Why am I not losing weight?

[Anonymous]

He guys,

I'm trying to get fit for the summer since September, but I haven't managed to lose as much as I thought I would have lost by now. :/

I'm 5'7 and 152 lbs, and have about 25% of body fat!

I don't know what I could do more, I gym twice a week and exercise at least 30 min a day. I don't drink soft drinks anymore, I have (almost) stopped eating sweets, I eat regularly and am eating much more fruits and veggies. I do see muscle growing, but no fat losing...

Any help would be really appreciated!

[various]

You can try doing intense interval training to break the plateau. It involves a short but intense workout routine (for example: sprinting on a treadmill for a minute and then walking for a minute and repeating this circuit for about 20 mins). Also, you can try to spend a little more time at the gym doing cardio and weight training. You can always find tons of information and ideas on what kind of workouts you can try out at the gym for specific target areas via google (although it's impossible to lose fat on one area only). If you have time and money, you can always hire a personal trainer.

As far as diet goes, it seems to me that if you're not eating any kind of crap food, you're doing well. I can offer some ideas or types of foods that you can add into your current diet. You can start drinking organic tea, white tea (for belly fat loss), and green tea. Try not to eat a huge dinner before bed and try to properly size your servings for all three meals. You can also add Rye bread into the mix. It has A LOT of fiber and even if you eat a slice for breakfast, you will stay comfortably full for majority of the morning and afternoon. Obviously it's important to eat other food groups as well. You can eat scrambled eggs with your Rye bread, have yogurt on the side, glass of milk and some fruit (an example of usually what I eat) It's whatever you're comfortable with. Adding more protein to your diet will also help and try to eat lean chicken and fish.

There is so much more I can add to this but the bottom line is: it's important to make sure you're healthy. Don't pay so much attention to the number on the scale because it's misleading. Some days you might have higher water retention or if you're working out at the gym, you're likely to gain muscle (which weight more than fat). So use your eyes as a guidance and how your clothes fit. I am sure that if you allow yourself to have more time at the gum (at least an hour) and if you add more protein and fiber into your diet, you'll see much better results. Good luck!

[Panqueque]

Are the exercises you are doing more lifting? Or more for toning different exercises aim to do different things for your body.. If you are lifting you'd gain more muscle and while muscle burns fat it'd look bigger because they are growing and if you were toning it's smaller reps repeated 4-5 times and do 6-8 different exercises aimed at say your legs, and then next time your at the gym work arms and abs! Don't give up girl the results will show!

[Blobb]

1. Are you working out right?

If you're seeing muscle growth chances are you're not doing high enough intensity. You want your workouts to be high rep, low weight, no rest. You should be at least drenched in sweat and possibly dizzy/want to puke from exertion at the end of it.

2. Check your Diet:

What's your calorie intake like?

Count calories for one typical day. And reduce that progressively until you see results. Do small incremental cuts, don't starve yourself. Just cut out the highest calorie dense foods one by one.

Stick with veggies, cut down fruit, tends to be full of fructose which enters your bloodstream and is stored as fat very fast.

3. What's your water intake like?

Whatever you're drinking now, drink a litre more. Then more if it still doesn't work. Water helps eliminate crap from our bodie and kills hunger too.

Lastly if you're doing everything right first consult a doctor to see if you have a condition. It's probably not the case but you could be in the 0.001% that do have conditions preventing weightloss somehow.

[MyNameIsJonas]

You have to count your calories because

1. if you are still eating above the amount of calories that you should and are not burning it off within a week you will lose nothing.

30 minutes of jogging at a medium pace on the tredmil (I'd say 6.5mph to 7.5mph on the speed setting) at 152lbs roughly burns off 342 calories. So twice a week is 684 calories. A pound of fat equals 3,500 calories. So your not doing enough. You can increase the frequencey or intensity.

Here are some articles to help you calorie count. link - link

[Anonymous]

You're eating too much.

Cutting out bad foods is great and all, but keep in mind that the most fit gym rats will only have a cheat meal once a week if that. So if you're eating a candy bar or shoving gummy bears in your mouth every day, you're packing on calories and that's why you're not losing fat.

Vegetables have a very low calorie/mass ratio, whereas a piece of cheesecake has a very high calorie/mass ratio. If your goal is to feel full, you're better off eating 400 calories of a healthy dish featuring vegetables than you are eating cheesecake (400 calories of cheesecake isn't even a whole piece).

Cut out the foods that have high calorie/mass ratios (fatty foods and foods packed with sugar) and eat more greens and lean meats such as skinless chicken breast.

[Racez]

Just wait for it. Your body's slowly adjusting to changes. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight.

You'll come to your desired body weight and shape eventually.

[kheserthorpe]

What's your waist, and how is it changing? How has the way your clothes fit changed?

Give us a typical daily diet.

What are your goals?

[UlsterScot]

If you limit carbs to 60g a day and moderate fat and alcohol, you will lose weight.