ARGH!! .... I guess it might be time to step off the scales?
l4ur4j4d4
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So I started my journey at 11st ( 154lbs) and my goal was to get down to 10st (140lbs)
I’ve been going to the gym atleast 4 times a week, mostly doing spin classes, I also do PT once a week where we do weights.
I dropped to 145lbs rather quickly and now my weight keeps going up and down by a couple of pounds. I’m doing everything right, on average eating 1,200 cals a day, with a cheat day once a week....
Im just finding it odd because I’m looking slimmer, feeling better in clothes, I know I’m gonna fluctuate but Is it time to ditch the scales now? Or will it eventually come off? Am I now gaining muscle where I won’t ever get to my goal weight?
Feeling motivated when I look in the mirror and can physically see myself looking better but I get on the scales and i can’t understand when my weight has gone up. ARGH!!!
I’ve been going to the gym atleast 4 times a week, mostly doing spin classes, I also do PT once a week where we do weights.
I dropped to 145lbs rather quickly and now my weight keeps going up and down by a couple of pounds. I’m doing everything right, on average eating 1,200 cals a day, with a cheat day once a week....
Im just finding it odd because I’m looking slimmer, feeling better in clothes, I know I’m gonna fluctuate but Is it time to ditch the scales now? Or will it eventually come off? Am I now gaining muscle where I won’t ever get to my goal weight?
Feeling motivated when I look in the mirror and can physically see myself looking better but I get on the scales and i can’t understand when my weight has gone up. ARGH!!!
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Yes weight will always fluctuate, but if you maintain a deficit then you will still lose over time.
Given you are close to goal you should reduce your deficit, and then you just need to stay consistent.2 -
So I started my journey at 11st ( 154lbs) and my goal was to get down to 10st (140lbs)
I’ve been going to the gym atleast 4 times a week, mostly doing spin classes, I also do PT once a week where we do weights.
I dropped to 145lbs rather quickly and now my weight keeps going up and down by a couple of pounds. I’m doing everything right, on average eating 1,200 cals a day, with a cheat day once a week....
Im just finding it odd because I’m looking slimmer, feeling better in clothes, I know I’m gonna fluctuate but Is it time to ditch the scales now? Or will it eventually come off? Am I now gaining muscle where I won’t ever get to my goal weight?
Feeling motivated when I look in the mirror and can physically see myself looking better but I get on the scales and i can’t understand when my weight has gone up. ARGH!!!
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So you’re saying no cheat day!? Jesus Christ... I don’t know about that...2
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How many calories in your “cheat day”?1
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Probably about 2,000 .... I’m so good in the week though! Shall I cut out carbs?3
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As long as you stay in a deficit you will lose..CICO. As someone else mentioned as you near towards your goal you can reduce the deficit..and stay consistent. I used to look at my calories over a week range and not daily. I may have gone over one day..but under another and it still averages out to my needed deficit..hence weight-loss continued..it did fluctuate but I stayed the course and it came off.2
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So you’re saying no cheat day!? Jesus Christ... I don’t know about that...
Do you want to lose the weight?
You'd be better off creating a moderate deficit -- AKA, not restricting down to 1200, unless you're talking 1200 net -- and working in those foods that you want in moderation. And then sticking to that moderate deficit.3 -
Probably about 2,000 .... I’m so good in the week though! Shall I cut out carbs?
Carbs are fine, and it’s fine to have a day where you don’t eat at deficit, but if you’re not losing, you should definitely look at dialing that day back some. If you eat at maintenance one or two days a week you’ll slow your loss but not stop it, but if you eat over maintenance it’s possible you are wiping out your weekly deficit. You said “probably” 2000 calories on those days - are you weighing your food every day, including the cheat, and logging everything? It’s hard to lose when you’re close to your goal, so if you haven’t been diligent with your portions, now may be the time. Good luck!3 -
I don’t always log, especially if I’m having a bad day. But yeah I probably need to cut the *kitten* day out, or just still log and tone it down haha.
I only started my weight loss at the beginning of the year, so it hasn’t been long. I just thought I’d be easy to lose a stone in 2 months, need to be more patient I guess...2 -
My weight has had up to 10 pound fluctuations within a week the last two months. These always occur after "cheat days" where I forget about logging for a couple of days. I think it is my body's reaction to higher sodium levels and less water because it keeps coming down when I start logging and staying at a 1200 cal net. I bet if you stop having cheat days, then your weight will continue to go down.2
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I don’t always log, especially if I’m having a bad day. But yeah I probably need to cut the *kitten* day out, or just still log and tone it down haha.
I only started my weight loss at the beginning of the year, so it hasn’t been long. I just thought I’d be easy to lose a stone in 2 months, need to be more patient I guess...
If you log every day, you will learn where the problem is. Then you can adjust.
Close to goal, loss should be slow - that's the healthiest track - and little things make a bigger difference. With better logging, you'll have less guessing, floundering, arbitrary (maybe counterproductive) changes.7 -
I don’t always log, especially if I’m having a bad day. But yeah I probably need to cut the *kitten* day out, or just still log and tone it down haha.
I only started my weight loss at the beginning of the year, so it hasn’t been long. I just thought I’d be easy to lose a stone in 2 months, need to be more patient I guess...
If you log every day, you will learn where the problem is. Then you can adjust.
Close to goal, loss should be slow - that's the healthiest track - and little things make a bigger difference. With better logging, you'll have less guessing, floundering, arbitrary (maybe counterproductive) changes.
Log your cheat day. It will be illuminating. Trust me.
Log. Every. Thing.
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Log the cheat day and log every day next week very carefully. You may find that with careful logging and taking a look at your cheat day, you are eating only slightly less than maintenance. From there you have two choices, you can stick to 1200 and clean up the cheat day a bit. Or you can distribute the calories evenly across the week, which might help you more with adherence...so you may be eating something more like 1500 calories per day, with no cheat day.
Just do a nice solid week or two of logging and review your data.
Also, when you're relatively lean, sometimes it just stakes a long time. You lost a lot a first and weight loss inst' linear so who knows...maybe the scale will drop after your period or something.8 -
Thank you everyone, appreciate the advice!0
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I don’t always log, especially if I’m having a bad day. But yeah I probably need to cut the *kitten* day out, or just still log and tone it down haha.
I only started my weight loss at the beginning of the year, so it hasn’t been long. I just thought I’d be easy to lose a stone in 2 months, need to be more patient I guess...
How often in a week do you not log?1 -
You’ll get there. I have weeks I’m on point, exercise daily, low on calories, and gain 4, then the next week take in more calories, and lose 2.
Slow and steady, and your body is morphing. If you take measurements you’ll see the progress.0 -
Just once a week... either a Saturday because the evening I’ll go out and have dinner and then go and have a tone of alcohol, which is hard to log when you wake up and can’t remember how much you’ve had. Or it’ll be a Sunday, where I’ve ate so much I’m too scared to log it hahaha.
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Just once a week... either a Saturday because the evening I’ll go out and have dinner and then go and have a tone of alcohol, which is hard to log when you wake up and can’t remember how much you’ve had. Or it’ll be a Sunday, where I’ve ate so much I’m too scared to log it hahaha.
And this is why you're not losing weight...6 -
What so I gotta have no social life to lose weight? Brilliant, may aswell give up now3
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You said it early on, "my clothes fit better, I look better, but the scale is not moving down", you are gaining muscle, losing fat, muscle weighs more then fat. As long as your body keeps changing for the better and you feel better, ignore the scale for awhile.3
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