Please help, it's just not moving!

Do you use a food scale to weigh all of your solid food? Do you eat back you exercise calories, and if so, how are you measuring/estimating calories burned?

Can you open your food diary?

bagzy121 wrote: »

Yeah 2 weeks, its moved 1 pound loss. Wasn't exercising before no, I'm logging everything (almost obsessively) and weighing everything too. I'm also using the fitbit HR for more accuracy. I'll keep at it just would love a little boost.

So you lost 1/2 lb per week. That's an ok rate. It might not be fantastic but those will come too. You'll see swooshes and slow weeks. Consider that some more could be hidden by water retention due to increase in exercise, TOMS, etc.

you are logging, great! That's often a problem.

So give it time and don't go crazy - that leads to giving up!
in a few weeks this will be just a memory, most likely.
Keep on swimming.

Keep at it, since you are logging everything it could be that your fitbit is over estimating your calories burned, could be water retention, too much sodium, that time of month etc.

Be patient, be proud of yourself for making good changes in your life and keep on the right track. All the best to you!

Two weeks isn't long enough. Keep doing what you're doing and it will come. Use a food scale and keep moving. You've got this!

bagzy121 wrote: »

Yeah 2 weeks, its moved 1 pound loss. Wasn't exercising before no, I'm logging everything (almost obsessively) and weighing everything too. I'm also using the fitbit HR for more accuracy. I'll keep at it just would love a little boost.

You might hold onto more water due to exercising. It often happens when you change your workout regime. Just as an example: I got a pretty bad cold and stopped exercising for two weeks. First I lost a lot of weight, then it stabilized back to normal loss. I started workout out a few days ago again and actually gained back a bit of weight, presumably water, and now things are running normal again.

I look at it like this.. It really has only been two weeks per what you stated.

It took me 5 weeks of the following:

I started exercising (30 minutes 4 times a week)
I started MFP (calorie counting)
I started using a Fitbit (3 weeks after the above to monitor activity)
I started watching sodium
I started drinking half my body weight in water. (about )

My body had to shift to a new way of eating and exercising. One day you will step on the scale and boom... the scale will shift... But I will tell you... YOUR MEASUREMENTS are the true sign not the scale.

The scale fluctuates between 2, 3, 4 even 5 pounds.... Patience is your friend...

PS If you are not truly eating a deficit then this could be your problem. Log your calories and be honest with what you log in your diary... You will be amazed how this really works..

PSS I am also a believer in knowing your numbers to create a modest deficit.. If you do not know your BMR, average TDEE then this too can be a stepping stone in your results. This can help assist you to make your plan, tweak your plan if necessary.... .

My advice to you is to change your diet to one you can do for life. If you don't think you can do the 5:2 forever, then don't start it because when you get to goal and you go back to eating 'normally' you may start to see the weight come back on.

5:2 is just the same as MFP but with the calories shifted around a bit. You are still eating a calorific deficit (in order to lose weight) but in a different way. I prefer to have a decent amount of calories to eat each day (but each to their own).

Secondly my body has been mucking around with the same 3lbs for 3 weeks. Up down, up down. It has actually been helpful weighing every day to see how my body is working. Rather than being deflated, I now know that the scale is not always a great indicator of progress.

But it was nice to see those 3lbs go, plus one extra today! It'll be back on tomorrow, no doubt, but it doesn't matter because the overall trend is down!

Good luck. X

chrisf63 wrote: »

You didn't mention how your clothes fit. Even though the scale's not moving fast, you may building muscle (heavier than fat) and slimming down!

Building muscle is an extremely slow process. She wouldn't have put on enough muscle to be a noticeable difference on the scale in just two weeks, especially if her main form of exercise is biking. Women take even longer than men to build muscle; I'd say at most 4lbs a year of muscle for women.

OP, it's most likely water retention. When I first started working out, my weight stagnated for about two weeks before finally moving again. Still, you lost a pound which means the scale is moving down, it's just not going quickly. You should be proud you lost a pound, that's no easy feat.

It took me about 6 weeks to figure things out and then started losing about 1-2lb per week.