To be so pissed off i have not lost a single lb or inch

[Tattooedmama]

Morning all
I have been doing calorie counting for a little over a week now, 1200 calories a day and doing 15/20 mins a day workouts as well as being fairly active with a toddler. I dont have loads to lose im 10st 6 and goal is 9st but nothing is working.
Ive gone from drinking 2-3 cans pepsi max, few cups of tea and zero water, biscuits, chocolate bars, crisps, 2-4 slices white bread a day and unhealthy dinners - to eating healthy dinners, cutting out the white bread, no excessive snacking.
Has anyone else had this problem? I feel like giving up, the whole time i was eating shit i stayed at 10 st 6.
Also took measurements and no change there, Its disheartening.

This is me, it always takes 2 weeks to show on me! And I always get the hump after a week that nothing’s happening. Week 2-3 is when it works. Keep going.

Give it time. It's only been a week. Personally, I found the weight came off the second week. You need to give your body a chance to catch up. But agree with weighing everything. I recently lost weight, from 11st. Goal was 9-9.5, depending on how I felt. I'm currently inching towards 8.5 and trying to gain a little.

Wright loss takes time.

Just because it is considered "safe" to lose 2lbs a week doesn't mean that is the benchmark. 2lbs is a good poo essentially. Especially if you are about to get your period, your body will hang on to water and fat, then you'll lose more the week after. Stay focused and go for a monthly rather than weekly result. Keep yourself accountable by making a tick chart, doing 10K steps, 5 workouts a week, 2 weight lifting days, and my fitness pal. Slimming World weekly weigh ins work brilliantly for some, but I found that the pain in my lower back going was a bigger motivator for me than the number on the scale.

Your workouts will not be burning many calories. You need to work out your TDE, stick to the calories it suggests by tracking and weighing everything religiously and also make sure to do between 10-15k steps per day. You mustn't have been in a calorie deficit so therefore no weight loss.
My Fitness Pal and a Fitbit or similar are your friends.

Have a look at Team RH on Facebook. They have loads of fab videos that explain a lot about weight loss/calories/macros and how to lose weight sensibly without crash dieting or doing low calorie diets. They make a lot of sense and have definitely changed my outlook and approach to dieting

If you have worked out your calorie allowance properly and are tracking calories carefully it will work, barring some health problems such as thyroid issues. The most likely candidate for not losing weight if you are doing everything right is fluid retention which can be caused by hormones and things like inflammation. This can easily affect your weight by a few lbs.
So 1) check you are doing everything right and 2) give it a few more weeks to allow for any water retention etc.

I am around a week from my period
I am using my fitness pal, guilty of not weighing everything but i try to over estimate a little to try allow for being under my calorie limit

@Tattooedmama I feel your pain! Not losing when you believe you’re doing all the right things is soul destroying.

How tall are you?
Have you worked out your TDEE
Are you using an app like MyFitnessPal?
Are you weighing out your food?
Are you including all the incidentals like mayo or ketchup (they soon add up)
Are you drinking enough water?
Are you getting enough sleep?
Are you feeling stressed?
Is it neat TTOTM?

Perhaps with just starting to exercise your muscles are breaking down and rebuilding and to do that they store glycogen or something. That weighs heavier.
Don’t give up. Keep going! You can do it?

Thankyou for all the replies, its given me hope that hopefully in the next week i should start seeing a difference

Sorry crossed posted @Tattooedmama and see you’ve said you use MyFitnessPal.

Im also drinking alot more water and only 1 cuppa a day

People lose fast when they’ve got a lot to lose. It’s much harder when you’re not far off your target like you probably are. Unless you’re short, you probably have a normal, healthy BMI.

It take a good couple of weeks for me to lose when I start exercising and eating healthily. I wouldn’t change anything yet. Give it a bit longer and all of a sudden you’ll notice a difference.

I am in the healthy range of my bmi, but up the higher end of it. Im 5fy 4

Busteddreams - sleep is a thing of the past with a toddler who still breastfeeds frequent at night 🤣

Weigh and measure everything. Take a look at your nutrition tabs you may be having too much sugar/carbs not enough protein and fat.
I always think 1200 is way too low, I actually lose more eating more, and I eat back any exercise calories too.

I'm 5ft2 and my basal metabolic rate is 1700 calories.
1200 is way too low, and not enough exercise.
You should use the Harris Benedict calculator online or similar to find out how much you should be eating to maintain and then cut from that.

Fitbit was the gamechanger for me. I do about 12k steps a day on average now, swimming once a week and calorie count everything. I've lost nearly 4 stone. I did get demoralised at first because it took longer to start losing weight than it did when I was younger, but once it started shifting it didn't stop, although I have found that I've had to up my game as I've lost weight, as the same activity burns fewer calories at a lower weight.

What are the workouts? To lose 2 pounds a week I need to eat 1800 cals net and walk 10k steps in one go (roughtly 4-5 miles). I could never lose anything on 15-20 min workouts even the intense ones as they tended to make me gain muscle instead.

People lose fast when they’ve got a lot to lose. It’s much harder when you’re not far off your target like you probably are.

This is what I found too. I only had half a stone to lose and my BMI is towards the lower end. Absolutely nothing happened for the first two weeks but then it started to come off slowly at just less than a pound a week.

I started weighing myself daily just so that I could monitor the normal fluctuation day to day.

Stop dieting, diets don't work, they lower your metabolism, it is unsustainable long term, calories in/calories out is outdated thinking

look into intermittent fasting

The scales could be wrong by a few ounces and you could be right at the losing end of a lb in weight. Keep going.

How does intermittent fasting work?

Keep going OP, you're doing really well. It always takes me 2 weeks to see any difference when I make any changes - super annoying as my husband will drop 3-4 lbs in the first week! If the exercise is new then your muscles are likely holding water too, which will affect what you see on the scales.

Keep plugging on, you're making healthy sustainable changes and you can do this!

How does intermittent fasting work?

Essentially you end up eating fewer calories because you only eat every other day. It's how I lost stubborn fat. It works because your body doesn't slow your metabolism to compensate for the reduced food intake like it does with a normal low calorie diet.

It's the easiest way to lose fat that I have tried so far. Because you just eat normally on the non-fast days it doesn't get tedious like some diets. It cheap too because you don't have to buy as much food every week.

It's been a week. Don't give up. 1200kcals is too low to sustain as well.

Check out James Smith Academy (he has a calorie calculator on his website - it's free) and use MFP properly - and by that I mean weigh absolutely everything, don't ever guess.

Calories in v calories out isn't outdated thinking either, I can't believe I've just read that .

Go onto instagram. Check out James Smith PT videos, read posts by bdccarpenter and thefitnesschef_

I've lost 8kg this year and I've kept it off by following their advice and using the "outdated" calories in/calories out method.