Why did I stop losing weight all the sudden?

lacharlet

I know I just started and it's not good to weigh your self everyday due to water and your weight fluctuates daily but I have a question anyways. 've been counting calories since Christmas Day. I lost 6.4 pounds the first 10 days and now these last three days I have been at a stand still. I'm not cheating and always staying between 1020-1350 calories a day. Drinking about 4 16.9 oz water bottles a day. Any advise or explanations

diannethegeek

The first post in this thread might shed some light on things for you: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear

ValerieMartini2Olives

It's called weight loss isn't linear. This is posted umpteen times a day. You just started. 10 days is not enough time to say you suddenly stopped losing weight.

juggernaut1974

diannethegeek wrote: »

The first post in this thread might shed some light on things for you: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear

^ So much this

Or put another way - weight loss is measured over weeks and months, not days.

jennifer_417

Usually when people start out they'll have a big loss right out the gate. This is mostly water and you cannot expect to keep losing at that rate.
If the daily fluctuations bother you, then you really, really shouldn't weigh every day.

lacharlet

wardshelia63

I have been exercising and watching calories real close not going over since December and I have lost nothing. When does the weight loss start.. Very frustrated

mlboyer100

All of the above is true. Some people really respond quickly to drastic calorie reductions, will show a big drop the first 1-2 weeks, then slow down or stop. That is normal. The one thing you don't want to do is drop your calories below 1200. Anything lower over a period of time will slow down your metabolism and stop weight loss altogether, some people actually gain weight on restricted calories. What are your macros set at and how often do you eat? Not knowing you height and weight, I can't say what your calories range should be to lose weight, but if you want to friend me or PM me and we can find out where to set your numbers to keep the losses moving.

lacharlet

I'm glad to hear it's normal and could last a while. The first time I dieted I was under doctor supervision and medicine and I dropped 50 pounds in 2 months I'm mean it melted off. Unfortunately 3.5 years later I gained it all back. Now I'm on board again and it doesn't seem to be happening as fast as last time

cwolfman13

when you first start, you drop a lot of water weight and your glycogen (basically water) stores drop significantly because you're eating less. because you're eating less, you also have a lot less inherent waste in your system relative to when you were eating more...all of that shows up as pretty good losses on the scale early on...then it levels off. weight loss isn't a linear function...you don't lose every day or even every week...you'll have weeks with bigger losses, smaller losses, no losses, and even gains. weight loss and weight management in general is all about looking at trends over time, not weigh in to weigh in. and by time, i mean weeks and months and years...not a handful of days.

PAV8888

Please start using a weight trend tracking app to help you look at your underlying weight trend as opposed to perturbing yourself with normal water weight variations.

Even weighing yourself once a week, or even once every month, doesn't get you out of water weight obfuscation: you can scale weigh 1lb more on Feb 28 than you did on Feb 1 and still have lost 3 to 5lbs.

all it would take is a good glycogen depleting run on January 31 (-1 to -3 lbs) and a nice salty meal on Feb 27 (+1 to +5lbs)... and boom: in your mind you gained a lb during a month you lost 3 or more.

The weight trend tracking apps use a 7 or 10 day rolling average which dampens down daily variations and better reveals persistent trends.

www.trendweight.com (supported scale, free fitbit.com connected account: fitbit band not necessary, 10 days average)
www.weightgrapher.com (supported scale, free fitbit.com account, CSV importing/exporting, Manual data entry, user selectable average)
Libra for Android (user selectable rolling average, default is 7 days)
Happy Scale for iphone