Opinions and advice needed on my workout regime !!!

Jellyphant

I've been on MFP for 100 days now, and my weight isn't dropping as drastically as I'd hoped, although I know it's a slow process, but still. I stay within my cal range, and my workouts range from 350-550 calorie burns (I have a HRM). Why am I not losing any more weight?

My workouts consist of a 10 minute 3.0 treadmill walk, then I hit the weights in my apartment gym for about 15-20 minutes, then I do about 20 minutes of cardio; 20 min of elliptical or running on treadmill for about a mile. THEN I cooldown for a minute or two, then do about 10 more minutes to weight lifting.

Am I doing something wrong? My main goal is to burn burn burn fat; I'm only lifting weights because I'm trying to target my arms.

PLEASE HELP ME! I'm so very discouraged. I thought I was doing so good.

HoopFire5602

From what I see in your diary (unless you aren't religious about filling it out) is that you are not even close to eating enough. Some days you only at 670! You need to focus on hitting your calorie goal WITH exercise calories. If you don't fuel your body properly, you can't lose weight. Also, stop eating processed foods; stick with veggies and fruit and lean peice of meat. Look at my diary for example.

Jellyphant

From what I see in your diary (unless you aren't religious about filling it out) is that you are not even close to eating enough. Some days you only at 670! You need to focus on hitting your calorie goal WITH exercise calories. If you don't fuel your body properly, you can't lose weight. Also, stop eating processed foods; stick with veggies and fruit and lean peice of meat. Look at my diary for example.

Admittedly not very religious about filling it out, but its not that I'm hiding anything. I portion my foods and try my best to eat nonprocessed unless I'm in a bind, for example yesterday when I wa stuck with a thing of poptarts.

Missylydia

Your workout is great, your eating is't. Your body is probably hoarding what your eating.

HoopFire5602

As for your workouts, are you pushing yourself hard? You have to kind of put yourself out of your comfort zone to get results. Try doing HIIT; High Intensity Interval Training. Go fast for 30 secs, then recover for 90 second. Repeat. It is formatted to burn fat. Also, what size weights are you using?

Jellyphant

As for your workouts, are you pushing yourself hard? You have to kind of put yourself out of your comfort zone to get results. Try doing HIIT; High Intensity Interval Training. Go fast for 30 secs, then recover for 90 second. Repeat. It is formatted to burn fat. Also, what size weights are you using?

On the machines, I can do up to 40 pounds. But when I'm using hand weights to work my triceps, I use a 10 pounder.
Is it possible that I need to do 'muscle confusion' or something like that?

HoopFire5602

As for your workouts, are you pushing yourself hard? You have to kind of put yourself out of your comfort zone to get results. Try doing HIIT; High Intensity Interval Training. Go fast for 30 secs, then recover for 90 second. Repeat. It is formatted to burn fat. Also, what size weights are you using?

On the machines, I can do up to 40 pounds. But when I'm using hand weights to work my triceps, I use a 10 pounder.
Is it possible that I need to do 'muscle confusion' or something like that?

I would probably kick it up a few notches. I do a workout from Muscle and Fitness:Hers...I typically use 15-20 lbs for arm exercises. Just because you use bigger weight doesn't mean you will bulk up. Have you ever though of doing p90x or anything of that nature? It just seems like you body might be kind of used to what you have been doing and you need to add a big kick in there to make it say 'holy crap, what just happened?'. So I guess my advice is to switch it up and challenge yourself.

Jellyphant

As for your workouts, are you pushing yourself hard? You have to kind of put yourself out of your comfort zone to get results. Try doing HIIT; High Intensity Interval Training. Go fast for 30 secs, then recover for 90 second. Repeat. It is formatted to burn fat. Also, what size weights are you using?

On the machines, I can do up to 40 pounds. But when I'm using hand weights to work my triceps, I use a 10 pounder.
Is it possible that I need to do 'muscle confusion' or something like that?

I would probably kick it up a few notches. I do a workout from Muscle and Fitness:Hers...I typically use 15-20 lbs for arm exercises. Just because you use bigger weight doesn't mean you will bulk up. Have you ever though of doing p90x or anything of that nature? It just seems like you body might be kind of used to what you have been doing and you need to add a big kick in there to make it say 'holy crap, what just happened?'. So I guess my advice is to switch it up and challenge yourself.

I thought p90x would work, but someone told me it was purely for fitness strength building and weightloss is a side effect of it. i just need to lose fat, about 80 pounds of it, haha. I'm currently trying out C25K, but I'm not very diligent on it because I get bored with my workouts and end up switching it up. But I CAN run for a while. I once ran for 7 minutes on 4.6 mph on the treadmill.

HoopFire5602

Then maybe just focus on doing HIIT. You can do it in the pool, elliptical, running, walking, etc. Find something that you don't get bored with; working out shouldn't be a chore. I hoop dance and absolutley love it...before I know it 2 hours goes by. I also do trapeze/silk class and that it my tourture session once every two weeks. Just vary your workouts because if you start getting too bored, you'll give up entirely.

Jellyphant

Then maybe just focus on doing HIIT. You can do it in the pool, elliptical, running, walking, etc. Find something that you don't get bored with; working out shouldn't be a chore. I hoop dance and absolutley love it...before I know it 2 hours goes by. I also do trapeze/silk class and that it my tourture session once every two weeks. Just vary your workouts because if you start getting too bored, you'll give up entirely.

All those things you do sound fun! I'll look into this 'HIIT'. I always thought it was for intense, marathon runners but if it;ll help me, I'll give it a try. Thanks for all your tips.