How soon do you typically see weight loss?

chuffman11
chuffman11 Posts: 1 Member
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Week 2 and I love to lift weights once to twice a week. Have 40 lbs to lose. How soon should I start seeing results?

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  • Quasita
    Quasita Posts: 1,530 Member
    Weight loss in itself is typically generated by dietary changes mostly... So if you are doing a dietary cut, you'll likely see 5-10 pounds of water weight loss in the first 2-3 weeks, then it'll meter itself to approximately what your dietary cut is, as long as you are measuring correctly, have no medical conditions you're dealing with, and you maintain the same workout regimen. However, if the only thing you've been doing is adding lifting 1-2 times a week, I'm not sure you can expect to see much change for quite a while. Weight lifting can burn an okay amount of calories depending on what you do, but it's not typically significant enough to generate the kind of burn you need to see even half a pound a week, unless you're lifting for 4-6 hours at a time.
  • duttonsr
    duttonsr Posts: 1 Member
    I read a quote that says "In 2 weeks you'll feel it. In 4 weeks you'll see it. In 8 weeks you'll hear it".
  • manto2112
    manto2112 Posts: 51 Member
    4 weeks later Im starting to see it :smiley:
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited September 2016
    Lifting once to twice a week is not gonna produce much results.. everything depends on your strength training regime, your nutrition and protein in take. You need all three to get results and the results are going be in the form of newbie gains but these will taper off, so the question should be:

    1) Is my lifting program suitable to reach X results which meets the lifting goal you planned
    2) is my calorie deficit to aggressive, more than 2 pounds per week.
    3) is my protein intake adequate to produce/support newbie muscle gainz and then maintain lean tissue while eating a deficit?

    Once you lost the weight, you have been able to gain some min muscle (if all the parameters are set in place), and been able to maintain muscle throughout your weigh loss, if you want further body composition changes you can move to maintenance and recomp, or consider bulk/cut cycles.

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