Why aren't I losing any weight?

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abijones75
abijones75 Posts: 116 Member
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I've been actively dieting and exercising for a week now and haven't lost anything...could someone who knows about exercise and nutrition please have a look at my diary and tell me what I'm doing wrong? I have a fitbit so my exercise is synched from there and it doesn't specify what it is, but basically i do an hour in the gym a day plus a fair bit of walking to and from school and to and from the gym. At the gym I'm alternating classes with free weights and cardio.
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  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    1 week.

    Give it more time.
  • PollyEH
    PollyEH Posts: 21 Member
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    How often are you weighing yourself? Day to day fluctuations can be quite extreme, so if you just weighed after one week, you could have had an upward fluctuation that is skewing things. I weigh in every day or every other day and take a weekly average, to try to avoid this.
  • abijones75
    abijones75 Posts: 116 Member
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    Every day PollyEH, it's soul destroying doing so much and seeing no change! I know 1 week isn't a lot but it's just frustrating as I usually drop quite a few pounds in the first week when I start dieting. This time I'm doing a lot more exercise and seeing no results :/
  • hpetty65
    hpetty65 Posts: 1 Member
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    Don't know if it helps but I lost hardly any weight, just a few pounds, in the first 6 weeks - even though I had reduced calories massively and was keeping to the level suggested, and had increased exercise.

    I used the 'reports' to look at the individual sections recorded over the past 30 days - sugar, protein, carbs etc. My protein was really low and sugar really high compared to the recommended, so I altered my diet - increased protein, reduced sugar and I've been losing about a pound a week ever since.

  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    abijones75 wrote: »
    Every day PollyEH, it's soul destroying doing so much and seeing no change! I know 1 week isn't a lot but it's just frustrating as I usually drop quite a few pounds in the first week when I start dieting. This time I'm doing a lot more exercise and seeing no results :/

    When you change exercise routines, concomitant bloat occurs due to tissue repair via an inflammation response. It masks weight loss. Wait it out a few weeks. It will come.

    Oh, and stressing about it results in further water retention.
  • abijones75
    abijones75 Posts: 116 Member
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    Hmm that's interesting hpetty65 I will have a look at mine. BTW my diary is public if anyone wants to look at it. My diet is not very varied atm, I'm just sticking to the same things every day, I think I prob need to increase my protein a bit.
  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
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    First of all, it's one week. If you've just started exercising your muscles may be retaining water for repair, so you might not be seeing the scale go down even if you're losing fat. Secondly, looking at your diary you seem to be using a lot of teaspoon and cup measurements and generic entries. Are you using a food scale? It can be reeeeally easy to underestimate calories consumed, especially things like butter that is calorie-dense.
  • abijones75
    abijones75 Posts: 116 Member
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    The butter is whatever it takes to spread a slice of toast, so I did guess 2 tsps. I measure my milk for cereal, for everything else I've used the barcode scanner. I'm eating so little compared to what I was though, and not drinking any alcohol which I was drinking loads of over Xmas, so I had expected to see a bigger change more quickly. What you said about the exercise makes sense though, I've been sore so that could be it.
  • abijones75
    abijones75 Posts: 116 Member
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    OK thanks EvgeniZyntx that also makes sense, that makes me feel a lot better. Hopefully once my muscles get used to working out I will see s drop in the scales :)
  • abijones75
    abijones75 Posts: 116 Member
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    Looked at my reports and its showing protein as way below target. Sugar is also low apart from on Sunday when i went to a baby shower and had one of those large choc chop cookies!!
  • lynnstrick01
    lynnstrick01 Posts: 181 Member
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    A couple of things could be happening to you, first and foremost, drastically cutting calories and increasing exercise all at once puts your body into a sort of "shock" it thinks that you are starving.. so it reduces metabolism. and secondly, remember muscle weighs more than fat, If you are feeling a little sore from all this exercise you are likely building muscle, try body measurements, waist, chest, hips, arms and thighs, the scales don't always tell the whole story.
  • ReflectivePhase
    ReflectivePhase Posts: 17 Member
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    Try and ween yourself off the sugar in the tea, weighing your food portions, try varying your diet to see what works for you for example if bread bloats you then try substituting it for something else like some extra protein such as lean mean or fish, some people find that diary alternatives help as well.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    lynnstrick01 wrote: »
    A couple of things could be happening to you, first and foremost, drastically cutting calories and increasing exercise all at once puts your body into a sort of "shock" it thinks that you are starving.. so it reduces metabolism. and secondly, remember muscle weighs more than fat, If you are feeling a little sore from all this exercise you are likely building muscle, try body measurements, waist, chest, hips, arms and thighs, the scales don't always tell the whole story.

    Sigh, no. We don't have a significant drop in metabolism from increase in exercise and we do not make a significant amount of muscle in a week. No. It's been a week.
  • lynnstrick01
    lynnstrick01 Posts: 181 Member
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    yeah the Almond milk (unsweetened) is super low in calories and tastes GREAT, works in most recipes that call for milk
  • spiccand
    spiccand Posts: 1 Member
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    I'm trying to loose a few pounds (10), since 3 months : I reduce my calories and increase my sport a lot, may be too much. So after 3 months, I loose no weight but took 4 more pounds. So I decided to stop looking at my balance and start at looking at me in the mirror. And you know what ? I am proud of me because this 10 pounds as been transformed in muscule and now my body is well design. I loose nothing but I transformed it.

    If you want to loose, calm down your sport (1'400 calories burn by sport on a day is a lot). So you will grown your muscule (don't worry, you won't take a massive body) but you will have trouble to loose weight.

    But .. I am not an expert, just my own experience.
  • hayyleyj
    hayyleyj Posts: 9 Member
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    PollyEH wrote: »
    How often are you weighing yourself? Day to day fluctuations can be quite extreme, so if you just weighed after one week, you could have had an upward fluctuation that is skewing things. I weigh in every day or every other day and take a weekly average, to try to avoid this.

    I weigh 4lbs more every evening! Crazy!
  • lynnstrick01
    lynnstrick01 Posts: 181 Member
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    Just remember, Dont "DIET" but change the way you LIVE, otherwise the weight will come right back (plus some) I know from experience.. It is better to make minor changes and take the weight off slowly and then continue with those good habits than it is to live a life of misery and starvation, reach a goal, and then put it all back on.
  • abijones75
    abijones75 Posts: 116 Member
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    That's what I'm trying to do Lynn :)Thanks for all the help everyone, I feel a lot better now. I know I'm not eating too much and I'm increasing my fitness which can only be a good thing. I'll check on here n a week, hopefully I will have either lost a few pounds or look better, I don't mind which! :)
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
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    lynnstrick01 wrote: »
    A couple of things could be happening to you, first and foremost, drastically cutting calories and increasing exercise all at once puts your body into a sort of "shock" it thinks that you are starving.. so it reduces metabolism. and secondly, remember muscle weighs more than fat, If you are feeling a little sore from all this exercise you are likely building muscle, try body measurements, waist, chest, hips, arms and thighs, the scales don't always tell the whole story.

    this is not true

    what Evgeni said is true, but this post you can ignore because none of it is true
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
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    abijones75 wrote: »
    That's what I'm trying to do Lynn :)Thanks for all the help everyone, I feel a lot better now. I know I'm not eating too much and I'm increasing my fitness which can only be a good thing. I'll check on here n a week, hopefully I will have either lost a few pounds or look better, I don't mind which! :)

    the best advice I can give anyone is judge your weight loss over rolling 6-8 week periods

    because day to day and week to week means nothing

    there are trend trackers you can use: I like trendweight.com it links from mfp via my fitbit account, there's also libra, weightgrapher, happy scale

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