Not making progress

Genetic_tea_drinker

This is my story. I'm mid-twenties. Never been slim

I've tried:
diet
exercize
weight loss foods and superfruits etc.

It seems that with every year I add on 3-4inches and they never seem to shift. My diet is pretty healthy, three meals a day with tea or coffee as a snack (skim milk no sugar) or fruit. Occasionally a few peanuts).
I don't take much bread and my sweet foods are very limited to occasional occasions

So I finally plucked the courage to do Insanity. I started 20days ago, but with moving etc. and being apprehensive with my health, I only managed to do 9 sessions in 20days.

I decided to re-start insanity today and will be sticking to the everyday routine, even if it kills me (haha), but even in that time I was doing it with gaps I've have no change what so ever in my size and I'm doubtful that sticking to the regime will have an impact. At the moment I am quite desperate as I have a wedding in 2 weeks and in order to fit into the outfits which I must wear I need to loose at least 4 inches.

My thyroid tests are all normal, and I am on medication for a different problem, however even the doctor was a bit like "mmm?" because these things make u loose weight rather than gain.

Has anyone had any similar issues? What did you do?

soysauce6626

Honestly it seems you have a problem with your consistency in you're training. Going hard for 2 -3 weeks isn't going to cut it. Instead try mixing up your training with some solid weight lifting with moderate cardio. Do what it takes to achieve what you want. "Blood sweat and years"

Genetic_tea_drinker

I tried mild cardio with weights, when I was a member back in the gym. It never even made a dent in me. I would go swimming after the workout aswel (usually about 30mins workout and 15mins swim, then I would get bored. lol)

hrtchoco

how i lost my weight is by eating very very light dinner. i mean, like a dry salad or a piece of fruit(not saying it will work for everyone). i went from 125lb to 115lb pretty quickly.

whitneysin

Are you carefully logging what you eat? A lot of times we are eating 20% more calories than we think we are. I never thought I ate that much, until I started dutifully logging.

JNick77

What are your stats (height, weight, non-exercise activity level)? What are you specifically doing with your diet? Calories, macro's? What does your typical diet include? Diet foods, as in what? Diet foods are typically not needed and typically not great anyway. Low-fat foods are usually just replaced with sugar.

Based on my questions there's some things that we would need to know about you. Honestly, exercise isn't always the answer; you can lose weight by following a good diet plan. That's why I kind of think that exercise or lack of isn't the issue, it's likely more diet-related than anything. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't exercise, obviously there are too many positives from exercise to not. I'm saying that with the assumption that there are no health issues that would cause issues with weight-loss/gain.

Genetic_tea_drinker

I haven't kept a food diary, no. That would be quite intresting to see what exactly I am taking in.
I should try that

JNick77

I haven't kept a food diary, no. That would be quite intresting to see what exactly I am taking in.
I should try that

Yes, definitely.

1. Keep a food diary - Whether you do it on MFP, on a notebook or on MS Excel it doesn't matter, just know what you're eating.
2. Accurately measure all your food with real measuring spoons (not a TBSP / TSP you'd eat with), measuring cups, and a digital scale. It's a pain at first but once you get use to it it's just second nature.
3. Make sure you're eating an appropriate amount of calories to accommodate weight loss
- eat good foods, complex and low glycemic index carbs, healthy fats, protein

Genetic_tea_drinker

Stats are:

Height: 158cm
Wright: 74kg (tends to fluctuate)
Chest: 102cm
Waist: 83-84cm
Hips: 97cm (that has dropped from 101 in January)

The amount of time on my feet varies, from 10mins to 4 hours without siting down
Everyday I walk to my colledge and back. That 30mins eitherway on the hills.
I can't drive, so walk everywhere pretty much, so sometimes I walk more than that i.e. grocery shopping

Diet foods: peppermint and oolong tea, millet, cabbage, lemon and honey water (it's a spoon of each in warm water to help prevent diabetes)<-- but I stopped that after about a month because it was too much effort in the mornings to make

Genetic_tea_drinker

Cool. I shall start the diary today, see what exactly is going in me

JNick77

Stats are:

Height: 158cm
Wright: 74kg (tends to fluctuate)
Chest: 102cm
Waist: 83-84cm
Hips: 97cm (that has dropped from 101 in January)

The amount of time on my feet varies, from 10mins to 4 hours without siting down
Everyday I walk to my colledge and back. That 30mins eitherway on the hills.
I can't drive, so walk everywhere pretty much, so sometimes I walk more than that i.e. grocery shopping

Diet foods: peppermint and oolong tea, millet, cabbage, lemon and honey water (it's a spoon of each in warm water to help prevent diabetes)<-- but I stopped that after about a month because it was too much effort in the mornings to make

Well it sounds like you get some light activity at least, which is good. Do a Google search for a TDEE calorie calculator and find approximately what you should eat every day. MFP has one but it's not very good IMO, requires using an HRM and over-emphasizes calorie burn, eating-back calories "burned" etc, and makes this far more difficult than it needs to be.