Why is weight loss so slow?

rikkejanell2014

WinoGelato wrote: »

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

WinoGelato wrote: »

CactusCat58 wrote: »

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

today is day 25 of my weight loss Journey I have exercised every single day for 1-2 hours a day. I do cardio and weight training. starting w is 207 current weight is 198. I guess I just figured that I would lose way more than what I have so far. there are some days the scale doesn't move for a few days. and yes I log everything I eat and I stay in my calorie deficit every day. I heard about losing inches. I guess I just thought that with the 30 day workout challenge I would lose my weight loss at the beginning. after my 30 Day Workout challenge I'm going to go for 5 days a week working out my goal is to lose a total of 60 pounds.I would like to be 140 by November 2017.

Sounds like we're in the exact same boat....I'm 58 and need to lose about 120 lbs. I started Nov 1st doing 45 min of water aerobics followed by 90 minutes of lap swimming 5 days a week. I'm logging all my food and staying well within my calorie deficit. I even passed on all the delicious, high fat/high calorie goodies on Thanksgiving and still managed to lose only 6 lbs. in the month of November.

Here I am in the 3rd week of December and have only lost about 4 lbs even though when I finish logging all my meals and exercise MFP tells me I should have lost about 40 lbs in the past 6 weeks! I started working with a personal trainer this week and am hoping that the weight training in addition to the cardio will help build more lean muscle and spark my slow metabolism to burn more. There are metabolic and thyroid issues at play here and I'm doing my best to figure out the formula that will trigger faster weight loss but it's beyond frustrating. Don't give up or give in..... and feel free to friend me if you'd like to take this journey together.

Losing 40 lbs in 6 weeks would not be remotely healthy. Where did you get that estimate from?

It sounds like you're making good progress, losing a little over 1 lb/week. With 120 to lose, it could reasonably be up to 2 lb/week, but losing 1 lb/week consistently is great! There are lots of threads about how to ensure you lose at the appropriate rate, most often if you are not losing at the rate you selected it comes down to logging errors. Are you using a food scale? Eating back those exercise calories?

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Sorry, what? I was asking the other poster some clarifying questions about her post.

Oh ok

Carlos_421

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9 lbs x 3,500 cal/lb = 31,500 calorie deficit over 25 days (31,500/25)=1,260 calorie deficit a day. THAT IS AWESOME!!! you may be losing too fast and starving assuming you aren't working out like a beast to earn that deficit.

trigden1991

Carlos_421 wrote: »

Pretty much how everyone feels on here.

rikkejanell2014

trigden1991 wrote: »

Carlos_421 wrote: »

Pretty much how everyone feels on here.

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heybales

NeuronsNeuronsNeurons wrote: »

9 lbs x 3,500 cal/lb = 31,500 calorie deficit over 25 days (31,500/25)=1,260 calorie deficit a day. THAT IS AWESOME!!! you may be losing too fast and starving assuming you aren't working out like a beast to earn that deficit.

Sadly, that is exactly how the math breakdowns if it's not all fat.

Obviously take out some water for initial weight drop, say a not too extreme sodium diet improved to lower sodium - maybe 3 lbs easy. Especially if you consider body starting increasing water weight elsewhere for all the exercise going on (blood volume, interstitial water, ect)

6 lbs x 3500 / 25 days = 840 cal deficit daily.

That's more reasonable if possible, but how much of that is merely the effect of so much exercise eating so little, so the body is tired otherwise not doing as much as it might normally.

That effect is TDEE went up from exercise, but down from NEAT probably, giving an overall slight increase. Not what it could have been though.

And workouts may not have been as intense from lack of recovery (daily and low food levels).

The other problem with the math is if muscle mass was lost by body just not building up what is normally broken down daily. If amino acids from that used as energy source, no where near cal per lb as fat is.

Sounds like OP is appreciating the points many are bringing out now about sustainability, so it's not repeated next year, and adherence despite seeming progress isn't as fast, stick with a good program anyway.