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aidaandelija14

Hey there, I'm a 24-year-old woman, standing at 161 cm and weighing 69 kg. I went on a diet for two months and saw some fantastic results—I managed to shed about 6 kg, and it made me super happy. My big goal is to lose another 9 kg, which would put me at a cool 60 kg. So, naturally, I decided to kick things up a notch and hit the gym while sticking to my diet.

After 15 days of hitting the gym 8 times, with some killer workouts that aim to burn 500-1000 calories daily, plus my routine of walking or doing home workouts on my off-gym days, I'm feeling pretty good. I make sure to rest every 3 days. Strangely, even though my body's looking more toned and my muscles are pumped, the scale hasn't budged even by 0.5 kg in these 15 days. It's a bit puzzling. I'm definitely going to keep pushing forward, but do you think maybe this is my body reacting to such an active routine after years of not being this active? I would appreciate any tips or help. I eat 1200-1500 calories per day!

sollyn23l2

aidaandelija14 wrote: »

Hey there, I'm a 24-year-old woman, standing at 161 cm and weighing 69 kg. I went on a diet for two months and saw some fantastic results—I managed to shed about 6 kg, and it made me super happy. My big goal is to lose another 9 kg, which would put me at a cool 60 kg. So, naturally, I decided to kick things up a notch and hit the gym while sticking to my diet.

After 15 days of hitting the gym 8 times, with some killer workouts that aim to burn 500-1000 calories daily, plus my routine of walking or doing home workouts on my off-gym days, I'm feeling pretty good. I make sure to rest every 3 days. Strangely, even though my body's looking more toned and my muscles are pumped, the scale hasn't budged even by 0.5 kg in these 15 days. It's a bit puzzling. I'm definitely going to keep pushing forward, but do you think maybe this is my body reacting to such an active routine after years of not being this active? I would appreciate any tips or help. I eat 1200-1500 calories per day!

If you were eating 1200-1500 calories per day, you would be losing weight. Take some time to do some very careful logging. Also, keep in mind, unless you're a pro athlete, you're not burning 500-1000 calories in exercise a day, so be mindful of that as well. Also, the exercise you've added in could be causing water retention, but you should have still seen the scale go down at least a little after a couple weeks, water retention or no.

lynn_glenmont

Starting a new exercise routine will generally lead to water retention for muscle repair. 15 days seems to me like a long-ish time for those effects to mask fat loss, but if you're someone who has a menstrual cycle, those hormones can cause water retention during certain parts of your cycle, plus if all these changes are putting stress on you, that's another set of hormones that can cause water retention. If nothing happens on the scale in another two weeks, you might want to look at tightening up your food logging. Do you use a food scale?

AnnPT77

I'd vote "probably water retention for some reason" and encourage you to wait it out for at least another couple of weeks. That's especially true because you seem to have been losing at a fairly fast rate before increasing exercise. Assuming you have menstrual cycles, comparing body weight at the same relative point in two different cycles would limit the effect of hormonal water fluctuations, which can be extreme for some women.

You might want to read this, especially the article linked in the first post:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

Do you eat back exercise calories? If not, 1200-1500 gross intake sounds like it could be kind of low for a young woman with so little left to lose.

On the other hand, 500-1000 (especially 1000) is a pretty high exercise calorie burn, so if eating back exercise calories, any material overestimate of those can wipe out a big chunk of calorie deficit. What type of exercise are you doing, and for how long, to get that 1000 calories? It's not impossible, not at all, but with little other information, I feel like I have to ask. Over-estimating exercise calories isn't an unusual problem to have, but it may not be happening in your case.

westrich20940

If you eat 1200-1500 calories per day....and are burning 500-1000....then you are NET consuming 200-1000 calories per day.

Or, are you eating back those 500-1000 calories that you are burning (if you are even burning that much)?

PAV8888

Don't try to burn both ends of the candle.... kicking it up a notch to lose faster and more tend to end sub optimally.

To begin with.... and then even you get to the magical number what happens?

There are many reasons why you may have water retention and unless you have been watching your trend over a long enough time period your starting and current numbers are less clear than you may believe.

You're also seeing great results in your body and these results mean more for your health than the absolute number.

Wait, not weight, it out and eat at least some of your extra burn back as opposed to trying to accelerate your deficit.

And try to settle in for the longer haul. You still have some weight to lose. Then taper into maintenance. Then maintain for a significant amount of time till everything stabilizes.

Think in terms of months and years and in terms of weight stability; not weeks and months and special events. That's assuming you want to avoid/minimize yo-yoing over the upcoming decades...

zebasschick

i'm a little taller at 5'4", and if i eat 1500 calories per day i don't lose weight, not even if i work out. to be fair, i have low muscle mass, although i'm working on it.

a 500 to 1000 calorie workout would be quite high for a single workout. i'm curious where you got those numbers since almost every fitness machine at every gym i've gone to gives much higher calories burned than reality as does fitbit, MMF and many (possibly most) apps and trackers.

kshama2001

There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public. In the app, go to Settings > Diary Setting > Diary Sharing > and check Public. Desktop: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings