No inches lost

Sathmix

Hello

Today is the start of week 8 for me. I’m trying to tone up. In week 1 I was 63kg and now I weigh 60kg. However I haven’t lost inches. I look same in my progress photos. My rate of loss is set to 0.2kg a week. My diet is decent and I workout 5 days a week. I’m currently eating 1600 cals. Can someone pls explain why I’m not seeing that much progress? I see other women having thier goal physique in 8 weeks. It’s sooo frustrating....

springlering62

Whoa. Stop right there! WHO have you seen gaining their goal physique in eight weeks? Some airbrushed, filtered, artfully posed and photoshopped faun on Instagram? A blogger?

In the real world an eight week physique is a unicorn. It doesn’t happen except maybe to the people who are already very fit and do very specific cutting (or whatever they call it) for body competitions.

Be kind to yourself. Strive for an attainable, reasonable goal via a reasonable strategy that you can stick to, not a quick fix.

Weight training has done wonders for me, but I laugh at the thought of calling it a “physique”, and the one that I have earned has taken a darn sight longer than eight weeks.

I’m not trying to be harsh or unkind to you, nor should you be to yourself, which it sounds like you are. That’s a pretty brutal expectation to have for yourself.

This is a wonderful site, full of good people and good advice. Be a sponge and absorb! 😘

springlering62

You know, sometimes we are so anxious to get somewhere, we fail to see the wonders of where we’ve come from.

You’ve lost 6.6 pounds in eight weeks. Give yourself credit for that. That’s a huge deal right there.

However, you began at a low starting weight to begin with. Slow it down a little. Are you eating at LEAST 1200 calories a day + some of your exercise calories?

AnnPT77

That @springlering62: When she's right, she's right . . . and in the posts above, she is. (She's also modest, having achieved amazing body changes . . . very patiently, over a period of time much longer than 8 weeks. ).

Besides her very good advice: What's your workout program? Nothing is going to deliver amazing results in 8 weeks, in the real world we actually live in. But a good one delivers results faster than a trendy, IG-influencer, blog-celeb piece of nonsense, of which there exist many.

I hope you have a good one already. Best for your goals (as far as I can understand them from the limited info in your post) would be a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate cardio per week, or 75 minutes of more intense cardio (if your fitness level is up to that); and a well-designed, progressive strength training program like the ones in this thread:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/p1

Hang in there, eat enough calories (plus adequate protein and overall good nutrition) to fuel your toning goals (1200 is probably too few), and you will progress. Eight weeks isn't really long enough for huge progress, and giving up is the sure way to get none.

Best wishes!

PAV8888

She did say 1600 Cal so that, at least, plus exercise calories, is a good start!

Dream physique in 8 weeks? That's a magazine cover!

(@AnnPT77 , how come magazine covers are not subject to truth in advertising laws?)

I've yet to meet someone with a real life dream physique who is not investing a considerable amount of time and energy into maintaining it.

That's not a bad thing. It is actually a great thing to do (sometimes and within certain parameters) for ourselves.

But it is an open ended project; not ANY amount of weeks and we're done.

cupcakesandproteinshakes

It takes years of hard work if you want to look like an IG fitspo. These 90 day challenges where you see chubby people turn into shreds are usually manipulated lighting etc. Or they are people who already have years of lifting under their belts and have cut weight (fat) fast because they are highly experienced and have a decent coach supporting them.

AnnPT77

OP, please bear with me for a moment: Even though this video is a man, not a woman, I'd really, really encourage you to watch it . . . and think about it in future when you see impressive before and after shots on IG or elsewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M957dACQyfU

It's not all that long, and it's excellent.

Avidkeo

AnnPT77 wrote: »

OP, please bear with me for a moment: Even though this video is a man, not a woman, I'd really, really encourage you to watch it . . . and think about it in future when you see impressive before and after shots on IG or elsewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M957dACQyfU

It's not all that long, and it's excellent.

Yes that's a brilliant one!
Anytime I see before and after pics - in advertising of any kind, so magazines, influences etc, I'm always thinking of this video now and just assume they are fake.

moonangel12

That’s a fascinating video! Thanks for posting it!

springlering62

Omg! what a fantastic video!!!!! Priceless!!!!

Thanks for the kind words @AnnPT77. When I refer to the wonderful, helpful peeps on MFP, you are always at the top of the peep-heap!

AnnPT77

PAV8888 wrote: »

She did say 1600 Cal so that, at least, plus exercise calories, is a good start!

Dream physique in 8 weeks? That's a magazine cover!

(@AnnPT77 , how come magazine covers are not subject to truth in advertising laws?)

(snip)

Because they aren't advertising - or at least not advertising (literally selling) the bodies in the photos. The photos (plus text) are the product, and they're as highly processed as a Twinkie.

Our confusion about that - thinking that the appearance is a thing we can "buy" by reading the magazine, buying the exercise products, following the trendy fad diet - is the core of the problem, IMO.

briscogun

That's insane! I would've thought those two pics were 5 months apart, even 5 weeks apart, let alone 5 hours!

Thanks for posting @AnnPT77 !