How long?

[lazybumswife]

How long should it take after starting weights and gaining to start loosing. I was walking and noticing my body to start changing but not loosing weight. My husband finally got our Bowflex hooked up and I started using it. I've been doing it now for two full weeks 3x a week now. I'm still gaining instead of loosing, my body is still changing shape but the scale doesn't reflect anything. Just curious how long typically it takes once weights are introduced to see a change. 

According to Boflex in 6 weeks people typically see 16.9lbs weight change following my routine.

[Dominique]

It all depends on the caloric deficit you will be able to achieve. The deficit can be obtained by increasing exercise and/or decreasing intake. You’re only talking about one of these factors (exercise). The other (nutrition) is even more important.

The size of your deficit depends on the amount of weight you want to lose.

16.9 pounds in 6 weeks is 2.8 pounds per week. You need a 3500 calorie deficit in order to lose one pound. You would therefore need a (3500 x 2.8) / 7 = 1400 calorie daily deficit in order to achieve the 16.9 pounds weight loss in 6 weeks (if I got the math right). It’s most probably way too high. Slow and steady usually wins the race.  

[Dominique]

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@lazybumswife wrote:

my body is still changing shape but the scale doesn't reflect anything.

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Something else: take measurements, for instance of your waistline, on a regular basis, and write them down. They’re often a better indication than weight.

[SebringDon]

@lazybumswife

Just to emphasize what @Dominique said, weight loss is not achieved with exercise, it's achieved with calorie deficit. If you're not logging what you eat and what you burn and working on a calorie deficit, it's quite possible to exercise like crazy and gain weight. If you eat exactly what you used to eat before and get a lot more exercise, you'll be in a calorie deficit, but most people don't do that. Instead, they'll eat more because they're burning more, and may or may not lose weight in the long run.

You can't guesstimate your calorie consumption and get anywhere near realistic figures. Get a kitchen scale, log calories in and calories out, establish a reasonable deficit, and you will lose weight, regardless of how much exercise you're doing.

And 2.8 pounds sounds like magic because it is. Unless you've got well over 40 pounds to lose, you're losing weight too fast at that rate, and you're going to introduce some long-term problems for some short-term gains that probably won't last any longer than your willpower to keep driving yourself at that level of exercise.