Really slow weight loss

samanthajoannemaiden

Hello I wondered if any one could give me any advice on this so and currently 16 stone 8 pounds 😭 I started slimming world a couple of years back and lost 3 stone but piled it all back on it really diddent teach me anything about portion control or helped my binge eating at all but i did like the loosing 4 or more pounds a week part as it kept me motivated. This time around I've decided to tackle my bad relationship with food and teach myself about portion control and stopping when I'm full I've been loosely counting calories (so not to get obsessed with it) and I've been eating around 1400_1600 cals daily also I've got into the gym sometimes going everyday, not forcing myself I'm just really enjoying the endorphins! But my weights bairly budged in 9 days I'm a pound down, on slimming world I never went to the gym I'm wondering if the change in weight loss rate is down to the excersizing I'm so confused I'm deffinatly consuming less calories than I was on slimming world. Any help would be so appreciated thank you

geekster81

You'd be surprised on slimming world.....eating the speed food with every meal and limiting syns can mean calories are lower than you think. If you were regularly losing 4lb a week then you would have definitely been eating quite low calories.

As for why your weight loss is slow.....I think it may be "loosely counting calories". So eating 85g of lettuce and logging 80g isn't going to make a huge difference but if you start to do that with high carb / high fat content food then those calories can really add up. Log everything....every single thing that you eat or drink. Make sure you weigh foods, don't guestimate what looks like 100g for example.

Also, are you eating back your exercise calories? MFP has a tendency to over estimate the calorie burn for some exercises. I eat between 30 - 60% of my exercise calories back, depending how hungry I am.

Good luck and keep at it x

kommodevaran

As you (the universal you) lose weight by eating less and moving more - and the less you eat and the more you move, the faster you lose - you can be sure that your slower weightloss is not caused by going to the gym and consuming fewer calories! It's because you're eating more now, and/or your weight is lower, or you just did SW for a week or two and lost water weight. And how long have you been counting calories anyway? As you already know, water weight can mask fat loss, so you need a few weeks to see a definite trend on the scale. One pound in nine days is not "barely budged", it's a great payoff for "loosely counting"! If you're going to count calories, it's best to do it properly, because loosely counting calories, and eating until you're full, and being or having been overweight, always means that you'll be eating more than you think. It could also be that you're more hungry from exercise, and eat more, either because you think it's "nothing", or as a "reward", and/or that you move less on the daily, either because you're tired, or because you think you've "done enough".

quiksylver296

Sarahsaborista

I think it is great that you are back on and making steps into changing your lifestyle. Remember healthy weight is more than the scale. What are you doing at gym? Have you paid attention to what you are eating in terms of what foods have the most calories? Are you assessing your lifestyle movement accurately? Have you seen a doctor like one that pays attention to your goals and will help you? I agree with not obsessing, but taking a good look at patterns of food intake and taking note of what patterns exist and what foods are contributing to those patterns. Are you measuring other things like inches/centimeters lost? Endurance? Increase in resistance training? (I was so excited that I could reach a stack of heavy bowls over my head without feeling like I was going to drop them. At my age, that's a win!) Overall energy level? If you are plateauing after previous weight loss, you may need to readjust accordingly because as we lose, we also need less. Stick with it and keep asking questions!