I've hit a plateau!!
Jurra13
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My goal weight is around 130. I weigh 150 right now. I've been stuck between 146-156 for the past year and a half.
I've been going to the gym and running alot more. And lifting weights. My arms are toning up but my belly/love handles are going nowhere. Any advice on core workouts?
I've been going to the gym and running alot more. And lifting weights. My arms are toning up but my belly/love handles are going nowhere. Any advice on core workouts?
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count calories. You are eating more than you think or you have a medical issue and still eat more than you think.0
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How many calories are you consuming per day? If you're looking to lose weight, you need to fix what you eat, not do different workouts. (Even though adding workouts will help create a caloric deficit)
Eat less if you're not losing!0 -
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Weight loss comes down to eating less than you burn. If you aren't tracking your calories, you can't be sure you're doing that.0
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Over the past couple weeks I've definitely changed what I eat. I've cut out soda and started portioning. I can eat about the same amount of food as a football player. I usually eat 2-3 huge meals. But like I said over the past few weeks I've drastically cut down on portions and eat about 5-6 small meals through out the day. I've noticed with my change in no soda or sugary drinks I feel alot better.0
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Over the past couple weeks I've definitely changed what I eat. I've cut out soda and started portioning. I can eat about the same amount of food as a football player. I usually eat 2-3 huge meals. But like I said over the past few weeks I've drastically cut down on portions and eat about 5-6 small meals through out the day. I've noticed with my change in no soda or sugary drinks I feel alot better.
This does not mean calorie deficit which is how you lose weight.
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Over the past couple weeks I've definitely changed what I eat. I've cut out soda and started portioning. I can eat about the same amount of food as a football player. I usually eat 2-3 huge meals. But like I said over the past few weeks I've drastically cut down on portions and eat about 5-6 small meals through out the day. I've noticed with my change in no soda or sugary drinks I feel alot better.
But are you tracking and weighing what you eat?
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Over the past couple weeks I've definitely changed what I eat. I've cut out soda and started portioning. I can eat about the same amount of food as a football player. I usually eat 2-3 huge meals. But like I said over the past few weeks I've drastically cut down on portions and eat about 5-6 small meals through out the day. I've noticed with my change in no soda or sugary drinks I feel alot better.
It's difficult to help without being able to look at your food diary and also know your stats.
It's also hard to know where you stand without seeing what you burn every day and the track the food you're eating. You might be eating too much or too little, but without knowing exactly what your intake is, it's tough to see.
You need to track your food for a while and see where you stand.0 -
We need some stats, age, gender, height, starting weight?0
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If you've not been consistent with calorie intake that year and a half, it's NOT a plateau.My goal weight is around 130. I weigh 150 right now. I've been stuck between 146-156 for the past year and a half.
I've been going to the gym and running alot more. And lifting weights. My arms are toning up but my belly/love handles are going nowhere. Any advice on core workouts?
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I don't weigh what I eat, no.
And I just started tracking what I eat today.
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I don't weigh what I eat, no.
And I just started tracking what I eat today.
Ok that's a start. Not going to say "it takes time" but you need to find out what is working and what is holding you back, so I would track and eat 1500 calories a day for now (not 1200) and give it atleast a month. And when I mean track, yes ...I mean track it to the calorie. You need to be consistent to see if it's working.
Food type doesn't matter, we need to see why you're not consistently losing. It could very well be that you may already be a good weight and you need to be even more precise and consistent to lose more weight.
If after a month you have no results, then go up or down in cals.
How tall are you? How active is your lifestyle?0 -
You are basically on maintenance within a window of 10 pounds for the last 18 months.
You need to eat fewer calories (or exercise more).
Careful logging is the key.0 -
I don't weigh what I eat, no.
And I just started tracking what I eat today.
Well then the good news is that you are not in a plateau. Get a digital kitchen scale and weigh any food that you can and then log it all. If there is some reason why you cannot weigh it, use measuring cups/spoons. If there's a reason why you can't do that (e.g., eating out) learn how to judge portion sizes. If you google "portion size chart" you'll get a ton of charts that show you how to do that. Log everything. Eat the goal that MFP gives you. If you exercise, log those calories and eat at least half of them. If you are losing to quickly or slowly eat more or fewer of those exercise calories.0 -
Hello! Are you carefully logging your calories? But more importantly--are you eating your exercise calories back? If you are sure that you are eating a low level calorie amount, then eat your exercise calories back and do a caloric titration--increase by 100 each day for 3 days, then titrate down to the original amount. This keeps your metabolism always guessing and helps with weight loss in my experience.
Example:
Day 1 1200
Day 2 1300
Day 3 1400
Day 4 1300
Day 2 1200
And so on. And then just add your exercise calories to it. I've find that's helped.0 -
itscattopaz wrote: »Hello! Are you carefully logging your calories? But more importantly--are you eating your exercise calories back? If you are sure that you are eating a low level calorie amount, then eat your exercise calories back and do a caloric titration--increase by 100 each day for 3 days, then titrate down to the original amount. This keeps your metabolism always guessing and helps with weight loss in my experience.
Example:
Day 1 1200
Day 2 1300
Day 3 1400
Day 4 1300
Day 2 1200
And so on. And then just add your exercise calories to it. I've find that's helped.
She said she hasn't started logging until today, and your metabolism does not need to be "guessing"0 -
I'm 24 , 5'7" , 150 pounds, female.
I guess that makes sense, I have not hit a plateau because I haven't been consistent.
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itscattopaz wrote: »Hello! Are you carefully logging your calories? But more importantly--are you eating your exercise calories back? If you are sure that you are eating a low level calorie amount, then eat your exercise calories back and do a caloric titration--increase by 100 each day for 3 days, then titrate down to the original amount. This keeps your metabolism always guessing and helps with weight loss in my experience.
Example:
Day 1 1200
Day 2 1300
Day 3 1400
Day 4 1300
Day 2 1200
And so on. And then just add your exercise calories to it. I've find that's helped.
I know it's your experience but that is not what happens.
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I'm 24 , 5'7" , 150 pounds, female.
I guess that makes sense, I have not hit a plateau because I haven't been consistent.
Also, your BMI is in the normal range, so I think this is just a comfortable weight for your body to maintain. Not so much a plateau as your weight! Losing will be tricky, you need to have a small deficit which means you need to be quite precise about your logging. Good luck!0 -
I really wish I would have posted this a while ago lol everyone is so helpful! Thank you. I'm used to people telling me that I don't need to lose weight or that I'm crazy for wanting to count calories. I need the "tough love" or truth . I don't want my life to revolve around counting calories, but I definitely think seeing results the healthy way will be worth it!0
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I should have also added that my metabolism is EXTREMELY slow. My body takes days to digest food .
Which....counting calories will most likely help with that!0 -
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If you've been running and weight lifting for a while (6+ months), your body has probably become efficient at that particular exercise. Try spinning or swimming in place of running for a little while, and maybe working out with a stretch band or body-weight exercises in place of weight lifting. Then change back when/if you plateau again. I don't know if you belong to a gym, but give their group ex classes a try. Usually those kinds of surprises to your body is enough to kick it out of a plateau. Just a suggestion.0
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If you've been running and weight lifting for a while (6+ months), your body has probably become efficient at that particular exercise. Try spinning or swimming in place of running for a little while, and maybe working out with a stretch band or body-weight exercises in place of weight lifting. Then change back when/if you plateau again. I don't know if you belong to a gym, but give their group ex classes a try. Usually those kinds of surprises to your body is enough to kick it out of a plateau. Just a suggestion.
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If you've been running and weight lifting for a while (6+ months), your body has probably become efficient at that particular exercise. Try spinning or swimming in place of running for a little while, and maybe working out with a stretch band or body-weight exercises in place of weight lifting. Then change back when/if you plateau again. I don't know if you belong to a gym, but give their group ex classes a try. Usually those kinds of surprises to your body is enough to kick it out of a plateau. Just a suggestion.
Ah yes, make sure to arrange a surprise party for your body! I suggest lots of balloons and cake.
Nah, keep running and lifting as long as you enjoy it, it's not like it'll stop burning calories just because you do it a lot.
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joejccva71, if you do the same exercise everyday, your body becomes very efficient at it and doesn't burn as many calories...its called muscle memory. Change up your exercise and it challenges your muscles, encouraging change.
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joejccva71, if you do the same exercise everyday, your body becomes very efficient at it and doesn't burn as many calories...its called muscle memory. Change up your exercise and it challenges your muscles, encouraging change.
Sure your body can become accustomed to doing the same exercises so it's good to change things up but this has absolutely no effect on weight loss. Not even a little bit.
Weight loss is calorie intake vs TDEE. Food type doesn't matter either.0 -
So let's say I've logged my 1200 calories for the day, but then I log my exercise and it deducts x amout of calories because I've burnt those off. Am I allowed to eat those burnt calories or am Is that defeating the purpose of burning calories?
Does that make sense? It's a serious question lol0 -
joejccva71 wrote: »joejccva71, if you do the same exercise everyday, your body becomes very efficient at it and doesn't burn as many calories...its called muscle memory. Change up your exercise and it challenges your muscles, encouraging change.
Sure your body can become accustomed to doing the same exercises so it's good to change things up but this has absolutely no effect on weight loss. Not even a little bit.
Weight loss is calorie intake vs TDEE. Food type doesn't matter either.
Yes, it does. And I didn't say it would create a weight loss. It will help knock down a plateau. I've done, I've seen it happen.0
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