Getting Fed Up ! No weightloss working out!
thkdiffgirl
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So its been 6 weeks of excercise, watching calories and eating some of excercise calories over weekend ..and not a pound lost. Seems like if I workout my weightloss stalls and if I just diet the scales goes down. I eat clean most of the time about 1400 calories a day. I would go stir crazy if i could not workout ...so what gives . I am pre-menopause stage so not sure if its hormonal. Yes I know I have to wait it out , but this is the longest Ive gone without weightloss while working out. Eg on a weekend I can slow run 6-10miles and workout 4 times during the week with running and weights. I have the arboleaf electronic scales and it says I have about 127 poumds muscle mass. Of course im heavy at 220 pounds, 5’11..and need to lose 50 . Someone else out there have similar frustrations? 😏
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Can you tell us a little bit more about your diet (or make your diary public)? It could be that you're eating more than you think, but it's hard to say without looking at your diary.3
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Also, how are you determining your exercise calories? It's possible that you're over-estimating your exercise too. And when you say you're eating 1400 calories, is that 1400 PLUS exercise calories, or 1400 net?3
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I don't disagree with questions/comments above at all, but also think water weight is fooling you when you start working out. (If you're calorie counting consistently, "if I workout my weightloss stalls and if I just diet the scales goes down" is the classic symptom of that).
If you haven't, start by reading this:
https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations
At 1400 accurately-tracked calories (including accuracy in not over-eating banked exercise calories on the weekends, and accurate exercise estimates), I'd expect you to be losing weight, at your current stats. (I'd also expect you to be seeing quasi-random scale fluctuations from the weekend eat-backs, and the hormone situation doesn't so much affect fat loss per se as make water weight weirdness even weirder.) Clean eating is pretty irrelevant to these specific questions, unless it implies that your sodium/carb intake varies greatly day to day, "clean" days vs. "unclean" ones, which can also cause exaggerated water weight swings.
Fundamentally, some of your choices (though not "wrong" at all) are increasing chances you'll be on a water-weight roller coaster, which doesn't go well if you're expecting a smooth, easy downhill ride. What you can do:
* Check your food logging precision (not a criticism; it's a learning process for all of us). If you make your diary public on MFP, experienced people can look at it and make suggestions. I know you've done this before; sometimes things change.
* Keep doing your exercise consistently.
* Reality-test your exercise calorie estimates.
* Maybe get a weight trending app (Happy Scale for iOS, Libra for Android, Trendweight with a free Fitbit account (don't need a device), Weightgrapher, others).
* Expect relatively larger scale fluctuations from your uneven eating approach (also not a criticism: I've been calorie banking for 4+ years of maintenance myself, so that's lived experience), and also from your premenopausal status (I'm menopausal).
* Log the weekends, if you aren't already.
* Weigh yourself consistently, at the same time of day, under the same conditions (first thing in the morning, naked, after the bathroom and before eating/drinking, is as good as it gets for most of us).
* Compare your weight at the same relative point in two or more different menstrual cycles' (I realize you may be irregular at this point, but try. It's fine to weigh daily, but comparing equivalent points, and/or using a trending app with several weeks of daily weights in it, helps with sorting out the fluctuations from the fat loss.)
If, like so many of us, you're under some kind of "stay at home" orders, that can also cause a dramatic drop in daily life (non-exercise) calorie expenditures for many people, and that's a difference that makes a difference. Some of the stuff won't work in these conditions, but there's some of this thread that may still be relevant:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10610953/neat-improvement-strategies-to-improve-weight-loss/p1
Still, an accurate 1400 + exercise should work for fat loss, however much water (and digestive contents differences) may mask progress on the scale.
Best wishes!
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Thank you will give this a try0
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1400 net calories0
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Yeah I also agree with how stay at home covid19 plays with how our bodies are adjusting to this change and mental states as well1
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Great article on scale fluctuations. Thanks!1
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