HELP!! and advice!!!

lynn_miller15

I can't see your diary, but I'll offer observations from my experience.
1) Be religious about your tracking food and exercise. And be honest with yourself. Did you slip in 4 almonds and not record them? Did you push yourself and get your heart rate up or just move along with the beat on the video?

2) Find a food program (one that comes with the exercise videos, for instance, or from a book or magazine) and stick with it. Don't cheat. Pick a program that's healthy and susatainable for you. Don't make up your meal or day's menu that morning. Plan and prepare -- it makes it easier to stay on plan and not panic or cheat.

3) Use a food scale. Really. Huge difference.

4) As my trainer taught me: nutrition, nutrition, nutrition. You can work out all you want but firming up the muscles doesn't work so well if you're not properly fueling your body.

5) Add weights or resistance training. Building the muscles amps your metabolism and speeds weight loss.

6) Don't increase or decrease your calorie intake based on the day's exercise. Get an average goal and eat to that goal. I used to play with my intake/output based on what I did or planned to do that day. It wasn't until I stuck with 1560 calories per day, every day that I started to see results.

7) MFP's protein default is too low, I think. I shoot for 30-40% protein and under 30% fat. It wasn't until I consistently got under 30% fat (and met my calorie goals #6 above) that the weight started to fall off.

8) You will hit plateaus. Just shouldn't happen this early in the game. Your results tell me you're not really serious and committed. You might say you are, but look at your habits and focus and decide what needs to be changed -- exercise intensity, frequency and duration; food intake, frequency and concentration; can-do attitude or self-defeatism.

Good luck! It is possible!! You just need to create the environment for possibility and success.

thanks for all the advice. In response to some of the feedback. I am fully committed 100%. I have a food scale and I weight my food, I use measuring cups for all my food and I work my BUTT off in the exercise program that I am doing. My boyfriend can attest to that considering he is doing it with me.
I think it is exactly what others are telling me - I have to change my macros and start eating more lean protein etc.

Thanks again I appreciate the feedback!

ritchiedrama

One thing I suggest is Lynn, don't measure food in cups, grams only.

n3verlettingmyselfgo

I know you're a carb lover, but here's the thing about carbs; they spike your blood sugar and insulin levels. When your blood sugar is too high, insulin is unable to work as it should and the sugar and carbs are stored as fat instead, causing weight gain. If this is the case with you, maybe try and cut your carbs down and see if that works?

(I'm not an expert and i'm not sure if that is explained well but you could always look it up, im just a studant, so my wording and explanation my not be 100 % accurate, but that is the general understanding.

ritchiedrama

I know you're a carb lover, but here's the thing about carbs; they spike your blood sugar and insulin levels. When your blood sugar is too high, insulin is unable to work as it should and the sugar and carbs are stored as fat instead, causing weight gain. If this is the case with you, maybe try and cut your carbs down and see if that works?

(I'm not an expert and i'm not sure if that is explained well but you could always look it up, im just a studant, so my wording and explanation my not be 100 % accurate, but that is the general understanding.

This is not completely true, and it's not the issue here.

n3verlettingmyselfgo

I know you're a carb lover, but here's the thing about carbs; they spike your blood sugar and insulin levels. When your blood sugar is too high, insulin is unable to work as it should and the sugar and carbs are stored as fat instead, causing weight gain. If this is the case with you, maybe try and cut your carbs down and see if that works?

(I'm not an expert and i'm not sure if that is explained well but you could always look it up, im just a studant, so my wording and explanation my not be 100 % accurate, but that is the general understanding.

This is not completely true, and it's not the issue here.

You comment on bloody everything. Did you read my note at the bottom. I study this stuff, and yes, i know it's not 100% accurate, but neither is everything you say. Carbs do matter for many people, and that is a fact.

ritchiedrama

I know you're a carb lover, but here's the thing about carbs; they spike your blood sugar and insulin levels. When your blood sugar is too high, insulin is unable to work as it should and the sugar and carbs are stored as fat instead, causing weight gain. If this is the case with you, maybe try and cut your carbs down and see if that works?

(I'm not an expert and i'm not sure if that is explained well but you could always look it up, im just a studant, so my wording and explanation my not be 100 % accurate, but that is the general understanding.

This is not completely true, and it's not the issue here.

You comment on bloody everything. Did you read my note at the bottom. I study this stuff, and yes, i know it's not 100% accurate, but neither is everything you say. Carbs do matter for many people, and that is a fact.

Yes, I comment on everything because I've spent the last god knows how many years of my life transforming my own and others lives.

The carbs will not be affecting her weight loss, she isn't eating a ridiculous amount, if she is in a caloric deficit she will lose weight regardless, she stated no insulin issues. You are what you said, just a student - and what you learn as a student has no relevance to this,, because everything I've learnt about 'fitness & nutrition" from education has been wrong.