My first week, so frustrating!

Pneeleysmom

I started my new lifestyle on Monday of last week. I worked my patoot off last week, ate my calories, sometimes below. Worked out, drank only water. I got on the scales this morning hoping to see some weight loss. NOTHING! Very frustrating for my first week! I really felt like I should have seen results! Any advice?

ironanimal

Open your diary and tell us what your exercise was burning and we can go from there.

PirateJohn

A personal trainer at a gym I used to go to put it to me best -- I took years to put on the weight. I should not expect it to come off in months.

What is important is that you are adopting good habits that will be with you for the rest of your life. Even if you don't see changes in the scale as fast as you would like, the fact that you are eating healthier and exercising is going to have dramatic impact to your overall health. You will feel more energetic, have more stamina, and just plain look better because of what you are doing for your skin, bones, etc.

Don't be discouraged just because only one of hundreds or thousands of dimensions of your health isn't changing the way you want it to just yet.

angelajmrn

Give it a little more time and stick with it. I notice that it takes a good 2 weeks for my body to catch up to all the good things that I am doing. Your body is adjusting. Make sure you always eat you calories though. I have sabatoged myself big time in the past by eating under my calories. Your body will go into starvation mode and hold onto whatever weight it has. A little "personal" here but if it is near your TOM then that could explain the no loss too. I always gain 5 pounds the week before my TOM. If I can not gain that 5 pounds buy diet and exercise that is a huge success for me. Keep up the good work

dls06

Do you have a food scale? Sometimes we under-estimate what a true serving is. Watch sodium intake.

cms6300

Embrace the lifestyle - the results will follow.

rbrannock

Loseing weight can be very frustrating, but just keep at it and you'll see the results sooner than later.



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dkueter94

That is exactly how I felt my first couple weeks!!! BUT stick with it! It will start to come off.

learningtolove

I've been "back on the wagon" since December 26th,I have over eaten a few times but never in excess. I exercise 4 days a week,and other then dropping the holiday bloat I've not lost any yet. Im not giving up though because looking ahead is better then moving backwards.

rieson

Embrace the lifestyle - the results will follow.

Love this and it is so true!

erickirb

I started my new lifestyle on Monday of last week. I worked my patoot off last week, ate my calories, sometimes below. Worked out, drank only water. I got on the scales this morning hoping to see some weight loss. NOTHING! Very frustrating for my first week! I really felt like I should have seen results! Any advice?

when new to exercise your muscles tend to store water to aid in recovery and to protect them from the damage caused by working out. So you could easily have lost 1-2 lbs of fat and are storing that much water. once you are use to the routine your muscle will shed the excess water. stick with it.

richelle67

Don't give up. It does work. I have been on here since Nov. 13th and am down 30lbs. Are you measuring your foods? Are you writing down everything you put in your mouth? I know my first 2 weeks I cut my carbs and lost the most weight right off the bat. But I wanted to see immediate results to get me motivated. I eat carbs now and the weight is slower coming off, but it is a lifestyle change and I am ok with that. Give it more time. It will happen for you. Feel free to add me as a friend if you would like more support!

Alexagetsfit

I know it is frustrating, but keep going. It took me a whole month before I started seeing any real loss. Your body will catch up eventually and in the mean time, you will start feeling a lot better.

Vnoski

You can't expect instant results. I am on my second week and I won't even think of getting on a scale till at least 30 days have gone by. I've done this before and I didn't really SEE results till my 3rd month. KEEP AT IT!

MaximalLife

I started my new lifestyle on Monday of last week. I worked my patoot off last week, ate my calories, sometimes below. Worked out, drank only water. I got on the scales this morning hoping to see some weight loss. NOTHING! Very frustrating for my first week! I really felt like I should have seen results! Any advice?

How much are you eating?
And what exercises are you doing?
Are you recording and eating back any calories burned doing exercise?

CalJur

Rome wasn't built overnight. Keep at it. You are expecting too much too quickly.

TRIPLESEC

Just hang in there and then all of a sudden you will see a ton of weight loss and try to take in all of your calories.

firstjog11

This is the beginning of my fourth week. The first 3 weeks I gained weight, about a pound a week. I've heard you hold on to fluid when you start a different exercise routine so your body can repair muscles, etc. Today I am back to my starting weight and have been consistently losing about 0.5 pound a day. I expect by the end of the week, some of my progress will show up on the scale. Until then, since I KNOW that I have been eating at a deficit and exercising, I can know it will show up eventually. Maybe you are the same way?

Pneeleysmom

WOW! You people are AMAZING! Thank so much for the encouragement!! I guess I just figured I would see some kind of change in the scale. I went to the gym 4 days last week, which is 100% more than I was doing because I just didn't make time between my full time job, mommy hood and wife hood. I did 50 minutes of cardio each day and a small amount of weights. Low weight, high reps. I have been keeping up with my intake, but not really how much I am burning. I find that hard to do. Any suggestions on that? I work at a sit down office job, so, my booty is in my chair all day. I didn't do so well on my diary my first week because I was still trying to figure it all out. I am a very detailed person and like to have things down to a science. I think that's why I get so frustrated. I have read and heard that if you don't eat x amount of calories then you won't lose, and if you eat too many calories then you won't lose either. There are right foods and wrong foods to boost your metabolism and ability to burn fat, ones that will give you more energy etc. It's a lot to take in for someone who has never really had to worry about my weight. When I started this sit down job, got married, started birth control, then had a baby is when this all started. Now I am up about 70 pounds from 2003 and it brings me to tears just thinking about where I have let my body get to. Depressing really.

kyanilockett

I agree all of the responses are amazing and encouraging. Keep up the fabulous work ok!

purpleipod

Invest in a heart rate monitor if you can't figure out how many calories you're burning.

vingogly

When you're investing money in something like a retirement fund, you shouldn't be checking its status daily and pulling your money out of one fund to place it in a different fund every time it goes down. You invest in a mutual fund because its managers have a good track record *over time* ... that is, you get into it for the long haul rather than short-term profits.

Same with weight loss and fitness ... those who aren't in it for the long haul will be constantly switching programs, looking for a magic fix. What's important is where you're at six months from now, not where you're at next week.

As for healthy vs unhealthy foods, it's not that complicated and you're not going to balloon out if you eat something unhealthy once in a while. Here's a list that summarizes what makes up a healthy diet (there are plenty others out there):

http://www.wellnessletter.com/html/fw/fwNut01HealthyDiet.html

Blugal1

Don't forget to take your measurements - I had fairly significant inches lost (I think 3.5 in 3 weeks) even though I only lost a few pounds. People actually commented that I had lost "a lot of weight" because my clothes were all fitting better.

mluchies

Good going! Seriously.

You have started to change your lifestyle, and that is the best thing you could have done for yourself (I just started as well). If you are working out, you are possibly gaining muscle.

Stick with this thing, you will see results.
Watch the salt, watch the carbs, good luck!