Not lost a pound in 2 weeks

Jflowwers wrote: »

@TavistockToad I have lost 4 lbs in about 5 weeks

@SusieBanyon I just mean “cheat” in reference to your exotic food question. These were splurge items for me. I have been trying avoid dairy and most starches as I find I get bloated.

I think there may have been a misunderstanding. I'm pretty sure the anecdote about exotic food was to illustrate that sometimes things are labeled incorrectly. Perhaps the better question would be: How are you determining which MFP entry to use when you log your food? Have you double-checked each entry with the USDA database?

But you may be doing a great job with logging, if you've lost 4 lbs in 5 weeks. That's a good rate of loss with 30 lbs. to go.

Try to find something more sustainable.

Sriracha has calories and sodium, certainly in the quantities *I* consume it at.

Weigh and measure food; pick correct entries. A lot of entries are not correct. Verify them by and verify the packaging via USDA standard reference database.

However: weigh yourself daily (lots of data points) and use a weight trend app (<edit> which it sounded as if you were not, though we found out afterwards that you were!).

Compare your current weight to your weight at the same time during your cycle the previous month.

Account for your hormonal weight around your period, for many women that can be 3 and in some cases 5 or even 8 lbs.

You fell. Are you bruised? Any swelling?

Is swelling fat?

There are a lot of non fat reasons to "gain" weight.

There are a lot of non fat reasons why you may not see a loss of weight.

Unless your leave of absence is going to turn into a full year off work where you're going to make your 30 pound weight loss your work for the year.... that strategy is not likely to work out very well for you..

hey none of my business but I would reconsider your strategy and concentrate on living a happy life during which I am also losing some weight by making sustainable changes that I can keep to long-term...

The usual reaction to over restriction is lack of long-term adherence. Frankly because the whole thing becomes too hard.

Ugh. Did you say 5 lb in a few weeks? Expectations....

Also if you've essentially gone low carb you have borrowed an initial excess weight loss that came from glycogen depletion and that will keep coming back every time you replenish your glycogen stores. In other words that excess initial loss was not fat. This can lead to a not uncommon situation where you see a stall or slow down a few weeks later.

Jflowwers wrote: »

@PAV8888 I am using happy scale. I have lost 4 lbs in FIVE weeks, not a few. My weight has changed two pounds during the same time of my last cycle. I have not gone low carb, I keep them on the lower end of my micros. I am just generally avoiding refined sugar, diary and starches.

So you have lost **at least** 0.5lbs a week.

Happy scale can adjust how many days it uses for smoothing so you might see different results by adjusting that.

Look.

You can either continue to stress which at this point has become counterproductive. Or you could chill and realize that the process, putting in place a long-term process that will get you there in a sustainable manner, that process is more important than your daily result.

I can't help you on that mental leap other than to tell you that you would be much happier if you make it.

and that you WILL, actually, get to your end result if you do.

I just came across this on my Instagram scrolling and it seemed relevant here

I think you are more focused on the destination and less focused on the journey. Weight loss happens over time. Our bodies don’t keep a calendar and drop the weight magically in weigh in day. There will be weeks that you don’t lose and perhaps even gain even if you had a good week. You can’t control the scale.

Trust the process and find ways to work foods you enjoy into your calorie budget.

SCoil123 wrote: »

I just came across this on my Instagram scrolling and it seemed relevant here

This is so true. I'm pretty lean and in the morning I still get surprised by some of the definition I see but by the time I'm headed to sleep for the night, the lower part of my stomach does its own thing. If there were a competition for food babies, I'm fairly certain I could place in the top 3 easily.