Why aren’t I loosing weight

Pju11 · April 2020

Help!
I been really good for over 3 weeks, eating and walking miles and I haven’t lost a lb. I don’t normally weight myself because I just by clothes but felt good this morning. Feeling really fed up today.

tinkerbellang83 · April 2020

What do you mean by really good?

Are you logging your food accurately (weighing) as opposed to guessing portion sizes, have you had any "cheat" days during those 3 weeks where you might have offset your calorie deficit - it's easy to eat more than you think you are.

Have you only weighed yourself the once? Weight isn't linear and it certainly can take a lot more than 3 weeks to see some progress, many things can have an impact on weight, which have nothing to do with fat loss/gain:

hormones
stress
new or increased exercise
medication
alcohol intake
sodium intake
carb intake

Lietchi · April 2020

If you don't weigh yourself regularly, you really have no basis for saying you aren't losing weight

What exactly do you weigh now, and how much did you weigh last time you weighed?
And what are your clothes saying, looser or not?

The first condition of losing weight (fat) is being in a calorie deficit:
Have you been logging and weighing all your food, sticking to your calorie goal in MFP?
What weight loss rate did you choose, and what activity level?

Even if you have been at a calorie deficit, other things might explain the number on the scale, water weight for example.
With the lockdown, I've increased my step count considerably. Leading to some quite significant spikes in my weight due to water retention, on top of which I had my period. And now I've lost 3.5 lbs in a week, undoubtedly water retention clearing out (my weight loss is set at 0.5lbs per week).

earlandrew48 · April 2020

Hi Pju 11.
2 things. If you're just walking, then do more. I've honestly found that walking is almost useless. We walk miles a day just by nature. Your heart rate needs to go up, and you need to sweat a little. Definitely jog to fatigue, changing speeds here and there.
Number 2, and most of all....have patience. 3 weeks is nothing. the body has a lot of changes to make. You'll find a month and a half in, you'll hop on the scale to find you've lost 4 pounds. You'll then find yourself losing 2 pounds a week if you stay with it. You will succeed if you continue to focus. You can do it.

AnnPT77 · April 2020

Pju11 wrote: »

Help!
I been really good for over 3 weeks, eating and walking miles and I haven’t lost a lb. I don’t normally weight myself because I just by clothes but felt good this morning. Feeling really fed up today.

"Good" (by most common dieter definitions) is optional. Exercise is optional (but walking is fine, despite what some may say . . . sweat and fatigue is fun, but definitely optional for weight loss

). What is necessary is that you eat fewer calories than you burn via not only exercise, but also daily life, and even the energy it requires to keep bri

I suspect you're both female and premenopausal. Even if you've lost fat in over 3 weeks, water weight fluctuations are entirely capable of hiding it on the scale for 3 weeks. Newly higher amounts of exercise (including walking) can increase water weight, too Since fat is what we care about, the water fluctuation is not worth worrying about, but it does make things confusing for a while.

If you are a premenopausal female, you need to be at minimum comparing your weight on the same day of two different menstrual cycles. Anyone and everyone should expect to wait 4-6 weeks to get a sound estimate of average weekly fat loss.

While you're waiting, this would be a good read:

https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

Since water weight goes up and down, you may get a better idea of your weight loss along the way by weighing yourself more regularly (daily, even) unless you find those ups and downs too stressful. A free weight trending app might help with that. (Happy Scale for iOS, Libra for Android, Trendweight with a free Fitbit account (you don't need a device), Weightgrapher, others.)

Best wishes!

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