Weight loss

Crazychick1903

Hi just wanted some advice, I've lost nearly 4st just by calorie control and walking, I decided to join a gym to lose the last stone, it's been about 6 wks and I still havent lost anything, am I doing something wrong? I don't usually eat all my exercise calories but a good amount of them. Thank you

Lietchi

Those exercise calories you're eating back partially, how many calories are those and for what type of exercise and duration?

Exercise can lead to water retention for muscle repair, masking fat loss on the scale, especially resistance training. It might be useful to measure yourself as extra data points to track your progress.

callsitlikeiseeit

how are you calculating those exercise calories and how many are you eating back?

what kind of exercise have you added? How often?

Are your clothes fitting any different, are you taking measurements in addition to just your weight?

Walkywalkerson

Exercise never burns as many calories as you think it does.
And Fitbit etc .. is unreliable as far as counting exercise calories go.
But like others have said it depends on what exercise and how much of it you're doing.

sijomial

What's your plan and what have you been doing in the gym?
It's all very vague at the moment!!

Is your plan to burn 14 x 3500 cals (49,000 cals) with exercise while eating at maintenance?
In the form of pretty intense 500cal / hour cardio workouts - that's 98 hours.
Gentle cardio maybe 196 hours or weights maybe 245 sessions?

Without knowing what you are thinking and what you are actually doing makes it hard to know what, if anything, you are doing wrong but personally I think exercise for weight loss is missing the point of what exercise is actually for.

AnnPT77

If you stopped losing weight suddenly when you started the gym, rather than tapering off loss rate, *and* nothing else changed in your daily life activity or eating routine, IMO it's more likely to be some strange water weight effect that will eventually solve itself.

If your loss tapered off gradually, then adjusting calorie goals may be more realistic. Or, if gymming ended up making you substantially less active in daily life - fatigued, resting more - that could be a factor.

It's really not possible to give you reasonable feedback, without more information, such as the questions others have answered above. To those, I'd ask whether anything changed in your daily life or job around the same time as you joined the gym, or if you changed your eating style or routine in some way.

cmriverside

I would add that those last 14 pounds are hard - or they were for me.

I was using a food scale. I was exercising. I was making 90% of my own meals. I was hungry.

It took me nine months to lose that last 15 pounds to put me at 21 BMI.

So...all the above and patience.

scarlet9555

i am new to this group, I started eating keto foods nearly 8 weeks ago, ive lost 12 pounds and a few inches from waist bust and hips, the last 2 weeks only lost half a pound per week and stuck to rules of keto the whole time...I am on lots of medications for chronic health problems. i have decided to mix calorie counting with low carb/keto...will i still loose weight which is my goal along with feeling better.
My goal is to get to 150 pounds. started at 192 and currently 180. like to be at 150 or less by spring. the only exercise i can manage is walking the dog and even that has me in tears sometimes due to pain. sometimes i dance to music indoors, well i say dance !!!! i try and move to music. LOL Any positive tips welcome. thanks

kitkatjohnson

If you are doing just cardio, it could be the exercise calories you are eating that are keeping you from losing, but if you are doing strengthening exercises, you are building muscle which is a good thing. It was very difficult for me to not stop strengthening because I had gained a couple of pounds from building muscle, but I need to build muscle.

I wish that myfitnesspal did not add those exercise calories back in. I ignore them. I just want to exercise and not get rewarded with extra calories to use.