Can't Keep To It

Austadophilus5

I've never kept to exercise for so long. Admittedly, the most I can do on the elliptical is sixteen minutes, but I'm trying to increase my minutes one day at a time. I've kept to it for over two weeks with only 2-3 rest days. It's been great.

But I'm not losing anything. Clearly, its my diet. I'm so damn weak for food and I can't stop. I feel so ashamed. I pass a McDonalds everyday, but I try to bring my lunch. I'm stressed out by my father always telling me to save money, when I can't on a Wal-mart paid salary. I can't even learn to drive because I'm so patehtic. I'm just a failure. And quite clearly, instead of losing...all I'm doing is gaining. It just hurts.

cwolfman13

use your diet to create your weight loss calorie deficit and exercise for fitness. exercise is not a very efficient way of creating a calorie deficit. You have to have a calorie deficit of 3,500 calories from your maintenance level of calories over the course of 7 days to lose just one pound within those 7 days. Very difficult to do with exercise...I run 3 miles 3x weekly, I walk 3 miles 3x weekly and I lift heavy weights 3x weekly and on average I only burn about 1,800 calories in a week with exercise. It is much easier to just track your food and eat 500 less calories per day than it is to work off a bad diet. Pretty much anyone who tries to lose weight by exercising alone fails because it is pretty much impossible to create the necessary deficit. Plus, if you're not tracking your food consumption, most people who workout still over eat. It's simple math...you eat at a calorie deficit andyou lose weight...you eat a maintenance level of calories and you maintain...you eat at a surplus and you gain.