Not losing
Bran_mob08
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I've been hardcore working out for a month now. Burning 600-1000 workout calories a day. The scale has not budged AT ALL. What's going on? I feel like I'm eating decent. Drinking lots of water and doing my workouts. I'm becoming discouraged.
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"eating decent" doesn't mean anything. are you weighing your food and eating at a calorie deficit?13
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Do you log your food? Do you use a food scale to weigh everything you eat? It's one thing to feel like you eat decent and it's another thing to actually be eating in a deficit.6
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Another vote for a food scale! Weigh and log EVERYTHING to get an idea of how many calories you are truly eating.
Watch this video, OP.
https://youtu.be/XpHykP6e_Uk 7 -
You cannot out run your diet. You need to know how many calories you are taking in. Also, how do you know you are burning 600-1000 calories a workout?5
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Focus more on the calories going in then the calories going out.4
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"Eating decent" doesn't mean anything in the context of how much you're eating vs. how much you're burning. Are you logging how much you're eating accurately? How do you know you're burning that many calories?
The most accurate assessment of why you're not losing weight is your scale. If you're not losing weight, you're eating as much as you burn. To create a calorie deficit, you need to eat less.
To correct your problem, accurately assess your intake (use a food scale and verify data base entries) and don't rely on gym machines to tell you how many calories you're burning in your workouts. Try eating back only a portion of your exercise calories.6 -
I use a heart rate monitor for track calories burned.
I log my food and everyday have been at a 500 or more deficit.
I do weight my food as well.
I wasn't sure if maybe my body is holding onto water or gaining muscle.
I've been doing this for a month and although I've seen inch loss in pictures I haven't seen weight loss at all.0 -
you haven't gained sizable muscle mass in a month eating at a deficit, I can promise you that!4
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Can you open up your diary? Also what exercises are you doing that your HRM is giving those high readings?2
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How many calories are you eating each day? If you're leaving 500 + calories as a deficit, is that including your exercise calories? Are you eating those back?1
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Bran_mob08 wrote: »I use a heart rate monitor for track calories burned.
I log my food and everyday have been at a 500 or more deficit.
I do weight my food as well.
I wasn't sure if maybe my body is holding onto water or gaining muscle.
I've been doing this for a month and although I've seen inch loss in pictures I haven't seen weight loss at all.
Are you verifying data base entries? Can you open your food diary? Experienced users might be able to spot something that might be throwing you off.
In regards to your heart rate monitor, what sorts of exercises are you doing when you log from it? They really are only good for steady state cardio, and even then, they tend to slightly over-estimate the burn from it.0 -
I do yoga (I don't even count those calories burned)
Orange theory which is 60 mins of cardio and strength. I tend to turn around 550 during class
Boxing 3 times a week and burn also around 5-600.
I have only eaten SOME of my exercise calories back.
I try to eat around 1400-1500 calories
I'll set my diary public.0 -
I'm confused. in another post you said your a fast food junky and eat it every day so how can you be "weighing everything". Time to learn to cook and have take out significantly less until you get a handle on what a calorie "looks like"5
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Your exercise calories are already included in your daily calorie number. Do not eat back your exercise calories0
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queenbea77 wrote: »Your exercise calories are already included in your daily calorie number. Do not eat back your exercise calories
This is incorrect if you're using the calorie amount from MFP. MFP uses the NEAT method, and therefore is designed to eat your exercise calories back. They are not included in the base amount.3 -
Heart rate monitors are a terrible method for estimating calories burned.1
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@queenbea77queenbea77 wrote: »Your exercise calories are already included in your daily calorie number. Do not eat back your exercise calories
Not true - they are specifically excluded on this site.
Your activity setting covers your daily routine, job, lifestyle etc. only.
I would wither away to nothing if I didn't account for my exercise.3 -
1. Log Everything before you eat it
2. Use scale whenever possible
3. Eat what mfp tells you for calories
4. Eat back no more then half exercise calories
5. Water weight can cause fluxes watch trends not data points
Success will come if you do above0 -
I've been hardcore working out for a month now - feeling sore, fatigued, tired? Possible inflammation and water retention from the new exercise routine.
Burning 600-1000 workout calories a day. Probably not.
I use a heart rate monitor for track calories burned. Can be awful for estimating calories, especially for unsuitable exercise such as interval training or weights.
Orange theory which is 60 mins of cardio and strength. I tend to turn around 550 during class. Very much doubt that. OTF dreadfully exaggerate their claims. Using a HRM to get an estimate would be inappropriate too.
I do yoga (I don't even count those calories burned). Sensible/pragmatic. Not going to be significant.
I have only eaten SOME of my exercise calories back. Sensible in the light of what appear to be high estimates.
The scale has not budged AT ALL. What's going on? Water retention maybe or changes masked by your normal fluctuations - a month isn't long at all. Especially for a woman.
I feel like I'm eating decent. You can eat decent and gain, maintain or lose weight.....
Drinking lots of water. Irrelevant for weight loss.
Doing my workouts. Good, well done you, your fitness and health will be improving and that's what exercise is about. Far less relevant to weight loss than your diet anyway.
I'm becoming discouraged. Please don't be, settle in for the long haul. A month is nothing in terms of the rest of your life.
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Can somebody please expalin this calorie defecit???0
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daisyduke40 wrote: »Can somebody please expalin this calorie defecit???
It means consuming less, calories than you naturally burn to; lose weight!0 -
The scale has not budged AT ALL. What's going on? Water retention maybe or changes masked by your normal fluctuations - a month isn't long at all. Especially for a woman.
Eeh. I'm going to disagree a bit. A month is long enough for most women to go through all the different phases of their cycle. So week-to-week there should be fluctuations, but over the course of a month you should be able to see SOME sort of trend.
What I'm wondering about is the number of data entry points. If OP is weighing daily and the trend is maintenance, at a month out, chances are pretty good they've been eating/exercising at maintenance. However, if OP weighed a month ago and then weighed again yesterday and got the same number both times, yeah, that could totally be coincidence.0 -
I'm confused. in another post you said your a fast food junky and eat it every day so how can you be "weighing everything". Time to learn to cook and have take out significantly less until you get a handle on what a calorie "looks like"
I was thinking this too....your other post says you eat almost all your meals out and at fast food restaurants....that is very different than what you have posted here??0
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