Pretty sure it is water weight. If your muscles are sore, they are holding a lot of water, no?
15 sep 19 door lid: jengetfit123
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Besides checking your weight, do you measure your body? If you gain muscle, you could weight more. https://www.heybloom.com/2017/08/10/body-measurements/
15 sep 19 door lid: Bejukacska
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Yeah water weight is likely it. Are you throwing in a rest day here or there?
15 sep 19 door lid: liv001
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Bodies are not machines, we all have plateaus, ups, and downs in weight loss.
15 sep 19 door lid: gz9gjg
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The simple answer is yes. Let’s assume your walk takes 1 hour and 1/2 at 600 calories. If you are taking in 2200 - 600 = 1600 intake. You take away the walk and consume 1800 calories you are consuming more calories in a day this week than last week because of the lack of exercise. New calories plus walk will give you the best results 1800 - 600 = 1200 intake.
15 sep 19 door lid: KenricT
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Thanks guys. I’ve been eating a lot (A LOT) of carbs and weightlifting for a while now so I wouldn’t think that I’d have additional water weight gain. Usually when I do have a lot of water weight I can feel it in my ankles and calves. They seem to be normal. The only difference is I am eating less and walking less. Even though I’m walking less I’m still burning at least 2800 cals. According to fs which is not accurate for me. I have seen ppl on here use those numbers successfully. I always figure it’s probably about 500 over what my body will actually burn but anyway my legs are no longer sore so I will be back to my normal back and forth at work 😁
15 sep 19 door lid: CrashtestDawnie
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A mile = roughly 100 calories = 1 tablespoon of butter
It's more effective short term to reduce the food intake.
15 sep 19 door lid: gz9gjg
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This is NOT an argument against exercise!
15 sep 19 door lid: gz9gjg
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Since you are lifting weights, your muscles may be retaining fluids in the repair process. That could be the case for you, maybe not. I am far from an expert on such matters. But you are doing the right things, and the transformations we all seek take time, effort, and consistency! 🙂
15 sep 19 door lid: SoHangry
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Sometimes our bodies are just stubborn! You are gaining muscle with all the working out so don't forget to factor that in - great job losing so much this week!!
15 sep 19 door lid: nikeit
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Yes, look at your numbers. Then look at your numbers when you were losing. I know you can see it clearly. Good luck!
15 sep 19 door lid: adefwebserver
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Water retention to help repair inflamed muscles and/or muscle gain.
15 sep 19 door lid: -Diablo
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Also, 7 days is nothing in the grand scheme. A pound of fat lost can be easily masked by water. We are 60% water. Just stick with it and you'll have a woosh.
15 sep 19 door lid: -Diablo
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6 pounds of fat would mean that you consumed an extra 21,000 calories in the week. That would be an extra 3,000 calories a day. Which of course you didn't. It's water and muscle.
15 sep 19 door lid: LZenn
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Thanks guys I know it's dumb to stress about not losing when I haven't really been trying for very long but ughh I've already been through this! The struggle to lose weight at a decent rate (one where effort and results are somewhere in the same ballpark) is a little nerve wracking. But I'm no longer obese and if I Really want to lose weight I KNow I can and I know the most effective way for me to do it. I'll stop stressing now 😅 I had ribs for dinner tonight so I wont be surprised by the scale tomorrow
15 sep 19 door lid: CrashtestDawnie
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@CrashtestDawnie - Also, at a certain point your 'personality' will 'kick in' and provide you the 'motivation' to 'achieve your goals' 👍🏾😁
16 sep 19 door lid: adefwebserver
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Lol that is true Adef and coming up soon 😉 If it weren’t for all this damn belly I’d be happy with where I’m at 😒
16 sep 19 door lid: CrashtestDawnie
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If you are lifting weights I would focus less on the scale and start doing pics/measurements/how your clothes fit - the changes are subtle so you need to be able to look back over time to see the difference. Salt also causes water retention - even if I have olives or something I can have several lb difference.If you are on IG or FB you can follow Endurance on 8th - Kevin and Wendy always has good tips and info about stuff like this.
16 sep 19 door lid: Rock639
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