Not shrinking??!!!! :-(

[nicki303]

Getting really frustrated & hoping for some thoughts on this....

I've so far lost 1st 11lbs on exante.... But no change in my clothes size & barely any inches lost?! Some of my clothes are ever so slightly looser but not very. I'm 5"2' & started this at 12st 12lbs & a size 16. I'm currently 11st 1lb & my goal is to get to 9st at which I've been before & was a size 10/12. I just don't understand it, & finding it really upsetting to be working so hard, getting the numbers but not any visual reward. With a goal of 2/3 dress sizes from a loss of just under 4st, I'd have assumed that having lost almost half the weight, I'd be down at least 1 size?? & I'm way off too if all the 14's I've got are anything to go by!!! I was also in the same clothes & sizes when I was about half a stone heavier than my exante start date so I'm really struggling to see it happening as surely I can't lose 2 & a half st with no change in size then 3 sizes in the next 2 stone??! When i started this I got some nice new clothes in a 14 to spur me on & it really motivated me but now it's just depressing me that after doing so well I'm no closer to wearing them :-(

Nicola x

 

[riapnut]

Hi Nicki,
I too was like you. I eas still the same size when i lost 2st of the 2st 7lbs ive currently lost. Then i had a week wherr i stayed the same, and that was the week i dropped a whole dress size! So weird!! So hang on in there The body works in mysterious ways

 

[Blue Butterfly]

The first approx 7lbs would have been water (your glycogen stores) not fat so that may be why you've not noticed a change in inches yet.

Also a few years ago I lost 4 stone on a healthy eating diet and had only just lost 1 dress size after losing all that.

Our bodies never do what we want them to weight/size wise!

 

[Mia]

A few years ago I was only about half a stone heavier than I am now and I was wearing a size 12. The only difference then was I was hitting the gym every single day and exercising flat out - that's what changes my body shape/size, not the diet. I can't execise they way I used to but still try to do something most days but must admit to myself that exercise is what works for me.

 

[nixib]

This week I ended up putting on a little, and yet I've had so many comments about my weight!! Be patient, it just seems to happen when you least expect it!

 

[nicki303]

Thank u all so much for your replies... Feeling a bit better now knowing that I'm not the only one! Was feeling extra glum that day as a friend who started dieting at the same time, similar start weight, same size clothes & lost half the amount I have had just told me she was now in size 12's!! I will keep at it, if the numbers keep going down my body's surely got to follow at some point! Thank u

Nicola xx

 

[spea]

i think it just depends on the person, i lost 3 stone last year by healthy eating yet i was the same clothes size and no one noticed. when i started exante, i lost 10lbs in the first week, went down a clothes size and everyone noticed. its very strange but the world does work in mysterious ways.

 

[riapnut]

Has anyone shrunk? I have a feeling my weight is going to STS this week as its that TOTM :-( grrrrrrrrrr.
Xx

 

[valentine]

Ive been at this diet malarky for years and have lost a bundle of weight..
i lost 4 stone when i started and NO ONE noticed!!! 21st 7lb to 17st 7lb... size 26 down to tight 22
I lost another stone taking me to 16st 7lb and a size 18 (never bought any size 20 clothes lol) everyone noticed lol..
Its a funny old thing losing weight and changing body shape... thats why ya gotta stick with it and you will get there in the end..
Now i am 13st 12lb. ( last time i weighed 5 days ago restart on TS) and i know i have lost a few pounds as my underwear is not pinching in so much and no VPL... im a size big14 small 16 ... i know when i am under 13st i will be a size 14 exactly.. I

I have times where i lose inches and no weight.. I have times when i lose weight and no inches....

There are just no set rules.... other than when you get to your right weight for your height that your clothes size will be what it should be..

Happy shrinking everyone xxxxxxxxxx

 

[Lanarkwitch]

Heres what my doctor told me about it. When you start losing weight, your fat cells which store all the water and nasty toxins as well, lose the water first, then you start burning the fat, as the fat goes the toxins come out (keep drinking that water!!). However, the fat cell, even when empty never goes away, it's there forever unless you get it sucked out or chopped off. On initially losing fat from a cell, the cell wall does not automatically shrink back, therefore you do not shrink immediately as you burn the fat off, so theoretically the fat cell could be empty for a while and not have reduced in size right away, hence you do not lose inches right away, thats why we get weeks where we lose 7lbs and see no difference in our clothes, then we can have a sts and drop a dress size, it's just the catch up of the fat cell shrinking.