not losing any weight. . ideas please
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Ok.. I've been working really hard at gym for almost a month. Taking care of what I eat. My friends tell me I look like I lost a lot of weight but the scale is not moving. Also the clothes fits much better . I'm not obsessed with scale cause that's not my goal. . But I would like to hear opinions about it. Thanks!
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This is my incredibly generic advice when someone isn't losing. If you want more specific ideas, it might help to set your diary to public or share some more details about your diet.
1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so since you last saw a drop on the scale, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. Give your body some time to catch up with the changes you're making.
2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.
3. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.
4. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.
5. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.
6. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.
7. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.
8. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.
9. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.0 -
Tape measures trump scale weight. If your scale was hanging around your neck but I suspect it is not. So way to go!!0
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Are you weighing most/all of your food with a food scale and choosing accurate MFP entries? It's very easy to wipe out a calorie deficit by eyeballing or using measuring cups (regardless of if the food is healthy).0
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Lol! Thanks! And I'm doing all the above. I'm not freak out about losing weight but I'm curious about it
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MK, awesome. Should be a sticky.0
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If your clothes fit better and measurements are better, then it's working. Give it more time to see the scale weight catch up with your progress. Scales measure much more than just fat, so as early on as you are, it's probably still the water from exercise or something masking your progress
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Are you in a deficit?0
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Ok.. I've been working really hard at gym for almost a month. Taking care of what I eat. My friends tell me I look like I lost a lot of weight but the scale is not moving. Also the clothes fits much better . I'm not obsessed with scale cause that's not my goal. . But I would like to hear opinions about it. Thanks!
Can you tell me what you are doing at the gym?
Cardio?
muscular?
how long are your sessions?0 -
This is where having other measurable means to chart your progress are important. Take measurements, take pictures, and it will give you something to measure your progress in a measurable visible manner.0
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My cardiologist said any exercise but power walking. OP tape over scale. Doing well.0
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You will shortly receive responses saying that power walking will solve your problems. Please know power walking isn't the end all here.
To lose weight, you must be in a calorie deficit. Get yourself a food scale, learn to weigh and log accurate . eat less and move more. Cico.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »
This !0 -
How are you tracking what you eat? Do you keep a MFP diary?
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bcalvanese wrote: »Ok.. I've been working really hard at gym for almost a month. Taking care of what I eat. My friends tell me I look like I lost a lot of weight but the scale is not moving. Also the clothes fits much better . I'm not obsessed with scale cause that's not my goal. . But I would like to hear opinions about it. Thanks!
Can you tell me what you are doing at the gym?
Cardio?
muscular?
how long are your sessions?
Absolutely doesn't matter what a person does at the gym. Weight loss is accomplished by eating at a deficit, whether one is exercising or not.0 -
bcalvanese wrote: »Ok.. I've been working really hard at gym for almost a month. Taking care of what I eat. My friends tell me I look like I lost a lot of weight but the scale is not moving. Also the clothes fits much better . I'm not obsessed with scale cause that's not my goal. . But I would like to hear opinions about it. Thanks!
Can you tell me what you are doing at the gym?
Cardio?
muscular?
how long are your sessions?
Absolutely doesn't matter what a person does at the gym. Weight loss is accomplished by eating at a deficit, whether one is exercising or not.
Sorry but I asked the OP a question, and not you.
Please mind your own business.
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Sometimes these threads are helpful to others besides the original poster.
For example, when I first joined I was too afraid to post. So I lurked and lurked these forums. I was looking for answers to my questions , but was too shy to speak up.
I would've definitely read a thread like this to try to figure out what was going on. But I wouldn't have posted anything .
sometimes its just not all about the original poster. Facts have to be posted , even if the original poster is already aware of them. And nonfactual stuff must be pointed out, to prevent a newcomer or lurker from reading it and believing it.
When I first joined, I read that carbs will make people gain weight and that people shouldn't eat them. Luckily , many posters chimed in and mentioned that low carb was not necessary unless the person had a medical condition and that a calorie deficit was all that was needed for weight loss .
If those members didn't speak up And call out the nonsense then I would've definitely believed it. I didn't know any better. Many people start out not knowing anything and just like to lurk these threads to learn.
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thorsmom01 wrote: »Sometimes these threads are helpful to others besides the original poster.
For example, when I first joined I was too afraid to post. So I lurked and lurked these forums. I was looking for answers to my questions , but was too shy to speak up.
I would've definitely read a thread like this to try to figure out what was going on. But I wouldn't have posted anything .
sometimes its just not all about the original poster. Facts have to be posted , even if the original poster is already aware of them. And nonfactual stuff must be pointed out, to prevent a newcomer or lurker from reading it and believing it.
When I first joined, I read that carbs will make people gain weight and that people shouldn't eat them. Luckily , many posters chimed in and mentioned that low carb was not necessary unless the person had a medical condition and that a calorie deficit was all that was needed for weight loss .
If those members didn't speak up And call out the nonsense then I would've definitely believed it. I didn't know any better. Many people start out not knowing anything and just like to lurk these threads to learn.
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cafeaulait7 wrote: »If your clothes fit better and measurements are better, then it's working. Give it more time to see the scale weight catch up with your progress. Scales measure much more than just fat, so as early on as you are, it's probably still the water from exercise or something masking your progress
Thanks! I will
I'm on a deficit
I log my food
I spend two hours at gym from Monday to Saturday
I do HIIT twice a week
And I think it does matter what you do at gym0 -
cafeaulait7 wrote: »If your clothes fit better and measurements are better, then it's working. Give it more time to see the scale weight catch up with your progress. Scales measure much more than just fat, so as early on as you are, it's probably still the water from exercise or something masking your progress
Thanks! I will
I'm on a deficit
I log my food
I spend two hours at gym from Monday to Saturday
I do HIIT twice a week
And I think it does matter what you do at gym
I asked about your exercise because I thought that if you where building muscle, it may explain why you look like you lost weight but weigh the same on the scale.0 -
260lbs 6'2 I lost 10lbs then I had same problem its been 3 weeks, then i realized i had been eating at maintenance 1950cals to reset that low carb diet 1200 cals i started with like 30-40grams carbs a day now im back feeling better i dropped it back down to 1200 cals cause i was 25% bf when i started got down to 21% got stuck for 3 weeks now its time to drop cals again and increase cardio on low carb days raise my carbs back up on resistance days and cheat days i learned to eat barely any fat cause i was going over board with the carbs so fat storage was inevitable and i think it was destroying 3 days of my diet0
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cafeaulait7 wrote: »If your clothes fit better and measurements are better, then it's working. Give it more time to see the scale weight catch up with your progress. Scales measure much more than just fat, so as early on as you are, it's probably still the water from exercise or something masking your progress
Thanks! I will
I'm on a deficit
I log my food
I spend two hours at gym from Monday to Saturday
I do HIIT twice a week
And I think it does matter what you do at gym
You might have already answered this but....
Keep in mind often the calorie burns are off in MFP for certain exercises. There are also quite a few machines that include BMR in the calorie burn totals. So finding correct logging for your exercise calories is important if you are going to eat at least some of them back.
@diannethegeek covered this in her #6. But if you exercise a lot, the variances can be a lot. I've never weighed any food at all, and found my biggest problem was in accurate exercise logging.
And weight loss can be strange at times. Though I've never had a month without loss, I'm probably bigger than you are, so I have more room to play with. And at times, I stall and do nothing for a while, then within a day or two (and sometimes a rest day) I drop weight.
Also keep in mind that your weight fluctuates day to day and even hour to hour. I've seen swings of 5 lbs for me in a day. When and how often you weigh might cloud the real trend if your timing just happens to weigh at the wrong time.0 -
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bcalvanese wrote: »cafeaulait7 wrote: »If your clothes fit better and measurements are better, then it's working. Give it more time to see the scale weight catch up with your progress. Scales measure much more than just fat, so as early on as you are, it's probably still the water from exercise or something masking your progress
Thanks! I will
I'm on a deficit
I log my food
I spend two hours at gym from Monday to Saturday
I do HIIT twice a week
And I think it does matter what you do at gym
I asked about your exercise because I thought that if you where building muscle, it may explain why you look like you lost weight but weigh the same on the scale.
A woman's going to build appreciable muscle eating at deficit in a month?
I don't think so.
Water going to muscle for tissue repair due to a new exercise routine? Yup.0 -
bcalvanese wrote: »cafeaulait7 wrote: »If your clothes fit better and measurements are better, then it's working. Give it more time to see the scale weight catch up with your progress. Scales measure much more than just fat, so as early on as you are, it's probably still the water from exercise or something masking your progress
Thanks! I will
I'm on a deficit
I log my food
I spend two hours at gym from Monday to Saturday
I do HIIT twice a week
And I think it does matter what you do at gym
I asked about your exercise because I thought that if you where building muscle, it may explain why you look like you lost weight but weigh the same on the scale.
A person who is eating perfectly and working out intensely can build 5-10lbs of muscle in a year. A person can lose 2lbs of fat a week safely. You'll never build muscle fast enough to outpace your fat loss. Especially since you can't build muscle at anywhere near that 5-10lbs a year rate if you're in a deficit enough to lose any weight at all.0 -
Without knowing exactly what you're doing in the way of lifting and training, your body could be retaining excess water in your muscles to help repair them. This is totally normal. It generally takes a month to six weeks for the scale to shift when I'm heavily training (if I'm eating at a deficit). My measurements improve, but the scale doesn't budge before then.
Based on what my body does, it may still be a bit too early for you to notice a change on the scale.0 -
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nefudaboss wrote: »260lbs 6'2 I lost 10lbs then I had same problem its been 3 weeks, then i realized i had been eating at maintenance 1950cals to reset that low carb diet 1200 cals i started with like 30-40grams carbs a day now im back feeling better i dropped it back down to 1200 cals cause i was 25% bf when i started got down to 21% got stuck for 3 weeks now its time to drop cals again and increase cardio on low carb days raise my carbs back up on resistance days and cheat days i learned to eat barely any fat cause i was going over board with the carbs so fat storage was inevitable and i think it was destroying 3 days of my diet
What????
As a male at 32yrs old , 6'2" 260.....there's no way on god's green earth that your maintenance calories are 1950.......unless your super hypothyroid.....and even then.
EDIT: For grins I plugged your stats into a quick TDEE calculator. Your maintenance is closer to 2900 than it is 1900. If you really are eating only 1200 calories (TDEE -60%), I hope you are doing so under medical supervision.
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nefudaboss wrote: »260lbs 6'2 I lost 10lbs then I had same problem its been 3 weeks, then i realized i had been eating at maintenance 1950cals to reset that low carb diet 1200 cals i started with like 30-40grams carbs a day now im back feeling better i dropped it back down to 1200 cals cause i was 25% bf when i started got down to 21% got stuck for 3 weeks now its time to drop cals again and increase cardio on low carb days raise my carbs back up on resistance days and cheat days i learned to eat barely any fat cause i was going over board with the carbs so fat storage was inevitable and i think it was destroying 3 days of my diet
What????
As a male at 32yrs old , 6'2" 260.....there's no way on god's green earth that your maintenance calories are 1950.......unless your super hypothyroid.....and even then.
EDIT: For grins I plugged your stats into a quick TDEE calculator. Your maintenance is closer to 2900 than it is 1900. If you really are eating only 1200 calories (TDEE -60%), I hope you are doing so under medical supervision.
Poster maybe eating more then he thinks, as well.0 -
queenliz99 wrote: »nefudaboss wrote: »260lbs 6'2 I lost 10lbs then I had same problem its been 3 weeks, then i realized i had been eating at maintenance 1950cals to reset that low carb diet 1200 cals i started with like 30-40grams carbs a day now im back feeling better i dropped it back down to 1200 cals cause i was 25% bf when i started got down to 21% got stuck for 3 weeks now its time to drop cals again and increase cardio on low carb days raise my carbs back up on resistance days and cheat days i learned to eat barely any fat cause i was going over board with the carbs so fat storage was inevitable and i think it was destroying 3 days of my diet
What????
As a male at 32yrs old , 6'2" 260.....there's no way on god's green earth that your maintenance calories are 1950.......unless your super hypothyroid.....and even then.
EDIT: For grins I plugged your stats into a quick TDEE calculator. Your maintenance is closer to 2900 than it is 1900. If you really are eating only 1200 calories (TDEE -60%), I hope you are doing so under medical supervision.
Poster maybe eating more then he thinks, as well.
Agreed....those numbers just made my head spin.0
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