At a Stand Still...Suggestions?

galvestongal

I am a little frustrated and seeking advice. I have received some good advice already but would like others input as well.

Since the beginning of the year I have been working out 5 days a week with DVD Workouts such as 30 Day Shred and many others along that line, moving up through the levels and pushing through as hard as I can. During the last two weeks I have also incorporated walking/jogging on the treadmill 3 days a week for 20-30 minutes. I do these things on top of a physically demanding job at a barn where I care for 40+ horses by cleaning & rebedding stalls, feeding, moving hay bales around, and riding.

According to BodyMedia Fit I am burning between 2800-3200 calories a day or more. At the beginning of the year my caloric intake was between 1500-1800 and I lost about 5 pounds or so...then stopped. I was informed that I wasn't eating enough so I upped my intake to 2000-2300 a day. This still leaves me with about 500 calorie deficit or more per day...but again...all progress has stopped. I seen no progress as far as body shape/tone, measurements or on the scale. All has remained basically unchanged except with the monthly water fluctuations....

Any ideas? I still have a long ways to go to get to my ideal weight...I am 5'4" with current weight of 167 and a goal weight of 130.

Thanks all!

Okapi42

Are you sure the BodyMedia knows it's the horse moving that fast, not you running? And is that pure additional burn, or your TDEE?

galvestongal

The numbers shown are my daily burn from activities according to BodyMedia. I wear my armband 24 hours a day. I make adjustments on the days that I ride horses while wearing my armband as the calorie burn is altered greatly from the horses strides (it thinks I can run very fast and that I can burn 1000 cals in 30 minutes). For my riding days I go into BodyMedia and select the times that I rode horses and use a caloric burn calculator with my height and weight to find my actual burn and go by that instead On the non-riding days my total calories burned are the numbers shown in my original post.

mywise

Do u do any weight lifting aside from your job??? I have a physical job where I'm moving steel all day but I also weight train on top of that...From my experience and from what I have read if u want to change your actual body shape (and not b a smaller version of what u are now) u need to do some strength training.... Also how long were u eating the higher cals and what did u lose doing that???Have u gained...stayed the same weight during that time???.

galvestongal

Currently I am not doing any lifting although it is something that I am looking into starting in the near future. It is something I would like to add, although I do some light strength training at the moment. I want to both be smaller and change my body shape and at least be some form of toned. I lost 75 pounds a couple years ago and got stuck at 174 and even though I do have muscles...you can't see them under extra skin that won't seem to tighten up. I was able to knock off a few pounds when I first started back to working out at the beginning of the year to get to 167... but have been stuck ever since. I have tried to alter my caloric intake by going a couple weeks at the higher intake then going to a lower intake for a couple weeks. I have not lost or gained anything except for the water weight fluctuations between 167-170. Right now I am at my higher intake averaging about 1900-2300 cals a day depending on how active I am. The lowest intake I have done is 1500-1800 as I am borderline hypoglycemic and have to make sure I eat throughout the day so I am not sick. I am up for any suggestions to break through this wall I am stuck at.