In a calorie deficit, scale isn't moving

lynn_glenmont

autobahn66 wrote: »

damage_inc74 wrote: »

Right after Christmas, I started lifting 5X a week (from 3X.)

I have been in a 500+ calorie deficit or more every day for the last three weeks (I'm taking what my Apple Watch says I'm burning and taking 15% off of that for my burn)

I weighed 348 lbs the day after Christmas. I weighed in today and the scale hasn't budged.

What's going on here??

Have I become confused? Everyone in this thread is acting like there is some long plateau here and that there must be no caloric deficit.

It hasn't even been three weeks: 18 days since Christmas.

In my book that is too short a time to see significant changes, particularly given the relatively modest deficit of 500/3500 (compared to TDEE).

At this deficit, you might see about a pound a week off - so looking at a maximum of 3lbs of actual weight loss: that could totally be masked by other factors. (My daily variability of weight is 2-3lbs at 220lbs)

Yeah, and it was only 17 days when OP posted. And OP hasn't responded to the question of whether they were tracking calories and whether they were losing at the same calorie level before adding in the two extra days of lifting every week.