Stuck!

jesjakesam96
jesjakesam96 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise

when I first started my fitness pal, I lost almost 7 pounds, but I am about four weeks in and have been staying on track and haven’t lost anything since. Any tips?

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  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,484 Member

    your initial loss was water. In another 2 weeks or so you'll need to lower weekly calories if no further loss as no loss after 6 weeks is telling you you're eating at maintenance calories. If you're sedentary you need to get on an exercise program as that will help make up for the lack of daily movement.

  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,524 Member

    So you lost 7lbs in 4 weeks. That's a very good achievement! For one thing: managing expectations. You don't provide us with any further information about yourself, but the maximum weightloss possible here is 2lbs per weeks. If you're very heavy then you're right on track. If you don't have so much to lose then you've likely lost more than you should have.

    Now what happened here: you lost 7lbs in the say first week, and nothing in the following three weeks? First you lost a lot of waterweight and lots of food stored in your intestines, plus some fat. If this happens the body re-equalizes for a bit and it looks like you don't lose weight. But actually you did: the water and poop weight normalized again while you lost further bodyfat. If the waterweight had only normalized you would have regained weight eventually. You didn't. Keep at it! If nothing more happens in the coming 2-4 weeks then it's worth talking about logging accuracy and all those things though.

  • kinetixtrainer2
    kinetixtrainer2 Posts: 9,546 Member

    if you have kept the 7 lbs off then you need to recalculate your maintenance and deficit calories needed to keep the weight loss coming.

    As you get lighter your caloric needs will change.

    Best of luck

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