So back again!!

jerri_anderson

So im back, 3 years ago in august i decided i would watch what i would eat and workout... 12 months later i was 12kg down. I got down to 58kg, so 120lbs. Im 5'2. 31 year old female Endomorph body type...I read last time that burning more from weights is better than cardio so I stopped cardio and just did weights and gained the weight back...I also ate alot, i didnt realise the gaining of weight at first. Anyways fast forward. I am back to my original weight or more (i refuse to jump on a scale, but id assume 70kg) But i know more!. I need cardio and weights and food!!. But im starting again with 45min workouts x 5 a wk and low carb high fat and protein diet

My workouts consist of weights for 1 set (as heavy as i can go), 100m jog and back for set 2 and so on until im done.

Do people see this working or not?

LivingtheLeanDream

What will work out is eating less than you burn - that's the main thing to figure out and work on. The exercise just helps create extra deficit.

Deviette

Hi,

If you just want to loose weight, you need to ignore your exercise. Weight loss come from controlling the amount that you're eating, not the amount that you're exercising. MFP uses the principle that you should be eating back all of the calories that you burn doing intentional exercise, as such, it is much more important to consider the amount that you consume, over the amount that you're burning in the gym. As such exercise is not necessary to lose weight.

It does however have health benefits, so I'm not suggesting binning it off completely. Just focus more on what you're eating over your exercise plan and you should lose weight.

Think of it this way:
Calorie controlled diet = For weight control
Exercise = For performance/health benifits


Also, somatotypes are not a thing. Sorry.

tinkerbellang83

^This

Even if Somatypes (Endomorph, Ectomorph, etc) were actually a thing (they aren't btw they have been debunked) they were based on Men not Women.

Refusing to jump on the scale is basically trying to stay in denial, find out what weight you are, update your stats, set yourself to a reasonable weight loss rate that you can sustain long term and log accurately.