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Weight loss struggle

mindylspangler
mindylspangler Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi...I started working out a month ago...5 days per week (45 minutes per day) in addition to keeping track of daily calories. I've been averaging about a 500 calorie deficit per day. I have been careful not to eat fried foods, sweets, etc. One month later, I'm 3 lbs heavier than when I started, and barely lost half a size. I'm so frustrated because I've been working so hard to burn all this fat I'm carrying around, but I'm not making as much progress as I had hoped. I understand that weight loss (like weight gain) doesn't happen overnight, but I feel like I should have been able to gone down at least one size. What am I doing wrong?

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  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    What's your starting weight?
  • s3491d
    s3491d Posts: 10 Member
    What type of workouts?
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    How often are you weighing? Weight loss isn't linear and water weight fluctuations could account for some of the variation.

    This chart has some good advice:

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  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    How are you calculating your workout burn? Are you weighing your food?
  • pamfgil
    pamfgil Posts: 449 Member
    If you're heavier and lost some size the scale isn't telling you the full story, keep track of your measurements
  • lemonychild
    lemonychild Posts: 654 Member
    Keep at it, it will come off
  • sbaelk1930
    sbaelk1930 Posts: 3 Member
    Muscle weighs more than fat so if you can tell by your clothes that your smaller don't get discouraged.
  • BrookeRunningMom
    BrookeRunningMom Posts: 156 Member
    A month isnt a very long time, hang in there, quick way i lost weight was jogging 20-25 7days a week and scale is still going down and i eat about 1500 cals. I could only run 4-5 mins when i started lol good luck
  • fbchick51
    fbchick51 Posts: 240 Member
    mindylspangler wrote: »
    I understand that weight loss (like weight gain) doesn't happen overnight, but I feel like I should have been able to gone down at least one size. What am I doing wrong?

    Probably not much. In one month.. I lost 4lbs, lost 1.5 inches off my waist, an inch off my hips.. and still the same size just not as tight. After two months.. I lost a total of 9lbs, 2 inches off my waist, 1 inch off my hips and still the same size. Now after 3 months.. I've lost 13lbs and I'm finally seeing clothes that I own that are getting too big, and can fit into the next size down, but still find them a bit too tight to wear comfortably.

    So three months of steady weightloss and still haven't shrunk a full size yet.



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