Hard time staying positive when no results are seen

[mk0831]

I know its only been a week since I started my healthy eating. I did however workout before that like a crazy woman.

Not seeing any results at all, actually feeling more bloated and heavy some days. Not sure if anyone else is feeling like that, or if anyone has any advice they can give me on how to shred pounds off really quick. I am going cardio 40-60 min a day then continue with 30-40 min lifting sesion, either legs,abs,arms,back ect. depending one what day it is I pay attention to a specific body part. 

Again still feeling bloated and heavier, I dont even want to step on the scale to see my weight change.

Any advice is highly appricated!

[yldthng]

You only mentioned "healthy eating," but are you logging all of your food and staying within recommened limits?

[SunsetRunner]

If you are feeling bloated, you might be eating too frequently, or eating too much at once when you do eat. Take a couple-few hours in between eating to allow your food to digest. Although calories taken in and burned are the easiest way to measure hypothetical weight loss, you also have to think about how your body digests food. For instance, I cannot diget meat, so even though it has little calories (ie tuna, jerkey, llunch meat, etc.), it will make my stomach hurt for about a day, and I will feel bloated and my body can't "burn" it so i get bloated because its moreso not even digesting. Discontinue eating food that you are not tolerant to, and also be sure to eat fiber (fruits, fiber one bars, oats). My friend used to get blaoted if she ate processed foods because the sulfur or some preservative was wacky. 

A lot of carbohydrates, salts, sugar, and alcohol can also make you retain water and make you feel bloated. 

Good luck and I hope things get better. 

[SunsetRunner]

You can also be eating too much fiber. There is a limit. 

[josephz2va]

It depends on your food intake and quality of the food if you're feeling bloated. If you consume too many carbohydrates and sodium for example, your body can feel very heavy. Restaurants are the worst with heavy sodium and carbohydrates packed in tiny meals from 30 to 300 carbohydrates and 200 to 4000 sodium.

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Also the lifting session if you're overlifting (+10-20 lbs over your lifting capability) like many do, your muscles can feel bloated caused by lactic acid formed when overlifting.

[carl669]

how many pounds are you trying to lose?  if you only need to lose a few, doing it properly will take some time.  sure, you could barely eat anything and probably shed pounds quickly, but you know they would just come back.  

also, make sure you weigh in on a valid day, especially with all the workouts you are doing.  @Heybales has a pretty good explanation of when you should weigh in to get the most accurate result. (i can't seem to remember the details)

[lonerchick]

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@mk0831 wrote:

I know its only been a week since I started my healthy eating. I did however workout before that like a crazy woman.

Not seeing any results at all, actually feeling more bloated and heavy some days. Not sure if anyone else is feeling like that, or if anyone has any advice they can give me on how to shred pounds off really quick. I am going cardio 40-60 min a day then continue with 30-40 min lifting sesion, either legs,abs,arms,back ect. depending one what day it is I pay attention to a specific body part. 

Again still feeling bloated and heavier, I dont even want to step on the scale to see my weight change.

Any advice is highly appricated!

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After a week of "starving" and exercising I keep hoping I've lost at least 5 pounds. I'm lucky if I have lost a single pound.

[Heybales]

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@mk0831 wrote:

I know its only been a week since I started my healthy eating. I did however workout before that like a crazy woman.

Not seeing any results at all, actually feeling more bloated and heavy some days. Not sure if anyone else is feeling like that, or if anyone has any advice they can give me on how to shred pounds off really quick. I am going cardio 40-60 min a day then continue with 30-40 min lifting sesion, either legs,abs,arms,back ect. depending one what day it is I pay attention to a specific body part. 

Again still feeling bloated and heavier, I dont even want to step on the scale to see my weight change.

Any advice is highly appricated!

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Extreme for the purpose of "really quick" will see you back here next year attempting to do this all over again.

As you've seen from past experience, exercise by itself does not cause weight or fat loss. Studies have shown without watching food, people eat enough or more than enough to wipe out whatever extra exercise burned.

So you must count - accurately by weight, all the food that goes in your mouth. "Healthy" ain't enough, whatever that means to you. People eat unhealthy, and less than they burn, and lose fat.

Don't stress the body out too much with extreme diet attempts and extreme exercise - that just turns your exercise in to mediorce workouts, and makes your body adapt to lower level of eating.

Like, if you really want to transform your body which people see, rather than you on the scale in the bathroom that people don't see, make that lifting a priority.

Maybe 5 min cardio warmup, but then move in to a specific lifting program. Not  just a body part a day a week - that's not enough at all to ask the body to make max improvements. You'll need 3 x weekly for each body part, so 3 x full body would be better for most of the time. And full body compound lifts using the big major muscles. Don't even waste time on curls and kickbacks - every push and pull lift will work those muscles already.

Then follow up with 15 min cardio cool down.

The other days do your time with easy cardio, just to get the blood flowing to help repair after a good lifting session. But not so hard you kill the repair process and waste the workout.

That will retain muscle mass while in a diet. That will transform the body.

Now, the kicker is weight lifting doesn't burn as much as cardio for time - so you'll have to eat less than you would otherwise.

But pick a reasonable deficit, may not be that low.

And you MUST manually log Weights, because Fitbit is badly underestimating calorie burn based on steps seen. So that will help you eat a bit more.

As to those valid weigh in days, to minimize the known and expected fluctuations of water weight changes.

Morning after rest day eating normal sodium levels, not sore from last workout.

Any other weigh-in day is just noise until you have 2 months of data to see a trend, for a woman. So don't even waste emotion on bogus weigh-ins if you can see weight change for what it really is.

[mk0831]

@carl669 thanks so much and im trying to lose 14 pounds!

[gerrymcd]

If you make a dramatic change to you diet it usually takes a while for your body to adjust.   Talking from personal experience, just because a food is 'healthy' it can have as many, or even more, calories than junk food (for example, its very easy to rackup a ton of calories by snacking on stuff like dried fruit and/or nuts).