Ok, 6 months today of circuit training 3x per week with a trainer and recently added 3 days of 1hr cardio and have lost a total of 13 inches and 10 pounds. (Waist 3.5 inches Thigh 1.5 inches Hips 2.5 inches Shoulders 2.5 inches Chest 3 inches) I expected a lot more at this point. I am 5 '9 232 pounds (was 242). Need some motivation. I feel like my hard work should be producing better results. I have been sooooo good with my eating to have only lost this much. Oh and I did my first 5k Color Run this weekend it went great!

Correction!! Make that a total of 18.5 inches! How can I not be losing on the scale? That's a lot of inches to take off only to lose 10lbs.. Can anyone explain this to me? BTW happy with my 5.5 inch loss in the last two weeks...Just can't get the scale number out of my mind! Anyone with a similar experience?

1 lb of fat takes up a lot more space than 1 lb of water.

Now, to keep making improvements to your body may mean you don't have much if any deficit in place.
Your body will keep making improvements, but there's only so much glucose that can be stored so that will stop, and muscle while very slow adding water will stop as you max it out.

Time to examine why you may have little deficit in place.

May just have a whoosh effect getting ready.
Have a night with planned carb refeed and/or couple stiff drinks. That will work if that's the reason why.

So week 1 into my -15% cut and I lost -0.2lbs

It wasn't a good week in terms of sticking to my macros I was just slightly out but slack in general. I think 15% may be too small so ill go another 200kcals under this week and see if any difference is made.

Looking leaner in the mirror not sure if the tape measure agrees.

Positives are nothing is gained.

So week 1 into my -15% cut and I lost -0.2lbs

It wasn't a good week in terms of sticking to my macros I was just slightly out but slack in general. I think 15% may be too small so ill go another 200kcals under this week and see if any difference is made.

Looking leaner in the mirror not sure if the tape measure agrees.

Positives are nothing is gained.

Oh, you got stick to it longer than 1 week. Don't go scaring your body into to adapting and losing your deficit after spending all that time doing a reset. What a waste of time that could end up being.

I stuck to it and losing this week at a similar rate -0.4lbs

Finishing insanity this week (yay) and plan to rest for a week. Then I'll be starting strong lifts, I will recalculate my marcos/calories inline with my reduction in activity 3 days a week lifting sounds like heaven compared to the last 2 months of hard interval training 5-6 days a week.

I just started doing my TDEE - 20%. I have been at a stand still with my weight since the initial loss of weight after having my daughter in 2008!!! :noway:

I did a lot of reading up on this topic and decided to take the plunge. I didn't do a reset, that was just to scary to me, however only 1 week into my 20% cut I have maintained. up and down .6 of a pound.

I hope I am doing this right??

my tdee is 2147 and my 20% cut is 1702. I work out 3-4 times per week doing 30 - 40 minutes cardio and kettle bell workouts.

How long do I wait until I see results?

So I used mifflin on scooby workshop to get my TDEE. This website actually has two different calculators. one uses Harris B and the other is Mifflin, which they say is way more accurate.

I had my "diet" set up since I had my daughter, however I could never stick to it. I would start following if for a few days then go off for a while. I only just started getting serious about my weight loss journey recently, but the 1360 calories never really worked for me.

I am following the TDEE -20% cut and I am amazed that I can actually eat more food, better choices of course and still lose on the scale!!!!:bigsmile: It definatly makes me feel a whole lot better than starving myself on the LCD that I could NEVER follow for more than a few days. I would always go off

Thanks for your imput, I am also down again!!! I orginally went up .2, then down .4, up 1.2 and now down a total of 1.8 at the end of the first week!! I am beyond excited, this is the biggest weight loss in one week that I can ever remember, it's an amazing feeling!
I know I shouldn't keep on weighing myself, but it's a bad habbit I need to break!!
I am taking measurments tonight!!! I cannot wait to see the results

I am also telling people I work with how amazing this is!! You can cat more food and lose weight, as long as they are the right kind of foods!!!!

So I used mifflin on scooby workshop to get my TDEE. This website actually has two different calculators. one uses Harris B and the other is Mifflin, which they say is way more accurate.

I had my "diet" set up since I had my daughter, however I could never stick to it. I would start following if for a few days then go off for a while. I only just started getting serious about my weight loss journey recently, but the 1360 calories never really worked for me.

I am following the TDEE -20% cut and I am amazed that I can actually eat more food, better choices of course and still lose on the scale!!!!:bigsmile: It definatly makes me feel a whole lot better than starving myself on the LCD that I could NEVER follow for more than a few days. I would always go off

Thanks for your imput, I am also down again!!! I orginally went up .2, then down .4, up 1.2 and now down a total of 1.8 at the end of the first week!! I am beyond excited, this is the biggest weight loss in one week that I can ever remember, it's an amazing feeling!
I know I shouldn't keep on weighing myself, but it's a bad habbit I need to break!!
I am taking measurments tonight!!! I cannot wait to see the results

I am also telling people I work with how amazing this is!! You can cat more food and lose weight, as long as they are the right kind of foods!!!!

Well, do keep things realistic. Since you are so tied to the scale emotionally, if this is the likely false water weight loss, I have a feeling you'll be devastated, which isn't good, when it goes back up slightly.

Is that 20% deficit equal to about 900 calorie deficit daily off TDEE? Because that's what 1.8 lbs of fat loss would equate to.
Whereas if that's just water weight with glucose no longer stored, you just lost some LBM and your metabolism went down.

Scooby on their Most Accurate link also has the best estimate Katch BMR, which requires a BF% estimate. That will lead to better TDEE estimate too.

Mifflin can be more accurate than Harris, but still based on avg healthy ratio of fat to non-fat mass in healthy weight study participants. If you don't have that same ratio, and most who have dieted don't, you could have inflated figures you are working with.

Try the spreadsheet on my profile page for best estimates, get your measurements, and track your progress.

1702 from 2148 for a 20% decrease is 426 calories less which includes my exercise.

Should I make my activity level higher? or not take so much of a cut?

What would you suggest?

I had originally did my calculations with multiplying my exercise by 1.42, which on one site you could put how many days you worked out and the number came to this multiplyer.

The first week i was eating 1760. should I go back up to that?

I know this topic is months old but I figure it's the most relevant one here. Is it possible to gain a couple pounds over a weekend with an all nighter and bad eating but not over my calories? I was doing well with my cut until then.

I'm resurrecting this topic for an update. I joined this group in early 2013. I reset and gained 20 pounds. Then, I got pregnant with child #3 lol. I am now 11 weeks postpartum, and am 2 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight. I have lost 24 pounds since giving birth. I am currently eating 2200 calories a day. I set MFP to maintenance at moderate exercise. I work out 5 days a week, lifting 3 days. I figure that breastfeeding will account for the deficit. I lost nearly 3 pounds this week. I'm sooo glad I did the reset last year. I am eating more calories to lose than I ate when I was 30 pounds heavier 4 years ago, doing the same amount of exercise.