Fairly stagnant

jwhittyworth
jwhittyworth Posts: 27 Member
edited December 2 in Motivation and Support
I've changed my diet and been swimming 2000 yards in 40 minutes a day for at least 5 days a week for the last 3 weeks. I haven't lost a single pound...

About to say "screw it" and go on a cake-only diet lol

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  • novio50
    novio50 Posts: 778 Member
    What are you eating? That may be the problem...not enough fat? Also, try variety, it sounds like you're body has adapted to that exercise. Think outside of the box or atleast get outside of that one and try lifting some steel. That will help you get started. As far as cake only diet, good luck with that, but it will effect your progress either way.
  • jwhittyworth
    jwhittyworth Posts: 27 Member
    Breakfast - 3 Eggs, Blackbeans, Corn, Potato, mixed bell peppers.
    PreLunch - Apple
    Lunch - Salad, 5 Brazil nuts, 12 Almonds, 20 Pistachios.
    Postlunch - Cottage Cheese, Peach, Small greek yogurt
    Dinner - Whatever she cooks lol; Last night was .5lb chicken breast, green beans, carrots, and plain baked potato.

    As for the work out, I've been keeping the distance the same but changing up the stroke for variation. I always end up sore at least. I plan to increase my distance to 100 - 120 laps this week.

    I definitely have weight to lose, currently around 223. Trying to get near 200. Haven't even slightly budged in weight and don't really think I look any differently.
  • suzyjane1972
    suzyjane1972 Posts: 612 Member
    As everyone will now say you need to weigh and log every bit of food and drink to know exactly how many calories you are consuming
  • mommazach
    mommazach Posts: 384 Member
    I stalled for awhile too and my trainer told me to drop Dairy for a couple weeks. 5 lbs later and I know it's working. That's the only change I made and I added more protein in my day and leaner fats.
  • ObsidianMist
    ObsidianMist Posts: 519 Member
    are you logging your food accurately and eating within your deficit? that's the only thing that's going to make you lose weight. the exercise just gives you a bigger deficit.
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,744 Member
    suzyjane1972 wrote: »
    As everyone will now say you need to weigh and log every bit of food and drink to know exactly how many calories you are consuming

    This. The food you list sounds good, but unless you know the exact quantities and calorie counts then you may be spinning your wheels.

    How much weight are you trying to lose?
  • jwhittyworth
    jwhittyworth Posts: 27 Member
    I log pretty accurately. I eat close to 2600 calories a day, usually under to count for under-measuring. This should be fairly sufficient in maintaining weight. This isn't counting the deficit created by my workouts...

    I net between 1900 and 2000.

    6'2" at 223lbs
  • suzyjane1972
    suzyjane1972 Posts: 612 Member
    edited June 2016
    You log but do you weigh your food...I don't get the under measure quote. ....if you weighed you wouldn't under measure.
  • jwhittyworth
    jwhittyworth Posts: 27 Member
    I don't have a food weight nor do I want to track that religiously lol

    What I mean by under measuring is I'll stop around 2500 to count for that half pound of chicken that may have been 5/8th a pound.
  • suzyjane1972
    suzyjane1972 Posts: 612 Member
    But without weighing it your only guessing at calories so you don't know how many you're eating.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
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  • jwhittyworth
    jwhittyworth Posts: 27 Member
    Regardless of the scale, 2600-2800 is where I should be to maintain weight. Unless I'm sneaking in 400/500 calories then I don't think that's a huge issue.

    @quiksylver296 I think time may be my issue then. I guess I'll postpone my cake-only diet for another month...
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    edited June 2016
    jwhittyworth wrote: »
    Regardless of the scale, 2600-2800 is where I should be to maintain weight. Unless I'm sneaking in 400/500 calories then I don't think that's a huge issue.

    @quiksylver296 I think time may be my issue then. I guess I'll postpone my cake-only diet for another month...

    You are maintaining. You need a deficit and if you aren't losing, you aren't in a deficit. You can argue the numbers as much as you want but your results indicate that you are eating at maintenance. Calculators only give you estimates. Reality provides facts and the best thing to do is start with your estimate and then adjust from there. You're halfway there. You just need to adjust.
  • jwhittyworth
    jwhittyworth Posts: 27 Member
    I'm eating at Maintenance excluding working out. I'm going to give it time, my endurance in the pool has sky rocketed so I could just be substituting muscle density for fat loss.

    I'll give it at least two more weeks.
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