Anyone else exercise like crazy but still can't lose weight?

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  • Lmullaney79
    Lmullaney79 Posts: 21 Member
    when nothing else works- go to a dietician. she can look at your MFP, your exercise, etc. and help you... it's the only thing that worked for me.
  • T34418l3angel
    T34418l3angel Posts: 474 Member
    Too much cardio. It's putting too much stress on your body and its holding onto your fat. Try taking away one or two days of the cardio and adding circuit training with weights for an hour instead. Crunches dont do much - do planks if you want to see any type of definition in your mid section. It will pull everything in.

    ^ this! Cut down on your cardio, maybe just limit it to a two mile run? Add some weights into your routine. I've had better results with squats and deadlifts than with any number of crunches. And planks are such a blessing on your core.
  • bigknight78
    bigknight78 Posts: 57
    Too much cardio. It's putting too much stress on your body and its holding onto your fat. Try taking away one or two days of the cardio and adding circuit training with weights for an hour instead. Crunches dont do much - do planks if you want to see any type of definition in your mid section. It will pull everything in.

    ^ this! Cut down on your cardio, maybe just limit it to a two mile run? Add some weights into your routine. I've had better results with squats and deadlifts than with any number of crunches. And planks are such a blessing on your core.

    Totally agree. Optimum body composition happens with solid diet, good cardio & good strength training. Leaving anyone of those 3 elements out means you wont maximise your results. Dont be scared of strength training, more muscle mass means you will burn more calories even when you are resting.
  • mell6355
    mell6355 Posts: 171 Member
    Hi I recommend switiching up your exercise routines.... to shock your body. Remembering that you loose weight in the kitchen and get fine in the gym. Weigh training is important for women, it will help you to burn more fat .. so incorporate that into your work outs. I would measure your sucess by inches lost rather than lbs lost... just my 2 cents.

    I LOVE this comment!
  • lorierin22
    lorierin22 Posts: 432 Member
    If you love running, I wouldn't give it up, but you could CHANGE it up some. Instead of doing 5 10-min miles everyday, you could try a faster tempo run of 3 miles at 9 min pace or go out longer for 7 miles at 11-12 min pace. Also you could add in intervals of sprinting and jogging for 2 miles or so some days or do some hill work. You would still be getting in cardio, but your body wouldn't get used to it so easily since you would be switching things up some day to day. Just my thoughts...I am no where near an expert on the subject ;)

    Good luck!
  • crazybookworm
    crazybookworm Posts: 779 Member
    Putting aside any medical issues. It sounds like you need to change up your workout. Your body can get used to the same routine very quickly. Once it is used to your usual exercise regime, it doesn't have to work that hard anymore, which results in fewer calories burned. You should be changing up your workout routine about every 3-4 workouts. Feel free to keep the running, but cut the run in half and toss in a bike ride. Add extra weight/reps to your strength, etc. Like I said, changing up the routine. You have to keep that body of yours guessing!

    Also, you may be gaining muscle, which may be a reso why the numbers are matching up on the scale. Your actual weight is just half of it. Muscle and toning is the other half.
  • Wonderob
    Wonderob Posts: 1,372 Member
    your not exercising long enough.... make your workouts 30-45mins long and you will start to see results, also what do you have you calories set at?

    5 miles at 10 mph = 50 minutes.

    :laugh: Math FTW!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhm7-LEBznk
  • moosegt35
    moosegt35 Posts: 1,296 Member
    Like a lot of other people have said, you would do better to do a longer workout versus several shorter ones.

    50 minutes is a long workout. Do you people read posts before you give advice?
  • greeneyedKat
    greeneyedKat Posts: 88
    Kind of in the same boat here. I have been riding bike 3-4 times a week(average 8 miles each time) and then walking /running for 2 miles and weight training 3 days a week....did this for over 2 months without losing any weight...upped the weights to 4 or 5 days...got on the scale last Monday and finally showed a loss of 2 pounds....I have my calories set at 1200. Dont know if this is too low...I want to lose 25 pounds
  • T34418l3angel
    T34418l3angel Posts: 474 Member
    your not exercising long enough.... make your workouts 30-45mins long and you will start to see results, also what do you have you calories set at?

    5 miles at 10 mph = 50 minutes.

    :laugh: Math FTW!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhm7-LEBznk

    LMAOOO! This was so funny lol
  • mikeDHart55
    mikeDHart55 Posts: 2
    I don't exercise at all and have lost 18 lbs....what i do is for two days a week eat <=500 calories and then for the rest of the week eat relatively normally, around 1500 cals. I have quite busy weekends but the rest of the time I sit at a computer. My fast days are Mon + Tues and I am finding that across wed/thursday my weight drops around 2 lb every week.
  • vienna26
    vienna26 Posts: 115 Member
    Kind of in the same boat here. I have been riding bike 3-4 times a week(average 8 miles each time) and then walking /running for 2 miles and weight training 3 days a week....did this for over 2 months without losing any weight...upped the weights to 4 or 5 days...got on the scale last Monday and finally showed a loss of 2 pounds....I have my calories set at 1200. Dont know if this is too low...I want to lose 25 pounds


    Yeah 1200 calories is to low especially with the added workouts that you are doing,this will be the reason you are not losing?? do you eat back your exercise cals??if you stay at 1200 then you defo need to eat them back. Id recommend you work out your TDEE if you havent already this will set you at the right amount of calories for your activity level.I started at 1200 and upped to 1600 plus i eat some exercise cals back to make sure i net at least my bmr and im losing weight. You can work out your TDEE using Fat2fitradio.com website, first work out your body fat percentage using the military body fat calculator, and then work out your bmr
    Good luck and hope this helps
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    You are doing great but for greater results and fast fat loss try more cardio workouts instead of just jogging and running. Cardio workouts gives you an afterburn. So if you are on a treadmill instead of running 5 miles straight. Try doing 2 minutes fast run and 1 minute walk...

    HIIT TRAINING IS GOOD FOR U too.


    TRUST ME. I've been trying cardio workouts and HIIT training and although I'm not losing a lot I'm losing a 1 lb per week.

    Cardio workouts give you "afterburn" for about 10-15 minutes.

    2 min fast and 1 min slow is intervals.

    Hate to tell you, no where near HIIT. And those intervals while useful aren't going to get you near the response of HIIT.

    True HIIT is like weight lifting, you would need recovery the day later because you should be sore.

    True HIIT is all out for no longer than 15-30 seconds, because you can't go all-out for longer than that, and recovery is 3x as long.

    True HIIT will show much more afterburn than cardio, because it's anaerobic, just like weight lifting, and the repair from such an effort burns fat.

    Now, to kill the repair and get no benefit from your hard work - do it again the next day instead of rest or gentle workout.
  • karth07
    karth07 Posts: 3
    You can lose weight buy following some siimple change in your food habits. I had reduced nearly 12 kgs in 80 days and also I feel the energy throughout the day after taking the meal supplement and dry salads from Herbalife. I feel healthy and able to do the work efficiently without any tired feelings after taking the nutiritional shake mix. Losing weight is now made easy :smile:
  • fattarzan
    fattarzan Posts: 31
    count me in and I've been told to change routines in working out so that is where I am at...
  • atlanticgypsy
    atlanticgypsy Posts: 51 Member
    Too much cardio. It's putting too much stress on your body and its holding onto your fat. Try taking away one or two days of the cardio and adding circuit training with weights for an hour instead. Crunches dont do much - do planks if you want to see any type of definition in your mid section. It will pull everything in.

    ^this! i am proof!

    be sure you are drinking enough water and getting 7-8hrs of sleep....try also incorporating other ways of working out. maybe a yoga class? a spin class/bike ride....or maybe an uphill hike? and just relax. ;) I'm pretty much talking to myself right now too. =) stress can also make your body hang on to those pounds

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  • LaurenAOK
    LaurenAOK Posts: 2,475 Member
    Too much cardio. It's putting too much stress on your body and its holding onto your fat. Try taking away one or two days of the cardio and adding circuit training with weights for an hour instead. Crunches dont do much - do planks if you want to see any type of definition in your mid section. It will pull everything in.

    Agree with this
    Two words:

    Eat more.

    And this
  • jenluvsushi
    jenluvsushi Posts: 933 Member
    I came back to note something, then saw that lots of you people have reading comprehension issues. 50 minutes running + 15

    THIS^^^^^ ugh! This girl exercises over an hour a day.....50 minutes of it running at ONE time. GEESH people!
  • LaurenAOK
    LaurenAOK Posts: 2,475 Member
    Also all the people saying she doesn't work out enough literally can't read. Wow.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    Ok read more of the thread now. I don't have an answer.
  • ShadowChaser16
    ShadowChaser16 Posts: 40
    I was the same way, working out almost everyday and taking in a net of 1200 calories. Lost some weight at first then didn't lose any for 2 months (!!!). Don't tell me it's muscle gain because I have a scale that tells me body % and the muscle percentage didn't go up significantly at any point.

    Then I just stopped working out and started eating more (1700 calories) and am losing weight consistently and faster than I was while eating less and moving more (which they say is the best diet). That may work for some people but it didn't work for me.

    I think working out and eating so little causes your body too much stress so it just holds onto fat. Your body has a primitive mindset, it doesn't know "cardio" it knows running from giant sabertooth tigers and struggling to survive, which is what it thinks you're doing when you eat 1200 cals and do an hour of cardio everyday.

    I'd ditch the works outs for now, and eat more.
  • ahviendha
    ahviendha Posts: 1,291 Member
    your not exercising long enough.... make your workouts 30-45mins long and you will start to see results, also what do you have you calories set at?

    5 miles at 10 mph = 50 minutes.

    What am I missing here?

    5 miles at 10 mph would take 30 minutes

    Cause she said she runs 5 miles at ten minutes a mile. Not 10mph.

    Thought I'd edit for additional helpful information ;)

    I would say eat more. It worked for me. I hit a plateau a while back, realized MFP was set to losing 2lbs a week and I changed it to 1lb a week loss, and the weight start coming off again. I was eating at 1350~ and moved up to 1570~.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Only through page 1, but in for more of the female equivalent of broscience.
  • pawnstarNate
    pawnstarNate Posts: 1,728 Member
    just wondering if your weight came off quicky for a short time then did it seem your body became stuck? It happened to me. 231lbs down to 216 lbs I was fine but, was stuck on 216 for a couple of weeks....a 3 day rest, a supplement from GNC, and a different routine changed that and started losing again. got down to 198, relapsed for a few months to 205 (currently) and jumping back on the health wagon. anywho...just curious about if your body seems stuck.
  • Kristonya
    Kristonya Posts: 4
    Perhaps you are not eating enough.. your body needs fuel and if you are burning all those calories and not eating enough the body will try to hold onto fluids and such.. maybe change things up too.. I hear that your body can get used to burning calories if you do the same workout all the time.. I think I read that on an article from jillian.. wish I had a link .. but anyhow.. I feel your pain and I just increased my calories per a trainers advice and started interval training in shorter segments to keep my blood sugar levels under better control throughout the day.. New studies suggest doing 10 minute workouts three times a day is better for fat burn and control of blood pressure and sugars... once again wish I had a link.. I need to start keeping these articles I read. ;)
    Either way.. good luck! :smile:
  • cecilesutton
    cecilesutton Posts: 3
    You're not working out hard or long enough. I work out and hour a day, 6-7 days a week and bust *kitten*. You shouldn't look as pretty when you're done as when you stated. If I don't look like I've gotten out of the shower when I'm done I didn't work hard enough. I've lost 55 pounds pretty easily.

    Kick up you workouts and you'll see results.


    Ma'am, this post is ridiculous. Working out that hard and that often is not going to help her. Your body needs to rest and if she was working out like this, she would absolutely have to eat more carbs anyway.
  • matt_h76
    matt_h76 Posts: 39
    your not exercising long enough.... make your workouts 30-45mins long and you will start to see results, also what do you have you calories set at?

    5 miles at 10 mph = 50 minutes.

    To cover 5 miles travelling at 10mph would take 30 mins ;)
  • TheFunBun
    TheFunBun Posts: 793 Member
    To cover 5 miles travelling at 10mph would take 30 mins ;)

    Oh man! Sure did get told. Heheh. Good thing I have gadgets. I need a 10MPH is not a 10 minute mile spanking. ;)
  • greeneyedKat
    greeneyedKat Posts: 88
    Thanks Vienna for replying. I am beginning to think that I am not eating enough, also. I will try that website. Thanks :)
  • no_day_but_2day
    no_day_but_2day Posts: 222 Member
    I have a feeling I'm not eating enough. I'm doing a program called LiveFit and I'm on the second phase. This phase has me working out 6 days a week. 2 leg days and the other four work different muscles (back, shoulder etc). On those days it tells me to do 30 minutes of medium intensity cardio. I've been doing this program for 6 weeks and I've gained weight. It's so discouraging and I know I eat healthy with low sugar, fruits and veggies, protein from chicken and steak and fish..etc etc. And Nothing! I do count my calories and I am almost always under 1300 but I don't know how to up the intake. Egg whites and turkey sausage/bacon or plain oatmeal in the morning is very low in calories and the same goes for salads and chicken and veggies so where do I up my calories?? Any help I can get would be great!

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