Weight loss stall beginning new routine

brittanynotaroberta
brittanynotaroberta Posts: 22 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I have googled and read all the things and I still need real life support lol

I am tracking every calorie each day- hitting my protein, drinking my water sticking within my deficit. I was consistently losing each week. I was down almost 10 pounds in 30 days. Well 2 weeks ago I start up again at orange theory- mixing lifting and cardio classes- I’m heading into my third week UP 1.7 pounds. Could this really be water inflammation?! 🥲 I am 100% in a deficit. It’s making me so frustrated.

Anyone go through this and how long until my body whooshes🤨

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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,933 Member
    Yes, waterweight. Your muscles need water for healing and for making you stronger. And this has weight of course. Give it time, it will eventually move on (and into the loo).

    Another thought: Are you eating enough with this new workout? Are you still running the same calorie deficit and not eating back some calories for the exercise? Are you resting enough between sessions? Just being stressed out can increase cortisol, and also lead to your body storing more water. But neither of this is bodyfat.
  • brittanynotaroberta
    brittanynotaroberta Posts: 22 Member
    Thank you for your comment!! I upped calories 100 since working out and increased protein.
    I’m was working out 3 days a week the first two weeks and than this week will be 4. I ran a 5k yesterday and hot yoga afterwards with the largest jump overnight on the scale. I don’t feel stressed out BUT my sleep has been horrid. I just don’t remember a stall when I started working out- maybe it’s being 36 now! 🤨
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,809 Member
    New exercise = water retention
    Stress (for example from bad sleep or worrying about your weight 😉) = water retention
    Just keep going and pay attention to how your clothes fit and progress in the mirror.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,211 Member
    You wouldn't believe how much water I can retain when I start a new routine! If I'm sore, I'm up 4-5lbs, without fail. But it's just water!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,176 Member
    edited November 5
    brittanynotaroberta wrote: »
    Thank you for your comment!! I upped calories 100 since working out and increased protein.
    I’m was working out 3 days a week the first two weeks and than this week will be 4. I ran a 5k yesterday and hot yoga afterwards with the largest jump overnight on the scale. I don’t feel stressed out BUT my sleep has been horrid. I just don’t remember a stall when I started working out- maybe it’s being 36 now! 🤨

    Almost certainly water weight. The new types of exercise can add water weight, and so can stress . . . you may not feel stressed, but poor sleep is a physical stress, too.

    Also, 10 pounds in 30 days is very fast weight loss, over two pounds a week. That's very aggressive unless you're well over 250 pounds to start . . . and maybe aggressive even if you are. Fast loss is also a physical stress, and it's fairly common for fast loss to eventually result in creeping water retention.

    You might get some useful insights from this thread, if you haven't seen it - especially read the article linked in the first post:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

    The bottom line is that it takes 4-6 weeks (at least one whole menstrual cycle) on a new routine - relatively consistent combination of eating and exercise - to know the effect on weight trend. It's not wrong of you to be trying new types of exercise (or eating) but that variability makes it very difficult to trust the scale as a gauge of fat loss progress, realistically.

    Hang in there. If you're in a calorie deficit, the scale will eventually drop. Don't go crazy-fast, though, for a variety of reasons, including water retention (which isn't even the most important reason to be moderate!)

    Best wishes!

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