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Hollisamara
Hollisamara Posts: 106 Member
edited November 18 in Health and Weight Loss
I was losing weight at a good rate of one pound per week through calorie counting alone. Since I started excersing (body pump classes twice a week and also a cardio/toning class once a week) the scales haven't moved. They went down by 4lbs the first week of exercising, then went back up theee pounds the following week. Since then I've been stuck at the same weight. Im logging the same as I did before when I was losing steadily... I have a cheat day once a week where I allow myself chocolate... and I only eat half my exercise calories back.
What am I doing wrong? I feel so frustrated trying to lose all my baby weight. This is my fourth baby and it was so much easier to lose after my other pregnancies :(

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  • KickboxFanatic
    KickboxFanatic Posts: 184 Member
    When starting a new exercise regimen the muscles may hold extra water to help aid in recovery. This water weight should whoosh out once the muscles start getting used to the new exercise. It can take a few weeks for that to happen. So if you are still weighing and measuring all of your food and staying consistent with your deficit, the scale will begin to move again.
  • beanz744
    beanz744 Posts: 221 Member
    edited May 2017
    How r ur clothes fitting? Tighter or looser? Sometimes the scale doesn't tell the whole story. just make sure that u r only, at most, eating back half of the calories MFP says u burned coz they r just an estimate n usually too high

    U r on the right track, GOOD LUCK!
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,129 Member
    The 3lbs you put back on could also be totally unrelated to your exercise and just be normal water weight fluctuations from your menstrual cycle (not just during your period but throughout the cycle). Weight loss isn't linear, this is especially true for women.

    Below is an example of how up & down it can be, I weigh daily and can go up and down by 2-3 kilos overnight:
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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    How longn ago did you start exercising? How are you measuring your calorie intake? Are you logging your cheat days?
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Read the first box on the right side.

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  • Hollisamara
    Hollisamara Posts: 106 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    How longn ago did you start exercising? How are you measuring your calorie intake? Are you logging your cheat days?

    I started exercising about 3 weeks ago.
    I don't log on cheat day but never have and haven't had a problem before I started exercising.
    My calories are measured by weighing and reading from packets.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    jellytot3 wrote: »
    malibu927 wrote: »
    How longn ago did you start exercising? How are you measuring your calorie intake? Are you logging your cheat days?

    I started exercising about 3 weeks ago.
    I don't log on cheat day but never have and haven't had a problem before I started exercising.
    My calories are measured by weighing and reading from packets.

    Cheat day? There's your issue (as well as water retention). Either incorporate the foods you have on cheat day into your normal diet and get rid of cheat day or get rid of cheat day completely (or just leave that to special occasions such as birthday). Weight loss is about calories, not eliminating certain foods. A cheat day can easily erase a weekly deficit.

    Make sure your logging is spot on (using correct entries, using food scale for all foods that are not liquids, logging everything you eat/taste/drink/season/cook with, using cups/spoons for liquids.)
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