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Please Help...I can't lose weight!!
I'm 48 years old. After a rather sedentary lifestyle for the past 10 years, I began making changes 6 months ago. I started going to the gym 5 days a week and walking briskly for 40 minutes, then 10 minutes on elliptical trainer. Four months ago, I added dumbbells to work my arms with all sorts of lifts and movements to add calorie burn during the 4 mile an hour trek. I have also cut out all white carbs and began eating high fiber cereals and sprouted grains, brown rice, lots of fresh fruits and veggies and upped my water intake...and during this 6 month period I have not lost a single pound!! I cannot believe that I can possibly consume enough calories in a day to cancel out the heavy sweating and hard work that I have been doing and it's very discouraging. What can be the reasons why nothing has changed in 6 months? What else can I do? Should I see a doctor?
It might be because your not eating enough and your bodies storing everything you eat. Its better to eat lots of small healthy meals. breakfast-snack-lunch-snack-dinner-fruit.
If your bodie feels starved its going to store all food as a survival skill. Its also best to do your work out befor breakfast, but anytime is a good time to work out.
Early in the morning before you eat, your levels of muscle and liver glycogen (stored carbohydrate) are low. If you eat dinner at 7 p.m and you eat breakfast at 7 a.m., that's 12 hours without food. During this 12-hour overnight fast, your levels of glycogen slowly decline to provide glucose for various bodily functions that go on even while you sleep. As a result, you wake up in the morning with depleted glycogen and lower blood sugar - the optimum environment for burning fat instead of carbohydrate. How much more fat you'll burn is uncertain, but some studies have suggested that up to 300% more fat is burned when cardio is done in a fasted, glycogen-depleted state.
If your bodie feels starved its going to store all food as a survival skill. Its also best to do your work out befor breakfast, but anytime is a good time to work out.
Early in the morning before you eat, your levels of muscle and liver glycogen (stored carbohydrate) are low. If you eat dinner at 7 p.m and you eat breakfast at 7 a.m., that's 12 hours without food. During this 12-hour overnight fast, your levels of glycogen slowly decline to provide glucose for various bodily functions that go on even while you sleep. As a result, you wake up in the morning with depleted glycogen and lower blood sugar - the optimum environment for burning fat instead of carbohydrate. How much more fat you'll burn is uncertain, but some studies have suggested that up to 300% more fat is burned when cardio is done in a fasted, glycogen-depleted state.
Thanks for your input, doctor. No, nothing fits better and the fact that the scale hovers in the same area for the last 6-7 months after adding all this exercise and changing my eating. I'm 5'10" and my weight stays in the 189-193 area, fluctuating by the day. Using this site to track my meals and exercise shows that I'm consuming less than 1700 calories per day. I'm walking at 4 mph with two 3lb. weights in exaggerated arm movements for 40 minutes, 5 days a week (which cannot be tracked correctly on this site because you can't combine two exercises at once) plus my husband and I go out and walk about 45 minutes in the evenings, about 4 days a week. I sweat like crazy while on the treadmill and I haven't lost pounds OR inches. How can this possibly be?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
How much do you weight? How tall are you?
Even if you haven't lost a pound, I bet you feel better, fit into your clothes more comfortably, and are healthier. Fitness is so important for your health - you should know that you have accomplished a lot, even if the scale doesn't say so.
Even if you haven't lost a pound, I bet you feel better, fit into your clothes more comfortably, and are healthier. Fitness is so important for your health - you should know that you have accomplished a lot, even if the scale doesn't say so.
I know what you mean. I've been helping with firewood and have been chucking these great big heavy rounds around over fences, etc. Plus come back from a run drenched in sweat. And I weigh pretty much the same regardless of how much energy I am exerting. =(
I figured in my case, because I'm not tracking what I'm eating, I'm actually eating enough to balance out the exercise. Which isn't a good thing when you want to lose weight.
Try keeping a food diary and see if that helps you pick up on any factor that may be adversely affecting your weight loss.
Despite having lost no weight do you feel better? Look better?
Sometimes with exercise you can be toned, etc but still weigh the same.
Try looking at Dr Beckerman's blogs. He has some great tips in his earliest one.
Don't give up. Keep persevering. Just look for things that may be holding you back which you can change.
You may be either over-estimating or under-estimating food and activity. Or maybe not eating enough. ??
I would start by looking at what and how much you're eating.
I figured in my case, because I'm not tracking what I'm eating, I'm actually eating enough to balance out the exercise. Which isn't a good thing when you want to lose weight.
Try keeping a food diary and see if that helps you pick up on any factor that may be adversely affecting your weight loss.
Despite having lost no weight do you feel better? Look better?
Sometimes with exercise you can be toned, etc but still weigh the same.
Try looking at Dr Beckerman's blogs. He has some great tips in his earliest one.
Don't give up. Keep persevering. Just look for things that may be holding you back which you can change.
You may be either over-estimating or under-estimating food and activity. Or maybe not eating enough. ??
I would start by looking at what and how much you're eating.
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