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It takes a month, right?

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  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    Did you gain all your fat in 2 weeks? No!

    Did you notice yourself gaining weight each week? Probably not.

    Why expect to lose them that quickly? Patience and consistency are key when changing body composition.
  • laurenebargar
    laurenebargar Posts: 3,081 Member
    Its taken me about four months to notice a change. And even then, its extremely hard to see in the mirror, some days are better than others. Progress pictures do help and I wish I took a real "before" picture, because I compared the earliest one I had to a recent picture a few days ago and you definitely can see a change, but its taken a few months.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Agreed with this who have said:

    -You need patience.
    Two weeks is nothing.

    -It's not muscle.
    You're supposedly in a deficit (are you using a food scale for ALL foods that aren't liquid, even prepackaged food?) and doing cardio. Muscle mass isn't created that way. It takes a long time, a lot of work and eating over maintenance to build muscle outside of newbie gains.
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