Did not loose anything .. WTF !!!

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  • healthygreek
    healthygreek Posts: 2,137 Member
    Eat more fresh veggies/olive oil. Less sugar, processed and fast foods.
    Lots of sugar and salt causes my weight to stagnate.
  • foleyshirley
    foleyshirley Posts: 1,043 Member
    You eat less than I do, and I am a 48 yr old female. You need to eat more to fuel your workouts. Someone posted a link to the roadmap on page one. Do yourself a favor and read it. It could make a huge difference.
  • LJ3434
    LJ3434 Posts: 2 Member
    Maybe switch your exercise routine? I cannot do the same routine for more than a few weeks without hitting a plateau. Like others said you could be retaining water. I weighed myself Thursday and then Friday at the same time in the day and lost 1.5 lbs. that is obviously not accurate, I had to of been retaining water. Hang in there, if you eat right and exercise it will average out in the end. Unfortunately healthy weight loss takes time and patience.
  • jsiricos
    jsiricos Posts: 340 Member
    Add sodium to your settings, It'll be an eye opener.

    Eat more veggies, snack on carrots, celery, good healthy stuff thru the day.
  • Nachise
    Nachise Posts: 395 Member
    Keep it up, drewboy30! I had joined a program at my hospital where we have guidance from nutritionists and exercise physiologists, and got included in a study concerning diet and exercise. The first great piece of advice was to increase my breakfast calories. I'm a yogurt, fruit, and cereal breakfast type, and a small increase in yogurt and cereal made a huge difference for me.

    When I started to plateau, I was advised to increase my caloric intake because my exercise was starting to put me into starvation mode. On one of my last checkups, I found that I had lost nine pounds of fat since September, but gained three pounds of muscle. That was encouraging, because we could see how my body was changing. My weight loss results haven't been immediate, but I was encouraged to keep doing what I'm doing. My plateau continued throughout the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and I have just started losing again and broke one of my first big barriers.
  • nokanjaijo
    nokanjaijo Posts: 466 Member
    This is exactly why I weigh myself every day. I can gain two pounds and shrug it off if I know it happened overnight. If it is a slow, steady gain, I would worry.

    I only report once a week or so but that is just to not tax my MFP support system.
  • Arianwyn_T
    Arianwyn_T Posts: 52
    Not checked measurements although I am not doing any weights at the moment just Cardio .. would i still gain muscle ??

    That can depend on the type of cardio and your resistance settings --- On the elliptical I do "hill climb" and the spin class I take does a lot of standing work, so my legs are getting a lot stronger (I can go much faster on the same resistance than I could a few months ago)
  • LokiOfAsgard
    LokiOfAsgard Posts: 378 Member
    I am mortified !! Kept to diet & exercise all week and scales say u have lost nothing :((( I can't understand what I have done wrong ??? I was 4751 calories under my weekly target ???

    Scales are not the best tool to go by, go by measurements. :)
    And next week or the week after, you'll probably be caught up weight-wise, to where you should be again.
  • sunforme3
    sunforme3 Posts: 57 Member
    To avoid feeling exactly what your feeling I've stayed off the scale, using how I'm feeling and how my clothes feel as an indicator. And like someone here said...........patience, your not doing this for the scale your doing it for you!! Eating well and exercising is so important for soooo many reasons, the scale is the least of them!!! Good Luck!!!!
  • Lovlilyn
    Lovlilyn Posts: 79 Member
    You don't want to loose weight! Then you'll be all flabby. No one wants to loose weight. That's your problem, you're trying to loose weight instead of lose it.
    :smile:
  • Aarjono
    Aarjono Posts: 228 Member
    As others have said, just be patient, but boy, is *that* easier said than done!! I lost 12 pounds in January, and *nothing* in February, even though I added more exercise to my weekly regime. However, at the end of January I started using a tape measure, and I lost 10 inches by the end of February. If I had not been taking measurements, I would have gotten really discouraged by only focusing on the scale, even though each day I physically felt better and stronger than the day before.

    Good luck!! It is a marathon, not a sprint.
  • drewboy30
    drewboy30 Posts: 32 Member
    As others have said, just be patient, but boy, is *that* easier said than done!! I lost 12 pounds in January, and *nothing* in February, even though I added more exercise to my weekly regime. However, at the end of January I started using a tape measure, and I lost 10 inches by the end of February. If I had not been taking measurements, I would have gotten really discouraged by only focusing on the scale, even though each day I physically felt better and stronger than the day before.

    Good luck!! It is a marathon, not a sprint.

    You certainly inspire me I have to say xxx thank you !
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    sometimes it doesn't move as fast as you'd like...
  • drewboy30
    drewboy30 Posts: 32 Member
    Keep it up, drewboy30! I had joined a program at my hospital where we have guidance from nutritionists and exercise physiologists, and got included in a study concerning diet and exercise. The first great piece of advice was to increase my breakfast calories. I'm a yogurt, fruit, and cereal breakfast type, and a small increase in yogurt and cereal made a huge difference for me.

    When I started to plateau, I was advised to increase my caloric intake because my exercise was starting to put me into starvation mode. On one of my last checkups, I found that I had lost nine pounds of fat since September, but gained three pounds of muscle. That was encouraging, because we could see how my body was changing. My weight loss results haven't been immediate, but I was encouraged to keep doing what I'm doing. My plateau continued throughout the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and I have just started losing again and broke one of my first big barriers.

    Wow !! you have done so well ... i am impressed !

    I have increased my goal to 1800 calories a day and had a bit of a blow out this evening :) .. think that was right !! lets see where i go now ..!!!

    One thing I am ... i am determined to loose !!!

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