Been training for 6 weeks, with no weight loss. But I notice big changes in my body. Is this normal?

I am 5ft 5in. I weighed in at 166lb 6 weeks ago, and my weight today is still 166. I do heavy weight training 4-6 times a week, and I even try to incorporate 30-60min cardio sessions 3-4 times a week during a different part of the day from my weight training. I don't have a specific diet plan perse, but I dropped alot of foods that I was consuming before in big amounts. Chips, sodas, alcohol, ice cream, pastries and anything sugary and any empty calories in general. I even quit smoking cigarettes and weed, binge watching tv shows, and excessive playing of video games which are all habits of mine that lead to my bad eating habits especially snacking. I am not super strict with my diet, however I try to balance my macros (by pure estimates) and eating more lean meat, more complex carbs and healthier fats compared to what I was eating before. I do however still go eat the occasional In-n-out and other not so healthy restaurants maybe 1-3 times a week but I have cut back on my portions from what I have been eating before I started working out. And I went to these unhealthy restaurants pretty much every single day before, sometimes even every meal and with eating bigger portions plus I get soda. I even take whey protein everyday to meet my protein needs without having to consume too much meat. There are no changes in the scale, however I am noticing changes in my body. I have been getting stretch marks all over my body ( is this a sign of fat loss?), I feel alot stronger and I'm lifting alot stronger, I notice that I'm losing fat by looking at the mirror (even other people have noticed). I'm worried that the changes I see are all in my head and that I am doing something wrong.

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30 Pounds Down From January 2018 - Passive weight loss with Intermittent Fasting

Hi All. I started out at 289 pounds in January and yesterday weighed in at 258. I'm a big guy already & my goal is about 220, so I'm closing in! It's been slow but steady and I am fine with that. I wanted to share, in case this is helpful to some. I have been chubby since I was a teenager and have always struggled to lose weight, in spite of being very physically active for many years. I started working a desk job so-to-speak about 4 years ago and gained more weight. Once I saw how near I was to 300 lbs I knew I had to change something. I tried low carb, keto, paleo, etc. and being a foodie I always felt deprived so restriction diets never worked out. Then I learned about intermittent fasting. You can do more research as I don't follow a specific plan, but generally it's pretty straightforward. I try to eat only one main meal a day, and all food is typically eaten within an 8 hour window of the day. I'll have small snack in the late afternoon if I get too hungry, and then pretty much whatever I want for dinner. I drink water & black coffee mostly with the occasional soda and maybe 3-6 beers a week. I don't eat a lot of candy or sugary stuff, but it's not off limits, nor is any other food item. I don't really have an exercise regimen other than moving my body through the world and doing stuff, but I want to add in more structured exercise that isn't boring.

I started out using MyFitnessPal to track calories and set to lose 1lb per week. Yeah, I am a little behind the 1 lb a week after 11 months, but I don't care because that is not really my goal. It just helps as a caloric intake reference point. One of the ideas behind intermittent fasting, the way I understand it, is that you fast during most of the day and then feast for dinner, and unless you are just eating utter garbage for your feast meal, it's pretty hard to go over your recommended calorie intake for the day as you get full first. This has worked so well for me because I love food, and can't stand to be restricted on what types of foods I can eat. If I drink plenty of water and just have a small protein or fat based snack during the day just to keep my stomach from growling, I do not have a problem waiting until dinner for an actual meal. Then for dinner I can literally eat almost whatever I want. It took a small bit of getting used to at first, but was not difficult at all. Keeping my stomach from growling was the trick for me, water and light snacks accomplish this. Your mileage may vary. I try to eat normal home cooked food for most dinners, lots of salad, meat, veg, rice, occasional potatoes. But, there are nights when I eat taco bell or pizza or whatever. Nothing is off limits. After a while I stopped using MFP to count calories, because I noticed that with this pattern of eating I usually stay under my allotted calories for the day. Sometimes I go over, but so what? I do what I want! Still losing weight and no anxiety about numbers.

I know everyone likes plans and rules, but for me too many rules is annoying. I like to keep things simple, and this way of eating as worked out great for me, maybe it will for someone else too. I'm happy to answer any questions :-)

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Help Managing With An Unsupportive Spouse?

It’s not that my husband doesn’t want me to lose weight, he’s happy for me and says he wants to support me, it’s just that he clearly doesn’t understand what it’s like. Here’s some examples:

-We’ll set out to go to the store and he’ll decide to drive through Wendy’s and I’ll say I want nothing because I didn’t plan for that in my calories, he’ll say “are you sure? Just get a cheeseburger. It’s fine, it’s not a big deal. Here have a bite of mine. Here have some of my soda.” Basically making me say no several times.

-Last night he bought four bags of chips and pretzels to add to the three already in our cupboard and boxes of those Christmas tree shaped cakes even though I’ve said I’m trying to keep healthy snacks only in the house.

-Then the worst in my opinion is last night he made burgers and tater tots after I said I shouldn’t be eating that, he still set aside three burgers with cheese on them and everything and said those ones were made well done (he doesn’t like well done burgers so they wouldn’t get eaten if I didn’t eat them).

I explained to him how difficult it is for me to say no to unhealthy foods and how hard it is to even just watch him eating unhealthy foods and smell it. I didn’t ask him to stop eating it, I just asked him to stop offering especially if I’ve already said no once. He said ok, he understands and isn’t trying to be difficult, but still continues to do it. Just now he drove through a coffee stand and after saying no three times I couldn’t do it and ordered a drink that wasn’t planned for and he said just skip breakfast then. What do I do? I’m still just starting off on my weight loss and it’s so hard to say no!

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[Advice please] My BFF and I were both morbidly obese. I've lost the weight and she's embraced HAES.

I used to weigh 320 lbs (I'm 5'7" and female). Through calorie counting, I was able to get down to 160 lbs. It's been well over a year since I hit my goal, and I've pretty much stabilized.

My BFF has been through a million fad diets, but now that she's well over 300 pounds and has embraced the Health at Every Size movement. I love what the movement says about respecting people regardless of their size and encouraging people to love their bodies. However, my friend says things that absolutely drive me crazy and I just don't know how to handle it.

She has started to experience some health issues, including plantar fasciitis and sleep apnea. When talking about it she said, "The doctor tried to tell me that there was a connection between my weight and the sleep apnea, and I almost lost it on her!" She will not accept that there is a connection between her weight gain and her increasing health problems. I don’t know if it will do more harm than good to call her on this. I feel like deep down she knows this, and my pointing it out will only make her angry and defensive, or depressed and hurt.

Sometimes she'll say things like, "calorie counting simply doesn't work." And I'm like, "Hello? I lost half of my body weight doing it! What are you talking about!" I feel like I'm living proof that some of what HAES says just isn't true. I amhealthier now. I can run a 5k, sleep soundly through the night, and no longer have plantar fasciitis myself.

This is all also tied up in the fact that part of the HAES movement is combatting prejudice against obese people, which definitely exists. I lived with it for decades! And I can’t deny that part of the reason that I feel so much better now is that it’s simply easier to function in the world as an average-weight person. Our society values thinness and I will admit that I am now benefiting from that now. I never have to worry about sitting on an airplane or being seen as stupid/lazy due to my weight.

Recently we got into a discussion about weight loss progress pix. She hates them, because it’s like saying, “your body is bad, and my body is better now because it doesn’t look like yours.” I see her point, because there’s not really another form of discrimination that you can just change your body and be on the privileged side of the issue. For example, I can’t change my skin color or ethnicity. If I saw a progress pic that was like, “I went from black to white and now my life is so great!” I’d probably be offended too. But there’s so much more tied up in it. I’ve never posted progress pix, but if I did, I don’t think that’s really so wrong. It was a lot of work, and I’m proud of the result.

I guess I’m just ranting, but I’m also seeking advice. Does anyone have any ideas for things I can say when she makes comments like the ones denying that her weight and health issues are connected, or comments about the “myth” of calorie counting? Or is it better just to not say anything at all?

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Motivating myself to get to the gym

First time poster here but have been lurking on the sub for some time; sorry for formatting and lack of flair, I’m on mobile.

I’ve been heavy since puberty, (f) 19 years old at 115 kg, 5’5. After a long struggle with multiple diets and attempts at weight loss, I’ve finally started to get it together and am working on trying to feel and look better. I’m struggling with getting myself into the gym. I’m working with a personal trainer, twice a week, and am trying to make small changes to my diet. I stopped drinking chocolate milk (guilty pleasure), am minimizing the amount of soda I drink, cutting out cakes and doughnuts, etc. I wake up everyday telling myself I’m going to go to the gym and as a couple hours go by I get tired, demotivate myself, waste time, or the worst of all, get in the car and drive towards the gym but don’t go in. I left the house at 2:00 pm for the gym. It’s 2:41 and I’m sitting in the parking lot of a nearby Wendy’s sipping a root beer and just had a burger meal even though I ate chicken breast and salad at home a bit over an hour ago. I don’t know if anyone else goes through this but I can’t get myself to stay to my word. I want to lose weight, I want to get toned, I want to have more energy but I’m my own worst enemy. I can’t motivate myself and I can’t ask my friends for support right now because we have uni exams and everyone is too stressed and busy. I can’t even go to the gym with my friend and be accountable to her because of this. It’s so hard to get myself inside the gym. If anyone goes through these struggles of self motivation and has any tips on how to force myself into the gym, I’m all ears.

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Figuring out my downfalls!

I've been counting calories off and on for a long time. Probably since I was 16. I've had stretches where I don't, but it's always been a thing for me. So I generally have an idea of what food "costs" calorie wise. So I was naturally pretty confused as to why I was gaining or not losing this year despite eating fairly healthy.

Tracking my food again forced me to come to terms with the fact that yes, for most of the day, I do amazingly. But then 3 or 4 pm hits, and I find myself snacking, snacking, snacking. Snacking while waiting to pick up my husband, snacking while making dinner, snacking before bedtime. I'm bored, so I snack. I'm cleaning up the kitchen, so I nibble on things as I go. And maybe one or two small snacks aren't bad, but after polishing off a rather high calorie bag of nuts, I realized that I was making even good things bad for me by ignoring how much of the things I was really eating.

It's good to finally admit this about myself, but also frustrating. Most of my meals are solid. But then one of us pulls the chips and salsa out and before we know it, we've downed half the bag together.

I've started taking water with me everywhere I go and forcing myself to portion out any food I plan to eat so I can log it accurately. But I didn't realize the habit I had created until I started logging again. Pride goes before a fall.

So to my fellow long time calorie loggers, don't be me. Don't assume you know just how much you're eating if you haven't measured and logged. Mental notes will never, ever beat actually writing it down.

What is something you've learned about yourself this week when it comes to your weight loss? I can't be the only one haha.

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Mindless Eating at Work

Hello!

I recently started my weight loss journey, and I’ve begun to notice a habit of mindless eating at work. I work at a coffee shop that has nothing available to eat besides high calorie/sugary foods, and employees are allowed to eat whatever they want as long as it’s accounted for in inventory. This leads to me mindlessly snacking on a couple pastries/making myself several sugary drinks on an almost daily basis. I would say my binging at work is the biggest obstacle for me to lose weight.

Is there anyone who can relate to this is any way and how did you overcome it? I’ve tried bringing my lunch to work and telling myself to just not even touch the food we have there, but more often than not, I end up reaching for the “bad” food when I’ve been stressed out during my shift and I just take home the uneaten lunch I prepared.

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