What's happening?

elliotl530
elliotl530 Posts: 6 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey everyone,
I'm 31 years old and currently weigh 190lbs, my goal is to get to 182 as soon as possible before concentrating on trying to build a bit of muscle. I'm working on trying to lose 2lbs a week, sticking to my macros like glue, being very conservative on my calorie logging (weighing everything and rounding it up) and I'm not eating back my exercise calories. If anything I tend to be 100-150 under my daily calorific goal.

However I'm not losing any weight, and I have maintained for about the last 3 weeks. I have however been working out religiously, lifting weights surely I can't be building muscle at a rate of 2 lbs a week which is making the scales tell me that I'm not loosing weight?

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    It may just be a stall..it could just be water weight masking it ...best advice is to give it 6-8 weeks then look back and assess

    That said, open your diary ...you may have unconscious logging issues

    2lbs a week seems rather excessive to me ...plus you're right ..it's not muscle ..

  • oh_happy_day
    oh_happy_day Posts: 1,137 Member
    You might experience a 'whoosh' soon. The scale stalled for me recently for two weeks, then I suddenly lost 3lbs. Are you drinking plenty of water? Staying tight with your logging? If you're getting close to goal, is it realistic to expect a 2lb loss per week? Maybe you need to alter your expectations.

    Agree that it's not muscle, but it's possible that it's water weight from exercise that's masking any loss. Just keep pushing forward and re-assess in a few weeks. Don't get discouraged!
  • elliotl530
    elliotl530 Posts: 6 Member
    Thanks guys, I think I'm doing everything right in terms of logging and I drink bucket loads of water, the ironic thing is I talked my wife through a plateau and I'm having the same frustrations myself!
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    elliotl530 wrote: »
    Hey everyone,
    I'm 31 years old and currently weigh 190lbs, my goal is to get to 182 as soon as possible before concentrating on trying to build a bit of muscle. I'm working on trying to lose 2lbs a week, sticking to my macros like glue, being very conservative on my calorie logging (weighing everything and rounding it up) and I'm not eating back my exercise calories. If anything I tend to be 100-150 under my daily calorific goal.

    However I'm not losing any weight, and I have maintained for about the last 3 weeks. I have however been working out religiously, lifting weights surely I can't be building muscle at a rate of 2 lbs a week which is making the scales tell me that I'm not loosing weight?

    This explains it. When I start an exercise program, the harder it is the more water I retain for muscle repair which tends to mask quite a bit of weight lost.
  • SaffronSunrise
    SaffronSunrise Posts: 182 Member
    I took last week off from the gym. I rolled into the gym Monday expecting that scale to give me some ugly news. It gave me 206. Whaaaaatt???? I weighed a couple of weeks ago & I was hovering around 211. Surely the scale was wrong so I grabbed a plate off the Smith machine & it weighed correctly. Busted my booty in the gym, weighed on Tuesday and I was up to 208 weighed Weds & Thurs and I seem to have leveled out at 110. I started lifting in April and I try to hit it hard every time I'm in the gym. Keep weighing accurately and keep killing it in the gym & those numbers will go down.
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