Not losing any weight
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bluebell90
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I got married last year and put on 30 pounds in five months post marriage due to eating excessive junk food and no exercise. I finally woke up and joined a gym. I started exercising 4 times a week - cardio twice a week and lifting weights twice a week. I have also cut down on my sugar and salt intake, eat more healthily and cut down junk and eat out maybe twice a week on the weekends only. I try to eat less during the day if I know I'm going to eat out at night. I also drink two liters of water daily. Six weeks in and I have lost only three pounds. I had followed the same routine pre marriage and lost a lot of weight in the first month but now the scale is not budging. I also measured myself and have not lost any inches. I am so frustrated! Any advice will be helpful.
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Maybe you should check your thyroid. My cousin was trying to lose weight and was having a hard time because of her thyroid.13
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You didn't mention calories, and that is the only thing that matters.
1. Get a food scale and use it for all solids and semi-solids, even scanned foods, fruit, etc.
2. Double check the entries you are using in the database, many are user entered and wrong.
3. Check in with yourself to make sure you are logging everything and hitting your calorie goal.
4. Exercise burns can sometimes be exaggerated. So you might want to try only eating back half if you are currently eating all of them.
With 30 lbs to lose, you should really only be expecting to lose 1 lb per week. You've been losing half-a-lb which is slower but not nothing! I'd bet if you tighten up your logging you'll see that 1 lb per week soon. Good luck!27 -
Three lbs in 6 weeks is good 0.5 lbs a week. If you want to do better log using weights I bet you are eating more than you think4
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Don't forget that if you exercise more and eat less that you'll temporarily seem to gain weight as the lighter fat is replaced by heavier muscles. Keep exercising, eat sensibly and be patient with yourself.18
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Thanks for all your replies. It just gets so frustrating that I almost want to give up. The weight always drops a lot in the beginning months and I shudder to think if it's so slow in the beginning, how would it be later
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I echo everyone else. 1/2 pound a week is good and slower is better anyway.....4
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What is your calorie goal? If you don't have one, that's where I would start. Eating healthy doesn't result in weight loss unless it also puts you at a deficit.7
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"Healthy" food can still be full of lots of calories, so just eating supposed healthier foods doesn't mean you are eating less calories. If you aren't, you need to really start logging your food. Use a food scale and remember to weigh everything, even prepackaged food. It's all about calories in/vs calories out.2
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Weight loss is slower now than it has to be because you aren't logging correctly. But it will stop completely if you give up. If you can't handle slow, steady, healthy weight loss, how will you handle maintenance?carrie2727 wrote: »Thanks for all your replies. It just gets so frustrating that I almost want to give up. The weight always drops a lot in the beginning months and I shudder to think if it's so slow in the beginning, how would it be later7 -
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Are you sure you aren't pregnant? Just trying to think of all the possibilities since you just got married 6 months ago.
Also, with the eating out it is hard to estimate the calories. Can you cut down to eating out once or skip it entirely? Unless it is a chain that publishes its calories there is no way to know how much you are eating in terms of calories. You could be overeating (for the amount of calories you need to lose weight) by 500 calories or more each time. Are you have drinks when you go out to eat? That has to be factored into the calorie count too.11 -
You didn't mention calories, and that is the only thing that matters.
1. Get a food scale and use it for all solids and semi-solids, even scanned foods, fruit, etc.
2. Double check the entries you are using in the database, many are user entered and wrong.
3. Check in with yourself to make sure you are logging everything and hitting your calorie goal.
4. Exercise burns can sometimes be exaggerated. So you might want to try only eating back half if you are currently eating all of them.
With 30 lbs to lose, you should really only be expecting to lose 1 lb per week. You've been losing half-a-lb which is slower but not nothing! I'd bet if you tighten up your logging you'll see that 1 lb per week soon. Good luck!
This. Best advice you will receive on this thread. You mentioned nothing about cals/food weighing/logging. Excercise matters not if you aren't properly doing the foregoing.
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Thanks to you all for your advice ! I am definitely not pregnant. I will look more closely at what I'm eating and weigh it since I do have a food scale. I think I need to reduce eating out as I think I'm having too many calories that time. Unfortunately it's the Labor Day weekend and we have guests over at our place who want to go out and explore and of course eat and drink! Eeks!2
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carrie2727 wrote: »Thanks to you all for your advice ! I am definitely not pregnant. I will look more closely at what I'm eating and weigh it since I do have a food scale. I think I need to reduce eating out as I think I'm having too many calories that time. Unfortunately it's the Labor Day weekend and we have guests over at our place who want to go out and explore and of course eat and drink! Eeks!
So just do the best you can this weekend, enjoy yourself, and buckle down on Tuesday with the food scale
. If I have several days like that, I try to limit the alcohol and sweets more than anything else, as they obviously don't fill me up. Mind you I didn't say I don't have any, but that's where I watch myself so I don't go overboard. Good luck! 1 -
Pls check with a doctor and if everything is okay pls checkout fasting esp intermittent fasting. Stay positive!0
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carrie2727 wrote: »Thanks to you all for your advice ! I am definitely not pregnant. I will look more closely at what I'm eating and weigh it since I do have a food scale. I think I need to reduce eating out as I think I'm having too many calories that time. Unfortunately it's the Labor Day weekend and we have guests over at our place who want to go out and explore and of course eat and drink! Eeks!
Once you get started after the weekend log your calories. How can you know how much to eat to lose weight, if you don't know how much you're actually eating? Eyeballing portions and guesstimates are extremely inaccurate. Use the mfp goal setter and it will tell you how many calories you should be eating to lose a pound a week. If, after a month of eating the correct amount of calories, you aren't losing as expected, you are probably overestimating your calorie burn. Mfp overestimates it.
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Have you measured yourself? I have not been losing much weight for the last 3 weeks. My trainer asked me to measure my stats cuz I was looking thinner. I had lost inches!!1
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If your are trying to sound scientific and wise, it it best to not curse, use proper grammer and spell correctly.3
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