Weight loss but no size change

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I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this! I've lost 1st 10lb over the last 6 weeks, but I'm not feeling any different in my existing clothes and I'm not noticing them getting any looser. I know that most of the first 7lbs that people lose is water weight, but I would have expected some kind of fat loss when I'm nearly 2st down.

For reference, I'm 5'5" and I started at 15st and a size 16. I'm now 13st 4lb and still a size 16! I do know that dress sizes are essentially meaningless as a general measure of how much someone weighs, but as these are my existing clothes, I thought they would be a good benchmark when they started getting looser.

I always try and remember that weight is coming off places we can't even see, our head, back of neck, back, bum, back of thighs, armpits, feet, internal organ fat.. it all adds up!
I remember being shocked at how much the top of my head shrank and my hair looked longer and more volumuous after! Also my shoe size went down.
The end result is always worth it.

I'm 5'ft 3 and started at just under 15 stone. I'd say there wasn't much visual difference with a two stone loss tbh , now that I look back at it and my size didn't change dramatically

I'm now 9 stone 7 and it's fairly dramatic now! Imagine yourself as being made of butter and every lb you lose is a small scraping of spread from everywhere

It just takes time. Which is rubbish when you're impatient. Keep going though as those lbs add up quicker than you can imagine

Started as a large 16, possibly more an 18.
Lost 3 stone.
Bought a size 16 pair of jeans today and they're still bloody snug. 😂

It’ seems like a long haul?! I’m just near the start, one month in (and haven’t lost much, just a few pounds). I just want to get from a size 16/18 (M&S) to a small 14. Probably will have to lose 35 - 40 lbs to achieve that. Which seems so much!

Still …. I’m also passing the time doing some weights and a little exercise so that I feel better in other ways along the way too. But it’s a slow process in many ways; as the saying goes Rome wasn’t built in a day.

I hear you, OP.

I'm 5 ft 5, except at 13 stone I was definitely edging into a size 18, but I lied to myself about it and still claimed to be a size 16. I've lost 2 stone, but I'm still filling my size 16 clothes perfectly adequately! I'd love to shift a size properly!

Continuing with the Rome analogy: the foundations are the hardest to build and take the longest. Cest la vie.

It is a long haul but I haven’t found it difficult. In the past I’d manage a month or two and shift some weight but would get fed up and fall back into bad habits. This time I’ve managed to do 5/6 months without really thinking about it. Hoping I can continue the good new habits once I stop. 🤞🤞

Be carefull your not restricting calories too much as this can cause muscle atrophy. muscle is more dense than fat. also a lot of weight loss at 1st will be water. Another issue is if u restrict your calories too much it can cause you to actually hold onto bf for energy reserves and slow your matabolism down. Eat enough protien and incorporate light weight work along with cardio. Steady wins the race. good luck

This thread is over 10 months now but seeing as someone has commented on it, I thought I'd update. I lost 6 and a half stone overall, and had been maintaining without MJ for about a month, but put approximately 8lb back on during a three week holiday abroad. Not too bad considering I'm in one of the most carb-loving countries in the world (Peru). I'll get straight back on the calorie counting when I get home and I'm confident it should come off again pretty easily. So overall, I'd encourage anyone who's currently in the same position I was back in January, to just keep going, because it really does work. You just have to get past the initial "Why isn't anything happening?" period and trust that eating less will lead to results!

This is happening to me right now, I've lost about 5 stone im 5 6 and was 119 kgs im 84 now, I was a size 22 and im now an 18 this has taken a year, I feel frustrated about it, but I do have an illness and I'm waiting for an op so I lose weight from my hips but my waist is very stubborn, currently losing about 1 kg a month so progress is slow, I day dream about being a small 16 or 14, but because of illness I can't do much exercise because of pain , I have to do sitting down exercise and I can walk but if I walk to long I get pain, hoping soon my waist will drop

I’ve found that it takes a while for your body to catch up with the loss. For example, I’ve maintained for nearly 3 weeks but my clothes have got looser in that time, a bit like it’s catching up on previous weight loss.
No idea why and how it has worked like that for me!