Started jogging --- and no weight loss
Seattlegirl25
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I discovered my metabolism is a bit low -- I did a metabolic resting test and found it was at 1,300 calories. Which is a bit low for me (163lbs). But I haven't been able to drop weight for six months, not a pound will come off. I weigh my food and vegetables are my co-pilot.
She suggested I start doing some intense exercise and weight training. Done and done.
I began exercising more religiously (3-4 times a week) last week, continue with tracking my calories and all that jazz.
I gained a pound or so. At this point I am about to tear out my hair. I am doing everything correctly and no matter what happens, nothing comes off.
Anyway... my question is how soon after starting a new exercise regime do you usually see results?
She suggested I start doing some intense exercise and weight training. Done and done.
I began exercising more religiously (3-4 times a week) last week, continue with tracking my calories and all that jazz.
I gained a pound or so. At this point I am about to tear out my hair. I am doing everything correctly and no matter what happens, nothing comes off.
Anyway... my question is how soon after starting a new exercise regime do you usually see results?
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It's water weight from adding the exercise most likely.11
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Since you weigh all your food, how many calories are you averaging per week? You can go to the nutrition tab on the app, look at calories, and set it to week view.
With a resting metabolic rate of 1,300, consistent exercise is very important. You mention jogging and weight lifting. You said done and done for weight lifting. Can you post your routine and how long/how many days you work out? You just started jogging last week right?
What is your goal weight and height?2 -
I'm curious, are you drinking alcohol at all? Are you making sure you are drinking plenty of water? Are you making sure you stop eating before 7PM?
Have you tried exercising in the morning on an empty stomach? Just curious on all of these.
Also, are you mixing things up a little, like running / biking / etc?47 -
TavistockToad wrote: »It's water weight from adding the exercise most likely.
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how are you estimating calories burned and are you eating them back?
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Since you weigh all your food, how many calories are you averaging per week? You can go to the nutrition tab on the app, look at calories, and set it to week view.
With a resting metabolic rate of 1,300, consistent exercise is very important. You mention jogging and weight lifting. You said done and done for weight lifting. Can you post your routine and how long/how many days you work out? You just started jogging last week right?
What is your goal weight and height?
I just realized I am using a different account then usual to post this. Welppp.
Goal weight is 145lbs. Height is 5 foot 3.
I am doing squats (up to 40), push-ups (30) and sit ups (30). This beginning from 0. I jog for 10-20 minutes then walk an additional 30 at a 3.5mph pace. I track distance jogged with time.
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I'm curious, are you drinking alcohol at all? Are you making sure you are drinking plenty of water? Are you making sure you stop eating before 7PM?
Have you tried exercising in the morning on an empty stomach? Just curious on all of these.
Also, are you mixing things up a little, like running / biking / etc?
Ignore this. You can drink alcohol, though it may cause a little weight retention via water. You can eat any time you want. Your body can't tell time and doesn't stop functioning at a certain time.28 -
I'm curious, are you drinking alcohol at all? Are you making sure you are drinking plenty of water? Are you making sure you stop eating before 7PM?
Have you tried exercising in the morning on an empty stomach? Just curious on all of these.
Also, are you mixing things up a little, like running / biking / etc?
I got crazy and drank 3.5 ounces of red wine last night. If I excerise on an empty belly I get REALLY dizzy. Because of my work schedule, my work hours are nutty. I try to finish consuming food before 9pm at the latest. I usually end up jogging in the evenings.2 -
If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.5 -
ashliedelgado wrote: »I'm curious, are you drinking alcohol at all? Are you making sure you are drinking plenty of water? Are you making sure you stop eating before 7PM?
Have you tried exercising in the morning on an empty stomach? Just curious on all of these.
Also, are you mixing things up a little, like running / biking / etc?
Ignore this. You can drink alcohol, though it may cause a little weight retention via water. You can eat any time you want. Your body can't tell time and doesn't stop functioning at a certain time.
Thank you.
I am not drinking down a bottle of wine per night. At the most I have about 4-8 ounces a few times a week. And it is worked into my calories.4 -
When I used to the gym it took 6 weeks to see results(I lost 3 inches in body fat). But recently, I too have been exercising 3X a week at home doing circuit/strength training and yoga almost every day. I've been doing this since November and haven't lost any weight. However, the muscles are more defined in my arms/legs and I feel stronger. I tried the nutritarian diet and was having terrible cravings, so I stopped that and instead have a salad as a side. One thing you could try is to vary up the workouts - once our body adjusts to the workout, then we hit a weight block. Try other exercises you weren't doing before? Or change up what/when you're eating? Losing weight is the toughest!6
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kommodevaran wrote: »If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.
I think this is a massive over simplification of things.24 -
You could think that, and keep on doing what you're doing. Or you could check the validity in it and maybe try it out.Seattlegirl25 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.
I think this is a massive over simplification of things.33 -
It most likely is water retention but if you still don't see any change after a few more weeks you might wanna take a look at your logging.
What rate of loss are you trying to do? 1/2 lb, 1lb, 2lbs? With 1300 BMR you're not gonna have a lot of wiggle room to be inaccurate, not saying that you are, but it's important to have consistent and correct logging or your weight loss will continue to stall.
If you want you can open your diary so people can see if maybe you're missing something.
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Seattlegirl25 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.
I think this is a massive over simplification of things.
It's really not.21 -
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kommodevaran wrote: »
You could think that, and keep on doing what you're doing. Or you could check the validity in it and maybe try it out.Seattlegirl25 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.
I think this is a massive over simplification of things.
You are ruling out a lot of things like genetics, possible underlying medical conditions. To simply state that someone can't lose weight because of the "normal" issues ignores a lot of other things. My doctor is baffled by my inability to drop pounds and we are looking at running some tests on hormones. My mother/grandmother are both pushing 300lbs. To simply believe someone is just not trying silences people who may be facing other challenges.27 -
Seattlegirl25 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »
You could think that, and keep on doing what you're doing. Or you could check the validity in it and maybe try it out.Seattlegirl25 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.
I think this is a massive over simplification of things.
You are ruling out a lot of things like genetics, possible underlying medical conditions. To simply state that someone can't lose weight because of the "normal" issues ignores a lot of other things. My doctor is baffled by my inability to drop pounds and we are looking at running some tests on hormones. My mother/grandmother are both pushing 300lbs. To simply believe someone is just not trying silences people who may be facing other challenges.
Genetics will not prevent someone from losing weight if a deficit is present, medical conditions will not prevent someone from losing weight if a deficit is present.
If she's not losing weight there is no deficit present. Her BMR might be making it difficult for her to achieve that deficit but it's still the only thing she needs to lose weight.
And yes it is that simple, it's not easy but it is simple.18 -
Seattlegirl25 wrote: »I discovered my metabolism is a bit low -- I did a metabolic resting test and found it was at 1,300 calories. Which is a bit low for me (163lbs). But I haven't been able to drop weight for six months, not a pound will come off. I weigh my food and vegetables are my co-pilot.
She suggested I start doing some intense exercise and weight training. Done and done.
I began exercising more religiously (3-4 times a week) last week, continue with tracking my calories and all that jazz.
I gained a pound or so. At this point I am about to tear out my hair. I am doing everything correctly and no matter what happens, nothing comes off.
Anyway... my question is how soon after starting a new exercise regime do you usually see results?
Depends on how long you personally retain water for the muscle repair.5 -
How long have you been tracking calories?1
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I'm not ruling out anything. I believe you are trying, I actually believe you are trying way harder than you have to, but not getting, or not seeing, the results you want, because you are doing something wrong. Weight loss done correctly is effective, and not torture.Seattlegirl25 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »
You could think that, and keep on doing what you're doing. Or you could check the validity in it and maybe try it out.Seattlegirl25 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.
I think this is a massive over simplification of things.
You are ruling out a lot of things like genetics, possible underlying medical conditions. To simply state that someone can't lose weight because of the "normal" issues ignores a lot of other things. My doctor is baffled by my inability to drop pounds and we are looking at running some tests on hormones. My mother/grandmother are both pushing 300lbs. To simply believe someone is just not trying silences people who may be facing other challenges.16 -
WhereIsPJSoles wrote: »How long have you been tracking calories?
Six months.0 -
kommodevaran wrote: »If you're overweight and not losing weight, you're not doing everything correctly. But fear not, weightloss is simple even if it isn't always easy: You lose weight when you consistently, and for real, over time, take in fewer calories than you burn.
You have to set an appropriate calorie target, log your food intake correctly, hit your calorie target every day, weigh yourself regularly, and for a long time, to see weight loss.
Only one of these factors can prevent you from losing: Picking faulty food entries, not logging everything that has calories, not logging the correct amount, cheat days. Two or more factors will increase inaccuracy exponentially. Water weight fluctuations (water retained from exercise, higher intake of carbs or salt than normal, where you are in your menstrual cycle, digesting food), can mask weightloss.
A "low metabolism" does not prevent weight loss.
Your question is impossible to answer properly.
Kriss actually has a post with the USDA Database for food logging that will really help you immensely with logging correctly OP. I've got it linked below.
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list
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Also do you measure yourself? in the beginning youll lose size before weight (generally) your post routine could definitely be improved upon but is a good start
my diary is public if you want to add me getting ideas may help 0 -
Six months with no change in weight?0
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Could you open up your diary so maybe other users could see, for example, if you’re logging something frequently that is an incorrect entry?0
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dinadyna21 wrote: »It most likely is water retention but if you still don't see any change after a few more weeks you might wanna take a look at your logging.
What rate of loss are you trying to do? 1/2 lb, 1lb, 2lbs? With 1300 BMR you're not gonna have a lot of wiggle room to be inaccurate, not saying that you are, but it's important to have consistent and correct logging or your weight loss will continue to stall.
If you want you can open your diary so people can see if maybe you're missing something.
I mean... the lowest I could eat would be 1,200 calories. The dietician mentioned I could probably max lose about 2lbs a month because of how low my metabolism is at rest.5 -
Thank you everyone for your comments, but honestly if we could keep this focused on exercise that would be great.WhereIsPJSoles wrote: »Six months with no change in weight?
Well I should restate that. I did lose about 8lbs a few month back (May/June?) after getting off some antidepressants. Gained it back in two weeks while in Nepal despite walking for 4-5 hours and eating lentils.
*shrugs*
My doctor will be testing me for a few things. Thank god my thyroid is normal. But we still need to look at other hormones.7 -
2lbs a month is still progress, you haven't had any in 6 months despite working out and logging which leads a lot of us to think the issue is more than likely your food diary entries.5
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Seattlegirl25 wrote: »Thank you everyone for your comments, but honestly if we could keep this focused on exercise that would be great.WhereIsPJSoles wrote: »Six months with no change in weight?
Well I should restate that. I did lose about 8lbs a few month back (May/June?) after getting off some antidepressants. Gained it back in two weeks while in Nepal despite walking for 4-5 hours and eating lentils.
*shrugs*
My doctor will be testing me for a few things. Thank god my thyroid is normal. But we still need to look at other hormones.
Lentils can still pack a lot of calories if you eat too much. Do you weigh your food on a food scale OP?4 -
Seattlegirl25 wrote: »I'm curious, are you drinking alcohol at all? Are you making sure you are drinking plenty of water? Are you making sure you stop eating before 7PM?
Have you tried exercising in the morning on an empty stomach? Just curious on all of these.
Also, are you mixing things up a little, like running / biking / etc?
I got crazy and drank 3.5 ounces of red wine last night. If I excerise on an empty belly I get REALLY dizzy. Because of my work schedule, my work hours are nutty. I try to finish consuming food before 9pm at the latest. I usually end up jogging in the evenings.ashliedelgado wrote: »I'm curious, are you drinking alcohol at all? Are you making sure you are drinking plenty of water? Are you making sure you stop eating before 7PM?
Have you tried exercising in the morning on an empty stomach? Just curious on all of these.
Also, are you mixing things up a little, like running / biking / etc?
Ignore this. You can drink alcohol, though it may cause a little weight retention via water. You can eat any time you want. Your body can't tell time and doesn't stop functioning at a certain time.
NO, you shouldn't ignore this. I'm not saying you can't drink alcohol, was just asking if she was. If you drink a glass of wine that is fine, just wanted to make sure it wasn't a ton, which it sounds like it isn't.16
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