JUST NOT HAPPENING FOR ME

Roly59

I have been monitoring calories and increasing exercise for the past month. Due to health issues I am limited to what I can do. So from doing no exercise at all I have been doing 3 spinning classes, 1pilates and at least a 10k walk every week in January. I have maintained 1500 net calories per day. I am just not losing weight. I have 14k to lose any tips???? Lost what is showing on tracker before this regime started

em_ringer

To lose weight I stick to 1400 cals and don't eat the extra ones I burn in exercise unless I do a really big workout. Are you drinking pleanty of water? 2litres of water every day should help. Have you measured inches rather than weight? Muscle weighs more than fat so if you are converting your fat to muscle you won't neccesarily lose weight but you should see an inch loss.
Keep up the good work you are doing.

kmill81385

Are you switching up workouts and getting enough cardio in. The more muscle you build, the less weight you will see come off. Measure your inches (centimeters?) around your waist, hips, thighs, arms, and chest. If you are losing there, then your weight loss should be soon to follow. Also, what is your daily activity level MINUS your excercise? That might have a lot to do with it. My minium calorie level is 1200 calories.

beckipercy

Your body may be in shock from all the exercise you are doing. This doesn't mean you should stop, you just need to be more patient and the weight should eventually drop off. I also read on here not so long ago that you should always try and weigh first thing in a morning, the day after an exercise rest day, as the muscles will have had chance to repair themselves.

Sodium and processed foods can also make you retain weight (this doesn't really seem to apply to me, but does to a lot of people)

Keep at it, you will see those results soon enough!

hailzp

Eat at your BMR and then create a bigger deficit with exercise. I only started losing weight properly when I raised my calories. Google spike or zig zag dieting. It is where you eat more one day then less the next. You might need a boost. I don't think that eating less works.

TourThePast

I have been doing 3 spinning classes, 1pilates and at least a 10k walk every week in January. I have maintained 1500 net calories per day. I am just not losing weight.

If you have not lost weight for a whole month of doing that and eating at 1500 net, the two most likely candidates are:

1. You're eating too much
or
2. You have thyroid or other glandular problems.

1 is the far far more likely reason.

1a If you are "eating back" your exercise calories, where are those "calorie burned" figures coming from? If you're getting them from this site, they may be vastly overinflated.
1b are you weighing all your food?

You will not have built so much muscle in a month, that it could possibly have cancelled out the fat you should have lost on that regime.

While an excess of sodium might cause you to retain water for a day or two, it will not stop you from losing fat weight.

When you start exercising, your muscles do hold onto extra water while they're recovering, but again that won't stop you from losing fat weight.

The more muscle you build, the less weight you will see come off.

The more muscle you build, the MORE FAT you will see come off. Nobody, who isn't really really REALLY trying is going to build muscle.