Help! We aren't losing!

xTattooedDollx

My BFF and I started eating healthy together! Its so much easier doing things with a buddy! This webpage has been great help! We track out meal and now work outs faithfully! I can't speak for her, but I never go over my calories. We just joined 24 Hour Fitness last week. We were so excited! We hop on the treadmills for 30 minutes and a fast pace, we're doing weights, we go pretty much every day. We've both stopped losing. We thought with eating right and with joining the gym we would be dropping weight. Any ideas or suggestions? I don't want to get frustrated to where i just stop trying.

♥seoid♥

For me, I have to eat my workout calories earned. I get 1200 calories per day.....whatever I earn (say 300) I eat = 1500. Otherwise you will put your body into starvation mode and you won't lose any weight.

sandara

You didn't say how long you've been working out and eating healthy. I think when I first started I was impatient and wanted to see results right away. I started about mid-february working on my eating and slowly building up my exercises (I use walk-away-the-pounds) to 3 miles a day. By March 1st I could do 3 miles but still saw no weight loss. I decided that I would keep going the entire month of March and try to do 100 miles regardless how much weight I lost. By the end of March I had lost 13 lbs and could fit into a size smaller jeans. I'm so glad I kept going! I wont be able to make 100 miles this month but I'll still make at least 60 or more and I've already lost 4 more lbs.

If you keep working at it and making little improvements as you go along the weight will eventually start coming off. Lots of good information on those newbie posts that explains what happens when you first start out. They helped me understand why I wasn't losing right away.

xTattooedDollx

No, I usually don't eat back what I've worked off. I remember years ago in Weight Watchers, They alwys said to eat all your points. Looking back through my food diary, I haven't been eating all my calories, but I eat all my protein daily. Thanik you! You've made me rethink a few things that I need to change!!!

kangababy

Are you eating back the calories you are working off? I ask because if you are eating what this site says to eat (example 1200 calories) and then you are exercising on top of that without eating more you body will go into starvation mode and you will see yourself stop loosing weight.
I typically try to eat back half of what I have urned exercising or at least until I am not hungry anymore. It takes a while for your body to adjust once you start working out so you might actually see weight gain because of the muscle you are building.. You need to go more on how you feel and how your cloths are fitting. Weight is only a number and you could be 5'2" at 120 and be very unhealthy because you have fat and not muscle.

cmw72

Give this a read:

http://logicalloss.com/im-exercising-and-gaining-weight/

It could be that your muscles are retaining water. I was in this same boat last week, but I read that article and instead of getting discouraged, I just decided to give it some time, and all of a sudden, the scale dropped for me this weekend!

I'd say give it a week. You may not be losing weight, but you are still improving your fitness. The weight loss will come eventually.

whyflysouth

Same kind of thing happened to me at the beginning. I lost weight just by changing my diet and when I introduced more exercise into my routine my weight-loss stopped. Exercise is bad! lol. Just kidding, I think what's actually happening is that this loss w/o exercise is your body dumping water and excess muscle that it sees it doesn't need.

Keep up the exercise and don't keep track of your weight for a little while. Set some exercise-related goal, and keep at it. You will lose the weight eventually but it might appear to happen slower than you were expecting. What will be impressive is that you will start to look much better even when the number on the scale doesn't seem to be changing as dramatically. Start focusing on other ways to measure your progress aside from the weight because it's not the best indicator early on. Think of yourself as an athelete - most atheletes look and feel great but aren't measuring themselves constantly, their atheletic performance is the measure they use - if you go that route, you will be looking, feeling, and ultimately weighing right.

♥seoid♥

you gotta eat all your calories babe.

suejonestx

If you joined the gym last week, my guess is that one week isn't enough time to see the real affect of your workouts. Give it several weeks or even months. As many others have said, good weight loss takes time. Many on this site have a goal of only 1 pound per week, so just keep chugging along, then look back a few months from now!

xTattooedDollx

We've been eating healthy for about a month, and yes, just joined the gym last week. So we just need patients and I need to eat more calories!!! You all have been such a great help! Thank you so much for the info!!! This is my first time really trying to change my life style and my first time at the gym, I guess I thought I'd see a few pounds right away!