New to This- first week and lost nothing!

veryberrycocoa
veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
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Hi guys!
I'm quite new to this so please fee free to add me :)

I sort of half started and lost a little.
But this week I really went for it. I've been slightly under my calories daily and I've been swimming and to the gym!

I weighed this morning expecting even a .5lb weight loss but the scales haven't budged. Please feel free to take a look at my diaey- any feedback would be great.

I feel so disheartened and as though I might at well just not bother!

Thanks,
Berry x
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  • pinboman
    pinboman Posts: 18 Member
    Hi Berry,

    Well to start with YES you should bother.
    We are all different and our bodies respond in different ways, so stick with it.
    How much water do you drink???? (drink more o:) )

    If I may suggest only weigh your self once a week on the same day and at the same time, the amount of water in the body can make it seem you have not dropped any weight.

    My weight goes up and down by 2 to 3 pounds from day to day (short term)

    You will be fine :)

    Pinboman

    P.S. when you exercise fat can turn to muscle thus no change in weight.
  • veryberrycocoa
    veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
    Thanks! Just feels a bit like... Ive worked, pretty hard and nothing has happened! I can't see why! B x
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    A week is too soon to see progress. Especially if you just have started working out - our muscles hold on to water for repair for one thing so that would mask any progress.

    Keep on going, you WILL lose.
  • mrflipmode
    mrflipmode Posts: 64 Member
    Hi Berry
    Don't worry too much about it.
    I've come on here to gain weight, ive been trying to eat 600+ extra calories( which is difficult once you're full ), ive been exercising more , taking protein shakes, eating loads of nuts which are high calorie and I've lost weight !
    What's that all about ?
    I think we may have this idea that we are going to get our desired results quicker than expected.
    Just hold on in there and keep it up, hopefully we will see a difference.
    What you're doing won't harm you so carry on and see how you are in 3 weeks or so.

    Good luck
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    veryberrycocoa wrote: »
    Thanks! Just feels a bit like... Ive worked, pretty hard and nothing has happened! I can't see why! B x

    are you due on your period any time soon?
  • Aerosam
    Aerosam Posts: 121 Member
    If your weight isnt budging and youre working really hard then grab a measuring tape and measure your vital statistics (tummy, thighs, chest, whatever you like) as you may find you are changing shape!
  • TravisJHunt
    TravisJHunt Posts: 533 Member
    I wouldn't put too much stock into the scale after just one week. If you've increased lets say your water intake, you might be retaining a bit more which could offset a loss. Even the temperature can cause us to hold or lose weight. So don't stress, now if 4 weeks from now nothing has changed, then you could maybe review somethings.
  • veryberrycocoa
    veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
    Thanks everybody for all of the very kind comments ! I will review again in another week or two and see what's going on then! Thanks x
  • stvrod7
    stvrod7 Posts: 6 Member
    Add me if you want
  • 25lbsorbust
    25lbsorbust Posts: 225 Member
    Don't worry about not losing for one week! But if it continues, make sure you're weighing and counting every bite you put in your mouth (yes, testing the dinner you're cooking counts..) and you'll be good to go. :smile: If you don't have one already, food scales at walmart are like $10 or less and pretty reliable.
  • fizzletto
    fizzletto Posts: 252 Member
    Sometimes when you do really well for a week, it actually takes another week or two to actually see the results.
    It works the other way round too.
    Sometimes I have a really bad week, and the scales still say I weigh the same. Then the next week after I've been eating normally, I gain a couple of pounds. It's like there's a delay.

    Really, don't worry at all. I would bet my hat that after the next couple of weeks you will start seeing some changes.

    If you aren't doing it already, I would HIGHLY recommend not just keeping track of your weight, but also your measurements (chest, waist, hips at least). Sometimes the scale won't budge because of water retention or whatever, but you will measure and realise you've actually gotten smaller.

    Please feel free to add me as a friend if you want! I lost 35lbs a few years ago, but have gained it all back since then, so I'm off on Round 2. Could use more friends :)
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,171 Member
    Weight fluctuates a lot. Women especially can have lots of ups and downs because of their menstrual cycle. If it is almost time for your period, or if you are ovulating then there is a good chance that you are retaining a little water and that could mask any weight loss. Plus if you have recently started new exercises then your muscles will retain some water too. Give it a little more time and you will start to see the weight coming off. If you are not using a food scale then it is a good investment. That way you will know that you are actually eating the amount you think you are. Your profile pictures doesn't look like you have a lot to lose, so you will have a small deficit and there isn't much room for logging errors. Don't give up though. You will never take the weight off if you do, but if you keep at it it will come off.
  • saintshoc
    saintshoc Posts: 29 Member
    Weighing yourself once a week at the same time and day is better as weight will fluctuate and it does take a while to get your body to adjust to the new regime and then you should see your weight start to move. Best of luck.
  • Wizeman22
    Wizeman22 Posts: 552 Member
    Add me so we all can take this journey together.
  • veryberrycocoa
    veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
    Hi guys. An update. Just weighed. I've put ON 1lb from last week. I did have friends over for drinks Monday but I've rinsed the gym since.
    Yesterday I drank bellyfuls of water.

    My diary is available to look at. Any advice? Coz 2.4lb is 18 days just shouldn't be happening.

    I am willing to just throw in the towel at this rate! Advice welcome! X
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    That's just under 3lbs in just under 3 weeks... not seeing the problem personally. How much do you have to lose all together?
  • veryberrycocoa
    veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    That's just under 3lbs in just under 3 weeks... not seeing the problem personally. How much do you have to lose all together?

    About 25/28lb.
    I feel as though it's a big lifestyle change for me and the gym is killer and 2lb isn't much for the first three weeks at all.

    I feel like I'm not even getting started here! X
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    veryberrycocoa wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    That's just under 3lbs in just under 3 weeks... not seeing the problem personally. How much do you have to lose all together?

    About 25/28lb.
    I feel as though it's a big lifestyle change for me and the gym is killer and 2lb isn't much for the first three weeks at all.

    I feel like I'm not even getting started here! X

    you're not on biggest loser, your rate of loss is ok.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I weigh myself every day and weight fluctuates violently sometimes depending on various factors like sodium rich meals, exercise, size of meals and hormones. The last peak you see in the chart is actually a 3.5 pound gain overnight.

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    Having only 25 lb to lose, your rate of weight loss will naturally fall between 0.5 and 1 pounds a week, which can very easily be masked by any water weight fluctuation.
  • DarthSpence
    DarthSpence Posts: 79 Member
    Hey, if you work out everyday and eat well check it in a month you may have a little surprise, but it is all about how much your body uses its calories eg you may have a intake of 1600 calories exercise burns I dunno 300, but your body might already be putting on 1000 calories so you won't see a massive change, everyone is different but if your exercising it's a step in the right direction :)
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    DarthSpence wrote: »
    Hey, if you work out everyday and eat well check it in a month you may have a little surprise, but it is all about how much your body uses its calories eg you may have a intake of 1600 calories exercise burns I dunno 300, but your body might already be putting on 1000 calories so you won't see a massive change, everyone is different but if your exercising it's a step in the right direction :)

    i have no idea what any of that means?
  • veryberrycocoa
    veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
    amusedmonkey wrote: »
    I weigh myself every day and weight fluctuates violently sometimes depending on various factors like sodium rich meals, exercise, size of meals and hormones. The last peak you see in the chart is actually a 3.5 pound gain overnight.

    qz98rcn0xf97.png


    Having only 25 lb to lose, your rate of weight loss will naturally fall between 0.5 and 1 pounds a week, which can very easily be masked by any water weight fluctuation.

    This is insanely helpful- thank you so much for sharing this. Thank you! 3.5 overnight would have been one heck of a feast :P x
  • veryberrycocoa
    veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
    Thanks everyone, sorry I think I just got a bit paranoid. I wanted to know I was on the right track and just felt like nothing had even got going. But maybe I'm being too impatient. x
  • jlkrantz
    jlkrantz Posts: 2 Member
    I think you're putting WAY too much pressure on yourself. You shouldn't be weighing yourself everyday because that number isn't realistic. Try weighing yourself once a week on the same day and time every week AND definitely measure yourself weekly because you are probably losing inches in your waist that you don't even notice since you're so transfixed on that number on the scale.

    Focus on non-scale victories as well, such as, are your clothes fitting looser?

    Stick with it. You've got this!
  • veryberrycocoa
    veryberrycocoa Posts: 10 Member
    jlkrantz wrote: »
    I think you're putting WAY too much pressure on yourself. You shouldn't be weighing yourself everyday because that number isn't realistic. Try weighing yourself once a week on the same day and time every week AND definitely measure yourself weekly because you are probably losing inches in your waist that you don't even notice since you're so transfixed on that number on the scale.

    Focus on non-scale victories as well, such as, are your clothes fitting looser?

    Stick with it. You've got this!

    Well if I'm honest I haven't really noticed a change in clothes yet... I'm still plugging away though. I am overweight for my height, lots of people saying 28lbs isn't a lot, but its enough to get me down to a healthy BMI.

    I have been overweight for years and i finally decided to do something about it and haven't really had any result for almost three weeks of work but i know a lot of people are saying it's fluctuation etc.

    So I think I'm just frustrated for now, I've finally got my butt in gear but alas my butt is still big ha xx
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    Okay just to give you some perspective, when I started on here it took me a year to lose 20 pounds.

    There were literally weeks when I didn't see any movement on the scale, and then overnight 2 pounds would drop off.

    You just have to keep doing it and trust the process, even if you don't see the scale moving. Keep doing it.
  • mrflipmode
    mrflipmode Posts: 64 Member
    Hi again, it works both ways, isn't it annoying !
    I've been eating over 3000 calories per day for the last 3 weeks and cannot put an ounce on.
    Do me a favour and smash my weigh scales, i keep checking, too often !
    Hang in there anyway, im sure there's 1000s who would be jealous of your achievements up to now

    Have a nice weekend
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    veryberrycocoa wrote: »
    jlkrantz wrote: »
    I think you're putting WAY too much pressure on yourself. You shouldn't be weighing yourself everyday because that number isn't realistic. Try weighing yourself once a week on the same day and time every week AND definitely measure yourself weekly because you are probably losing inches in your waist that you don't even notice since you're so transfixed on that number on the scale.

    Focus on non-scale victories as well, such as, are your clothes fitting looser?

    Stick with it. You've got this!

    Well if I'm honest I haven't really noticed a change in clothes yet... I'm still plugging away though. I am overweight for my height, lots of people saying 28lbs isn't a lot, but its enough to get me down to a healthy BMI.

    I have been overweight for years and i finally decided to do something about it and haven't really had any result for almost three weeks of work but i know a lot of people are saying it's fluctuation etc.

    So I think I'm just frustrated for now, I've finally got my butt in gear but alas my butt is still big ha xx

    People are saying this because the less you have to lose the slower and harder the loss becomes. It's just to give you perspective on what to expect. It's not meant in any way to make you feel like your goals aren't as important as others'.

    For comparison: when I needed to lose 150 lb, I used to lose 3 pounds a week. Now that I'm more than halfway there, the rate of my weight loss has slowed down to about 1-1.5 pounds a week. In the future when I start getting closer to my normal weight I expect to start losing as slow as 0.3-0.5 pounds a week, with lots of weeks showing no loss at all. I have reasonable expectations for when I get to that point. I expect to have to wait for weeks before seeing change on the scale.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Ahhh its only been a week since you buckled down. Give this another 2 weeks and I bet you will start trending down. I know its frustrating. I had 20 to loose and I can't tell you how long it took me to get this right.

    Being female puts another huge factor into the equation and I had to use that scale for it was worth and that was trending my weight weekly to iron out all the water weight fluctuation. I saw my scale as evil as it wanted to laugh at me constantly. If you change exercise (volume or intensity) its gonna show on the scale, as well as sodium, hydration or lack there of, carb intake, muscle repair, and those glorious couple of times a month we swell like whales during our monthly cycle..

    Do not see the scale as your evil, use it to trend weight. It will help you make peace with all of this and actually see you are or will be loosing fat now that you are buckled down! Maybe look into a weight trending app (Happy Scale, weightgrapher, etc..)
  • strebor337
    strebor337 Posts: 168 Member
    edited August 2016
    I would add that your challenge isn't too lose weight, it's to change the way you live. If you don't do that the weight will just come back, and it doesn't happen in a day, a week, or sometimes even in a month. Pay attention not just to what the scale tells you, but to what your body is telling you and how you feel. Do you feel healthier? I would recommend having a fitness journal that you write down why you're starting this journey and how you feel about yourself. Go back and read it every few months so you can gage your progress from when you started. Be confident. You got this!

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