Help.. Not losing weight (weight loss, hormones, pounds, workouts)
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I'm a female, 5'6" 196 pounds and have been on a 1300-1400 a day healthy diet and doing 30 minute exercises on an elliptical almost daily, mixed with ab workouts and some strength training on other days. I've been following this for three weeks and I haven't lost one pound. I know I'm counting calories correctly, I measure and record every calorie. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm on the verge of crying and giving up.
Are you writing down every single thing you eat? That can be very enlightening. Even when you think you are doing everything right, extra calories can creep in if you are not diligent.
Other than that keep plugging away. There are lots of variables, especially for women. Hormones play a huge role in losing weight. You may find in another week the pounds will start coming off.
Another thing you can do is up the intensity of your workouts. Add in some HIIT and up the weights on your strength training. Also, stretch out that 30 minutes to an hour.
Are you drinking water? I agree with the HIIT and it could just be 30 second spurts of going faster and then slowing back down. You might be gaining muscles if you didn't have any to begin with. The muscles weighs more than fat and it's replacing fat.
What I've been doing in the past 6-7 weeks is getting up every time there's a commercial on tv. If it's on DVR, that means I'm jogging in place or jumping jacks for the 30 seconds it takes to fast forward. If it's live TV, I'm pacing around the room with a fast pace to increase my heart rate. I've lost 12 pounds since the first week of December. It's not just the exercise time you're doing. It's about the increased heart rate throughout the day that helps. I also pace when I'm on the phone and only sit if I need to take notes during the call.
This is not uncommon if a person was very sedentary before. One of the first adaptations to endurance exercise is to increase blood volume. Since you have more blood, this will show up on the scale when you weigh yourself. It's not uncommon for people to actually gain weight in the beginning stages of becoming physically active.
I'm a female, 5'6" 196 pounds and have been on a 1300-1400 a day healthy diet and doing 30 minute exercises on an elliptical almost daily, mixed with ab workouts and some strength training on other days. I've been following this for three weeks and I haven't lost one pound. I know I'm counting calories correctly, I measure and record every calorie. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm on the verge of crying and giving up.
If you are truly only eating 1300-1400 calories a day, try bumping it up to 1500 or 1600 for awhile and see how that goes. You should still be eating well below your BMR even at 1600 calories and should still lose weight.
Probably your body is just in shock because you likely significantly cut your calories and went from zero exercise to daily working out all at the same time; if you keep it up eventually you should start to see your weight go down. The female cycle is also a real challenge for weight loss; no matter how good my diet, I only ever see the scale go down two weeks out of the month. The other two weeks it stays the same or goes up several pounds.
I'm a female, 5'6" 196 pounds and have been on a 1300-1400 a day healthy diet and doing 30 minute exercises on an elliptical almost daily, mixed with ab workouts and some strength training on other days. I've been following this for three weeks and I haven't lost one pound. I know I'm counting calories correctly, I measure and record every calorie. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm on the verge of crying and giving up.
If you just started your weight loss journey, it can take a while to see results. Just keep doing what youa re doing. Don't give up.
Sometimes, an idea for tweaking will happen, as you figure out the process. As your body acclimates itself to the new caloric restrictions and exercises.
Good luck!!
Are you writing down every single thing you eat? That can be very enlightening. Even when you think you are doing everything right, extra calories can creep in if you are not diligent.
Other than that keep plugging away. There are lots of variables, especially for women. Hormones play a huge role in losing weight. You may find in another week the pounds will start coming off.
Another thing you can do is up the intensity of your workouts. Add in some HIIT and up the weights on your strength training. Also, stretch out that 30 minutes to an hour.
Yes, I literally track every single thing that I put in my body. Very religiously. Also, I do some HIIT on the elliptical, but I will consider doing that more regularly than my other elliptical workouts. I definitely agree that working out longer could be beneficial.
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Make sure you use a digital food scale to measure everything but liquids. You would be surprised how much of a difference there can be between 1/2 C. of oatmeal and measuring it in grams.
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