I wouldn’t expect to lose weight on 1600 calories. Plus it will take more than a month.

Your BMI is in the normal range. I can't imagine you actually look 5-6 months pregnant. If that's true you have very little muscle mass.

Gym changes take 6-12 months. Keep with it and measure your muscle mass, not just the scale.

Anonymous wrote:Walking should be your focus. 15-20k steps per day. And reduce your calories to 1200-1400.

All of this. Lifting weights doesn't burn that many calories. It's really about your diet. You are eating too much, either not tracking correctly or you need to eat less.

I think real hiit (not orange theory) 2-3x a week works for fat loss.

If you do it right it does not increase appetite.

Anonymous wrote:It's going to take more than 1 month. You really need to be going to the gym 4-6x a week and doing cardio, not just strength. You need to burn fat rather than build muscle now. Once you lose say 10-15lbs of fat I would then start adding weights into your routine. Looks for HIIT, Cycle classes, incline treadmill walks for 3 miles (can be done in an hour at a good pace), treadmill running.

This isn't great advice. Cardio is good for losing weight, not so much for losing fat. For that you need strength training and eating in a calorie deficit. Cardio increases appetite so can make it more difficult to eat less. Do not wait to add weights into your routine. Do both, but focus more on strength training and diet.

Keep doing what you’re doing OP. Come back after 3 months and tell us how it’s going. Try to avoid the Halloween candy and holiday treats!

Anonymous wrote:It's going to take more than 1 month. You really need to be going to the gym 4-6x a week and doing cardio, not just strength. You need to burn fat rather than build muscle now. Once you lose say 10-15lbs of fat I would then start adding weights into your routine. Looks for HIIT, Cycle classes, incline treadmill walks for 3 miles (can be done in an hour at a good pace), treadmill running.

NP and cardio does absolutely nothing for me. Less than nothing. Only strength training.

This is me too. I have not increased exercise because it makes me ravenous, instead I am doing IF. I haven't lost nor gained since July. I think I'm going to have to do more exercise but the feeling of being super hungry is uncomfortable.

That was me. I had metabolic dysfunction and, still, no one will treat it. I can't lose a pound.

Walking should be your focus. 15-20k steps per day. And reduce your calories to 1200-1400.

I’m older than you and it about 90 days. I jumped into hiit/strength training and unfortunately got an injury a month in. Kept eating clean and had to go light on certain hiit exercises and only lifting parts of my body that I did not injure.

After I recovered from injury I really could only do hiit 2x a week as more was too hard on my body. Kept with weights 5x a week or more.

About 9 months in and I tone, defined stomach and can wear whatever I want.

Weight wise down about 15lb but a lot more muscle across the board.
I used brickhouse field of greens, collagen peptides and glucosamine chondritin for joints, creatine and nucific bio-x for gut health.
No alcohol, low carb and high protein. Water with lemon all the time and game on.

It's going to take more than 1 month. You really need to be going to the gym 4-6x a week and doing cardio, not just strength. You need to burn fat rather than build muscle now. Once you lose say 10-15lbs of fat I would then start adding weights into your routine. Looks for HIIT, Cycle classes, incline treadmill walks for 3 miles (can be done in an hour at a good pace), treadmill running.

OP here, about 4 weeks.

How long have you been consistently eating reduced calories and increasing your caloric output?

38 years old
F
5’5”
2 years post-partum with last kid
145 lbs (was 120 before kids)

Unfortunately lived a very sleep-deprived and sedentary lifestyle; emotionally ate garbage for years.

Joined a gym a month ago and have been regularly attending whole body strength training classes 4x/week and *really* changed my diet to eat clean without cheating (plant based). Using noom to count calories in the 1500-1800 range. I’ve gotten blood work done, all normal.

The scale hasn’t budged, my clothes still don’t fit. I still look 5-6 months pregnant from the side (but carry weight everywhere).

When can I realistically expect to start seeing some results? How can I otherwise kick start the weight loss?