Calories under but no weight loss?

Firstly, if you were on medication you should check with your doctor, I have no idea how long the side effects of your medication can be in play but have heard for some it can take a few months.
If you are only two days in I wouldn't worry about not seeing a scale change, my weight can change by ten pounds between 8am and noon. For weighing I would recommend weekly checks under similar conditions, many people find first thing in the morning to be best.
Nutritionally, make sure you are accurately tracking all your food, a food scale helps here. In the beginning it can be very easy to try and eyeball your intake and end up several hundred calories over/under.
I highly recommend reading the guide to sexypants sticky in this thread as it is much more comprehensive.

If you are working out it will take a week or two to see significant progress on a scale because muscle weighs more then fat, wait a while and check back, I would wait a month.

jakegold wrote: »

If you are working out it will take a week or two to see significant progress on a scale because muscle weighs more then fat, wait a while and check back, I would wait a month.

Honestly it doesnt.

OP readjust your way of thinking and look more long tern. You are expecting to see progress immediately, whereas weight loss is much slower and it takes time for your body to adjust. Expecting progress after 2 days is unreasonable. Its also very hazy about what you are doing and whether you have a right to be expecting any progress.

Are you doing enough to have created a deficit of 3500 calories per lb.
Are you weighing and logging all your food?

It will be helpful of not essential for you to understand and control your deficit.

First off - good luck! You can do this

Get the food scale - it's going to be very helpful in keeping track of how much you're really eating. Be consistent with your logging, as well as weighing yourself and taking measurements, for 4 weeks or so. Do measurements every other week or once a month if you don't really see changes.

You already know your weight fluctuates, so it's up to you if you just want to weigh yourself once a week or pop on the scale a few times.

Another member here suggested using trendweight.com to see the pattern of weight loss/gain, and I've found it immensely helpful. You may want to check it out!

Also, keep in mind that your muscles will hang on to some water after working out, so the day after a workout you may see an increase (or more of an increase than usual). Nothing to be concerned with!

And as an added bonus, your body may hang on to some water around that time of the month - and then once that's over with, the extra weight magically disappears.

Be consistent & stick with it. You'll get there.

~Lyssa

How low are your calories? Eating too few calories can hurt you almost as bad as eating too many.

tinascar2015 wrote: »

Sure, one pound of muscle weighs the same as one pound of fat, just like a pound of feathers weighs the same as one pound of iron.

But when it comes to the volume of weight versus fat, sure, you can lose inches without losing pounds, to a point:
bamboocorefitness.com/one-pound-of-fat-versus-one-pound-of-muscle-clearing-up-the-misconception/http://

But you don't gain muscle in a calorie deficit. You need to lift heavy and and eat a surplus (except in a few very specific circumstances) Also it's bee 2 days and the OP hasn't been weighing food so using some common sense I would guest that if she weighs her food and has some patience then progress is more likely than her miraculously building muscle

acorsaut89 wrote: »

Can I ask a question, I genuinely curious.

From my understanding, medication doesn't make you gain weight. Medication can have side effects which increase appetite or decrease your metabolic rate, but medication itself does not make you gain weight as medication doesn't (usually) contain calories.

Is there something I'm missing?

What about cancer patients who take a real mix of drugs and gain weight? My mum has gone through chemo (she had leukaemia) and she couldn't eat because she felt so awful, and she was throwing up, but she didn't really lose a lot of weight considering. I think some people can gain weight due to steroids.

Hello I'm a pharmacy technician and in answer to your question, yes certain medicines will indeed make you put on weight but mainly for the reason you stated. If you have increased appetite you are going to eat more and unless you choose lower calorie healthy foods you will obviously gain weight. Then yes others affect you metabolic rate so obviously if you cary on eating exactly the same amount of calories you always have you will steadily gain weight. Other affect your hormones also resulting in weight gain. Others make you hold onto excess fluid, sometimes a lot of fluid making you bigger and heavier but this kind of weight generally disappears quite quickly once medication. Is stopped.
However having said all this, truthfully there are not that many medicines that have these side effects and an awfu lot of people that cite weight gain as a result of their medication are wrong, they have just eaten too many calories each day for too long just like the rest of us.

Jenaonfire wrote: »

I think I have made my diary public but it looks like (and sounds right to me before I started tracking) that I'm a few hundred calories shy a day of a goal of 1.5 lb a week.

I wasn't on prednisone, I was on respiridone and took it for years. I think somewhere in the back of my mind, I'm hoping that the pounds will just melt off since I'm under calorie and not taking the medicine.

It is the very first side effect listed on the site I used. I believe it has to do with hormones...my menstrual cycle is completely out of whack, I lactate (and i am not nursing), my hair is thinning...I would say yes medicine can cause weight gain.

I'm starting back to working out tomorrow. I have school when they offer group classes so I'm just gonna do an aerobic machine and weights.

Thanks for all your advice!

I took domperidone after my 2nd baby as lactation is supposed to be a side effect and i wasn't producing enough milk. It's an anti nausea drug. I piled on weight so fast, and I definitely wasn't eating enough to explain the weight gain. I also took fenugreek which is supposed to make you gain weight. I took that after my third, who's now 10 months, and I gained weight. I was logging again from when she was 3 weeks old, so I know I wasn't eating enough to gain weight.

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