To feel disappointed to have only lost 100g in one week?

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After all my hard work and dieting I'm only losing 100g -200g a week. I do look more toned, but I'm also incredibly constipated and bloated. But given my calorie deficit I would have expected it to be a bit better. At this pace it will take more than a year to lose the 7-10kg I want to lose!

Are you on iron tablets?

The problem with increasing your iron intake is that it does tend to make you constipated.

I've been anaemic for years now and have to combine iron supplements with Aloe Vera tablets that I get from Holland & Barrett.

They were recommended to me by another friend with the same problem and they help to get things moving so to speak (but only to a regular amount thankfully).

I'm on 600mg of ferrous Sulfate a day and take 3 Aloe Vera tablets a day and my digestion system works normally now.

That could be worth a try.

It has been proven I don't digest iron, and only causes GI issues so I only get IV iron

Re: bingo wings.... I use an app call downdog and my 3kg dumbbells

If you are building muscle that will slow the weight loss. You weigh similar to me (although I’m a little taller) and my weight loss has slowed too, but I notice it more in the fact I’m more toned etc. Maybe try monitoring body measurements instead of weight.

Just read that you’re short and that you don’t have much to lose. Being short means that excess weight (or what you perceive to be excess) can really show as theee is nowhere for it to go!

That’s where I am too. I am 5 foot 1 and 59kg. I’ve lost about 10kg this year, but the weight loss has really slowed now. I’d like to lose another half a stone (4kg or so) but it gets harder to shift the lower my weight gets. My BMI is 24, which is healthy, but my frame is small and I’m carrying way too much fat.

I record everything I’ve eaten in my fitness pal, and have seriously upped my exercise. I noticed a change in my body shape when I introduced spin classes, suddenly my waist is smaller as is my bum.

I love yoga, and I think it is really good for me, but it doesn’t help (me) with weight loss.

Your food intake sounds very controlled to me. I am way more indulgent. Though I try not to eat my exercise calories.

If you look more toned then you are building muscle and/or losing fat. If you are doing both, then the scales won't change as much, so I echo PP's advice to track progress using measurements.

Could it be this heat? Either retaining a bit of fluid or the scales being unhappy? I ask as both DH and I have recently both lost about a kg each, and have just put it back on ( even though we're eating the same, or less in the case of DH, as when we were losing weight).

Get some All Bran and berries into you to fix the constipation.

How often are you weighing yourself? I weigh myself every day to stop myself focussing on the number. Doing this has taught me how much my weight varies over a week. Ive eaten the same amount of calories every day this week. Monday and Tuesday down a lb a day, today up 2lb, I havent out on 2lb in fat over night, that would be thousands of calories consumed over what I need to maintain. Its the heat, a v hard weights work out yesterday, loads of walking and a salty dinner and 2 drinks last night. As long as my average weight is going down (with the odd week when hormones or something unexplainable happen where I dont lose) then I am happy.

Given that you’re doing a very decent amount of exercise, start measuring yourself in addition to weighing yourself and you’ll see your results more clearly

Could be the heat, but definitely not this time. There's the bingo wings gone :)

How do you even know you are loosing 100 to 200g a week? My daily weight fluctuates more than that overnight. I'd lay of the scales for a bit, or at least look at weight trend (plot it and see if it is overall going up or down), and focus on the physical changes you are observing.

Use a tape measure and photos to assess progress rather than pure weight. If you're gaining bloating, you're weighing that and not seeing the full benefit of the changes. Also in hot weather, water retention can distort weight loss patterns. Another source of water retention is if your muscles are recovering from exercise and feeling sore (which is where people mistake muscle gains/ weight- it's not necessarily that you've gained a pound of muscle tissue, more that it's temporarily holding more water)

No amount of extra fiber nor laxatives will make any difference. I weight myself daily, so the more data poy, the more accurate.

I was a serious tea drinker hence my username. I also had dreadful migraine. My neurologist told me to massively cut down the caffeine. Max 2 a day, he said one a day but I was horrified so he relented.

Anyway two things have happened. Not had a migraine since and its been over a month, normally I’d have had at least 5 three day bouts by now. The unexpected bonus , no more constipation. Although I have also had covid which upset my stomach for a week too. Covid aside it’s obvious now that the tea was dehydrating me.

peppermint tea is a good alternative. See if that helps the bloating and constipation

Well, 10kg is 22lbs so at half a pound a week that would be 44 weeks which is the best part of a year. I guess 200g a week is almost half a pound so there you go. I don't think a year is an unreasonable amount of time to lose nearly two stone really!

Sorry, baby wrangling...

So I can see it's really frustrating when you're working so hard and results seem so slow but mathematically I think you're looking at that sort of timescale for that amount of weight if that makes sense.

Well I lost 4st 5 years ago and even aft t a pregnancy it's just one stone that I fluctuate for the most part. It took me 9 months to shed that weight. And last year o lost that stone within 3 months but all of that was running based

Focus on the process and not on the outcome. Outcomes will come on its own.

If you form good habits and become a healthy, active person, it is inevitable that you''ll get the results

Keep going!
That's 1kg in 10 months. That is progress.
Try swapping a run for lifting weights. You will get much quicker results with weights than running.

Jesus Christ. I don't know if I could keep up with doing hard cardio every day for an hour. My stress level would be over the roof and I would definitely be putting on weight then.

I just measured myself no movement around waistline, but lost 5cm around my hums and 4cm around my boobs in one week

This week? Hot weather makes you retain water, it's your body's way of preventing you getting dehydrated. When the weather cools, that excess water will disappear. In general, people weigh a bit more in the summer because it's warmer so our bodies keep hold of a little bit more water, during a heat wave this ramps up - as soon as the heatwave is over, you'll shed the water.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-body-wieght-ambient-temperature/

Thaysnot how it wokrs. Scales arebt telling you anything useful. If you stood on them and they told you you were 10kg lighter but your measurements were the same would you be happy?

I'm no nutritionist but it sounds as though you need a nutritional plan that will help you absorb iron or some other way of taking on sufficient.

Who told you that you shouldn't run?

Three different specialists have told me long distance running doesn't help at all with my iron deficiency. It's not a matter of diet, my gut simply doesn't work that way, I had to get a fairly expensive test to rule out everything and it turns out I have a rare condition cause by a gene mutation. My case is so rare that has been taking on by Exeter University. Yes, being lighter would make me happy as I'm just heavier than I look.

Foot strike hemolysis is the running issue

Diagnosis: Patient suffers undefined molecular malabsorption (DMT1 transporter) caused by a mutation in the TMPRSS6 gene.