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SusanKing1981
SusanKing1981 Posts: 257 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I need some advice please from regular exercisers.

4 years ago I was over 220lbs and trying to lose weight by counting calories, I started walking every evening and bought a York HRM so I could track the amount of calories I was burning. I always ate back at least half of my calories.
I burned on average 10 calories a minute and steadily lost 2lbs a week. I got down to 169lbs when I fell off the wagon and gained the weight back.

I have started again and have lost 24lbs by calorie counting alone. 4 weeks ago I bought a Polar FT4 and have started exercising regularly. I walk the dogs in the morning for half an hour, then when I get home I do my Slim in 6 dvd for half an hour. During my break at work I walk around the site twice which takes 20 minutes. I wear my HRM for each of these activities and burn approx. 600 calories in total.

I am set to 1400 calories a day and try to eat at least that. I am not losing weight any more! I know I'm not gaining muscle as I've only been doing this for 4 weeks and I'm not heavy lifting.

I'm wondering if my Polar HRM isn't accurate. With my old York HRM I had to regularly change the resting heart rate to reflect my increased fitness, but with the Polar I don't have to enter that info, would that make much of a difference?

My stats are below:

Sex: F
Age: 32
Height: 5ft 3
SW: 207
CW: 186
GW: 133

Am I eating too much? Not enough? Is this normal when you start exercising? I am losing all motivation and it's really getting me down. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    Am I eating too much? Not enough? Is this normal when you start exercising? I am losing all motivation and it's really getting me down. Any advice would be much appreciated.

    It's mind blowingly simple why your weight loss has stopped. You're not running a calorie deficit to lose more weight.

    Read the best motivational answer right here entitled "Why Am I Not Losing Weight: 11 Reasons You’re Failing To Lose Fat"

    http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/
  • SusanKing1981
    SusanKing1981 Posts: 257 Member
    Read the article thank you.

    I don't see how I am eating too many calories. My TDEE is 2360 and I am not eating anywhere near that. I measure my exercise with my HRM and measure foods with a kitchen scale. I make the majority of my meals from scratch and try not to estimate weights of food. The only food I guestimate the weight of is fruit and salad and I don't think I'm under-estimating by 100's of calories a day.

    This has only started happening since I introduced my exercise dvd every day. Before that I was losing 2lbs a week on average - nothing else has changed.

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