Help!!!

Kayla216892016
Kayla216892016 Posts: 2 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I just started up a workout routine/diet again after a few month break. I worked out with a trainer while simultaneously esting pretty healthy, for 3 months. I literally lost 3 lbs . I got so frustrated that i gave up and have now gained anout 7 lbs in the past three months. Why do i have so much trouble losing fat? Yes, i understand i replaced fat with muscle, but when i was in my early 20s i lost weight so quickly. Is this weight even possible to lose?? And if so, what type of diet is recommend?? I am 28, 5"7 and 150lbd. Plz help if you have heard of this happening to anyone amd how they were finally able to actually lose weight.

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  • msalicia116
    msalicia116 Posts: 233 Member
    And weigh your food on a proper scale. Done!
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    edited November 2016
    As others have said, count calories using a food scale. Also, re-evaluate your thinking about weight loss. 3lbs is still a loss. To turn and give up because it's not fast enough will clearly do you no favors.

    Also, I hate to kick you when you're down, but it's highly unlikely you gained muscle. As a female, even doing everything exactly correct and newbie gains while on a overload/progressive program, you typically only gain .5-1lbs of muscle a month. Even more unlikely while in a deficit. So I would ditch that line of thinking at this point of time.

    But to answer your question, it's 100% possible to lose weight. Read around the forums and you see many 50+ who have no problems losing weight. Typically it boils down to accuracy in counting calories.
  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    Kayla216892016 wrote: »
    I am 28, 5"7 and 150lbd.

    Your BMI is 23.5. That means you're at a healthy weight. That means that the fastest you can reasonably expect to lose weight is 0.5 pounds/week. Given that, 3 pounds in 3 months is actually pretty good. The best you could have hoped for in that timeframe would have been 6 pounds. And it's very very easy to "lose" some of that weightloss in water weight fluctuations.

    If you want to lose weight, you'll have to do it very slowly and very carefully. Calculate the calories that you need to eat to give yourself a 250 calorie/day deficit. Log everything including drinks with any calories (i.e. all drinks except water, black coffee, black tea and maybe diet soda). Weigh all your food. Either measure your drinks or weigh them too (1 cup is about 240 grams for most water-based drinks including milk).

    Realize that every single "splurge" will slow you down. Accept that. Life needs to include splurges on occasion - but you don't have the leeway to make them huge,

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