I'd love to lose weight and get fitter

[pistachionut]

the whole new year new me thats what i wanted to do. But it just seems hopeless. i am desperately trying to lose weight and get fitter. I started on the 1st of January and i did research on how to lose weight in a safe way and a way i can continue. i have been getting my ten thousand steps every single day i have been exsercising six times a week and have started running and i have been eating in a calorie deficit usually around 1500-1700 calories a day but always in a deficit. i started out at 83 kg on the 28th of december the day after my 17th birthday  and now on February 9th i am still at 83kg . i really dont know what im doing wrong. if someone could help me out that would be amazing because i am feeling so hopeless.

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[Glenda]

@pistachionut I admire your effort, determination and research.  But all the studies show that people who start exercise programs to lose weight eat more and DON'T LOSE WEIGHT.  I think you should find an  enjoyable kind of reasonable exercise for good health and forget calorie deficits.  Google "How many calories should a person your size, weight, age, & gender eat to maintain weight doing a modest amount of exercise.  Then eat 500 or 250 calories less each day to lose weight.   You need to take the long term view.  What  can you continue doing for the length of time it would take if you lost 2 pounds a week?  What exercise would be convenient with the equipment you have available that you could enjoy.  I read on a treadmill and have every day for decades.  Maybe you like to dance or something.  You weight depends on what you eat.  If you are not losing you must eat fewer calories.  Best wishes.

[WilsonFitbit]

Hello @pistachionut, welcome to the community forums! @Glenda, it's so nice to see you around and thanks for your input! 

@pistachionut please don't give up, sometimes it could be hard but I'm sure you will be able to achieve your goal. Here is another tip, cut Your Calories by 500 to 750 per Day. Next, crunch the numbers. Figure out how many calories you really need, and reduce that number by 500 to 750 calories per day, in order to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week. The food logging feature in the Fitbit app makes it extra easy. Just don’t dip below the bare minimum your body needs, 1200 calories per day for women, or 1500 for men.

In addition, you can take a look at this Fitbit blog that I'm sure, would help yo to continue working on your goal. 

Thanks for sharing your experience! See you around. 

[Heybales]

Great job on getting fit.

That's what exercise is for - side effect is usually water weight gain for many reasons.

Diet is for weight management. Eat less than you burn by reasonable amount - fat loss.

Unreasonable add muscle mass to what is lost, and add stress water weight gain. You do sound a tad stressed from the situation. Hence getting a good read on what you burn in total so the deficit is good for your body.

Good job logging your calories eaten - as that takes care of the issue Glenda mentions where people without tracking food don't lose weight from exercise alone many times. Can't outrun a bad diet, weight loss starts in the kitchen, ect.

Only thing exercise does is allows you to burn more in a day.

Would you rather burn 2000 being sedentary and eat 1500 to lose weight?

Or get fit and exercise and burn 2500, and eat 2000 to lose same amount of weight?

Some exercise can make some people hungrier, some not, same as some foods do the same thing.

But you say you are eating in a deficit - and no complaints around that, so good, perhaps found what works for you.

You do have a device though that is estimating what you burn, it may need to be tweaked, rather than a formula for statistical average that requires a bunch of guesses from you.

How big of a deficit are you supposedly eating in since you said you are already?

Do you log all food eaten by weight? Because calories is per gram.

Not per spoon, cup, or "estimated 2 servings per package".

Do you confirm the database item matches the label in hand if one to see?

How often do you eat out or take out food - those are very rough estimates?

10K steps is a lot, daily activity is estimated for calorie burn by distance moved.

Ever walked a known distance at average daily pace (2.9 kph) and confirmed Fitbit was correct, at least a 1 K walk?

Stride length could be wrong and you are getting inflated calorie burn. That many steps it matters.

What is the type of workouts being done 6 x weekly, for how long?

Fitbit would be using HR-based calorie burn for exercise, but that is only a decent calculation (it's not a reading, it's formula) for steady-state aerobic.

If HR is all over the place like interval type stuff - inflated calorie burn.

If it's only 15 min a day no big whoop. If it's over an hour then big deal.

Running too could be inflated depending on fitness level. Sometime take a run you did with known distance and time, and manually create a Workout Activity where you put in distance and time and see what the calculated calories is, how does it compare?

Because calculated in this case is very accurate - more than HRM calculation actually since treadmills have been used in research studies for decades.

Use the same start time and duration, it'll overwrite Fitbit's estimate for calories, but keep the other useful data you'll want to compare later for increasing fitness.

Also - being under 18 means you are still a growing teenage - what is a reasonable deficit for an adult body is not for yours, your body can find stress in undereating too much and you'll get negative consequences - so how much to lose to healthy weight range?