I'm not seeing my weight drop

surfbabe
surfbabe Posts: 79
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been lifting heavy, for 2 months now, 3x a week and do cardio classes Monday-Friday. Sat and Sun are normally my off days and I don't always eat amazing however I'm not stuffing my face with fast food either.

I haven't been using traditional cardio machines anymore bc of all the classes I've been taking. (Pilates, dancing, kickboxing, kettleballs ect) And I always work up a sweat. That being said my weight has not dropped in 2 weeks. I'm eating at a deficit and obviously working out. Could this be due to my weekends? Do I need to sneek in some treadmill time?

I'm just sooo frustrated!

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  • benol1
    benol1 Posts: 867 Member
    It could be due to a number of factors inc. MFP's overly generous estimation of calories burned for activities performed.
    Also, if you are doing a lot of lifting it could be likely that you are building muscle tissue while losing fat. I wouldn't worry about your scales not moving. When my scales didn't move for over a month I discovered they were broken. Get yourself a tape measure and weigh yourself less frequently. Concentrate on a healthy calorie contrlled diet while engaging in regular high-intensity exercise of your choice. Remember that there is more to this than your relationship with gravity if you want to make a sustainable lifestyle change.
    All the best.

    Ben
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Do you log the weekends?

    Have you adjusted your caloric intake since you have lost weight?
  • bunbunzee44
    bunbunzee44 Posts: 592 Member
    scale doesn't always tell the truth.. did you take measurements? pictures?
  • MelanieAnneWoods
    MelanieAnneWoods Posts: 15 Member
    I agree with Ben, you may not see a change on the scale as you are gaining muscle. However, the more muscle you have the more calories you burn at rest and the more fat you lose. Are your clothes getting looser? If you want to lose quicker, give up ALL alcohol and the weight will drop off. (just try it for a month as an experiment). Also watch the fat content on food labels that you eat. I try not to eat anything if it contains more than 8g of fat per 100g. :smile:

    Good luck and don't give up.
  • jesz124
    jesz124 Posts: 1,004 Member
    2 weeks with no scale movement is nothing. I honestly would not give it a second thought. Stick with what you are doing. If it's 2/3 months with no movement then look more closely at changing things.
  • surfbabe
    surfbabe Posts: 79
    thank you all! Yes I've been measuring and doing pics. I've lost a half inch on the love handles but that's it. nothing else has really changed. I am not logging on weekends and I don't have a HRM. So I guess it could be MFP's over estimation on caloric burns. :/ But I'm gonna stick with it!

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