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Silentpadna

"quiksylver296 wrote: »

This was my question, too.

Check out this video that shows how "before" and "after" photos can be made.

That was pretty entertaining. Well done!

I have always been suspicious of the seemingly obvious slouching and purposeful tummy extensions from people (who seemed to know what their "after" picture might look like).

hszentim

I would do some meal tracking to see if you are appropriately hitting your macronutrient ratios. A lot of people find a homeostasis in a deficit so in essence what was once a deficit now becomes our resting state and we technically evolve out it. Our bodies are really really good at believing there is a famine and that you are about to starve so it finds a way to plateau so you will survive. Ways to change things up are to look at your ratios. One simple fix is to increase protein if you currently are not eating enough. Protein costs energy to digest, more energy than fat or carbs so it is a good place to start if you are in a plateau and look to increase protein intake and mildly decrease your other ratios. If you are eating plenty of protein there is the potential for other barriers to be in your way instead. My best advice would be to do a week of ruthless tracking. Track everything. That will give you the most solid clues to why your body has reached homeostasis in what once was a deficit.

PAV8888

hszentim wrote: »

I would do some meal tracking to see if you are appropriately hitting your macronutrient ratios. A lot of people find a homeostasis in a deficit so in essence what was once a deficit now becomes our resting state and we technically evolve out it. Our bodies are really really good at believing there is a famine and that you are about to starve so it finds a way to plateau so you will survive. Ways to change things up are to look at your ratios. One simple fix is to increase protein if you currently are not eating enough. Protein costs energy to digest, more energy than fat or carbs so it is a good place to start if you are in a plateau and look to increase protein intake and mildly decrease your other ratios. If you are eating plenty of protein there is the potential for other barriers to be in your way instead. My best advice would be to do a week of ruthless tracking. Track everything. That will give you the most solid clues to why your body has reached homeostasis in what once was a deficit.

I can see where what you discuss, even though it will be viewed as quite controversial by most, might be applicable to one of the many threads where the OP has not lost any weight for a while.

However, the OP in this thread discusses that she HAS BEEN LOSING WEIGHT. She just doesn't SEE IT (visually and mentally). <which by the way is a pretty common issue with people who lose a large quantity of weight fairly rapidly>

sammidelvecchio

I have lost 21 lbs and I can't tell a difference day to day. I take pictures, make sure they are as near to duplicates as possible (clothing, lighting, etc) and then I can see small differences. I agree with most people above, a lot of what you see in before and after pictures is either fake, or actually happened over a much longer time frame than they're claiming.

For example, I was watching an advertisement for one of the Beach Body programs, and in very,very,very small print it said the before and after photos, which showed DRASTIC changes, were actually from 3 or 4 rounds back to back of the 8 week program.

Walk your own road, and celebrate with yourself any achievements that mean something to you.

solieco1

I have found that I will lose but see nothing then suddenly with 2 more pounds see a lot of difference. You aren't doing anything wrong - just stay the course and it'll all catch up.

wmweeza

I've lost 86 pounds. No one, other then my husband, noticed until I hit 80 pounds. I'm not kidding!
One thing to consider; Most women are at least a little touchy on weight as a subject and people are aware of this. Would you want to bring up someone's weight randomnly in conversation? Probably not. My sister in law was the first to say anything and she was really apologetic "I didn't want to say anything, so forgive me, but have you lost weight?"
As far as seeing changes myself, I didn't see anything until I lost 40 pounds. I started out at 263 so I had a bunch to lose...and still have 40 left to go

TrishSeren

jennamburchette2014 wrote: »

Thanks guys, that's kind of what I was thinking but it's just hard when you see tons of other people doing 8 or 12 week programs and you can see a huge difference but ive been doing this for almost 5 whole months consistently and can't tell a difference.

A lot of those "progress photos" are also lies. People either use tricks like fake tan, camera angle changes, tensing and not tensing, saying it's 8 weeks but actually it's a lot longer and in some cases photoshop.