6 months of running, no great weight loss :(

bumblebee
bumblebee Posts: 53 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi there, I've been running 7-10km 5 times per week for 6 months now and I think I've toned up, even though I've read somewhere here that there's no such thing as toning up. However, I have only lost 5lbs going from 10 stone 3 to 9 stone 12.

It feels very disheartening as I have been careful with diet too. I'm one of those people who thinks they look good one day and not the next! I didn't take before or after Photos or measurements so I don't have any benchmarks.

Any advice on how to feel happy with myself?!

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  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Weight loss comes from calorie deficit. If you're not losing weight then you are not eating at a deficit.

    Diet for weight loss.

    Exercise for fitness / body composition.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    Great results!

    At that slow but steady loss, it would be mostly body fat. Well done.

    Have you got a heart rate monitor? It may be time to get accurate with your logging and burn numbers.

    You'll need less food the smaller your body mass gets.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    so....what type of calorie deficit have you been maintaining and how have you been tracking it?
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Weight loss comes from calorie deficit. If you're not losing weight then you are not eating at a deficit.

    Diet for weight loss.

    Exercise for fitness / body composition.

    This
  • bumblebee
    bumblebee Posts: 53 Member
    By the way I'm 5foot 8 and female
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    By the way I'm 5foot 8 and female

    and you weigh how much and you're eating how much?
  • bumblebee
    bumblebee Posts: 53 Member
    9 stone 12, but I want to be 9 stone 7
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    But how much are you eating?

    What are your daily calories?
  • bumblebee
    bumblebee Posts: 53 Member
    My point is that I eat healthily and haven't changed my diet. However, I am burning 750 calories a day with running so surely I would lose weight. I've lost 5lbs so what I'm asking is how much of a body change should One see at this stage? I'm very negative about myself and don't trust my own opinion but surely I will be looking better and slimmer?

    Also, how does my weight and height sound to you? Good?
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    My point is that I eat healthily and haven't changed my diet. However, I am burning 750 calories a day with running so surely I would lose weight. I've lost 5lbs so what I'm asking is how much of a body change should One see at this stage? I'm very negative about myself and don't trust my own opinion but surely I will be looking better and slimmer?

    Also, how does my weight and height sound to you? Good?

    You're a healthy weight for your height - I don't really know what you want us to say, I can't say if you look better or slimmer without full length before and after pictures. There is no way to say what change you will see without knowing what you look like - where you hold fat etc.

    Eating healthily doesn't have anything to do with losing weight. If you are not tracking what you eat you have no idea if you are eating more to compensate for the running. Which I'd guess you are since you only lost 5lbs - that being said, you clearly have a slight deficit or you wouldn't have lost 5lbs.

    As you are at a good weight for your height but don't seem happy I would suggest some resistance training - go lift heavy weights or looking body weight exercises - try to build some more muscle.

    To be honest you're asking questions that nobody here can really answer without more information / pictures.

    What are your goals? Slimmer and looking better doesn't really help. Why do you want to lose 5lbs - what do you think those 5lbs will do?

    As has been said

    Calorie deficit for weight loss

    Exercise for health / body composition
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    My point is that I eat healthily and haven't changed my diet. However, I am burning 750 calories a day with running so surely I would lose weight. I've lost 5lbs so what I'm asking is how much of a body change should One see at this stage? I'm very negative about myself and don't trust my own opinion but surely I will be looking better and slimmer?

    Also, how does my weight and height sound to you? Good?

    is this some sort of new parlour game that i didn't realize that i was participating in? eating "healthily" isn't actually a real thing. it's not quantifiable. the reason that's important is that to lose weight you have to eat less than you normally eat. if you don't know how much you're eating...then it's hard to eat less.

    making it even harder is that it seems like you only need/want to lose a few pounds. that makes knowing actual numbers even more important as you have to really get your diet on point when you only have a small amount to lose. if you had 80 pounds to lose (or 6 stone, i guess) then you could just "eat healthy" and start dropping some weight. but when it's only a few pounds, accuracy matters GREATLY.

    as to how your height and weight sound, i have no idea. without knowing your bf% (don't worry, i won't ask) it's very hard to say. 130 pounds on a person with 30% BF is going to look completely different than 130 on a person with 19% BF, even at the same height.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    'Eating healthy' doesn't mean anything if you're eating too much.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    My point is that I eat healthily and haven't changed my diet. However, I am burning 750 calories a day with running so surely I would lose weight. I've lost 5lbs so what I'm asking is how much of a body change should One see at this stage? I'm very negative about myself and don't trust my own opinion but surely I will be looking better and slimmer?

    Also, how does my weight and height sound to you? Good?

    I suggest you get the emotion out of this and start being scientific. Take measurements, photos, weigh yourself.

    Have a goal like a particular pair of jeans (non stretch) you want to fit into, that are a bit tight at the moment.

    I have only been happy with my body after weight training, running just made me slim but flat looking. If you want that youthful perkiness buy yourself Strong Curves and get down the gym. You'll have to start logging though, but that will do you the world of good as you sound like an emotional eater too. Nothing beats knowing exactly how much you can eat, without those horrible doubts about overeating, or messing your body up by under eating too much. I cannot trust my emotional brain so this helps greatly.

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