3 weeks, only lost 1 lb, heart broken

DaniG_1987

lorenelia wrote: »

I'm doing vinyasa yoga 3x week and elliptical 1x week. The days when I'm doing yoga I'm only discounting 200 calories for the workout (it's a pretty tough class, not just stretching and meditation)

I use to do a vinyasa yoga class 3 days a week (an hour a session) where I was dripping sweat to the point that I would slip on my mat... I still only burned about 80 calories and this was when I was 250+ lbs. I did this for about a year and I was feeling more limber but did not really lose any weight from it. I now do cardio 6 nights a week (with some hiking on the weekends starting last month) and have lost 45 pounds since January. I would sub in 2 more cardio classes and do one night of yoga instead. You'll start to see results.

Plus tracking and measuring what you eat is the biggest part of this whole thing. For example, spoon out what you honestly think is a cup of rice and then actually measure it. The difference is typically fairly significant and the amount of calories you are eating from guessing or eyeballing will reflect that. As the saying goes... you can run as much as you want but you can't out run your diet.