What does it take

1959sunshine
1959sunshine Posts: 29 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have been at the same weight for years. About 3 weeks ago I joined a gym (love it) and I go 2 hours a night 6 days a week. My eating has diminished somewhat because I'm not at home "grazing" . I feel great but the scales are not moving. Would normally make me want to give up but I am thoroughly enjoying the gym so I wont but...... Any ideas as to why the scales are not moving?

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  • 1959sunshine
    1959sunshine Posts: 29 Member
    Eating about 1200 and gym is showing burning at least 450. Just depressing.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    1959sunshine wrote: »
    Eating about 1200 and gym is showing burning at least 450. Just depressing.

    How long have you been eating 1,200 calories without losing any weight?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    It takes longer than 3 weeks...
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Weighing and measuring?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Starting a new exercise programme will bring water weight

    But not enough to mask weight loss over time if you were truly eating 1200

    So start logging properly
  • Mentali
    Mentali Posts: 352 Member
    You weren't judging how many calories you ate accurately, because you used the measurements "somewhat less" and "I wasn't eating at X time so I was eating less". How do you know you weren't making up the calories by eating an unnoticed larger portion of other meals? It's very easy to have hundreds of calories difference in just an extra spoonful or two of lots of meals, or an extra burger/taco/whatever.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    If you are new to all this exercise it may take more than 3 weeks to see any weight loss due to water retention and possibly increased muscle.

    Give it another week or two and I'll bet you start to lose steadily.
  • tapwaters
    tapwaters Posts: 428 Member
    Log your food consistently and accurately for at least a month and half to two months. Keep exercising. Logging your food accurately and consistently is the most important thing you can be doing. You're not going to out-exercise a bad diet.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,164 Member
    To lose weight you have to eat at a deficit. Exercise is great for you, but you need to get your eating under control if you want the scales to move.
  • red99ryder
    red99ryder Posts: 399 Member
    Doctor told me you get fit at the gym and loose weight at the dinner table ...also if you eat 1200 and burn 450 .. that 750 per day. I thought lowest was 1200 calores .. or 1 percent body weight ?

    MOST OF ALL DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
    GOOD LUCK
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    I've gone through a few cycles of weight loss and in my experience (different for different people) even with a fairly aggressive weight loss of a pound a week it took about 5 weeks to see the actual weight loss from scale measurements due to my bodies natural weight fluctuations.

    If you have been doing this for 2 months and haven't seen the scale go down then maybe things need to be adjusted, but if its been a matter of weeks you just need to be patient.
  • rhtexasgal
    rhtexasgal Posts: 572 Member
    If you have just started at the gym and have two hour sessions, then you likely are retaining water weight. I have been maintaining for almost 2 years and am in recomp right now and I will tell you that I typically carry 1-3 pounds of water weight consistently because I am weight lifting. However, as long as my clothes still fit comfortably, I don't stress about it. I am more than numbers on a scale.

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