Some first week questions

garylmace

Hello,

Started at 257 lbs. I used the guided tool to set my goals and determine what my net intake should be. My goal is to lose 2 lb/week.

For being 52, now 249.6 lbs, 5" 9" and being lightly active, it comes up with 1680 net calories per day to lose the 2lb/week.

Most days I am spending 30 to 40 minutes on my treadclimber, so I am adding 450 to 600 calories to that I can eat each day. I have tried to hit that as close as possible. I do try to eat the calories I earned by exercise. I like this concept. Great incentive to exercise!

Yesterday, was my one week mark so I did a weigh in. I lost 7.4 lbs. Although that is great, I think maybe it shows I am missing calories burned somewhere. Pretty sure my food calcs are good.

My question is... should I be including EVERY thing above my normal daily routine as exercise? Stuff like mowing lawn with riding mower, motorcycle riding, and working part time at retail. I kind of thought all that would fall under being 'lightly active' but some how or another, I lost 5 lbs I shouldn't have by the numbers. As I understand, each pound lost is a 3500 calorie deficit. So somehow, I have almost 19000 calories burned this week I didn't account for.

What am I doing wrong here. Although losing 7 lbs a week would be cool... I doubt it can be healthy.

4legsRbetterthan2

1. reweigh tomorrow and make sure it was accurate, and are you sure your start weight was accurate?

If you are retail you might want to bump up your activity, I assume you are on your feet walking around all day.

Alot of people experience wierd weightloss or delayed weight loss in the first few weeks, it depends on how your body adjust to your new diet and routine. If you are worried then it won't hurt you any to bump your calories back up, stabalize out, and then work you way back down if you need to. Personally, as long as you are not starving to death or something else worriesome, I would give it 2 weeks and see if it comes back or continues to decrease at that rate.

cardbucfan

I would leave things as they are for a bit. See what a couple of weeks do. You've made a big change and your body has to adjust. If you continue to lose too much, up your activity level but there's probably a lot of water weight in that 7 lbs. Congrats!