Anyone else has also experienced this?

yasmine334
yasmine334 Posts: 187 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So, I have started dieting in April 2014, I followed low carb diet with minimal exercise 1200 cal/day, and within 5 months I managed to lose 12 kg (27 lbs).

For personal reasons I stopped the diet and was eating my maintenance calories, Since January I started again my dieting, again low carb 1200 cal/day but this time exercising religiously 3 times/week.

Since February I started following weight lifting programme (NROFLW), currently in stage 1. according to the NROLFW rules, I exhanged low carb high fat diet with medium carb, high protien diet and upped my calories to 1350/day in average (some days 1200 others 1400).


In the past 2 months, I lost 2 kg only and then I gained 1 kg back. many told me it is water retention due to muscles microscopic tears, but can water retention last for a whole month?

any suggestions how to lose the weight? I am so frustrated!

I am 160 cm (5 2")

SW 206
CW 183
GW 133

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Nice work on losing 27 pounds! Since you diary is closed it is hard to give advice. Do you weigh all your food with a food scale?
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,149 Member
    Can you open your diary?
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    When I started back to lifting after a long lay off I was carefully monitoring my calorie intake. My weight went up 2 lbs and stayed there the entire month. I also took progress photos and you could see a difference in the month. Eventually the scale started to follow.
    So my answer would be yes, it could last a month.

    If you are sure about your intake I would give it another week or two then maybe re-evalutate your calorie intake.
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    Are you eating back calories burned during exercise? Maybe over estimating exercise and under estimating food so you are eating more than you think.
  • yasmine334
    yasmine334 Posts: 187 Member
    I weigh all my food portions, and bought a food scale. I eat 75% of my exercise calories. even if I overestimate the calories, there is still a considerable calorie deficit of almost 700 cal/day, so I dont think this assumption is really the reason.
  • yasmine334
    yasmine334 Posts: 187 Member
    3dogsrunning wrote: »
    When I started back to lifting after a long lay off I was carefully monitoring my calorie intake. My weight went up 2 lbs and stayed there the entire month. I also took progress photos and you could see a difference in the month. Eventually the scale started to follow.
    So my answer would be yes, it could last a month.

    If you are sure about your intake I would give it another week or two then maybe re-evalutate your calorie intake.

    How long it took you to see results on the scale from lifting weights?
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    yasmine334 wrote: »
    3dogsrunning wrote: »
    When I started back to lifting after a long lay off I was carefully monitoring my calorie intake. My weight went up 2 lbs and stayed there the entire month. I also took progress photos and you could see a difference in the month. Eventually the scale started to follow.
    So my answer would be yes, it could last a month.

    If you are sure about your intake I would give it another week or two then maybe re-evalutate your calorie intake.

    How long it took you to see results on the scale from lifting weights?

    It was at least 4-5 weeks.
  • 2snakeswoman
    2snakeswoman Posts: 655 Member
    edited February 2015
    Honestly, the best thing for me was to get rid of the scales. So many things can make weight fluctuate. One week I would think I'd lost 5 pounds and have a treat to celebrate. The next week I'd see that I'd gained 3 pounds and have a treat to comfort myself. Now my focus is to keep logging and exercising and wait for my clothing to get more loose.

    I gave away my home scales, but I do have access to scales, so I'll probably check myself from time to time.
  • yasmine334
    yasmine334 Posts: 187 Member
    2snakeswoman wrote: »
    Honestly, the best thing for me was to get rid of the scales....I gave away my home scales, but I do have access to scales, so I'll probably check myself from time to time.

    this is brave! congrats :)
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