I AM NOT LOSING WEIGHT UGHHHHH

erinlindsay

I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT AND EATING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE LAST WEEK AND NOT A SINGLE POUND DROPPED ! WTF
MUSCLE MASS SHMUSSLE MAASS I AM SOOOOO FRUSTRATED

new_view

So I just posted a frustrated post for the same reason. Then I decided to step on and off the scale 4 times. I found out it is completely crazy because it went up and down by 4 lbs pretty much every time haha. So perhaps instead of weighing you and I need to get use to measuring instead.

sneakers71

I have the same problem, but looking back over my food diary I am not eating as good as i need to be. try re-examining your foods.
It is frustrating when you work so hard and don't see any change, but hang in there!

ybba12490

I'm frustrated also. The only time I can weigh myself is when I'm at the gym (middle of the day) so I can't get accurate readings (possibly buying a scale this weekend if I have the money). But I have completely changed my diet and exercise anywhere from 4-6 days a week.

TuDominicano

Try upping your cardio, burning more calories than what your consuming.

tdolphin1

must be the day for these posts...I posted one too. Said I gained 2 lbs since yesterday (weighed right when I got up)...then I weighted myself again a little while ago (about the time I did yesterday) and am actually down. It's SO frustrating since I've been busting my butt at the gym....not noticing any change in the way my clothes fit either. But I'm not giving up....I will get to where I want to be even if it takes me forever...lol Hoping not that long though...lol Don't give up...keep going, it will come off!!!!

leigh8210

One thing to remember... Its takes a woman 6 weeks to get use to a workout routine and start loosing weight. It sucks I know!! My husband and go pee and loose 3 pounds. Me.. Ill pee and gain weight! Just keep your head up and know that if you stick to it, it will happen!!

Keightisgr8

It's frustrating, I know it first hand. You just have to remember this is not a race. You want the weight to come off, I understand that (so do I, SO SO bad). Try reminding yourself that this isn't a destination thing, it's a forever thing. To maintain your weight, you will also be working out and eating right - so it doesn't matter WHEN the weight comes off, just that it DOES come off. A week is great, but when you think about forever, this is just the beginning. So, keep up the GREAT work, and it WILL come off. Just don't give up, and you will see results

meggonkgonk

I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT AND EATING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE LAST WEEK AND NOT A SINGLE POUND DROPPED ! WTF
MUSCLE MASS SHMUSSLE MAASS I AM SOOOOO FRUSTRATED

OPEN YOUR FOOD DIARY- NO ONE CAN TELL WHAT IF ANYTHING IS HOLDING YOU BACK UNLESS WE CAN SEE WHAT YOU ARE EATING/BURNING.

Also- 1 week won't have you lose much of anything. 1, maybe 2lbs tops. Chillax. You got a long way to go- and it will be longer if you mega freak every time you go 1 week without a loss.

elifefull

It will happen, no stress.

tiffanygarrett

what cardio do you suggest...how much how long..what works best?
Thank you for any tips.

simplyblessed89

CARDIO - up your workout with cardiovascular exercise by 15 minutes more than you're doing. It takes time for your body to adjust to a regimen, especially if you are doing weight training, because some can be fluid retention. DON'T GIVE UP!

Journal everything you eat today and see if there's more going in your mouth than you thought there was, and up your cardio.

Hope that helps. Don't get discouraged!

Ashia1317

I'm in the same boat!! Keep at it. We will get there :flowerforyou:

toots99

I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT AND EATING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE LAST WEEK AND NOT A SINGLE POUND DROPPED ! WTF
MUSCLE MASS SHMUSSLE MAASS I AM SOOOOO FRUSTRATED

OPEN YOUR FOOD DIARY- NO ONE CAN TELL WHAT IF ANYTHING IS HOLDING YOU BACK UNLESS WE CAN SEE WHAT YOU ARE EATING/BURNING.

Also- 1 week won't have you lose much of anything. 1, maybe 2lbs tops. Chillax. You got a long way to go- and it will be longer if you mega freak every time you go 1 week without a loss.

^^What she said.

gecho

right there with you!:mad:

denisec26

i know it sucks but 1 week is nothing. it takes 6 weeks to see results and believe me, i have the same problem. ive been doing this for a year and lost a total of 8 pds..just gained back 3. i work out an dtry to eat ok and ive been stuck at the same weight and loosing nothing for months and months

JennaM222

I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT AND EATING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE LAST WEEK AND NOT A SINGLE POUND DROPPED ! WTF
MUSCLE MASS SHMUSSLE MAASS I AM SOOOOO FRUSTRATED

If all you are trying to lose is one 1 lb then you have a right to be frustrated, but if you have a goal over 5 then you need to really understand that the weight wasnt gained in a week, and it is WAY harder to lose than gain. It took me 1 year to lose 30 lbs. you really need to stay focused and patient. It will NEVER be a quick fix.

good luck and keep motivated!

ShunkyDave

I would comment with a suggestion, but your diary is not visible to non-friends. I'll add you and see what's going on.

simplyblessed89

what cardio do you suggest...how much how long..what works best?
Thank you for any tips.

tiffanygarrett - Outside, try running/jogging for 30 minutes. Walk for an hour. Jump rope for 20 minutes. Cleaning the house counts as cardio if you are vacuuming, scrubbing floors, etc.! DVDs are great too, especially during crappy weather/winter time - I would suggest any of Jillian Michaels's workouts because she incorporates cardio with strength training for maximum fat burning. Denise Austin is for beginners and she's a very positive trainer.

amccrazgrl

One thing to remember... Its takes a woman 6 weeks to get use to a workout routine and start loosing weight. It sucks I know!! My husband and go pee and loose 3 pounds. Me.. Ill pee and gain weight! Just keep your head up and know that if you stick to it, it will happen!!

Don't you want to change up your routine after that long so your body doesn't get used to it.


On Topic: I have been having issues since the beginning(Oct 24th). I have 2 months where I lost 1/2 pound and 2 months where I lost 2 1/2 pounds. I have Feb-March where I lost 6 1/2 pounds all b/c I changed gyms. I'm at 12lbs in just under 6 months where at lot of people have lost that in ONE month or a FEW weeks. Maybe its b/c I could only stand to lose about 40lbs, maybe its b/c I only really have belly fat (everywhere else you can barely pinch fat), maybe its type 1 diabetic. Who knows I just figure slow and steady and at my year on MFP I should be down 40lbs. The slower you lose the less chance of having excess skin hanging to tighten up.

I have done everything from changing my goals, workout routine, zig zag calories, cheat day, extra healthy. Just keep trucking along. It takes longer to lose if you have a small amount ~50lbs or less.

FTIM2015

My husband and go pee and loose 3 pounds. Me.. Ill pee and gain weight! Just keep your head up and know that if you stick to it, it will happen!!

Thank god! thought it was just me who put on weight post pee!!!

jane77

I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT AND EATING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE LAST WEEK AND NOT A SINGLE POUND DROPPED ! WTF
MUSCLE MASS SHMUSSLE MAASS I AM SOOOOO FRUSTRATED

OPEN YOUR FOOD DIARY- NO ONE CAN TELL WHAT IF ANYTHING IS HOLDING YOU BACK UNLESS WE CAN SEE WHAT YOU ARE EATING/BURNING.

Also- 1 week won't have you lose much of anything. 1, maybe 2lbs tops. Chillax. You got a long way to go- and it will be longer if you mega freak every time you go 1 week without a loss.

^^What she said.

really did we act like that every week we over ate, didnt exercise and didn't gain weight!!!!!!!! give yourself and your body a break. go slow or it will go back on twice as fast

ak248902

I was thinking the same thing when I got on the scale this morning! I have been using MFP and working out 5 times a week for the past two weeks and have not seen any results either. We just have to stick together and keep trying to eat well and working out. I am going to work out with a personal trainer on Monday to see if she can help me get a good strength training routine to do with my cardio.

leigh8210- My husband is the same way too. It takes me forever to loose a pound and he can get on the scale the day after he started eating better and working out and losses 2 pounds!

Good luck everyone. So thankful for these message boards. They are really helping me to stay motivated!

naebear99

Try treating this as a learning experience. Whatever you're doing isn't working, so it's time to look at it harder, and decide what you can try next. I was doing great until I started upping the ante, then I just hit a sudden plateau. When I started digging into the numbers a bit, I realized that my exercise reporting may have been doing me in. A lot of people out here have noted that some of the exercises seem to over-report calories burned by significant amounts. So, I dug into some other calorie-burn calculation methods and found that, in particular, my time spent on the elliptical was showing far more calories burned than could possibly be. As I had more than tripled my elliptical time in that time, Considering that it seems to be over-reporting calories burned by more than half, I'm going to probably add a new elliptical exercise calculation, specifically for that. My walk calories are in close agreement to what other calculators say, so I'll report those as usual, and I'll calculate other exercises as I'm about to add them.

I have found that staying focused on what I'm learning, rather than what the scale says, is more satisfying, and gives me goals I can always achieve - even if it's "well, I learned today that tiramisu was a REALLY bad choice for dessert!"

leigh8210

My husband and go pee and loose 3 pounds. Me.. Ill pee and gain weight! Just keep your head up and know that if you stick to it, it will happen!!

Thank god! thought it was just me who put on weight post pee!!!

HAHA!!! NOPE.. RIGHT THERE WITH YA!!

StevLL

Some times it takes a bit for your body to adjust. I wasn't losing at first even though I was very consistent in meeting my calorie goal each day. Then when I mentined that to my doc, she reminded me to also pay attention to the balance of sodium, potassium and my fats, protien and carbs. When I started eating to reduce those high sodium numbers weight started going down. Also try weighing only once a week. If you weigh everyday it will drive you nuts. Keep at it, you'll get the right groove going. Lots of luck and stay focused!!

dmcg123

It's human to want immediate results. It's also human to seek empathy, maybe even sympathy. But, if you didn't know it coming in, you should know it now - living healthy takes committment and hard work.

We all get frustrated sometimes. But, ask yourself "what are my options?" Let's see... you could quit, maybe grab a couple pints of Haagen Daaz and say "what the heck, I'm destined to be fat". Or, you could say "I'll be damned if I'm giving up, I will move that stinking scale or die trying!!"

I hope you have the fortitude to choose the latter approach. Use your frustration to intensify your resolve. Get pissed, refuse to accept being fat and prove to yourself that you CAN set a goal and achieve it. It will give you such a sense of accomplishment, and that success and resolve will permeate all aspects of your life.

Good luck, be strong and succeed!! You ARE in control - how you use that control is completely up to you.

meggonkgonk

You guys need to understand that many people, especially just starting, are prone to a bit of overkill. You start working out like a fiend, often eating like a bird and putting in all this effort and expecting the scale to immediately confirm you are heading in the right direction.

That's really just not quite how it works. You need patience and you need to slow down. Here are some of the reasons jumping right in won't work:

1) If you drop your calories and add in workout, your body will be mega confused. Sometimes it will drop a bunch of weight really quickly, sometime it will be like "What, you're starving and working super overtime and you want me to LET GO of my safety fat stores? WTF?" Moderation will help you take off weight consistently, if slowly, and will give your body time to adjust itself accordingly (shrinking skin and other organs and such).

2) Working out hard makes you retain water. You aren't gaining hoardes of muscle right away, you are actually creating tiny tears in the muscle that your body needs to repair, which it needs water to do.

3) Seeing your diary would help because we could see how much you're eating- people often try to eat very little or try to appear as though they are trying to eat very little- so this means they are either eating enough which see above re:body freak out, or are eating too much but not recording accurately and likely overeating. We could also see if you are eating a lot of processed foods which even if you stay in your calorie goals will cause your weight to fluctuate very much because they have high sodium and take a long time for your body to process and expel (sorry if thats gross, but it is what it is).

ak248902

Somehow two got added and I can't delete this one. Sorry... still new at this!

ak248902

Some times it takes a bit for your body to adjust. I wasn't losing at first even though I was very consistent in meeting my calorie goal each day. Then when I mentined that to my doc, she reminded me to also pay attention to the balance of sodium, potassium and my fats, protien and carbs. When I started eating to reduce those high sodium numbers weight started going down. Also try weighing only once a week. If you weigh everyday it will drive you nuts. Keep at it, you'll get the right groove going. Lots of luck and stay focused!!

I have been weighing myself everyday and I don't think it is such a good idea. I am going to take your suggestion and only weigh myself once a week. I will let you know how it goes! Thanks!!