Is there truth to the rumor...

ck2d

that when you ramp up your exercise your weight loss stalls?

Alatariel75

Sometimes, temporarily. Upping your exercise puts greater strain on muscles, which then retain water for repair. So you end up with water weight, which can mask fatloss.

ck2d

Ah, and then you might have the woosh effect.

usmcmp

Sometimes when people increase their exercise they decrease their non-exercise activity or they become less accurate with logging ("But I'm burning more calories, so I can just have this taste here and this taste there"). There are a lot of factors that can go into why a person would stall if they increase their exercise, none of which are because the exercise is causing "starvation mode".

ck2d

Yep, neither of those scenarios apply to me.

TavistockToad

ck2d wrote: »

that when you ramp up your exercise your weight loss stalls?

i'm a runner and i really struggle to lose weight when my miles get past a certain amount. weight loss is possible but its too miserable an existence for me to bother with!

ck2d

I finished C25K this morning. I'm going onto C210K on Monday.
I also work out with weights in the gym 40 minutes 6 days a week. That program just started this week. Previously I was doing 20 minutes 4 days a week.

TavistockToad

ck2d wrote: »

I finished C25K this morning. I'm going onto C210K on Monday.
I also work out with weights in the gym 40 minutes 6 days a week. That program just started this week. Previously I was doing 20 minutes 4 days a week.

what @Alatariel75 said applies then if your weight loss has stalled?

collectingblues

ck2d wrote: »

that when you ramp up your exercise your weight loss stalls?

It can, especially if you tend to be sensitive to water retention. The muscles hold on to more water as they repair, which can mask any losses going on for fat. This can hang around for three weeks or so.

Mr_Knight

TavistockToad wrote: »

ck2d wrote: »

that when you ramp up your exercise your weight loss stalls?

i'm a runner and i really struggle to lose weight when my miles get past a certain amount. weight loss is possible but its too miserable an existence for me to bother with!

Running is an amazing calorie burner. Might be a refuelling issue?

TavistockToad

Mr_Knight wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

ck2d wrote: »

that when you ramp up your exercise your weight loss stalls?

i'm a runner and i really struggle to lose weight when my miles get past a certain amount. weight loss is possible but its too miserable an existence for me to bother with!

Running is an amazing calorie burner. Might be a refuelling issue?

I'm already a healthy weight so losing vanity pounds is a slow, boring, frustrating process. Add in the runger and it's not worth it when I'm training for a race I want to PB!!!

And when you're pretty small anyway the calorie burns aren't massive!

VeronicaA76

Sometimes, depends on the exercise. When I first started lifting weight I put on some water weight. That went away in about a week.
Remember, exercise is healthy for you and that weight loss isn't linear, there are going to be little ups and downs along the way.

I've actually plateud for a few weeks, then dropped 5lbs the following week. I did not lose 5lbs in one week. It's just that the previous few weeks I might have been retaining water (most likely) or was just natural fluctuations, or both.

VeronicaA76

ck2d wrote: »

Ah, and then you might have the woosh effect.

Yep. When I first started lifting I ended up gaining about 8lbs in one week. There is no way on Earth that I gained 8lbs of muscle in one week. Following week I dropped about 10lbs. So overall I dropped 1lb per week, which is a normal rate and expected.