Crossfit, counting calories, no weight loss!

crzycatlady1

zyxst wrote: »

Eating better and exercising doesn't mean you will lose weight. My advice is to be as accurate as you can with weighing/measuring/portioning out your food, eat back half of your exercise calories (if you're already doing this, eat less back), and be as sure as possible that you're eating at a deficit.

This. In order to lose weight you need to be at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals. Doesn't matter what types of foods you're eating though, or what exercise you're doing. If you're not losing then you're not at a deficit.

I lost 50lbs and improved all my health markers-all while eating fast food several times a week and doing absolutely no exercise. But I was at a calorie deficit and lost the weight

bookstatic

I've dropped two pants sizes in two months doing crossfit, and the scale is barely budging, after an initial loss. It's muscle. If you were sedentary before and doing crossfit now, you are putting on TONS of muscle. How else would inches disappear and the scale not change? Take measurements.

VintageFeline

bookstatic wrote: »

I've dropped two pants sizes in two months doing crossfit, and the scale is barely budging, after an initial loss. It's muscle. If you were sedentary before and doing crossfit now, you are putting on TONS of muscle. How else would inches disappear and the scale not change? Take measurements.

I'm sorry but this isn't physiologically possible. Newbie gains are a thing but by her own admission she's been doing the crossfit for a while so those have been and gone. You cannot "gain" anything without a surplus and even then, for women it's incredibly slow even if all things are being done perfectly and you have amazing genes to allow for faster mass building. You're looking at 0.5-1lb per month.

There is a tightening effect with exercise but if the scale isn't moving for months on end, you're eating too much. I lost quite a few inches in 6 weeks, it wasn't muscle, it was the scale not catching up yet. I had several whooshes after that.

rune1990

matchbox_girl wrote: »

malibu927 wrote: »

No help there.......

Just wanted to point out, this was the second post to the op. No help indeed.