thinking about giving up

change your routine. You could be plateauing out so change your work outs- interval training, swim, anything you want to mix it up and to push your body to work harder. Your body will be more efficient now that you have been training at the same level for a while.

Maybe you sould eat over your calorie limit for a day or two. Get you body's attention!

I worked out all last year with only 10 lbs to lose and lost nothing. The harder I worked out the harder it seemed to lose but I did enjoy the definition and I had resolved myself to the fact that noe, at 43, I just could not lose that last 10 lbs Then I tried a new fitness plan - interval cross training. Constantly changing the combination of activities with breaks in between. A break might just be a 10 min water and cool down break might be half a day depending on my schedule. I finally started to loose again. So my week might look like this

Mon 30 day shred - stairmaster 20 min - run 20 min
Tues bike 40 min - run 20 min - stairmaster 20 min
Wed - 30 day shred - run 20 min - stairmaster 20 min
Thurs - swim 30 min - walk 30 min - stairmaster 15 min
Fri - insanity (40 min) - walk 30 min
Sat - run 30 min - bike 30 min
Sun -rest

Mixing my workouts and taking breaks seems to be the key to losing for me. I find on low motivation days changing activities really keeps me going so I might even do 10 min stair master - 10 min run -10 min stair master - 20 min walk - 10 min stair master - 10 min run if I feel like I just can't do it one day.

Need some help. I have already lost 25-30 lbs but having a hard time losing the last 15 lbs. I work out 5-6 days a week and usually at the gym for 2+ hours a day. Any suggestions?

The last 10-15 is the hardest.
PM me and i'll set you up for success.

I'm not sure if that sounds supportive or like a weird come on.

How about trying calorie cycling. 2 days of fasting i.e 500 calories a day and 2 days of eating what you like (within reason) and 3 days of eating your recommended calorie intake to lose weight. It seems to con your body into not going into starvation mode. The other option is to get a fitbit which will tell you how much you can in according to home much you move about. Don't give up, if you are exercising enough and eating little enough it will shift eventually. The good thing a bout calorie cycling is you actually get some days when you can eat almost what you like (no binges though).

Are you certain that you're eating at a deficit? Exercise is great but if you eat as much as you burn, you will not loose weight.

Make sure you eat at a deficit, you will loose weight. It doesn't matter if it is your first 15 pounds or your last 3 pounds.

Wow 2 hrs or more in the gym , why so long? If that is the case than it's what your eating and when. Or the case can be that your building muscle which weighs more so than you cant go by what the scale says. One of the biggest problems people have is this .They are looking at their weight they need to measure just because of this reason.

So the 2 hrs at the gym is that cardio workout? If your walking that much I bet you have thigh muscle Also how long have you been doing the 2 hrs 6 day gym thing?

I've always most progress when I've upped my intensity. This doesn't mean go longer and harder...just harder...and probably a shorter duration.

Also, as others have said, confusing your body thermostat by having a large calorie day--maybe 1.5x times normal--has also given me results.

This is a rather drastic technique, but one that worked for me...I became a vegetarian. And I'm someone who has always loved meat. I had lost 50 lbs but was at a plateau. I did a lot of research to see what kind of nutrition I was missing...my thought was I didn't have enough protein. In reality, I had plenty, likely way too much. I read The China Study, changed the way I ate (I realize this is very likely more drastic than you're interested in), and 30 more lbs came off pretty easy over a short period of time (three months).

Whatever you do. Don't give up.

I also found a heart rate monitor helped me more accurately track my caloric burn and inspired me to watch my intake (smaller and more frequent meals).

You can do it. Find a new motivation.

Never give up

How the #### can u think that?




Shouldn't even be an option
And why are u suffering ???
Weight loss should be easy I don't see how anyone should suffer


Try out IIFYM

Squats, lunges and abs does a few times each week and hours of cardio each day sounds like part of the culprit

The last pounds are always a little bit of a challenge, however without knowledge of your nutrition, my first suggestion is to get yourself on a solid resistance training routine where you are working all body parts iin combination or separately throughout the week and Reduce the excessive steady state cardio and get some HIT going. Again, this is without knowing what's going in your mouth which is the largest determining factor for weight loss.

FYI:
Are there health benefits do exercising for hours
 a day? Well, exercising
for hours is better than watching television for hours, but not much. Take
a look at this study:

A 1998 study in the International Journal of
 Sports Nutrition had women
do 45 minutes of
 cardio per day, 5 days per week. They followed
 this protocol
for 3 months.

The result? They lost NO more weight than
 those who dieted alone. Seems
like a BIG waste of time if weight loss is your goal.

Then there's a 2007 study in the journal
 Obesity which revealed that doing
60 minutes of
 cardio, 6 days per week only resulted in an 
average 3.5 pounds
of weight loss after an entire
 year. Not much return on your time investment
there is there? That equates to 312 hours of cardio. I'm sure you'd never hire
a trainer if that were their promise.

Let's compare this to another 2012 study published in Applied Physiology:
it was found that subjects dong 4 minutes of high intensity exercise got better
results than those doing 30 minutes of low intensity cardio.

Try tweaking your calorie intake as well. You may find that increasing a bit helps push your body in the right direction.

I read this as twerking. FML.