My weight is frozen or something

MyOnlyNara

I need help.
People do say I should weigh myself every week or so...
but I get a bit annoyed if I don't so I weigh at the same time everyday in the morning.
Anyway, it's been almost a months now and results have been good.
However...
the past 4 to 5 days...
Ever since I started my diet and exercise..
I weighed all my foods...lots of fiber rich....low sodium...lots of protein foods...
I eat between 1200 to 1500 calories....I think on average it's 1300...Anyway,
I also drink about 7 to 8 of the bottled 500 mL water.
My exercise consists of...
30 minutes cardio...
30 minutes of ab exercises at the moment.

I weighed 208 lbs when I started...now I am 194 lbs.
I am 30 years old, male...172 cm tall

Anyone have insight on this?
I shouldn't worry too much about this as everyone says...
but just annoyed. I'm more of the have to "see" to be satisfied type person.

My goal is 175 lbs.

hhnkhl

Maybe you should eat a bit more...
if that's not the case it's probably muscle that you added on...

quirkytizzy

How long have you been at this? The human body is not a static thing. It takes time, it dips up and down, you eat too much salt one day and gain 3 pounds on the scale but drink a lot of water the next day and are down 4 pounds on the scale and maybe you were on your feet a while one day and that swelled them up a little or maybe the scale is on a slight incline on your bathroom floor because you kicked it when getting out of the shower -

The point is that small changes one way or the other, say within 2-5 pounds, are bound to happen for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with weight loss. It doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. It just means you have a body.

And one thing I've found that helps, especially in the beginning, is to pay more attention to inches lost rather than pounds loss. My first month I lost only 5 pounds but 6 inches overall. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt and hang in there. If you continue to do the right thing, the next right thing will happen.

strong_curves

Patience.

MyOnlyNara

quirkytizzy wrote: »

How long have you been at this? The human body is not a static thing. It takes time, it dips up and down, you eat too much salt one day and gain 3 pounds on the scale but drink a lot of water the next day and are down 4 pounds on the scale and maybe you were on your feet a while one day and that swelled them up a little or maybe the scale is on a slight incline on your bathroom floor because you kicked it when getting out of the shower -

The point is that small changes one way or the other, say within 2-5 pounds, are bound to happen for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with weight loss. It doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. It just means you have a body.

And one thing I've found that helps, especially in the beginning, is to pay more attention to inches lost rather than pounds loss. My first month I lost only 5 pounds but 6 inches overall. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt and hang in there. If you continue to do the right thing, the next right thing will happen.

I've been doing this for almost 30 days now...Started late last month. I was happy to see numbers go down on scale...but the past few days it just froze. Anyway, thanks for your response. appreciate it.

SLLRunner

hhnkhl wrote: »

Maybe you should eat a bit more...
if that's not the case it's probably muscle that you added on...

It's not muscle. Muscle is difficult to build, and in a deficit the gains are usually minimal.

SLLRunner

MyOnlyNara wrote: »

quirkytizzy wrote: »

How long have you been at this? The human body is not a static thing. It takes time, it dips up and down, you eat too much salt one day and gain 3 pounds on the scale but drink a lot of water the next day and are down 4 pounds on the scale and maybe you were on your feet a while one day and that swelled them up a little or maybe the scale is on a slight incline on your bathroom floor because you kicked it when getting out of the shower -

The point is that small changes one way or the other, say within 2-5 pounds, are bound to happen for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with weight loss. It doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. It just means you have a body.

And one thing I've found that helps, especially in the beginning, is to pay more attention to inches lost rather than pounds loss. My first month I lost only 5 pounds but 6 inches overall. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt and hang in there. If you continue to do the right thing, the next right thing will happen.

I've been doing this for almost 30 days now...Started late last month. I was happy to see numbers go down on scale...but the past few days it just froze. Anyway, thanks for your response. appreciate it.

A month and you lost 14 pounds? You might want to up the calories so you don't lose so quickly because you risk losing muscle mass as well.

blankiefinder

You've lost 14 pounds in a month. That is not losing slow, that is losing too fast!

What is your goal in the end? Most people, when it comes down to it, want to look good. You will look much, much better if you lose slower, as you will lose more muscle and less fat.

middlehaitch

You are eating too few calories. A male should eat 1500 a day at least. Less and you run the risk of illness, poor hair and nail growth, and an excess loss of muscle.
You should also be eating back at least 50% of your calories burnt through exercise.

With between 30-40lb to lose 1-1.5 lb a week is what you should be aiming for initially. Closer to your goal and 1-.5 lb a week.

Please up your calories to a healthy sustainable level.

Cheers, h.

Sued0nim

MyOnlyNara wrote: »

I need help.
People do say I should weigh myself every week or so...
but I get a bit annoyed if I don't so I weigh at the same time everyday in the morning.
Anyway, it's been almost a months now and results have been good.
However...
the past 4 to 5 days...
Ever since I started my diet and exercise..
I weighed all my foods...lots of fiber rich....low sodium...lots of protein foods...
I eat between 1200 to 1500 calories....I think on average it's 1300...Anyway,
I also drink about 7 to 8 of the bottled 500 mL water.
My exercise consists of...
30 minutes cardio...
30 minutes of ab exercises at the moment.

I weighed 208 lbs when I started...now I am 194 lbs.
I am 30 years old, male...172 cm tall

Anyone have insight on this?
I shouldn't worry too much about this as everyone says...
but just annoyed. I'm more of the have to "see" to be satisfied type person.

My goal is 175 lbs.

Where is your confusion?

You've dropped 14lbs over a month

Is it that you haven't lost in 4-5 days? That's because the only way to judge weight loss is over time, say 6-8 weeks then average it out. Basically at present it looks like you're losing over 3 lbs a week on average but this might be masked by initial weight loss

May I ask why only cardio and specifically ab exercises? What's the aim of such isolation and what kind of ab exercises...if you have 30 mins you might be better looking at a progressive lifting programme based around compound lifts

Also I agree with those who say that nutritionally your calories are probably too low and you should increase your base amount by about 500 per day (looking at weight loss pattern)

hhnkhl wrote: »

Maybe you should eat a bit more...
if that's not the case it's probably muscle that you added on...

There is nothing in what the OP has posted that can lead anyone to suspect that he's added muscle in 4 weeks at an extremely low calorie count with no progressive resistance programme

lorrpb

It is perfectly normal for weight to be the same for ages days. My weight fluctuates by a few pounds from day to day so ususlly I am NOT at my lowest weight. The main issue here is beefing to educate yourself regarding the wright loss process. I encourage you to read the sticky posts at the top of this and sll MFP forums. They provide valuable and helpful info regarding realistic expectations and process.

jemhh

You've lost 14 lbs in a month. Losing 1% of your body weight per week is healthy. For most people that falls between 1 and 2 pounds after the initial large water whoosh at the beginning of weight loss. You are completely on schedule. Not frozen. No plateau ing. The only changes I recommend are to your expectations and calorie level. No full grown man (barring those who are very short, old, and/or bedridden) should eat 1300 calories per day.

nutmegoreo

Weight loss is not linear. Here's my daily weights for the last two months.



Notice all the gains? Then notice the overall trend.

I also agree with those saying you should up your intake. First, as a guy it is going to be very hard for you to get enough nutrition to keep your body healthy at a lower intake (1500 should be your minimum). Second, your body can only use up so much of it's fat stores in a single day, when you run too high a deficit, the additional energy your body needs will come from other sources, such as muscle. What you are doing is counterproductive to what you are wanting to do (I am assuming here that you would like to preserve your existing muscle mass while decreasing your fat mass).

MyOnlyNara

14 lbs doesn't seem like much considering...I had a high carb/high sodium diet...
So my guess the majority of it is water weight.
Anyway, thank you so much for all your responses.

mattwevodau245

Have a cheat meal.....a big one cause ur Cals are low

kbmnurse

Or something?