Is this Happening to You Too??

AlexPflug

Hey shredders! Finished Day 3 yesterday. I found that after Day 1 I wasn't so sore. I thought it wasn't so bad, but I know that I was modifying some of the workouts and taking a couple breaks. Day 2 was harder. I pushed myself a little more, but I had a hard time since I took multivitamins that made me feel nauseous and light headed. Yesterday was Day 3 and I know I tried hard to push deeper in the squats and take fewer breaks.

So, funny enough to me, I feel like it's getting harder. That's probably because I am pushing harder every day. However, I'm a little frustrated. I've read that you start seeing results by Day 5, and for the past three days, even though I have stayed a little under my calorie count, and I've done the workout every day, I'm not losing any weight! I'm big enough that I would have assumed I should be dropping pounds, especially because I'm not an active person, but I've stayed at 217..... I want to be under 200 so badly, but I'm frustrated that I'm not even going down 1/2 pound.... Is it too early for me to be worrying that I won't get the results I was hoping for with this workout?

Sorry for the complaints! Just hoping someone else was having the same issue.

LoveActually

I looked over your diary a bit and you are consuming most of your calories at dinner time. And if you're eating late as well, you're not allowing your body the time and activity that's needed to burn those calories before bed. So essentially all that food is just sitting there.

I try like hell to not eat carbs in the evening and to also have my smallest meal of the day in the evening. And I eat 3 meals and 2 snacks everyday and I keep my snacks around 100 calories. Nothing after dinner unless I want a glass of wine.

What did MFP calculate your calorie intake per day to be and what is the pounds lost per week goal?

AlexPflug

I'm set at 1250 I think, for a 2 lb. loss/week. I know I'm eating later. The main reason for that is because I tend to exercise later in the day and then I'm left with anywhere from 200-600 calories left to eat. I don't want to not eat them back because I'm afraid of my body retaining them. I've never really exercised regularly before now, so maybe I naively expected faster weight loss.

beccah88

You're not the only one to find that it was harder in day 3 than 2, I did to! Perhaps its like you said and we've been working it harder as the days go by.

Don't get too disheartened that you're not seeing results as fast as you'd like, since you're working out muscles you are probably retaining more water, but that won't last long they just need to get used to being used so much. I've read other peoples experiences of the 30DS and a lot of people have seemed to say that they didn't lose weight at first, in fact some of them gained! But they soon dropped more weight once they had gotten past this stage.

Just keep on at it

shmunster

From what ive read people tend to lose more inches than pounds doing 30ds too, so make sure you measure yourself as well

sherrirb

Lots of contributing factors.

If you've never really exercised before this and you truly are pushing yourself in each workoug, then you are probably losing some weight but definitely starting to build some muscle, which weighs more than fat.

Also, you do need to watch any large caloric intake in the evening. If you go to bed at 9pm, try not to eat after 6pm and/or do a little exercise after you eat dinner. Not a full workout, but something to get your metabolism going, a walk perhaps or a short 10 min weight lifting session with 5lbs. Anything to get your blood flowing and heart rate up a little.

This is part of the reason I do my 30DS (or any workout really) after dinner in the evening. We eat dinner between 6 and 7pm, then workout at the gym for an hour and relax the rest of the evening, until I do my 30DS around 9 or 10pm.

AlexPflug

Lots of contributing factors.

If you've never really exercised before this and you truly are pushing yourself in each workoug, then you are probably losing some weight but definitely starting to build some muscle, which weighs more than fat.

Also, you do need to watch any large caloric intake in the evening. If you go to bed at 9pm, try not to eat after 6pm and/or do a little exercise after you eat dinner. Not a full workout, but something to get your metabolism going, a walk perhaps or a short 10 min weight lifting session with 5lbs. Anything to get your blood flowing and heart rate up a little.

This is part of the reason I do my 30DS (or any workout really) after dinner in the evening. We eat dinner between 6 and 7pm, then workout at the gym for an hour and relax the rest of the evening, until I do my 30DS around 9 or 10pm.

Thanks for the advice! I tend to do 30DS at night as well. I'm working on eating more calories during the day so I am not left with so many to eat at the end of the day.