean on the diet to maintain that weight loss, and its hard.
But like I said before, everyones body is different, see a doctor and nutritionalist and see what they advice.
I am talking about the inital weight loss "jump start".
Drop carbs - drop water weight. It is a common technique used by those who have to make weight and by bodybuilders pre-comp.
It might look good on the scales but does it actually jump start fat loss?
Is the goal to lose weight or lose fat?
That was my point.
Someone suggested cutting carbs as a jump start.0 -
It seems I stand corrected on the deficit. I worked the math in my head again and that makes sense.
FYI thank you for asking / commenting on this. When I read your post about not being able to create such a huge deficit, I was like heck yeah that's true, she's so little! Sounds like we both learned something!
I should clarify that for me, when I think of 1000 cals per day deficit, I'm thinking on a sustained basis, not just a couple times a week. In my case I only exercise 3x per week, so getting a larger deficit on those days would not average my normal deficit to that same high amount
Either way, respect to all the ladies that posted about their huge deficits! And same to all the rest of you all getting it done. heh 0 -
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Don't sweat it. I tend to lose some weeks, not lose much the next. Give it some time, track your food and exercise properly, and stick with it.0
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ncboiler89 wrote: »
Now it's been eight.
Patience is a virtue cause this weight management thing is for life.0 -
Omg. Just wait. Also, 1000 calories a day diet, or a 1000 calorie a day deficit?
Both sound wrong. You should be eating 1200 calories a day MINIMUM. And I highly doubt you could burn enough calories to have a 1000 calorie deficit.
Oh this just isnt true. A 1000 calorie per day deficit is how one can lose 2lbs per week. Totally doable. The poster has maintained a 1000cal deficit, not eaten 1000 calories.
But some thing isnt right. Your logging may be off, your expenditure isnt as high as you think, or a combo of the two. A 1000 calorie deficit is doable but you have to know your numbers are correct. Also give it much more time!! Your body kinda has to know what to expect, I feel like you should keep things the same for a month and see if there is a change. If not then the numbers are off somewhere!0 -
The OP hasn't been back in 2 days and my guess is she's not coming back.
If she did come back my question would be how many pounds she lost in the days/weeks before the last week. Her profile says six pounds lost. I'm imagining somebody who lost 6 pounds in 3 weeks and then didn't have any scale loss showing on the fourth week.0 -
The OP hasn't been back in 2 days and my guess is she's not coming back.
If she did come back my question would be how many pounds she lost in the days/weeks before the last week. Her profile says six pounds lost. I'm imagining somebody who lost 6 pounds in 3 weeks and then didn't have any scale loss showing on the fourth week.
2 days isn't a lot of time, you don't have to come to the forums everyday
Didn't the first post say this was their 1st week?0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »First, 1000 calories/day is lower than recommended.
Second, you're only 1 week in. Give it time. I didn't see the first gram of loss until 10 days in.
I think they meant 1000 calorie deficit, as in goal of 2 lbs a week, not 1000 calories intake.Omg. Just wait. Also, 1000 calories a day diet, or a 1000 calorie a day deficit?
Both sound wrong. You should be eating 1200 calories a day MINIMUM. And I highly doubt you could burn enough calories to have a 1000 calorie deficit.
Lots of people can realistically hit a 2 lb a week (1000 calorie deficit) and even be over 1200 calories.
I'm at 1900 calories a day with a 1000 (2lb/wk) defecit.
I'm a 280lbs, 6'6", late 30s male.
A 1200 calorie per day with 1000 calorie defecit would not be unreasonable for a woman who's tall and/or has a lot to lose.0
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