LOSING SAME 2 POUNDS

PicNic00

I did low carb dieting for over a year. That stopped working so i switched to Weight watchers style. I lost about 10 more, then I froze. I keep gaining and losing same 2lb. I eat less I don't lose, I exercise more I don't lose. Is my body adjusting? It's been 4 weeks and I am frustrated!

Thank You

determined_erin

It sounds like your body is maintaining. You will probably need to combine eating less plus exercising more.

mk9562

Since April I have also been dropping the same 2 lbs. back on then it's back off. I'm feeling your frustration. .

ladyark

I have been doing the same for the last 2 months. However i do eat alot more than you do . Is your measurements going down? That is really more accurate if your going in the right direction than the scale. I know for me upping my cals didnt change the scale but my clothes are looser.

ks4e

Maybe you need to start watching your macros? I was in the same boat for a long time, and once I started upping my calories, exercising more, while also watching my macros (high protein, high healthy fats, lower carbs), I saw some shift.

Siege_Tank

It's not a matter of macronutrient ratios, This happens to a LOT of people, including me. I love 40 pounds right off the bat, and once I got back to my normal weight, what I was at for most of my life, my body didn't want to give up any more pounds.

When you say "work out" what exactly do you mean? Getting slimmer is *not* just a function of eating less and moving more.. The more you run, the more your body adapts to running, and you'll see yourself putting in more and more miles just to see the same rate of weight loss.

HOORAY!! your endurance has gone through the roof! It sounds like you might have increased your capacity for endurance for the time being.. I'm not sure though, I don't know what exercises you do.

The idea is to constantly shock your body into repairing itself. If you run and feel the burn in your legs, your muscles will become more efficient at removing lactic acid buildups, more efficient at using energy reserves to power your legs on long runs. But at some point you run out of road.

Change it up! Have you ever considered workouts other than cardio? Me being a guy, of course I'm going to jump right into strength training.. it's phenomenal for giving yourself an opportunity to increase your strength and your body shape. When you lift with high weights (near 80-90% of your one rep maximum) in a low repetition setting (not more than 15 reps per set.. if you can do more than 15 with proper form, you aren't lifting heavy enough)...

What happens is you have given your muscles the huge task of lifting as much as you possibly can, and in so doing, you create tears in the muscle fibers, that's the soreness, and it needs to be repaired, a metabolically expensive process.. which helps increase your calorie deficits.

Sure, you can adapt to lifting the same way you can adapt to running, but with lifting, you're taking the same amount of time to lift, you're just changing weight. To increase your workload with cardio... you simply do it longer. Most of us don't have the mental fortitude to put in the hours that would require each day

PicNic00

It's not a matter of macronutrient ratios, This happens to a LOT of people, including me. I love 40 pounds right off the bat, and once I got back to my normal weight, what I was at for most of my life, my body didn't want to give up any more pounds.

When you say "work out" what exactly do you mean? Getting slimmer is *not* just a function of eating less and moving more.. The more you run, the more your body adapts to running, and you'll see yourself putting in more and more miles just to see the same rate of weight loss.

HOORAY!! your endurance has gone through the roof! It sounds like you might have increased your capacity for endurance for the time being.. I'm not sure though, I don't know what exercises you do.

The idea is to constantly shock your body into repairing itself. If you run and feel the burn in your legs, your muscles will become more efficient at removing lactic acid buildups, more efficient at using energy reserves to power your legs on long runs. But at some point you run out of road.

Change it up! Have you ever considered workouts other than cardio? Me being a guy, of course I'm going to jump right into strength training.. it's phenomenal for giving yourself an opportunity to increase your strength and your body shape. When you lift with high weights (near 80-90% of your one rep maximum) in a low repetition setting (not more than 15 reps per set.. if you can do more than 15 with proper form, you aren't lifting heavy enough)...

What happens is you have given your muscles the huge task of lifting as much as you possibly can, and in so doing, you create tears in the muscle fibers, that's the soreness, and it needs to be repaired, a metabolically expensive process.. which helps increase your calorie deficits.

Sure, you can adapt to lifting the same way you can adapt to running, but with lifting, you're taking the same amount of time to lift, you're just changing weight. To increase your workload with cardio... you simply do it longer. Most of us don't have the mental fortitude to put in the hours that would require each day

Thank You! This helps a lot!