5 weeks and very little weight loss!!!

amywebs18
amywebs18 Posts: 17 Member
edited December 1 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi Everyone,

I started going to the gym 4 (sometimes 5) times a week from the 14th of March.
Usually when I start gyming the problem is I think I can't just eat whatever I want. This time I've been strict on myself during the week, eating healthy food and sticking within my target. Yes I've had a few cheat nights at the weekends but no massive binges.
To summarise, this is the strictest I've ever been on a diet and the most I've been to the gym!
I lost a few pounds at the beginning and now I seem to be stuck!!
Im 5ft 3 and 9 stone. My goal weight is 8 stone 7.
I'm upping my spinning classes to 3 times a week.
Any suggestions please let me know!!

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  • amywebs18
    amywebs18 Posts: 17 Member
    edited April 2016


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  • helenrosec1
    helenrosec1 Posts: 82 Member
    Maybe could you make your food diary public so we can see what you're eating.
  • hekla90
    hekla90 Posts: 595 Member
    Probably your cheat nights lol. No surprise there...
  • KorvapuustiPossu
    KorvapuustiPossu Posts: 434 Member
    You are already withing healthy range of weight for your height... which means if you want to lose more weight, margin of error is really really small. What it comes down to is calorie deficit... Gym is good and it can help create bigger deficit...but it is not so significant that you can't manage to eat it all back. If you are at the same weight for 5 weeks means when all is said and done...you are eating at maintenance. Do you log your food, do you weight everything on a kitchen scale? The less you have to loose the stricter you have to be. couple hundred of calories is easy to overestimate. Anyways you should be aiming for 0.25 lbs loss at this point since you have very little to lose. Good luck.
  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
    This is a chart for general troubleshoooting. Based on your post it looks like you are in the 2nd blue box from the top, ie you are not weighing all your food and/or you are not logging consistently.

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  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    KorvapuustiPossu wrote: »
    You are already withing healthy range of weight for your height... which means if you want to lose more weight, margin of error is really really small. What it comes down to is calorie deficit... Gym is good and it can help create bigger deficit...but it is not so significant that you can't manage to eat it all back. If you are at the same weight for 5 weeks means when all is said and done...you are eating at maintenance. Do you log your food, do you weight everything on a kitchen scale? The less you have to loose the stricter you have to be. couple hundred of calories is easy to overestimate. Anyways you should be aiming for 0.25 lbs loss at this point since you have very little to lose. Good luck.

    ^^This, plus this...
    hekla90 wrote: »
    Probably your cheat nights lol. No surprise there...

  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    hekla90 wrote: »
    Probably your cheat nights lol. No surprise there...

    Yeah, I think so. My suggestion is to log the binges so you can see how much you're overeating and then work on it so that you binge/cheat less.
  • ColmJennings
    ColmJennings Posts: 1 Member
    With training 4 to 5 times a week you may be putting on muscle if you are doing any resistance training. I note you are doing spin, you are going to put on muscle on your legs. This is a good thing, as more muscle leads to an increased metabolism and more calories burnt. You will continue to get leaner but may stay at the same weight. KorvapuustiPossu is correct, you are very close to your target weight. Start looking at how your clothes fit you and not just the scales and bodyweight.
  • murp4069
    murp4069 Posts: 494 Member
    With so little to lose its going to be slow and you really have to make sure your logging is as accurate as possible. I have about 7 lbs to go and it seems like it's coming off like molasses lol. Make sure you are still logging any cheat meals so that you are staying on track and you are actually aware of your intake. Just because you don't binge doesn't mean you're not completely erasing your deficit with a cheat meal(s) on the weekends.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    hekla90 wrote: »
    Probably your cheat nights lol. No surprise there...

    Yep. With seven pounds to lose you have to be PRECISE in your logging. You can save a few calories from other days to eat when you go out, but these are likely eliminating your entire deficit without that.
  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    ColmJennings wrote: »
    With training 4 to 5 times a week you may be putting on muscle if you are doing any resistance training. I note you are doing spin, you are going to put on muscle on your legs. This is a good thing, as more muscle leads to an increased metabolism and more calories burnt. You will continue to get leaner but may stay at the same weight. KorvapuustiPossu is correct, you are very close to your target weight. Start looking at how your clothes fit you and not just the scales and bodyweight.

    Can't built muscle in a deficit.
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    Colorscheme wrote: »
    ColmJennings wrote: »
    With training 4 to 5 times a week you may be putting on muscle if you are doing any resistance training. I note you are doing spin, you are going to put on muscle on your legs. This is a good thing, as more muscle leads to an increased metabolism and more calories burnt. You will continue to get leaner but may stay at the same weight. KorvapuustiPossu is correct, you are very close to your target weight. Start looking at how your clothes fit you and not just the scales and bodyweight.

    Can't built muscle in a deficit.

    True in most cases but we've not established that OP is in deficit - Based upon what we know, she probably isn't. Having said that, I agree with what I think you're saying, that @ColmJennings idea that she has seen little loss is because of muscle gain is unlikely.
  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    edited April 2016
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    Colorscheme wrote: »
    ColmJennings wrote: »
    With training 4 to 5 times a week you may be putting on muscle if you are doing any resistance training. I note you are doing spin, you are going to put on muscle on your legs. This is a good thing, as more muscle leads to an increased metabolism and more calories burnt. You will continue to get leaner but may stay at the same weight. KorvapuustiPossu is correct, you are very close to your target weight. Start looking at how your clothes fit you and not just the scales and bodyweight.

    Can't built muscle in a deficit.

    True in most cases but we've not established that OP is in deficit - Based upon what we know, she probably isn't. Having said that, I agree with what I think you're saying, that @ColmJennings idea that she has seen little loss is because of muscle gain is unlikely.

    Good point. The OP would need to eat 2520 calories a day to build muscle. It could be possible but even so, muscle gain tends to be a slow process with women.
  • amywebs18
    amywebs18 Posts: 17 Member
    Thank you all, it's great to get such varied feedback! I think I need to be tighter on my logging and make sure that I don't cave to cravings on Saturday nights! Hopefully my boobs will go down a few sizes too! Slow and steady I guess...
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