Frustrated!!

kittyblackstar

I feel like I’ve had a good week, I’ve gone to the gym every day and am burning at least 800 calories every class I take according to fitness monitor I wear during them and I’m eating about 1400 calories a day. My BMR according to the InBody scale my gym has is 1425 calories. You would think that eating close to that and working out every day that I would lose a little this week. But I ended up gaining a pound. If I do the math I should’ve had a calorie deficit of about 5700 this week so I should’ve lost at least a lb! It’s just frustrating and discouraging to feel like you’re doing everything you’re supposed to but still not seeing results. And I know the scale isn’t everything, but at this point in my journey I still have a lot of fat to lose so I would think I should see changes in the scale too.

VintageFeline

It's a week. A week. Plus all that activity will likely mean a bunch of water weight for muscle repair. I'll repeat, it's been a week. Your body isn't a machine. Patience. Otherwise you're going to be constantly frustrated.

bethjl96

I’m going through the same thing!! I feel like I’m doing everything right....measuring and weighing food...exercising as much as I can realistically fit into my schedule....and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Ok so I have not been eating perfect every day but perfect is boring....

janejellyroll

bethjl96 wrote: »

I’m going through the same thing!! I feel like I’m doing everything right....measuring and weighing food...exercising as much as I can realistically fit into my schedule....and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Ok so I have not been eating perfect every day but perfect is boring....

By not eating "perfect" do you mean you aren't consistently hitting your calorie goal?

bethjl96

Um...ya I’m definitely going over some days

ms_maruska

When I started exercising more and daily, my weight went a bit up and stayed that way for two weeks. Then in one day it dropped over 2kg (around 5lbs) and continued to drop. If you're weighing your food and staying mostly around your deficit, it's water weight due to muscle repair. Try and ignore it, it'll come down.

spiffychick85

Give it time...when I first started running my weight didn't budge for weeks! It was just water weight and I know this now because I had a large drop in weight when the time came. Once my body stopped freaking out about my new exercise routine the weight came off more consistently with weekly drops. This has happened all during my journey...basically anytime I do something new like adding in resistance traing or switching up cardio...my weight stalls again. It's frustrating, but if you stay the course you will learn how your body responds

Lillymoo01

I don't think you would be burning 800 calories every gym session. That is some serious working out.

ninerbuff

Lillymoo01 wrote: »

I don't think you would be burning 800 calories every gym session. That is some serious working out.

Yes. To put it into perspective, Michael Phelps swimming full speed doing a butterfly burns about 14 calories a minute. Multiply that times 60 and that's 840 calories. Now you're speaking of burning the SAME AMOUNT of calories doing an average gym class versus that of the world's best Olympic swimmer swimming full speed for an hour (of course not likely either). Cut that workout calorie to about half.

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WhereIsPJSoles

Why would Michael Phelps burn more calories doing an activity for an hour than anyone else?

Lillymoo01

ginababin wrote: »

Why would Michael Phelps burn more calories doing an activity for an hour than anyone else?

Swimming butterfly at a speed faster than anyone else will burn way more than the average person at the gym.

pogiguy05

For me it took 25 years of neglecting myself to put on the extra weight. I just cannot be freaking out over week to week progress.

Keep at what you are doing and stay off the scale even if it is hard to do. If you can have someone do a full body measurement on you. Take pics and compare those over time like once a month. My weight can go up and down 5lbs in a day so i am not sweating the changes.

Your just going to stress yourself out and possibly fall back into bad habits. hang in there

WhereIsPJSoles

But like...she hasn’t said what she does at the gym. I see a lot of people posting really inflated sounded numbers of what they burn too, but 800 doesn’t seem like it’s undoable.

It’s just been a week. I would just keep doing what you’re doing and if your weight stays the same or goes up in 3 weeks, re-evaluate that something either in your burns or intake may be off.

xNausicaa

Lillymoo01 wrote: »

I don't think you would be burning 800 calories every gym session. That is some serious working out.

800 calories is what i get at least with cardio alone.

WhereIsPJSoles

Michael Phelps has(had?) a crazy fitness routine but what I mean by questioning of his calorie burns are really so untouchable is that his body was most likely very adapted to his workouts and there’s a lot to say behind the argument that a less fit person would burn more than him doing the same things. Or attempting to do the same things.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)01577-8

Psychgrrl

OP,

The other suggestion I can offer is to consider weighing daily instead of weekly and using a weight-trending app to track the weigh-ins. Happy Scale is for iPhone and Libra is for Android.

I used to think weighing daily would make me obsessive and discouraged, but it's done the opposite. I understand so much better how my diet and exercise and hormones affect my weight. And the daily fluctuations of a couple pounds don't bother me anymore.

After a few weeks of daily weigh-ins, the app will plot the direction in which your weight is trending in spite of the ups and downs. It's very reassuring.

When I realized I was planning my days around my weekly weigh-in, what foods and workouts, all because of how worried I was about the weekly weigh-in, I knew I needed a change. That was not a mentally healthy place to be.

Happy Scale indeed!

maggibailey

On a lazy day I barely burn 1600 being alive (I swear on these days my Fitbit thinks I’m dead) I’m at a healthy weight but I can’t even imagine what sort of torture I’d have to endure to burn 800 at the gym. I did one of those body combat classes (and got light headed a few times so I have yet to go back) and burned like 300 in the hour

kittyblackstar

Lillymoo01 wrote: »

I don't think you would be burning 800 calories every gym session. That is some serious working out.

I do circuit training and weight lifting, crossfit style workouts at my gym. Basically there are 4-5 circuits that we do 2-3 rounds of things like sled pushes, burpees, wall balls, squats, kettlebell swings, tire flips, also barbell work as well (back squats, deadlifts, push press, etc). I wear a heart rate monitor that came with the membership that tracks your HR throughout your workout and I guess based on your height, weight and HR it approximates how many calories you burn and it is typically somewhere between 800-900. Oh and sometimes I do Zumba!

DebLaBounty

A pound up or down is a normal fluctuation. No biggie.

batorkin

800 calories burnt a day via exercise? Your body is likely holding a butt load of water for that. Weigh yourself after a day or two of no exercise, in the morning, with no clothes on, that's usually when I am at my lowest.

If you don't have much to lose, you aren't going to see results over just a week.