I went up 1 lb :-(
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Jrobb1217
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I went up 1 lb since I started last week. I don’t lift weights or do anything to gain muscle. I think I know what the problem is...I eat late a lot b/c I usually get home after 9 pm and I need to walk more. So those are the 2 things I’m gonna change. I figure I should eat dinner no later than 6 pm and if I can’t i’ll just have a small meal or snack. Can anyone else relate??
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Don't worry about the fluctuations of day-to-day weighing. Log your food accurately and honestly. Over time, and that is going to be weeks and months, you'll lose weight if you stay in a calorie deficit.6
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Make sure you're logging your food accurately to ensure you're in a deficit, it doesn't matter what time of day you eat.
There will be natural fluctuations, give it a couple of weeks and don't worry about it.5 -
I do log my food accurately. I even bought a food scale and weigh my food. And I always have big deficits at the end of the night. I think I’m also too impatient. It’s like I want results asap lol4
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I went up 1 lb since I started last week. I don’t lift weights or do anything to gain muscle. I think I know what the problem is...I eat late a lot b/c I usually get home after 9 pm and I need to walk more. So those are the 2 things I’m gonna change. I figure I should eat dinner no later than 6 pm and if I can’t i’ll just have a small meal or snack. Can anyone else relate??
Eating late doesnt cause weight gain. Too many calories does.
It's probably a normal fluctuation14 -
I restarted on my calorie deficit campaign about a week and a half ago. Since then, my weight has been up, down, and all over the place. I also increased my exercise, so there's probably a bit of water weight fluctuation in there, hormones from TOM, along with normal body weight fluctuations. It's all good, though...as long as I'm consistent, the weight will eventually start dropping, as will yours. Just need to be patient.
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The thing where you have big deficits? Don’t do that. Undereating is a bad idea. You’ll lose weight quickly, sure; but you’ll also lose muscle (nb your heart is a muscle), hair, skin tone, energy...
Eating late has nothing to do with anything. I usually have a snack at bedtime, and I quite often eat dinner late, and it makes no difference to the scales.
Random fluctuations happen. Stress and TOM can put on 5lb of water weight in a few days. Keep logging, keep weighing yourself, and get comfortable with random upward fluctuations. Absolutely do not change your routine based on them, because that way madness lies.6 -
You do realize that big deficits can have bad effects right? It increases stress which can cause additional water retention. Also, over time, it will increase muscle loss and increase metabolic adaptation.
Why not try an appropriate deficit (~.5 -1% of your bw weight per week) and see if that helps.5 -
You do realize that big deficits can have bad effects right? It increases stress which can cause additional water retention. Also, over time, it will increase muscle loss and increase metabolic adaptation.
Why not try an appropriate deficit (~.5 -1% of your bw weight per week) and see if that helps.
I try not to have big deficits but it’s like i’m too full to eat more. Now i’m realizing I need to have more snacks. That way I can minimize the deficits4 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Don't worry about the fluctuations of day-to-day weighing. Log your food accurately and honestly. Over time, and that is going to be weeks and months, you'll lose weight if you stay in a calorie deficit.
What do u feel is a normal deficit?
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I'm also really impatient with my weight loss! But I have to remind myself, I didn't gain this 100+ lbs overnight and unfortunately, it won't come off overnight. Just keep tracking accurately, using your food scale, and try not to let daily fluctuations get you down. I use an app called Libra (Android...Happy Scale for iPhone, I think) that tracks your daily weigh in trend. It helps me stay sane if the scale goes up:-) You got this!1
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Don't worry about the fluctuations of day-to-day weighing. Log your food accurately and honestly. Over time, and that is going to be weeks and months, you'll lose weight if you stay in a calorie deficit.
What do u feel is a normal deficit?
Around .5 to 1% of your bw per week. So if you were 150 lbs, .75 (350 calorie deficit) to 1.5 (750 calorie deficit) lbs is an ok goal.0 -
You do realize that big deficits can have bad effects right? It increases stress which can cause additional water retention. Also, over time, it will increase muscle loss and increase metabolic adaptation.
Why not try an appropriate deficit (~.5 -1% of your bw weight per week) and see if that helps.
I try not to have big deficits but it’s like i’m too full to eat more. Now i’m realizing I need to have more snacks. That way I can minimize the deficits
How much are losing per week?0 -
You do realize that big deficits can have bad effects right? It increases stress which can cause additional water retention. Also, over time, it will increase muscle loss and increase metabolic adaptation.
Why not try an appropriate deficit (~.5 -1% of your bw weight per week) and see if that helps.
I try not to have big deficits but it’s like i’m too full to eat more. Now i’m realizing I need to have more snacks. That way I can minimize the deficits
How much are losing per week?
This is my 1st week and I went up 1 lb
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I'm also really impatient with my weight loss! But I have to remind myself, I didn't gain this 100+ lbs overnight and unfortunately, it won't come off overnight. Just keep tracking accurately, using your food scale, and try not to let daily fluctuations get you down. I use an app called Libra (Android...Happy Scale for iPhone, I think) that tracks your daily weigh in trend. It helps me stay sane if the scale goes up:-) You got this!
Thanks for the encouragement!! I rly appreciate it!
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You do realize that big deficits can have bad effects right? It increases stress which can cause additional water retention. Also, over time, it will increase muscle loss and increase metabolic adaptation.
Why not try an appropriate deficit (~.5 -1% of your bw weight per week) and see if that helps.
I try not to have big deficits but it’s like i’m too full to eat more. Now i’m realizing I need to have more snacks. That way I can minimize the deficits
How much are losing per week?
This is my 1st week and I went up 1 lb
Oh, i missed that, lol. Sorry. We don't know if you have a big deficit or not yet. Give it another 2 to 3 weeks and see how you react.2 -
When I first started, I didn’t lose any weight for 3 weeks. The scale started going down once I increased my water intake. I drink about 100 ounces/day. I notice a big difference if I’m not hydrated. Hang in there and have patience!3
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I went up 1 lb since I started last week. I don’t lift weights or do anything to gain muscle. I think I know what the problem is...I eat late a lot b/c I usually get home after 9 pm and I need to walk more. So those are the 2 things I’m gonna change. I figure I should eat dinner no later than 6 pm and if I can’t i’ll just have a small meal or snack. Can anyone else relate??
I've been on/off here for 3 years. Weight fluctuations are perfectly normal, I think my personal record is about 10lbs in one day: combination of TOM, stress, didn't sleep well, and a salty dinner with a beer. That was all water retention.
When you eat has nothing to do with weight loss or gain. We are not Gremlins that have magic food vs time of day switches. All that matters is that you have an average deficit over time.
Walking more is a good thing, it puts relatively very stress on the body and is a great habit to have for long term health.
Going too far into a deficit is not a good thing. Along with fat loss, you run the risk of bone density loss, muscle loss, hair loss, and other things. The only people that should ever have a deficit of more than 1000 Cal/day average are not only extremely mobidly obese (+500lbs) but also under a physicians care, preferably in-patient care at that.
Stick with a good deficit based on how much you have to lose (the closer you are to ideal, the smaller the deficit should be), and be patient.
Remember: weight loss isn't linear. There are a thousand things that can and do affect water retention, so being normal means that there are going to be slight ups and downs in your weight over time. But, so long as you remain in a calorie deficit, the overall trend will be of weight loss.
Just be patient and trust the process. Try to be as accurate as possible with your logging (weigh everything!!!) everyday, and don't quit.2 -
This is my 1st week and I went up 1 lb
Last Friday I was up .2lbs. If I were to believe the scale it would mean that I ate 700 calories above my maintenance for the week. According to my logging, however, I ate at a 8354 deficit which should have meant I lost 2.39lbs.
Which is more likely? That I am just fluctuating higher probably due to water retention? Or that I somehow ate over 9000 calories more than I realized last week? Considering I have been at this for many months now and my deficits are normally in the ballpark of correct I believe it is was mainly a water weight fluctuation. I did eat out a few times that probably meant more sodium and I am experiencing an annoying skin rash which could also mean water retention.
One of my new favorite sayings is that I trust my food scale more than my body scale.7 -
What do u feel is a normal deficit?
The ‘normal deficit’ is sticking to the calorie count that MFP gave you. That has the correct deficit for the rate of loss you asked for built in.
It’s fine to be fifty or a hundred calories under; if you’re consistently 250 or more calories under, however, that’s a problem.6
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