Exercise but no weight loss
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It's only been two weeks. Give it some time. Are you weighing your food or are you measuring? Get a digital food scale, life will be so much better. Also, have you taken your measurements? The scale takes everything into consideration, hair, water, blood, organs, etc. You could be losing inches, but not weight.
Darnit! I bet I still have those 2 extra lbs. because of my hair and blood! Stupid hair and blood!
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diannethegeek wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »arditarose wrote: »What is your calorie intake? You should be around 1200 to 1300 at the max to shed some pounds. Uping your protein to carb ratio will help you lose weight also. Watch that sugar intake. Best wishes in ur journey
How can you tell someone how many calories to eat without knowing their stats?
Your right to an extent. As a woman its recommended to do no more than 2000 daily calorie intake assuming she's around that figure. Based on her activity it seems that she has plateaued. For her to see any change she may need to adjust her calorie intake. Without starving herself a 1300 calorie per daily will help her see tremendous results for weight loss.
That's interesting because I stick to 2200 calories to maintain. What happens to me gor going over 2000?
I lose eating around 1700 calories. At 1400 and below I was miserable and hangry all the time. Without knowing the OP's stats it does seem like you're throwing out very generic numbers that may or may not be right for this particular person.
She's not trying to maintain she's wanting to lose which she is struggling with therefor calorie intake should be reevaluated. Being hungry at 1400 would depend on what is being eating. I'm never hungry eating 1300 to 1400 with the things i consume.
I get that the OP is trying to lose. But I'm referring to your statement that it's not recommended for a woman to ever go over 2000 calories. That may be the average calorie level for a woman to maintain, but that very much depends on stats and activity level.
You're throwing out general advice without waiting for more specific information from the OP. 1300 calories might be appropriate or it might not be.
I was generally speaking and assuming and i didn't use the word never. As u stated the "average calorie"0 -
Muscle weighs more than fat. So although your dieting and running and burning fat, your also building muscle. Don't change anything. Your body will level out and over the next few week u should start seeing the scale tip in your favor.
wow..no, just no …OP is not gaining muscle by running and eating in a calorie deficit…geez…just stop!0 -
arditarose wrote: »What is your calorie intake? You should be around 1200 to 1300 at the max to shed some pounds. Uping your protein to carb ratio will help you lose weight also. Watch that sugar intake. Best wishes in ur journey
How can you tell someone how many calories to eat without knowing their stats?
Your right to an extent. As a woman its recommended to do no more than 2000 daily calorie intake assuming she's around that figure. Based on her activity it seems that she has plateaued. For her to see any change she may need to adjust her calorie intake. Without starving herself a 1300 calorie per daily will help her see tremendous results for weight loss.
how did you come up wit that number without knowing her stats??/
so you are saying that 300 pound woman that is 5-10 could not lose on say 2400 a week to start???0 -
arditarose wrote: »What is your calorie intake? You should be around 1200 to 1300 at the max to shed some pounds. Uping your protein to carb ratio will help you lose weight also. Watch that sugar intake. Best wishes in ur journey
How can you tell someone how many calories to eat without knowing their stats?
Your right to an extent. As a woman its recommended to do no more than 2000 daily calorie intake assuming she's around that figure. Based on her activity it seems that she has plateaued. For her to see any change she may need to adjust her calorie intake. Without starving herself a 1300 calorie per daily will help her see tremendous results for weight loss.
how did you come up wit that number without knowing her stats??/
so you are saying that 300 pound woman that is 5-10 could not lose on say 2400 a week to start???
Not saying that at all. I read between her lines she is obviously not 300 pounds running 30 min 5 days a week at 5mph. And has plateaued. Just saying her calorie should be reevaluated0 -
arditarose wrote: »What is your calorie intake? You should be around 1200 to 1300 at the max to shed some pounds. Uping your protein to carb ratio will help you lose weight also. Watch that sugar intake. Best wishes in ur journey
How can you tell someone how many calories to eat without knowing their stats?
Your right to an extent. As a woman its recommended to do no more than 2000 daily calorie intake assuming she's around that figure. Based on her activity it seems that she has plateaued. For her to see any change she may need to adjust her calorie intake. Without starving herself a 1300 calorie per daily will help her see tremendous results for weight loss.
how did you come up wit that number without knowing her stats??/
so you are saying that 300 pound woman that is 5-10 could not lose on say 2400 a week to start???
Not saying that at all. I read between her lines she is obviously not 300 pounds running 30 min 5 days a week at 5mph. And has plateaued. Just saying her calorie should be reevaluated
you pulled a number out of thin air and are now back peddling..
how about just not giving advice based on an arbitrary number that you pulled out of thin air ...0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »arditarose wrote: »What is your calorie intake? You should be around 1200 to 1300 at the max to shed some pounds. Uping your protein to carb ratio will help you lose weight also. Watch that sugar intake. Best wishes in ur journey
How can you tell someone how many calories to eat without knowing their stats?
Your right to an extent. As a woman its recommended to do no more than 2000 daily calorie intake assuming she's around that figure. Based on her activity it seems that she has plateaued. For her to see any change she may need to adjust her calorie intake. Without starving herself a 1300 calorie per daily will help her see tremendous results for weight loss.
That's interesting because I stick to 2200 calories to maintain. What happens to me gor going over 2000?
I lose eating around 1700 calories. At 1400 and below I was miserable and hangry all the time. Without knowing the OP's stats it does seem like you're throwing out very generic numbers that may or may not be right for this particular person.
She is but she thinks she's somehow right. I could throw out random numbers and refer to her in unwelcome terms but I won't lower myself to her level.
Refer to me in unwelcome terms?...because our statements different is really unnecessary smh. And my view point does not qualify me lower to any level. It does not make me any lower of a person. We don't need to be unfriendly to people for such reasons. It's not that serious
I stated that I was not your "dear", you continued with its use. You don't like people noting that the numbers you spew are random and arbitrary. You don't like people noting that you use unwelcome terms even after told they are not applicable. That is the level to which I won't lower myself. You've already been unfriendly, and I don't see you as worthy of any effort to go out of my way to be friendly towards.
The fact you continue to post random numbers without knowing a thing about the OP reinforces my already low opinion of you.
So sad smh. Last time I checked dear is not derrigatory. Enjoy your night
Dear is incredibly diminutive when you disagree with someone. And even if you don't believe it to be or aren't meaning to use it that way, it's polite to stop using a pet name for someone when you're asked.arditarose wrote: »What is your calorie intake? You should be around 1200 to 1300 at the max to shed some pounds. Uping your protein to carb ratio will help you lose weight also. Watch that sugar intake. Best wishes in ur journey
How can you tell someone how many calories to eat without knowing their stats?
Your right to an extent. As a woman its recommended to do no more than 2000 daily calorie intake assuming she's around that figure. Based on her activity it seems that she has plateaued. For her to see any change she may need to adjust her calorie intake. Without starving herself a 1300 calorie per daily will help her see tremendous results for weight loss.
how did you come up wit that number without knowing her stats??/
so you are saying that 300 pound woman that is 5-10 could not lose on say 2400 a week to start???
Not saying that at all. I read between her lines she is obviously not 300 pounds running 30 min 5 days a week at 5mph. And has plateaued. Just saying her calorie should be reevaluated
you pulled a number out of thin air and are now back peddling..
how about just not giving advice based on an arbitrary number that you pulled out of thin air ...
Not back paddling at all.... sticking to it sir
I was generally speaking and assuming and i didn't use the word never. As u stated the "average calorie"
Not saying that at all. I read between her lines she is obviously not 300 pounds running 30 min 5 days a week at 5mph. And has plateaued. Just saying her calorie should be reevaluated
So admit the numbers you provided are based on nothing from the OP and therefore meaningless. Since that is the case, you cannot possibly stick to the random and arbitrary numbers you provided based on assumptions and your reading between lines.0 -
You're probably retaining water still. Give it a couple more weeks.
Make sure you're logging accurately, with food scale, and trust the process.0 -
Also, FTR, I do not think 1200-1300 gross calories is appropriate for a person who is doing intense exercise like running unless there's some kind of underlying medical condition.0
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I have been playing with my calories, my maintenance is 1800-2000, to lose weight it is 1600. Since doing this I have lost 1 kilo (2.2lbs) in a week, before I was maintaining
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In those two weeks, you did a total of 10 runs of 30 mins at 5 mph - that's 25 miles or about 40 km in total. Great, but assuming you weigh about 70 kg (no weight in your profile), that's a total calorie burn of between 2500-3000 kcal.
If you ate none of it back (which is difficult to do), you should have expected a loss of body fat of a little under 0.5 kg (1lbs) - that's easily within the margin of error between consecutive weigh-ins, so it's no surprise that you haven't seen any results on the scales yet.
However, if you keep this up, in three months, you should have lost about 2-3 kg, or 5-7 lbs - and then, you will most definitely see it, too.
tldr; keep up the good work, you're getting there!0 -
Oh, god - muscle does NOT weigh more than fat. It takes up less room than fat. 2 weeks is not a lot of time to lose weight if you are also developing muscle. Think about it - if you develope a pound of muscle and reduce a pound of your fat cells so they take up less space, you've replaced one pound of weight with another. Just the new pound takes up less space than the original pound.
If you are accurate in your food logging and are really in a calorie deficit, you will also lose weight because you will be burning up more fat and your fat cells will continue to get smaller (p.s. they never go away).0 -
I found it best to ignore the scale. I would agree that two weeks is not enough time to judge anything. Are you feeling better? Is your body starting to look better? Sometimes the mirror can be the best judge.0
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It's only been two weeks. Give it some time. Are you weighing your food or are you measuring? Get a digital food scale, life will be so much better. Also, have you taken your measurements? The scale takes everything into consideration, hair, water, blood, organs, etc. You could be losing inches, but not weight.
Darnit! I bet I still have those 2 extra lbs. because of my hair and blood! Stupid hair and blood!
IKR. It's a rough world that we live in, but if you really want to lose those 2 pounds, you're going to have to go bald!
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Two weeks is not long enough. Keep logging. Weigh your food as much as possible. Keep exercising. Give it at least 30 days. Be encouraged.0
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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Also, FTR, I do not think 1200-1300 gross calories is appropriate for a person who is doing intense exercise like running unless there's some kind of underlying medical condition.
^^^Exactly...
OP~ Just for reference, it doesn't matter if you are eating "healthy" or "junk" or a combination. It all comes down to are you eating more calories than you burn.
If in fact you are using a food scale, I would also point toward water retention.
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