It’s been a week

hclay25

I’ve tracked my meals and my exercise and my scale hasn’t budged this week. It’s only been a week but is this normal? Should I up my exercise more? I walk my dog 3-4 times a week and am doing Pilates videos 3 times a week. I don’t have a gym yet. Any advice will help.

TavistockToad

did you gain all the weight in a week?

RachelElser

It takes longer than a week to see any results

nstock

Chill out! People are always on here after 1 week worried it’s not working. I’m sure the weight you gained was put on over a decent amount of time- it will take time to lose it too. What are your goals? If you only have a small amount to lose, it will be slow anyways. It’s better to have slow progress that lasts, than fast progress you can’t maintain.

hroderick

Great start. Use a food scale and weigh about everything you eat to calculate calories.

These are great helps:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10642346/weight-loss-frequently-asked-questions-infographic-answers/p1

LivingtheLeanDream

Yes its too soon to tell. Keep going, give it at least a month to see some change, you'll know better then.

All the best.

kshama2001

I gain at ovulation and right before my TOM. Because of this (and because Lyle McDonald said to) I compare myself to last month, not last week.

missysippy930

hclay25 wrote: »

I’ve tracked my meals and my exercise and my scale hasn’t budged this week. It’s only been a week but is this normal? Should I up my exercise more? I walk my dog 3-4 times a week and am doing Pilates videos 3 times a week. I don’t have a gym yet. Any advice will help.

You need to give it more time.
As long as you are consuming less calories than your body burns, it WILL happen.

cheryldumais

Lots of great advice here already but just wanted to say make sure you are measuring your solid food by weighing it. It is so easy to underestimate even if you are measuring it with measuring cups. I learned that myself just lately on packaged food where I used the cups rather than grams off the package. There was a world of difference. They said 3 cups was about 23 grams. It was actually 42. Almost double. Which means double the calories. Meat is deceiving too. I usually eyeball my ground beef when I make tacos but last night I weighed it. I was shocked at how much it weighed. Also be sure the listing you use for meat is appropriate for raw or cooked weight (depending on when you weigh it) since cooking can really shrink the weight as water is lost, thus concentrating the calories.

Hang in there, if you are tracking accurately and are at a reasonable deficit you will lose.

kazunomiya

kshama2001 wrote: »

I gain at ovulation and right before my TOM. Because of this (and because Lyle McDonald said to) I compare myself to last month, not last week.

This is helpful because I've noticed I gain weight from the beginning of my cycle to the end of my fertile part of my cycle. It stays the same until the last two weeks and THEN I drop drastically.

New_Heavens_Earth

RachelElser wrote: »

It takes longer than a week to see any results

Is this stickied? It should be.

1BlueAurora

I started losing weight more predictably after I started using a food scale to weigh what I was eating. Just sayin'.