joined zumba last year/ 25# heavier this year HELP!!!

candicelvt123

No meds, I was trying this diet pill and that diet pill.....idk, I will fix it as best as I can

cathy120861

i just read a super interesting article about why people who exercise a lot often either gain weight, or lose much less than one would expect. the article gave two possible reasons:

1. people over-estimate the number of calories they burn while exercising. They think they can eat a whole lot more because they have exercised, and end up taking in more calories than they actually use. Be careful with calorie burn estimates, here and anywhere. they are often too high.

2. people who exercise then move less the rest of the time than they otherwise would. in other words. even though you burn 200 calories exercising, you spend the rest of the day recovering, and burn fewer calories than you would have if you hadnt exercised at all.

neither one of these would explain such a dramatic weight gain, but they may be useful going forward.

SwankyTomato

candicelvt123 wrote: »

No meds, I was trying this diet pill and that diet pill.....idk, I will fix it as best as I can

Oh that could certainly be your cause. A "diet pill" is still medication.

kellycasey5

Do you have a heartrate monitor? I remember how disappointed I was when I wore mine to the gym one day. The machines, even with age and weight programmed, grossly overestimated my calorie burn. The only workouts where my calorie burn from heartrate monitor matched how hard I felt I worked were bootcamp class and kickboxing. If the sweat isn't pouring off my ponytail and hitting the floor, I didn't get more than 300 calories burnt. And, it was very easy for me to eat an extra cookie because I went running or go out to dinner or even just eat more per meal because I was hungrier! Try the logging, try a heartrate monitor! Good luck! You will get to the bottom of this and lose weight!

DancingMoosie

I think the only way to get an idea of what is going on is for you to log everything accurately for a while. You do not have an open diary, so there is no way to figure anything out. Putting on 20lb in that short of a time is alarming, but you need more information. If you are logging accurately and still can't figure it out, see a new doctor.

brianpperkins

candicelvt123 wrote: »

After 8 weeks of zumba , 2-3x/week I gained a staggering 20#! My doctor did a metabolic blood panel on me and I'm all normal. I need some answers or guidance.

If your tests came back good the gain is a combination of water from glycogen replenishment resultant from exercise and fat from being on the wrong side of the calories in, calories out equation. Without a log of what you ate and actually did in the form of exercise over the past few weeks, all anyone here can do is guess to specifics.

kellycasey5 wrote: »

Do you have a heartrate monitor? I remember how disappointed I was when I wore mine to the gym one day. The machines, even with age and weight programmed, grossly overestimated my calorie burn. The only workouts where my calorie burn from heartrate monitor matched how hard I felt I worked were bootcamp class and kickboxing. If the sweat isn't pouring off my ponytail and hitting the floor, I didn't get more than 300 calories burnt. And, it was very easy for me to eat an extra cookie because I went running or go out to dinner or even just eat more per meal because I was hungrier! Try the logging, try a heartrate monitor! Good luck! You will get to the bottom of this and lose weight!

HRMs are inaccurate for bootcamp and kickboxing type workouts. The heart rate stays elevated when the effort level drops ... a HRM cannot differentiate between the two effort levels and calculates inaccurately based on the one thing it really counts, heart beats.

deksgrl

candicelvt123 wrote: »

No meds, I was trying this diet pill and that diet pill.....idk, I will fix it as best as I can

You gained the weight while trying different diet pills?

Agree with Brianperkins, not enough information.