Only half a pound loss

cxeex

Bit deflated today. Deficit of 400-500 every day, 10k steps every day, healthy eating and only half a pound loss in a week 🥲

Lietchi

Weight loss is not linear, perfectly normal. Our body is more than 50% so water weight fluctuations can easily mask fat loss on the scale.

Furthermore, if you're only weighing once a week, that weigh-in might happen to be a high day of the week and you might have weighed less on other days.

Just keep going, patience is a virtue where weight loss is concerned!

Some side notes:
- if those 10000 steps are new, that might be causing some water retention as your body gets used to it
- eating healthy is good for your health, but not strictly necessary for weight loss. Also, I hope your definition of 'healthy' isn't too strict. If you're depriving yourself of your favorite foods in order to lose weight (hard knuckling through it) I would encourage you to take a less strict view and incorporate some 'treat' foods within your calorie allowance. No need to suffer to lose weight!

ReenieHJ

Depending on how much you need to lose, .5 # is completely acceptable. You don't want to lose too much too fast because I find it's easier to gain it all back if I go off the track. We all want the results they promise that comes with 'lose 21 lbs in a month' or whatever ad they're using to sell their product or service these days. Sure, we all want to be the perfect weight, size, shape, as of yesterday. But reality doesn't work like that, sadly. It takes commitment, work, effort, and most of all, patience. Keep eating healthy, staying within calorie allotments, and moving, and you'll get there. Plus keep reading the knowledgeable posts on MFP.
Good luck to you!!!

springlering62

If it’s only been a week, you may have a monthly cycle creeping up on you.

You may have soreness from new exercise, changed your diet, be constipated, have travelled, ate something salty (Mexican flatbread pizza shot my weight up this weekend even though I wasn’t over calories that day), and of course monthly cycles. For me, simple changes in weather affect my joints and yup, there’s a pound or two.

Your body is a lot like a barometer, with water weight being the flux. It’s gonna go up and down on a daily basis.

You need to give yourself the time, patience, opportunity to learn how it reacts to change. People aren’t willing to do that. As @ReenieHJ observes, everyone wants instant gratification, like the magazines and clickbait promise. It’s not like that in real life.

Reenie has lost a shedload, as has @Lietchi and me, too. Trust real life experience and give yourself a chance with this is all I can add.

springlering62

PS a “trend smoothing” app like Libra might help. It makes the downward trend more visible via a graph and some people are reassured by that.

I preferred to see the “real” data, so I could learn from it. What did I eat yesterday? Oh yeah, a crap boxed frozen gyro. The salt and unfamiliar grease in that caused some water gain. Oh, I was unusually low on calories yesterday, knocked back a couple of hot mat classes and was dehydrated to boot? That accounts for the quick couple pounds lost and oh, hey, maybe I better hydrate extra today. That transcontinental flight followed by the first squat session in a month? Eight pounds gained in 24 hours. Thanks, cabin pressure and DOMS.

Being able to recognize daily changes AND calmly reflect on what might have caused them has been instrumental in staying on track.

Even in maintenance, you don’t flatline. There’s always a yo-yo around your happy place, and you try to stay average of that number.

azuki84

Try to look at things 2 months in advance with a weight goal, as body composition will be much clearer then. Weekly weigh-in can sometimes be muddy and fluctuate.

californiagirl1969

You're doing a good job, keep on pushing forward.

cxeex

Lietchi wrote: »

Weight loss is not linear, perfectly normal. Our body is more than 50% so water weight fluctuations can easily mask fat loss on the scale.

Furthermore, if you're only weighing once a week, that weigh-in might happen to be a high day of the week and you might have weighed less on other days.

Just keep going, patience is a virtue where weight loss is concerned!

Some side notes:
- if those 10000 steps are new, that might be causing some water retention as your body gets used to it
- eating healthy is good for your health, but not strictly necessary for weight loss. Also, I hope your definition of 'healthy' isn't too strict. If you're depriving yourself of your favorite foods in order to lose weight (hard knuckling through it) I would encourage you to take a less strict view and incorporate some 'treat' foods within your calorie allowance. No need to suffer to lose weight!

Lietchi wrote: »

Weight loss is not linear, perfectly normal. Our body is more than 50% so water weight fluctuations can easily mask fat loss on the scale.

Furthermore, if you're only weighing once a week, that weigh-in might happen to be a high day of the week and you might have weighed less on other days.

Just keep going, patience is a virtue where weight loss is concerned!

Some side notes:
- if those 10000 steps are new, that might be causing some water retention as your body gets used to it
- eating healthy is good for your health, but not strictly necessary for weight loss. Also, I hope your definition of 'healthy' isn't too strict. If you're depriving yourself of your favorite foods in order to lose weight (hard knuckling through it) I would encourage you to take a less strict view and incorporate some 'treat' foods within your calorie allowance. No need to suffer to lose weight!

Thank you, the septs is definitely new. I have an office job so had to work hard every day to get them steps in

sijomial

In a year's time will this week matter?


(Only if you allow yourself to be discouraged by perfectly normal weekly variations and give up......)

AnnPT77

Below is an actual Libra graph from when I was losing weight rapidly (honestly too rapidly, for a while there, by accident - don't do that, it's unhealthy). The connected down-hill-ish line is the statistical trend; the little upright bars connect each daily weight to the trend.

You can see that the daily weights bounce all over: That's fluctuation! I'm long in menopause, so this is without even having monthly cycles (which can be a real multi-pound roller coaster of water fluctuation for some women). This doesn't show the very start of weight loss, and those first few weeks can be even crazier:



If you look closely, you'll see weeks in there where if I'd weighed on just the wrong days (instead of daily), I'd have thought loss was slow/none, when it was actually pretty fast. I'm not saying you need to weigh daily - that's too stressful for some people. But it can help one understand how one's own personal body fluctuates, what some triggers are, and how long the effect tends to last.

If you haven't read it, this is a very good article, may be reassuring:

https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

Hang in there, stick with it, this can work, I promise. Best wishes!

glassyo

Don't feel bad, OP. I found your half a pound loss last week.

You're welcome.

(No. Seriously. You lost and didn't gain. Still a win. Even maintaining would be a win.)

elisa123gal

At times like this you have to dig deep and use common sense. If you are eating less and moving more.. eventually you will keep getting smaller and smaller. And you will. It just doesn't happen on a schedule and never as fast as any of us want it to happen.
What happens with me.. is I start seeing results many weeks into my diet. It takes my body that much time to decide to start dropping the weight. I've learned to just go with it...
Please don't be discouraged and then start letting old ways of eating and bad habits back in..by saying nothing works and it doesn't matter. Then you will never realize your potential.
Stick with it.. and ..hey.. you are smaller this week then you were last week..and that means you're on your way.

InsanityFan1

Its still a loss, hang in there, keep at it!