One week of healthy eating and working out, still no weight loss results?

Sparkle097

I only have 5kg to lose. I’ve been eating really healthy and been working out. Mfp gave me a daily net goal of 1420. I usually eat around 1520 because of my workouts. But I still haven’t seen results?

cmriverside

"Around" 1520. :huh: There's the first problem.

A week is not long enough to establish whether or not you are at a good calorie level for weight loss for you, but you do need to know pretty closely how many calories you're eating. What workouts only burn 100 calories?

Log all your food and exercise for a couple months and use your results (weight changes) as your guide. It's an experiment we all have to run for ourselves.

There are lots of reasons why you may not have lost yet. Stay the course. Try typing, "Weight loss isn't linear" into the Search box.

scribblemoma

A week? Patience will take you far my friend.

JBanx256

As someone else pointed out, "around" is an issue...one week really won't tell you anything meaningful. Stick to it.

TavistockToad

sathmif465 wrote: »

I only have 5kg to lose. I’ve been eating really healthy and been working out. Mfp gave me a daily net goal of 1420. I usually eat around 1520 because of my workouts. But I still haven’t seen results?

You didn't gain it all in a week

Redordeadhead

You definitely need to give it longer than 1 week.

FitGamerSmoak

One week is not enough, at least 4 should show you some progress. Or the need to change things up.

Dilvish

Yup...you are going to see the common thread here is that your expectations are too high.

Weight loss is about lifestyle change. Working out and eating healthy are a great start but it has to be something you can sustain over the long term, which is why most commercial diets fail...they are usually structured as short term because when people see results right away they pay more to stay on the diet (weight watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem etc.).

Additionally it is possible to "eat healthy" and still gain weight. for example a handful of roasted almonds are very healthy but contain a lot of calories due to their healthy fats. Same goes for whole grain pasta or potatoes with the skin on...too much can screw up your caloric intake.

Guessing about how much you consume can be a real gamble too. Add to that many people over estimate how many calories they burn doing exercise. For example If you look up walking as an exercise, you will get different information from website to website about how many calories per hour you burn.

Tracking everything you eat (read nutrition labels and measure!) and being reasonable about how many calories you burn doing exercise is the key to figuring out where you should be in terms of goals.

And finally, don't weigh yourself everyday. once a week is enough and remember your body needs time to adjust to a diet so initial weight loss may in fact be water loss and/or muscle loss. To prevent both increase your water intake (yes it sounds opposite) and make sure you are getting enough protein to build muscle...most people tend to ignore these important items and fail miserably in the first few weeks of weight loss.

pierinifitness

Chant this affirmation repeatedly: desire, discipline, patience and perseverance. In 100 days, you’ll have much progress to share.

Elphaba1313

pierinifitness wrote: »

Chant this affirmation repeatedly: desire, discipline, patience and perseverance. In 100 days, you’ll have much progress to share.

Providing you also stay in a calorie deficit

pinggolfer96

Healthy doesn’t mean weight loss either

kshama2001

sathmif465 wrote: »

I only have 5kg to lose. I’ve been eating really healthy and been working out. Mfp gave me a daily net goal of 1420. I usually eat around 1520 because of my workouts. But I still haven’t seen results?

Are the workouts new? Then you are likely retaining water. My own scale went up 7 pounds when I started working out. Took a few weeks to come off and keep dropping.

Also, with only 5 kg to lose it's going to be slow. Patience