Weight loss stopped after 2 weeks

Stephenjones1
Stephenjones1 Posts: 2
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all

I am a 34 year old, 6ft 3in tall male and my starting weight was 350 lbs. I been using Bodychef which is a fresh diet delivery service on 1600-1800 calories a day which is made up of muesli or cereal and fruit for breakfast. Lunches are salads or oatcakes with soft cheese, hummus e.t.c fruit or nuts for snacks and protein and veggies for dinner with a dessert. I have been exercising 5 days a week either walking for an hour at approx 3.5 mph or treadmill and swim for a combined hour. I am also drinking at least 2l of water a day with some no added sugar squash.
I lost 12lb the first week and 6lb the 2nd week but have now only lost 1lb in the last 8 days. I must admit it's knocked my motivation a bit but I am still continuing, am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Steve

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  • Lythy89
    Lythy89 Posts: 57 Member
    Im quite new to this myself but heres my opinion for what it's worth....

    If you weigh 350lbs you are eating far to low calories at 1600 - 1800....My limit is 1850 and I weigh around 198lbs at the minute.

    Are you eating any/much food with fat/carbs/proteins in? or just fruit, salads, nuts etc? Your body needs fats and carbs so don't cut it all out completely. 12lb a week is in my opinion WAY to much to lose in 1 week! I may be wrong because the bigger you are the quicker you lose to start with usually but that seems way to high and may have something to do with the low calories.

    Long story short...Eat a bit more and keep up the hard work! if your training 5 days a week it should be enough to burn cals off you. (remember if your eating 1600 and then burning off say 500 a day your only giving your body 1100 calories to survive on! your body may not like this and stop burning fat to conserve it) - I've gone a week or 2 without a loss and then out of nowhere dropped 5 lbs randomly before.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Normal body fluctuations such as stress, exercise, water retention from sodium, bowels, TOM, etc. will affect the rate at which your body burns fat from week to week. It will not be the same for most people. Since you have loss weight prior to this week then continue as you were and give your body the time it needs to do its job.
  • Meerataila
    Meerataila Posts: 1,885 Member
    Normal body fluctuations such as stress, exercise, water retention from sodium, bowels, TOM, etc. will affect the rate at which your body burns fat from week to week. It will not be the same for most people. Since you have loss weight prior to this week then continue as you were and give your body the time it needs to do its job.

    This. Give it at least four weeks for any new plan. Sometimes more if you keep increasing your exercise intensity. That one will really put and keep some water weight on you.
  • ewhip17
    ewhip17 Posts: 515 Member
    Completely and totally normal. You've lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time. Make sure your expectations are realistic. The ONLY way I've been able to keep my head on straight is to simply readjust my expectations to losing 1-2 lbs per week as an average over time. That mindset has kept me going during weeks where I lost nothing or even gained a pound or two. Take a long view on the thing - give yourself time to do it right.
  • Stephenjones1
    Stephenjones1 Posts: 2
    Thanks everyone for the info and advice, I'll keep doing what I'm doing and be patient! :-)
  • Mykaelous
    Mykaelous Posts: 231 Member
    I wouldn't worry about it unless the scale didn't move for 3 weeks on such a diet. At 350's a 5-8 lb daily fluctuation in weight might not be out of the question. I know at 250+ lb's I would fluctuate in weight by as much as 5 lb's. Keep at it, and do a 3 day average weight measurement.

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