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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London

I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week?

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

I can't work in kg's lol

Could be all manner of things. Hormones, water, just the fact that you've changed your diet or exercise dramatically. Keep at it I'm sure it will come right.

I need to start low carb again.

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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London


"Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down"

Thought I had it sussed food wise...but I'll use the food log on my fitbit.

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

From experience you are better losing a small amount every week and progressing relatively slowly than losing a lot (ie Morocco etc) and putting it back on.

The more steadily you lose the more chance you've got of keeping it off as you're changing habits rather than just unrealistically crash dieting it off.

Good luck x

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

My dad likes to equate losing weight to a runaway train..... If you chuck it in reverse its gonna take a while to slow down and start going backwards.

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford


"Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down

Thought I had it sussed food wise...but I'll use the food log on my fitbit. "

Once you’ve got a good diary you can speak to a personal trainer or maybe even your GP. Or a load of sex weirdos on the internet

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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London


"I can't work in kg's lol

Could be all manner of things. Hormones, water, just the fact that you've changed your diet or exercise dramatically. Keep at it I'm sure it will come right.

I need to start low carb again. "

I've been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and retaining water...that could be it. I'll keep at it.

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By *alking DisasterWoman
over a year ago

South Oxfordshire


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

Firstly well done 14000 steps a day is fantastic

My first thought is, are you drinking enough water? It makes you feel full and so eat less.

What type of low carb diet are you following? I think some may take a couple of weeks to kick in.

Keep a food diary, write down everything you eat and drink. There might be some surprises in there that's causing you not to lose the amount of weight you are expecting.

Be patient, yes it was only 1kg, but at least it wasn't a gain

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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London


"My dad likes to equate losing weight to a runaway train..... If you chuck it in reverse its gonna take a while to slow down and start going backwards. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

I eat 3 meals a day.

Snacks are fruit or veg sticks

I was told. Eat till your full then stop, yes uts hard to get into that mentality but works

If i want a treat i have one.

If i drink its clear spirits with soda water and lime

And if you can join a group like zumba or something to start getting u more active

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

I may be wrong but averaging 4200 calories burnt a day seems a lot. I'm only basing this on the values my Garmin gives me when out cycling or running, and that takes into account heart rate, type of exercise, body weight etc. Without heart rate it massively underestimates.

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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London


"Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down

Thought I had it sussed food wise...but I'll use the food log on my fitbit.

Once you’ve got a good diary you can speak to a personal trainer or maybe even your GP. Or a load of sex weirdos on the internet "

I've had personal trainers, I've seen my gp prior to this. I've only had my fitbit for a week and I just weighed myself this morning.

It was a little disheartening and thought I'd seek advice from the good folk of fab before I say fuck it and have a full English...but it's always nice when the bleeding obvious is pointed out to us simpletons.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't kick yourself about it and play the long game. It"s about small steps and incremental progress. Weight can fluctuate but it's the medium-longer term trend you're looking at.

As others have said, keep a food diary. At it's simplest, cal output needs to exceed input. But you need a healthy diet too. And if you don't like the gym do other things. Regular walking, swimming and cycling are all great ways to exercise and manage weight.

And if you find you're still not losing weight have a chat with your GP to rule out any other issues.

Good luck OP!! You can and will do it!

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By *ediMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Good point

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Op your body needs to shed weight gradually if u loose it to rapidly it will go into shock ,also are you doing anything to tone up as most people concentrate so much on losing weight they forget that the excess skin won't shrink at same rate hence the need for a toning regime incorporated in your weight loss plan

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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week?

Firstly well done 14000 steps a day is fantastic

My first thought is, are you drinking enough water? It makes you feel full and so eat less.

What type of low carb diet are you following? I think some may take a couple of weeks to kick in.

Keep a food diary, write down everything you eat and drink. There might be some surprises in there that's causing you not to lose the amount of weight you are expecting.

Be patient, yes it was only 1kg, but at least it wasn't a gain "

Not as much water as I used to...it could be as simple as that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Should add that eating small amounts through the day is a good approach. We often eat too much because there's a delay between us feeling full and stopping eating!

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By *ediMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Add chia seeds to your diet, miracle food so many weight lost benefits

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Eat till you're full then stop is terrible advice.

Eat little and often, graze, never eat till you're full because the time it takes your stomach to tell your brain it's full, you've over eaten.

Losing weight is obviously easier for some than others, but it's simple physics. You need to burn off what you put in and results can vary & take a long time to really kick in.

OP hang in there, and remember the simple advice is the best and that all our opinions are simply that, opinions. You're working hard and it'll work one you find what works for your body.

Make exercise fun, find activities you enjoy and don't do simply because you fee you should be doing them. Balance your diet, and leave out the sugar & bad fats - speak to a dietician and a PT to get a solid plan in place. Keep going.

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By *good-being-badMan
over a year ago

mis-types and auto corrects leads cock leeds

I don't know how accurate a fit bite is at working out steps per calorie used..

How many calories a day are you eating ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Several factors impact weight loss:

Age

Style of training

Diet

Frequency of training

Lifestyle etc.

You have to call for everything in and see what's holding you back. Focus on your diet and intensity of the workouts and take it from there.

Hope you hit your goals and achieve the ideal health you want!

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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London


"Op your body needs to shed weight gradually if u loose it to rapidly it will go into shock ,also are you doing anything to tone up as most people concentrate so much on losing weight they forget that the excess skin won't shrink at same rate hence the need for a toning regime incorporated in your weight loss plan"

I alternate between an elliptical, weights and cardio. Not giving up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How about you're intensity? Diet?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Op your body needs to shed weight gradually if u loose it to rapidly it will go into shock ,also are you doing anything to tone up as most people concentrate so much on losing weight they forget that the excess skin won't shrink at same rate hence the need for a toning regime incorporated in your weight loss plan

I alternate between an elliptical, weights and cardio. Not giving up. "
rowing machine is good I mean the ergonomic type or punch a heavy bag for 10 mins solid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1kg weight loss in a week is text book, ideally and healthy you should be aimed to lose 2lbs a week, any loss is a good loss.

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

Are you on medication?

Drink plenty of water and have a day off of the diet. Your body may have gone into starvation mode and hold on to everything as your exercising a lot as well.

Plenty fruit and veg and follow a balanced diet.

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By *isa 59Woman
over a year ago

Newcastle

Well done OP. I'd love to be able to lose 1kg a week!

As most are saying above...keep at it.

I wish you well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Consistency is the key to success, keep being in a deficit, it is all about calories in and out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Eat till you're full then stop is terrible advice.

Eat little and often, graze, never eat till you're full because the time it takes your stomach to tell your brain it's full, you've over eaten.

Losing weight is obviously easier for some than others, but it's simple physics. You need to burn off what you put in and results can vary & take a long time to really kick in.

OP hang in there, and remember the simple advice is the best and that all our opinions are simply that, opinions. You're working hard and it'll work one you find what works for your body.

Make exercise fun, find activities you enjoy and don't do simply because you fee you should be doing them. Balance your diet, and leave out the sugar & bad fats - speak to a dietician and a PT to get a solid plan in place. Keep going."

When you eat 3 balanced meals a day it woks

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

You need a six week plus five day walking holiday in Morocco!

Always wanted to do a walking holiday

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Morning.

The first thing I would say is that the accuracy of devices such as fitbit to calculate calories burned can leave a lot to be desired, especially if it's not measuring your heart-rate too.

Also, even with extreme diets there is often a delay before things really kick in and you are likely to find that you'll show better progress in the second week than the first.

From a dieting point of view, counting calories is without a doubt the only real way of monitoring your intake, and you can forget every other bit of diet info, super-food, metabolic rate or whatever... if you don't consume less than you burn then you can't lose weight.

Another thing, exercise is great. It is however much easier to reduce calories eaten than increase those you burn. Doing exercise WILL make you healthier, but it's the better diet that will make you lose weight.

Good luck.

Cal x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Obviously not em the same works for everyone but if you use weight training and high protein it calories for longer after exercise and if u include cardio aswell

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By *y Favorite PornstarCouple
over a year ago

Basingstoke


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

Are you kidding? What sort of bad advice are you getting to even ask this question, it really makes me sad. 2lbs, slightly less than 1kg is the maximum you can lose safely each week without the negative consequences of dramatic weight loss. There's no problem here and you're doing great.

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By *y Favorite PornstarCouple
over a year ago

Basingstoke


"Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down"

Soldiers in Afghanistan chomp down 6,000+ calories a day and still lose weight easily

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down

Soldiers in Afghanistan chomp down 6,000+ calories a day and still lose weight easily "

So...

Are you suggest an the OP moves to Afhanistan or joins the army?

Cal

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"Add chia seeds to your diet, miracle food so many weight lost benefits"

There are no miracle foods or we'd all be munching them.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week?

Are you kidding? What sort of bad advice are you getting to even ask this question, it really makes me sad. 2lbs, slightly less than 1kg is the maximum you can lose safely each week without the negative consequences of dramatic weight loss. There's no problem here and you're doing great. "

Agreed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You might not be eating enough. Good luck OP.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"From experience you are better losing a small amount every week and progressing relatively slowly than losing a lot (ie Morocco etc) and putting it back on.

The more steadily you lose the more chance you've got of keeping it off as you're changing habits rather than just unrealistically crash dieting it off.

Good luck x"

This! And 1kg is a healthy amount to lose in a week!

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By *y Favorite PornstarCouple
over a year ago

Basingstoke


"Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down

Soldiers in Afghanistan chomp down 6,000+ calories a day and still lose weight easily

So...

Are you suggest an the OP moves to Afhanistan or joins the army?

Cal"

No, I'm suggesting that saying weight loss is 80-20 diet is nonsense. It's about calories deficits and frankly it's far easier to burn 3,500 calories than it is to not eat 3,500 calories.

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By *he-Hosiery-GentMan
over a year ago

Older Hot Bearded Guy

You need to burn fat and build muscle simultaneously. The more muscle you have the more fat you'll burn / keep off. Treadmills, bikes, Steppers, aren't the answer.

You need to do resistance work - weights. A big compound movement like squats hits your central nervous system and whole posterior chain - every body part a woman is bothered about!

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By *he-Hosiery-GentMan
over a year ago

Older Hot Bearded Guy

And go easy on fruit, it's full of sugar, despite being good for you.

And you know what sugar turns to...

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

Give it time....stop counting every day....maybe weigh yourself on the same day every one or 2 weeks...everyone is different..you ll be the last one to see any sort of change in yourself...eat properly exercise..hydrate..keep going ..and well done

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By *horecruxCouple
over a year ago

SE4

Do you drive ?

Give that up and get a push bike

Maybe with a basket for snacks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Defo diet. I lost 2 and half stone over the last year by a complete change of eating habits that is sustainable. I predominantly followed the Body Coach recipies and cut out a lot of snacks. I didn't really eat crap food, just ate a lot of food! I cut out bread and cheese, my vice, but never changed the way I trained. I'm a weights person, do little cardio so to me, this show's how much it is what you eat.

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By *entish79Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

I lost 30lbs a while back after getting a FitBit. If you’re getting your 10k steps you’re half way there. I also kept a food diary using MyFitnessPal, which is (or at least was) much better than the FitBit diary. You just scan barcodes, save meals and recipes etc so it’s dead easy to do. The two apps speak to each other and share data.

I’d echo the above - aim for 2lbs a week. When I had it susses with the food in / exercise calories I pretty much lost 2lbs a week like clockwork.

Other than that, just get into good habits, smaller portions, no snacks. All the usual stuff.

And one of the best bits of advice I had was to be 100% good 80% of the time, rather than 80% good 100% of the time. Then you can be good during the week, but have a treat or two at the weekend.

And just don’t be disheartened if it sticks for a week or two - it will go down again.

Good luck with it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

Try fasting very good for you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Measure, don’t weigh. If you’re doing that much exercise your legs will be beefing up. I’m on slimming world at the mo and was losing between 3-7lb a week. Started exercising and that dropped to 0.5-2lb a week but am still getting slimmer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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Try fasting very good for you "

Plus one here for fasting, coupled with 2-3 litres of water a day and no exercise needed.

Have done it successfully for the last couple of months, not looking at the scales but noticed the steady change in body shape

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

is all about what goes in lol balanced with how much we do , also plant based diet 90 % no bread milk or carbs helps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are you a gym member? If not it's worth it and it's worth doing resistance training, deliberately building lean muscle will help you lose body fat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You need to burn fat and build muscle simultaneously. The more muscle you have the more fat you'll burn / keep off. Treadmills, bikes, Steppers, aren't the answer.

You need to do resistance work - weights. A big compound movement like squats hits your central nervous system and whole posterior chain - every body part a woman is bothered about!

"

Well no, cardio is important for general health and fitness. But yes, big compound movements on a regular basis will help.

That's how I really started to drop weight.

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

Could it be the menopause if you are experiencing that?

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By *ystical_InkedBBWWoman
over a year ago

somewhere in the Shire of Derby

Need to be drinking at least 2 litres of water each day and take body measurements once a week, chest, waist, hips, each upper arm and both thighs. Losing inches is what you are looking for more than losing lots of weight each week as muscle is more dense than fat so as you start to tone up your actual weight loss will slow down to maybe just 1-2lbs a week but the inches will be coming off too.

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By *ana_nana_MATTMAN!Man
over a year ago

Haywood Village, Weston-super-Mare


"I'm morbidly obese.

In the past I've lost weight easily: 12kg in five days on a walking holiday in Morocco; 20kg over six weeks going to the gym and a calorie controlled diet.

Last week the other half bought me a fitbit and I've been obsessed with it. I average 14000 steps a day. Average burning 4200 calories a day, three hours being active and 10 flights of stairs every day. Yet after all that and following a low carb diet I've lost...drum roll please...1kg!!!

Any ideas why so little weight loss in a week? "

Weight loss isn't linear. You won't lose weight at a constant rate week after week, so only losing 1kg this week is completely normal. You might find that a lot of it is just water being retained in the depleted fat cells.

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By *bonynivoryCouple
over a year ago

market harborough

Use my fitness pal for counting your food, the only way to know what you're really eating is record everything

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"

No, I'm suggesting that saying weight loss is 80-20 diet is nonsense. It's about calories deficits and frankly it's far easier to burn 3,500 calories than it is to not eat 3,500 calories. "

This is not what all of the research says. It is much easier to reduce the bad food in your diet than it is to burn huge amounts of extra calories. For example a 10 stone man cycling at 14mph for 30 mins will burn about 250 calories. Not eating a Mars-Bar after lunch will save you about the same in 10 seconds.

The recommended daily calories per day is 2500 for a man and 2000 for a woman. If we can stick to this then weight management would be much easier. Research shows that the "average UK calorie intake" is almost 3500 per day. This is the main reason for obesity.

I love exercise and would advise everyone to exercise loads. But the example of soldiers needing 6000 calories per day is massively misleading. These soldiers are already fit and healthy, they have higher than average muscle mass and they are doing extreme activities in an extreme environment. To burn an extra 3000 calories a day would require something similar to a daily marathon.

Cal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

4,200 calories a day sounds a bit much for what exercise you are doing, if you're consuming 2000 calories a day you're giving yourself a deficit of 14,000 a week with a 4lb weight loss. Without knowing exactly what your diet is and how much protein you're consuming and without doing and weights or resistance training that loss could come from your muscles and not your fat stores.

But that said, 2lb off is better than 2lb on and it's healthier to lose 1-2lbs a week steadily instead of huge amounts.

Download my fitness pall and track everything you eat. Don't go by scales go by your clothes and the mirror or get someone in the gym to take all your measurements with calipers and check you're progress every fortnight.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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No, I'm suggesting that saying weight loss is 80-20 diet is nonsense. It's about calories deficits and frankly it's far easier to burn 3,500 calories than it is to not eat 3,500 calories.

This is not what all of the research says. It is much easier to reduce the bad food in your diet than it is to burn huge amounts of extra calories. For example a 10 stone man cycling at 14mph for 30 mins will burn about 250 calories. Not eating a Mars-Bar after lunch will save you about the same in 10 seconds.

The recommended daily calories per day is 2500 for a man and 2000 for a woman. If we can stick to this then weight management would be much easier. Research shows that the "average UK calorie intake" is almost 3500 per day. This is the main reason for obesity.

I love exercise and would advise everyone to exercise loads. But the example of soldiers needing 6000 calories per day is massively misleading. These soldiers are already fit and healthy, they have higher than average muscle mass and they are doing extreme activities in an extreme environment. To burn an extra 3000 calories a day would require something similar to a daily marathon.

Cal"

I love the Mars bar analogy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Use my fitness pal for counting your food, the only way to know what you're really eating is record everything "

Yep this is how I lost my weight. I stuck to 1200 calories a day... and managed to lose between 1 and 2 lbs a week. Some weeks I didn't lose anything and some I put on. I put that down to natural fluctuations in weight as overall I was still losing. I didn't really start exercising properly until I'd lost most of my weight and it was getting really tough to shift the weight as I got closer to target. I use my fit bit mainly to make sure I have at least 5 active days a week as that for me is the difficult thing to do being sat on my arse at a desk job 5 days a week. Good luck op! You can do this

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By *radleywigginsMan
over a year ago

northwest

1 kilo of fat loss is over 9000kcal of deficit.

Make of that what you will. But perhaps it helps explain the sort of quantities of exercise and food involved.

Essentially, diets and exercise regimes are pointless. Ideally you’ll be looking for a lifestyle change to one that is sustainable from now, for ever.

The more important things are eating in moderation rather than fad or crash diets and finding away of incorporating exercise into your daily routine. As a previous poster mentioned, simple things like walking to work or the shops are more effective than planned exercise for its own sake.

The biggest problems are learning to enjoy rather than resent exercise and taking pride in your food choices whilst allowing yourself the occasional treat. A balance

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow


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No, I'm suggesting that saying weight loss is 80-20 diet is nonsense. It's about calories deficits and frankly it's far easier to burn 3,500 calories than it is to not eat 3,500 calories.

This is not what all of the research says. It is much easier to reduce the bad food in your diet than it is to burn huge amounts of extra calories. For example a 10 stone man cycling at 14mph for 30 mins will burn about 250 calories. Not eating a Mars-Bar after lunch will save you about the same in 10 seconds.

The recommended daily calories per day is 2500 for a man and 2000 for a woman. If we can stick to this then weight management would be much easier. Research shows that the "average UK calorie intake" is almost 3500 per day. This is the main reason for obesity.

I love exercise and would advise everyone to exercise loads. But the example of soldiers needing 6000 calories per day is massively misleading. These soldiers are already fit and healthy, they have higher than average muscle mass and they are doing extreme activities in an extreme environment. To burn an extra 3000 calories a day would require something similar to a daily marathon.

Cal"

So this....I have lost 4.4kg since starting back at the gym in the first week of July. I must say, I have cut out fizzy sugary drinks, and tried to do 40 mins of cardio 3 times each week.

I must say I am sleeping better, more focused and more fitter. I just completed just under 3.5km in 20 mins jog. At the when I starated I was about 20kg overweight so nearing loosing a 1/4 of my goal. Op you will get there heads up!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Get help from a nutritionist, they are so good at helping you tweak your diet so you're not starving, but you are gradually losing weight!

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By *bonynivoryCouple
over a year ago

market harborough


"Because weight loss is about 20% exercise and 80% diet.

Keep up the exercises and keep a food diary to see where you need to cut down

Soldiers in Afghanistan chomp down 6,000+ calories a day and still lose weight easily

So...

Are you suggest an the OP moves to Afhanistan or joins the army?

Cal

No, I'm suggesting that saying weight loss is 80-20 diet is nonsense. It's about calories deficits and frankly it's far easier to burn 3,500 calories than it is to not eat 3,500 calories. "

Now that right there is the nonsense not saying its 80:20 diet. I can easily eat 3500 calories in one sitting, certainly 2, can't remember the last time I burn 3500 in one cardio session, oh yes I can, never even close, lol.

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Merton

It is going to be a gradual process you don't expect years of being inactive to sudden result. Your body is still at the stage is she or is she not

Where most people go wrong is they forget it is a lifestyle, not a 6 months programme nothing wrong with having junk food you just have to 80/20 your meal.

Keep a diary for 30 days exercise every morning you get up follow your instructor plan. I am pretty sure if you do 30 days straight you will see a result.

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Merton

of course not too intense that you are demotivated for the next day. A balance of hard 75% intense of your usually workout.

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By *iss_tress OP   Woman
over a year ago

London

Thanks for all the replies and supportive messages.

I've been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and I'm retaining water. I'm on heart and anticoagulation medication.

I'll return to my glass half full frame of mind: a kilo off is better than a kilo on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Thanks for all the replies and supportive messages.

I've been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and I'm retaining water. I'm on heart and anticoagulation medication.

I'll return to my glass half full frame of mind: a kilo off is better than a kilo on. "

Hubby had that... was in permanent af. It's tough to keep on top of everything else while you're juggling medication. Stick with it. Are they considering anything other than medication to control it,?

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