HOW often and for how long?

I noticed that happening for me too. When you are exercising so intensely you really have to be weary of your diet. Make sure you're eating enough and also the right kinds of food to fuel your body for the intensity of your workout. You might find that you might have to eat more and you will start losing weight again.

If you don't want to eat more then you might have to slow down a little on the exercise. Remember everything is a balance, to much of one thing and the body doesn't work.

I do low impact exercise 4 -5 times a week. 60 minutes per day of cardio broken down as follows

Swimming laps, freestyle, light/moderate effort - 20 minutes
Walking, 3.5 mph, brisk pace - 20 minutes
Walking, 3.0 mph, mod. pace, walking dog - 20 minutes

I find I can work this into my (work) dailey routine very easily then I tend to have the weekends to rest.

Also I am on a 1000 calorie per day eating regime (its working for me at the moment before you mention I am not eating enough )

I jog daily, walk daily and stretch daily.. It is a combination of intensities for me and it works very well. I average 50 minutes per day right now between them all, eventually I will increase it by 10-20 minutes per day. Some people take time off and others do not, I am not sure what advice I can give you other than switch up your routine and see what comes of it.

I normally yoga in the morning for 20 min. M-F, walk for 30 min. at lunch M-Th, and P90X 7 days a week in the evening...the P90X is very intense primarily strength training routing, but does include 2 yoga days...I don't see how anyone could go wrong including flexibility training, and if you want light cardio for recovery I have seen no compelling reason you have to do it on a separate day.

LOL i know right

How often does everyone work out and when you do, how long and at what intensity? I am facing the fact that high intensity 6-7 days per week may actually be hindering my weight loss. It may very well be the culprit that has made me gain back...Not enough healing time, etc. Maybe add yoga or pilates? Skip every other day? But exercise gives me my mental medicine.

More info needed. Everyone has a different opinion on what high intensity is. What's your current routine? How long have you been doing it? What are your goals? Without info like that all of our suggestions are both random and worthless.

Right now moderateIIT 15-18 min 3 times per week, LISS 60min 2 times per week, lifting ~60 min 3 times per week. Hopefully next week will be starting lifting 3 times per week 60-75 minutes estimated, and LISS 2 times per week 15 minutes.

I have worked out for 4 years and hardly ever miss a day. I was, up until this spike in weight, doing weights 3x per week, and high intensity cardio the rest. My goal is to burn over 700 every day. I also run/hill train as a means of cardio. I have done this since the 2nd year I started. The 1st year was introductory, Jillian, 30 mins or so every other day-post baby. I ramped it up, loved my results and then headed back to where I was. Convinced it was muscle, stayed off the scale. My pants ceased to fit, I have noticeable fat around my mid section. Someone posted of over training so I thought maybe varied intensity?

Not sure how old you are, I didn't look at your profile, but did read you said Post-Baby. Women's hormones change, especially when we have babies. One of the BEST things I ever did for my weight loss as have my hormones checked through saliva testing. My insurance paid it, but you can also get it done through online services - I know Unikey Health Care does them and they provide a phone consultation or written explanation of the results. I have mine checked yearly now through my ARNP, but it took balancing my post-baby hormones to really get the mid-stomach weigh loss moving.

Another idea - have you tried CLA, it's a supplement that is supposed to target that midbelly fat - do your own research. I didn't see any results when I tried myself. It's also called Tonalin.

I do cardio almost everyday - during the week I run about 45-60 min and do a lot of body-weight exercises at home. Weekends I do a lot of strength and some cardio at the gym and usually go hiking or running again.

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How often does everyone work out and when you do, how long and at what intensity? I am facing the fact that high intensity 6-7 days per week may actually be hindering my weight loss. It may very well be the culprit that has made me gain back...Not enough healing time, etc. Maybe add yoga or pilates? Skip every other day? But exercise gives me my mental medicine.

More info needed. Everyone has a different opinion on what high intensity is. What's your current routine? How long have you been doing it? What are your goals? Without info like that all of our suggestions are both random and worthless.

I have worked out for 4 years and hardly ever miss a day. I was, up until this spike in weight, doing weights 3x per week, and high intensity cardio the rest. My goal is to burn over 700 every day. I also run/hill train as a means of cardio. I have done this since the 2nd year I started. The 1st year was introductory, Jillian, 30 mins or so every other day-post baby. I ramped it up, loved my results and then headed back to where I was. Convinced it was muscle, stayed off the scale. My pants ceased to fit, I have noticeable fat around my mid section. Someone posted of over training so I thought maybe varied intensity?

Seems like a lot, but I can't point fingers because its pretty similar to my routine. By goal, I was meaning more like are you trying to lose X pounds, get X stronger, run X miles but you gave me a pretty good idea.

I'm going to suggest that if you're still putting in this type of effort and not seeing results (by results I'm assuming fat loss is your desired result) then I'd look more to diet than your routine. Your routine sounds good to me. Consider upping or lowering calories, based on your past experience