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Lost 8 lbs first week now haven't in 3 days?

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JoeyK

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I've been following the LCHF diet....athough accept for peanuts, my fat content hasn't been that high nor had my calorie intake....first week I lost 8 lbs now 3 days later the scale says I gained a pound? I know it was probably water weight I lost but frustrated the scales said a lbs higher since Sunday.
Also exercise for 30 minutes each day (which I've always done) and sometimes another 30 min walk at lunch if I have time.
 
weight loss seems to come in spits and spurts so give it a few more days and it will start to drop again hopefully. You may want to look at your peanut intake as they are quite high in protein and carbs. I admit I am addicted to them thought as well
 
protein is good though correct? The peanuts I bought say 5 grams of carbs per serving....so if that's the only carbs I'm getting besides what in veggies, coffee creamer, and my gum....I think I'm ok? I hope. Maybe too much fat in peanuts though.
 
what is a serving - search the pack and find out!
 
At best, the 8 pounds you lost in the first week was a confidence booster. However, like you mentioned, nearly all of that was the result of simply changing your diet rather than actual fat lost.

Moving forward, losing 1 pound a week is a solid result for most people. Unless you have a significant (100+ lbs) amount of weight to lose, dropping 2 pounds a week is going to be an aggressive goal and difficult for most people to achieve.

When you break those numbers down, you're talking about the scale moving roughly 2-4 ounces (16-32oz a week divided by 7) each day. Many household scales only measure in .5lbs increments.

In your case, over three days that equates to 6-12 ounces lost (again, that's assuming you're aggressively losing weight).

Now, I'm not sure about you, but my daily activities cause my weight to fluctuate a lot more than 6-12 ounces.

I'll easily gain 5+ lbs after dinner (including the 32-64 ounces of water I drink)
In the summer months, I can easily sweat away 6-8 pounds of water after running for an hour
I lose ~2 pounds between the time I go to sleep and the time I wake up in the morning.


My point is to show you that your numbers are this point mean nothing. They certainly sound good to me, but it's still too early to tell. Don't get discouraged or frustrated. There's absolutely nothing to suggest (at this point) that things aren't working for you.

Side note: exercising for 30 minutes was a great choice you made and you should keep it up, but you can't expect that to equate to massive weight loss numbers. Walking for 30 minutes may burn 200-250 calories (which equates to losing about an ounce)
 
Another day and no change on scale....I went from 236 lbs to 227 in a week and now 5 days at 228....eat a piece of turkey bacon and coffee (creamer, no sugar) for breakfast....salad for lunch (consists of lettuce, cucumbers, artichoke, pieces of turkey and ham, and a small amount of cheese) light dressing but only use a quarter of the package....usually all protein and vegetable for dinner. Last night 1 hamburger lean (6 grams of fat), 1 piece or cheese, and mushrooms....no bread.
 
Yesterday my weight fluctuated between 208lbs and 213 (edited typo)....it meant absolutely nothing.

If you're concerned that you're not losing weight then either reduce your calorie intake and/or exercise more. If it were me I'd still give it more than 4 days.

I say this from experience, but if you weigh yourself every single day, you're going to go insane and you're setting yourself up for failure.
 
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Thanks. I know weight fluxuates throughout the day....I only weigh myself in the morning.
 
"The old conventional wisdom was: 'Don't weigh yourself more once a week. It will drive you crazy,' " says Dori Steinberg, an obesity prevention and treatment researcher at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. "But now we are seeing more and more research showing that the optimal frequency for weighing oneself is likely every day."
Taken from an article in USA Today.

A link to the article http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2016/01/03/weight-loss-scales-daily/77584478/
 
JoeyK said:
Another day and no change on scale....I went from 236 lbs to 227 in a week and now 5 days at 228....eat a piece of turkey bacon and coffee (creamer, no sugar) for breakfast....salad for lunch (consists of lettuce, cucumbers, artichoke, pieces of turkey and ham, and a small amount of cheese) light dressing but only use a quarter of the package....usually all protein and vegetable for dinner. Last night 1 hamburger lean (6 grams of fat), 1 piece or cheese, and mushrooms....no bread.
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For me, I would ditch ALL dairy, including cream in coffee and cheese as well as all other dairy and see if that helps. Dairy is a well known weight staller. I know has packed the pounds on me in the past.
That being said , I went from 133.5 to 127 the 1st two weeks and stuck now too but as Tork said, weight can stall and then drop as the body adjusts. It can fear losing to fast and then regroups if you will. Ride it out
Other than dairy it doesn't look like a high calorie diet. Maybe switch dairy for avocado , not in your coffee though haha
 
I go up and down daily by 2kg 4 or 5lbs, recently after a 3 month 20kg loss, I've stayed roughly the same, but as I've also been weight training for past few weeks I've therefore been firming up, muscle weighs more than fat so I'll take staying the same weight as a victory, you might be sliming down in shape.

My weight loss might have stalled but my body shape is still changing for the better, I use coconut oil, butter, cheese, nuts, olive oil, double cream, Avocardos etc and weighed daily, which I've found very helpful, I also get weighed by medical staff at various hospital depts which helps confirm my weight loss. I don't take notice of weekly loss and prefer to gauge losses on a monthly basis, as my daily and weekly weight can swing by up to 2-3kg depending on my intake and outputs both in terms of food and exercise.

I rather not call it a diet as for me it's been a life changer, it's been my lifestyle for 4 months and has been genuinely easy to follow and I intend to carry with the main principles LCHF

Just stick with it and give it time.
 
So when I stall I always wait for it to be a fortnight plateau and then I kick start it again by having a major change. A big blow out (relative of course) for the weekend and then back to it. Seems to get the metabolism going again. You have to keep the body guessing. Always doing the same gets it into a comfortable zone
 
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So when I stall I always wait for it to be a fortnight plateau and then I kick start it again by having a major change. A big blow out (relative of course) for the weekend and then back to it. Seems to get the metabolism going again. You have to keep the body guessing. Always doing the same gets it into a comfortable zone
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I agree, but it sounds like he's nowhere close to that point yet. Judging by his timeline he's less than two weeks into the new change.
 
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