Calorie deficit

ItAintMeBabe

Hey guys, probably a very silly question but here goes.

So since January, I’ve lost 1 stone at 10lbs. I use an Apple Watch to track my activity everyday and myfitnesspal for food.

Over this last three weeks, I’ve really upped my walking for a variety of reasons, it helps with back pains I suffer from and general heart health. I have been walking anywhere from 5-12kms a day.

This week, I had what I thought was a huge calorie deficit of 5840 calories. However when I weighed myself Friday, I had lost no weight from the previous week. I was gutted. I thought maybe I was just bloated that morning but have weighed myself the last two mornings and it’s reading me up a pound.

Anybody have any ideas where I’m going wrong?? I’m tracking every morsel I eat, I weight all spreads, milk in tea etc. Literally everything gets weighed and tracked. Very disheartening as I have at least another stone to lose.

Cake Man

ItAintMeBabe wrote: »

Anybody have any ideas where I’m going wrong??

You're not going wrong. Like, at all. In fact, you're doing the opposite, you've lost a stone and 10lbs since Jan - that's an average of about a pound a week which is considered a perfectly sustainable rate of weight loss. Don't let one supposed "bad" weigh in get you down, it could be down to any number of factors. You're going in the right direction so my advice would be to keep going and doing what you're doing.
The only other thing I would add is just to make sure you recalculate your maintenance calorie needs about every month. The more weight you lose the less calories you'll then need to maintain that weight (or to further drop weight). So you don't want to end up in a situation where you're taking in the same amount of calories each day as you did back a few months ago as that amount of calories will essentially now be your maintenance calories.

Alf Veedersane

ItAintMeBabe wrote: »

Hey guys, probably a very silly question but here goes.

So since January, I’ve lost 1 stone at 10lbs. I use an Apple Watch to track my activity everyday and myfitnesspal for food.

Over this last three weeks, I’ve really upped my walking for a variety of reasons, it helps with back pains I suffer from and general heart health. I have been walking anywhere from 5-12kms a day.

This week, I had what I thought was a huge calorie deficit of 5840 calories. However when I weighed myself Friday, I had lost no weight from the previous week. I was gutted. I thought maybe I was just bloated that morning but have weighed myself the last two mornings and it’s reading me up a pound.

Anybody have any ideas where I’m going wrong?? I’m tracking every morsel I eat, I weight all spreads, milk in tea etc. Literally everything gets weighed and tracked. Very disheartening as I have at least another stone to lose.

It's only three days so it still may just be water retention and it might be the time of your cycle. You're doing everything right so don't lose heart over three days

ItAintMeBabe

Thanks guys!

I’ll keep chipping away and hopefully it’ll show in the next week or two.

Alf Veedersane

ItAintMeBabe wrote: »

Thanks guys!

I’ll keep chipping away and hopefully it’ll show in the next week or two.

Do. The body is a funny thing. It's not always linear and will bounce a bit depending on different things. The time of the month is a big one that messes with women as well because of the hormonal changes. Don't stress about it anyway.

ILoveYourVibes

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Do. The body is a funny thing. It's not always linear and will bounce a bit depending on different things. The time of the month is a big one that messes with women as well because of the hormonal changes. Don't stress about it anyway.

This the body is not a machine.

And its probably water weight. You can keep it on a few days or a week even.

jam_mac_jam

Keep it up. Sometimes it can take a few days or even a week for you to loose weight. I have had that happen where I have nothing for two weeks and then it all come together.

You are doing really well. So don't get disheartened.

ItAintMeBabe

Thanks guys! Ye have all helped me stay motivated this week. I’m thinking of not weighing myself this week at all and putting it off a week so I’m not getting obsessed with scales.

ItAintMeBabe

Cake Man wrote: »

You're not going wrong. Like, at all. In fact, you're doing the opposite, you've lost a stone and 10lbs since Jan - that's an average of about a pound a week which is considered a perfectly sustainable rate of weight loss. Don't let one supposed "bad" weigh in get you down, it could be down to any number of factors. You're going in the right direction so my advice would be to keep going and doing what you're doing.
The only other thing I would add is just to make sure you recalculate your maintenance calorie needs about every month. The more weight you lose the less calories you'll then need to maintain that weight (or to further drop weight). So you don't want to end up in a situation where you're taking in the same amount of calories each day as you did back a few months ago as that amount of calories will essentially now be your maintenance calories.

Just on this. Thank you for a great pointer. I recalculated and my daily calorie intake went from 1320 to 1240. Not a massive difference but over the course of a week or two, it would definitely slow things down. I will now do this every couple of weeks but hoping it doesn’t go much lower as I don’t want to start finding myself hungry.