Changed my exercise routine NEED HELP

nikiwescoe

I started a few months ago walking and sometimes doing a walking running interval session. I do this once a day for about an hour and fifteen minutes. My calorie counter is still at 1200 although when I updated to say I am active it tried to change it to 1500 am I not eating enough calories and is that why I am not continuing to lose? Or is my body now turning the extra weight to muscle because I'm not seeing the dramatic change in the scale but body shape wise things are changing. I just have heard about not eating enough may put you into a fat storing mode. And I don't want that. Someone please help me as I need to know this stuff and I really don't want to spend extra money to see a nutritionist.

atypicalsmith

Eating more never results in a greater loss of calories. If you are walking/running 75 minutes a day and only eating 1200 calories, the weight should be falling off. I suspect you aren't logging your food correctly, and/or your walking and running for 75 minutes is mostly walking at a very slow pace with occasional bouts of jogging and/or you aren't doing it every day. Track every ounce of food you eat! And do it by using scales; you'd be surprised at how much more you might be eating that you think you are.

malibu927

You aren't gaining muscle. What is most likely happening is that your logging is inaccurate enough that you're eating at maintenance.

Liftng4Lis

Can you open your diary? If you're not losing, you're not in a deficit. Are you using a food scale?

47Jacqueline

Walking is not much of a workout. The fastest you can walk is abt 4.5mph. It's good for getting you off the sedentary category.

atypicalsmith

47Jacqueline wrote: »

Walking is not much of a workout. The fastest you can walk is abt 4.5mph. It's good for getting you off the sedentary category.

This is true, although it's my most favorite form of exercise. At my weight (140 lbs.) a mile only burns about 75 calories. So when I do four miles on the treadmill, I'm burning about 300 calories. Four miles takes me about 80 minutes at an average of three mph. BUT I love, love walking, and love, love the treadmill. Walking outside is great, but when it's dark or the weather's bad, the treadmill at the Y does it for me, plus I can watch television. Plus I can do other things while I'm there. You have to do what you like to do. I hate Zumba, which probably burns a lot more calories, so I don't do it. Keep walking, but try to step up your pace and log every ounce of your food consumption!

nikiwescoe

Well I wasn't using a scale I've been using my measuring cups and eyeballing meat weights. But I will definetly go invest in a scale now. And I have been religious in logging everything. And I do workout 4 times a week with the walking and jogging. And it's not a slow pace. I'm walking a 15 min mile or less and jogging I'm down to about 13 mins a mile. I keep my heart rate up and am managing to hit my peak heart rate for at least twenty minutes a workout. I have a Fitbit hr I wear religiously and on my weekends bc I work every weekend. Most of my day is on my feet and I average walking about the equivalent of 8 plus miles a day. So I'm hitting the exercise part but maybe I am over doing the food part. because when I first started in June I was at 210 and now I'm at 190 and it's been steady there. Do you guys have any other suggestions for kick starting it as my metabolisms horrible and maybe I am just on the plateau everyone talks about. I don't want to be there long so any suggestions help. Thanks!!

arditarose

nikiwescoe wrote: »

Well I wasn't using a scale I've been using my measuring cups and eyeballing meat weights. But I will definetly go invest in a scale now. And I have been religious in logging everything. And I do workout 4 times a week with the walking and jogging. And it's not a slow pace. I'm walking a 15 min mile or less and jogging I'm down to about 13 mins a mile. I keep my heart rate up and am managing to hit my peak heart rate for at least twenty minutes a workout. I have a Fitbit hr I wear religiously and on my weekends bc I work every weekend. Most of my day is on my feet and I average walking about the equivalent of 8 plus miles a day. So I'm hitting the exercise part but maybe I am over doing the food part. because when I first started in June I was at 210 and now I'm at 190 and it's been steady there. Do you guys have any other suggestions for kick starting it as my metabolisms horrible and maybe I am just on the plateau everyone talks about. I don't want to be there long so any suggestions help. Thanks!!

A plateau is just not being in a deficit. How long has it been since you've lost though? It can be normal to go a couple weeks without losing and then have a drop.

Still, you should buy a scale. If you're eye balling and it works when you are larger, that's one thing. If you stop losing, you need to get more accurate. I even weigh my dang spinach.

nikiwescoe

Well in the past few weeks I was losing at about two pounds or one and a half a week. And now I'm only at about a pound last I checked. I'm not weighing in every day or anything. About every two weeks but my last weigh in was two weeks apart and I only logged down one pound.

ncfitbit

nikiwescoe wrote: »

Well I wasn't using a scale I've been using my measuring cups and eyeballing meat weights. But I will definetly go invest in a scale now. And I have been religious in logging everything. And I do workout 4 times a week with the walking and jogging. And it's not a slow pace. I'm walking a 15 min mile or less and jogging I'm down to about 13 mins a mile. I keep my heart rate up and am managing to hit my peak heart rate for at least twenty minutes a workout. I have a Fitbit hr I wear religiously and on my weekends bc I work every weekend. Most of my day is on my feet and I average walking about the equivalent of 8 plus miles a day. So I'm hitting the exercise part but maybe I am over doing the food part. because when I first started in June I was at 210 and now I'm at 190 and it's been steady there. Do you guys have any other suggestions for kick starting it as my metabolisms horrible and maybe I am just on the plateau everyone talks about. I don't want to be there long so any suggestions help. Thanks!!

Twenty pounds in about four months sounds awesome to me. What does your fitbit say you're burning per day? From what you describe, it should be a pretty good amount, but it depends on what you do the rest of the day. It does sounds like you are fairly active, but fitbit is good at giving you a sense of what you're actually burning and then just aim to eat 500 less than that amount (for a 1 lb a week loss).

You don't say how long it's been since you've lost, but perhaps water retention is just masking your loss?

I would definitely tighten up the measuring. I think it's time very well spent and it gets a lot easier the more you do it. The thing that gets me is eating out. Very tough to be accurate when you are not the one cooking.

Good luck.

nikiwescoe

My Fitbit says I'm averaging at least 2500 calories burned a day. It's only been about a week since I last weighed but then that was only a one pound weight loss in two weeks before. I am having to drink about 96 oz of water but at least 64 oz a day. I drink at least eight ounces between meals and a full 32 after my work out. And if I feel thirsty I drink a bit then throughout the rest of the night. I don't think I'm drinking too much water as its only if I'm thirsty and such. Even when I've gone out to eat which is only about twice in two and a half months I've ordered off the light menus wherever I go or I ask for things plain. But yes I will go get a scale Tomm and start measuring by weight as well. I think when I'm hungry I may be over eyeballing things.