Strength Training and Losing Weight?

DrG3n3

So this question may be a little stupid. Honestly I've read a lot of threads here and I just don't completely understand. It could just be that it's all gotten to my head, but I'm hoping for a little clarity.

I've signed up for an obstacle course in June. I've got a large group of friends doing this with me and a few of them decided to train with me. Now, I'm 183 lbs (roughly) and 5 ft 2, so I do have about 46 lbs to lose before I am in the healthy range. I have a large frame. Currently I eat around 1540 cals on non-workout days, and around 1900-2200 on work out days. This is based on est. burned cals with a HRM. My diary is also public. I figured some of you would ask for this information at some point

I have been weight training with my group M,W and Fri, and we go to the park and run about 3 Mi on Tu and TH and on the weekends I'll usually do Insanity on S or Su and use the other as a rest day. Sometimes I rest two days. I burn approx 400-600 calories during all of this. I try to lift heavy, and I push myself so that I'm not going to drop a weight on my head, but I'm fairly within range of failure. I do low reps with heavy weights if this makes it more understandable. When we run, the park is very hilly and the terrain is a bit rough, so I work up a good sweat and I feel pooped by the end. Same with the weight sessions. Running takes me about 45 minutes, and the weight sessions will take me about an hour to an hour and 15 minutes.

I hope all of this is making sense

I haven't weighed myself since the 1st of the month because I know about the water retention etc and I wanted to get rid of my daily addiction to the scale.

My problem is as such. Does this sound reasonable for someone with so much to lose? I am set at about a .8-1 lb a week following these calories. I put a LOT of effort into my workouts, and try to incorporate HIIT with the running. I make sure to hit all muscle groups (as best I can being that I'm not a trainer and there are probably better things to do). I do all of this with dumbbells because I don't have a gym membership and don't own a bar or bench myself. I guess I'm just afraid that this will not be conducive to weight loss. I know I need to lose weight to be healthy, and if it is slow that's ok, but I want to make sure I'm not just being stupid with this.

Please, no broscience.

DrG3n3

Sorry, I know this is really long. I'm hoping some of you guys with a little more experience wouldn't mind helping me out

Toddrific

I've got nothing without bro-science.

Sounds like you have a solid plan and eat correctly. should work. Check your measurements in 3 weeks and adjust from there.

DrG3n3

Thank you. I'm def. going to remeasure and weigh in on the 20th which will make it three weeks (a few days less because I won't be in town with my scale) and I'm crossing my fingers. I'm ok being 183 for the rest of my life if my body fat goes down.

Bro-science

Cclancaster

This may sound dumb but I have no idea what bro-science is LOL. Now I think you have a great plan. Muscle burns fat so the more muscle you have the more fat you can burn. Now for the first few weeks you may gain a little but you will lose eventually I think for now your best friend may be your tape measure. Now with that said I wouldn't measure but every 2-3 weeks. How are you feeling? Do you see a change in your body? How long have you been doing this schedule of workouts? Also I would recommend looking into either body builder websites, looking at a program that does weight training such as Chalean Extreme (if you are interested in this program contact me I can give you some info about it) or I have read on here a book call "The new rules of weight lifting for women" is a wonderful piece of information to own if you plan on doing weights and don't know much.

kazzari

I agree...you are absolutely on the right track :-) . Keep it up.

DrG3n3

I think a quick and dirty is just word of mouth, someone picks up something that isn't supported by science and passes it on as fact.

I feel smaller some days, but some days (and this is really my body issues) I just look in the mirror and feel like a fat pig. I think that just goes with feeling miserable when I was 254 lbs. But some days I really do wake up feeling amazing. I've been doing this since the last week of March (March 26th until today to be exact) and have only have one weekend that was rough (I went to visit friends which always leads to eating out a lot) though I did try and make good choices and I walked a lot.

Anyhow, I really should get NROLW, I've checked into buying it with my Nook so thanks for the push, I might just go and do it. I've not heard a lot about Chalean so I'll def. try and make sure to remember to send you a message so I can get some. Thanks for the support

DrG3n3

I agree...you are absolutely on the right track :-) . Keep it up.

Thank you, support is the only thing that keeps me going some days.

Coco_Puff

From what I understand, we the people, that have made the choice to eat more to lose weight, along with lifting weights, need to focus on how our clothes fit and inches lost. The weight is suppose to come off slow so that we will keep it off. We are also building muscle and changing our bodies so we can eat at the higher numbers and keep the weight off. We just have to be patient. Your plan looks right to me.

DrG3n3

Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one. I try to eat pretty good, but I do love the fact that I can eat more and still look good.