Frustrated

jackimartin1973
jackimartin1973 Posts: 10 Member
in Motivation and Support
I am in week 2 of this diet and working out. I am doing the couch to 5 k workouts and walking on off days. I am putting in the commitment but this body apparently doesn’t want to cooperate. I dropped 4 lbs on week one only to gain 3 of it back. I feel better and proud of my excercise but I was hoping to see the scale go in the other direction. With all the excercise, I am still leaving abt 500 calories on the table. I am eating around 1200 calories a day. Any guidance?

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  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    More patience is needed. Those big swings in weight are water fluctuations. Exercise, salt, TOM all have an effect. I weigh daily and have a weight trending app that smooths it all out. Maybe consider something like that.
  • AmberGlitterSparkles
    AmberGlitterSparkles Posts: 699 Member
    jackimartin1973 wrote: »
    Thanks for that. Maybe just need to stop weighing myself. It’s depressing.
    This is exactly right. I get so obsessed with the scale. Sometimes it’s really hard for me to not hop on a couple times a day. Even then, within the same day, I’ll see huge fluctuations. One of the best pieces of advice I received was to only weigh myself once a week, the same day every week. This helps me keep some of my sanity. And I look forward to my weigh ins.
  • CowboySar
    CowboySar Posts: 404 Member
    Patience and Persistence is key. Weight loss is not linear, it will come
  • cygarza80
    cygarza80 Posts: 14 Member
    Hello everyone. I have been frustrated as well. When I saw my number on my scale, I was upset and depressed I said "f*** it!" I was feeling the inner self saying "you can't lose the weight". I've recently learned that you can't beat yourself up for not loosing the weight. Don't let the scale control you. I may rose to 236 lbs, but I refuse to quit this time. You can do this. I hope this helps...
  • mamasara2
    mamasara2 Posts: 194 Member
    I feel ya!!!!! I'm a month in and the only decrease in my numbers was my bust size- dropped an inch. So not cool. The idea of working hard with a pear shaped body as the reward is not enticing. I'm hoping that I've been building muscle while losing a little fat. Muscles are sore. I feel better at my core, but it's still frustrating not dropping lbs on a regular basis.

    I don't see a difference, but hubby says he sees a change.
  • dhiammarath
    dhiammarath Posts: 834 Member
    edited July 2018
    mamasara2 wrote: »
    I feel ya!!!!! I'm a month in and the only decrease in my numbers was my bust size- dropped an inch. So not cool. The idea of working hard with a pear shaped body as the reward is not enticing. I'm hoping that I've been building muscle while losing a little fat. Muscles are sore. I feel better at my core, but it's still frustrating not dropping lbs on a regular basis.

    I don't see a difference, but hubby says he sees a change.

    I see change far slower than anyone else around me (probably because I am standing there staring at myself going, "HAVE YOU CHANGED YET BODY?!"). What I've found is that I see change better in pictures. So I take a lot of pictures over time. I build up this folder that has pictures tagged with the date and my weight at the time. I then make side-by-side collages of 3 or more pictures and usually I can see change.

    If I can't, I'll throw my collage at my bestie and she'll tell me if she sees change. Normally she does. XD

    Over six years, I've built up quite a bucket. A month is hard, but give it time! You'll see change.

    As far as the scale goes, I weigh myself every day (primarily a) because I want to go back in time and tag a picture with my weight, b) it gives me helpful information about my body and c) it lets me predict water fluctuations based on situational data -- Ie, I know that after my birthday I gained a fair amount of water, but I ate so much more sugar than I normally consume, etc, etc). But, even when the number goes up (and no one likes that!), I don't stress it. It's not like I grew out of my pants overnight. I know that number will go back down!

    I use Happy Scale to measure the trend! It's awesome!
  • jackimartin1973
    jackimartin1973 Posts: 10 Member
    I feel ya. Now in week three. Busting my butt, again, NADA. It sucks.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    edited July 2018
    Most likely there you need to fine tune how to track your intake, you could be eating more than you think you are. You mention being in a "diet" but nothing else. Read the sticky posts at the top of each forum. Get a food scale to weigh all your food and log accurately. There are a million posts on here giving instructions and tips how to do that.

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