Not losing anything. Nada. Not a bean.

sijomial

It's only been three weeks.

Which isn't much time to see a trend developing (especially for a woman) and certainly isn't enough time to have gained significant amounts of muscle (as per your OP) even if you were actually training for hypertrophy.

You seem confident you are creating a calorie deficit, I think from your various responses there's every probability you are correct.
In which case you must be losing fat to fuel that energy deficit even if not seeing that reflected in losing weight yet. Although our Mums tell us we are special we really aren't special enough to create energy out of nothing. Weird results out of line with calorie balance tend to be water related. Simply suggest you give yourself more time.

My food logging wasn't at all precise (although I did use weighing as a portion size checker - quite revealing for a greedy guts like me!). After an adjustment after a month I lost in a fairly linear fashion although many people do not, they tend to have stalls and big dips. Give yourself time and take the pressure off, times passes anyway and if you do the right things on you will get results. Don't throw your hands up and give up or you will get nowhere.

One question you asked (perhaps tongue in cheek) was "are my scales broken?" - that's easy enough to test. Replace the batteries.
I've never come across it personally but some people report their scales have a false consistency in that if your weight is close to a previous weigh-in it reports the same number. Easy to reset, just put one foot on the scales.

Patience Grasshopper.

smallmu

xtineart wrote: »

Sorry not trying to rain on what works for you but 20 odd years ago I was a competetive athlete and every gram I ate was diaried, every minute of training and I had to weigh myself twice a day. It messed me up mentally 😪 I was very underweight back then with so little body fat my periods stopped for a time but still under daily pressure to record everything to eat and weigh that few grams less to go that bit harder and faster. Friends used to comment that I virtually lived on air. I can never do that to myself again. And those demons are still with me.

I feel you! I started off as a dancer then moved into competitive sport. Coupled with a modelling phase in my mid-teens to early 20s - it made me a proper psycho about body image, food and training. Measuring everything, getting weighed after a glass water etc. I was seriously underweight. Anyway, 2 kids and a nasty running accident later I need to lose 4 stones. I'm into week 7 right now and initially I found that my weight didn't move.

I used my Garmin to track total calorie expenditure - I've been aiming to burn off 500 a day through exercise - and I ate 1200 cals a day. So if I burned off total 2,500 I ate 1200, if I burned off 3,000 I ate 1200. It doesn't work. I think my body was so used to having been basically starved in the past that it adapted really quickly to the lower calories. I read a lot on here that people always eat their exercise calories.

To burn off a couple of pounds a week I need an average deficit of 1000 a day. So now if my Garmin tells me I burned off 2,500 cals I eat 1500, 3000 = 2000 etc. I've lost 16 pounds in 7 weeks - and I'm old, slow and lazy The people on here do know what they're talking about.

I found that if I just look at all the bloody weighing food in and tracking cals out as a maths thing it doesn't make me feel crazy. Honestly, it's boring at hell but I just want this thing done...

Good luck!