6months of gym and im not shredded :/

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  • alanahbastion
    alanahbastion Posts: 48
    so my diet is pretty all over the place,i have a sweet tooth :/ and love carbs,iv been on 2000 calories a day because im breastfeeding so apparently you consume an extra 300 but weight loss has been to slow so iv lowered it to 1800,not sure how to unlock my good diary
  • alanahbastion
    alanahbastion Posts: 48
    i want no fat but want to look strong and have lean muscle so i dont look to thin but its such a fricking process of trial and error
  • alanahbastion
    alanahbastion Posts: 48
    and i have 2 kids and carry them both,and my shopping,i lift a fare amount at the gym :) no pink weights
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    What sort of exercises are you doing? Are you squatting/dead lifting?
    Are you constantly upping your weight once a set stops being challenging?
  • alanahbastion
    alanahbastion Posts: 48
    yes heaps of lifting and strength training etc,i think i have been lead to think its fast the results from the media as yous say and was getting a bit down about it,but now i know im going to keep working hard and lowered my calories upped my protein :) thanks guys and girls
  • sarahrbraun
    sarahrbraun Posts: 2,261 Member
    so my diet is pretty all over the place,i have a sweet tooth :/ and love carbs,iv been on 2000 calories a day because im breastfeeding so apparently you consume an extra 300 but weight loss has been to slow so iv lowered it to 1800,not sure how to unlock my good diary

    The breastfeeding might be what is slowing you down. For some women, it helps just melt the weight right off...for women like me, not so much. At least for my second and third babies, I seemed to cling to the last 10lbs or so of my pregnancy weight for several years!
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    It's a long and slow process. I wish it happened over night.

    i thought I'd be jacked after like 3 months or so. (thank you fitness magazines)

    2 years later, I realize I'll spend the rest of my life chasing goals.
    Yup.

    Results do come, but they take a helluva lot of time and effort.
  • Jeneba
    Jeneba Posts: 699 Member
    I wonder if you are logging your results..... When I go to the gym, I keep a record of number of sets, weight used, number of reps. I keep challenging myself to do more EVERY SINGLE time! So - no, I am not Ripped - but I am stronger and stronger every day and I look pretty buff. But to be RIPPED, your % body fat has to be fairly low and this isn't realistic for most women.
  • chocl8girl
    chocl8girl Posts: 1,968 Member
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  • chickentunashake
    chickentunashake Posts: 164 Member
    then you need to take closer look at your nutrition, your macros. It is 70% nutrition, 30% workouts what makes your body.
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member

    Are you lifting weights that are heavier than your grocery bags? You need to actually lift WEIGHT to get somewhere. Not just lift litle pink cute weights up and down 500 times.

    Sometimes people who are beginning can only life those cute pink weights. And I can't lift them 500 times at that.
    Who carries in your groceries for you? Do you have a child? If so, who picks them up/picked them up for you? Who pours your milk for you? If you are doing these things yourself, you CAN pick up more than those "cute little pink weights". Woman are capable of lifting a LOT more than they give themselves credit for. Think about what you pick up in a day! Don' sell yourself so short! If you're not challenging your muscles you WON'T see progress! Bottom line!

    good point. the thing is though most people are talking about different types of workouts. there's a big difference between doing isolation exercises (which many women would need barbie weights for) vs doing compound lifts which you can go heavy on.

    many women i see in the weight room are doing isolation exercises like bicep curls, tricep kickbacks, side lateral raise, etc. i can deadlift my body weight but i'd need significantly less if i were doing kickbacks :laugh:
  • brucedelaney
    brucedelaney Posts: 433 Member
    What sort of exercises are you doing? Are you squatting/dead lifting?
    Are you constantly upping your weight once a set stops being challenging?


    ^^^^This
    then you need to take closer look at your nutrition, your macros. It is 70% nutrition, 30% workouts what makes your body.

    ^^^^And This
  • Lynn_is_happy
    Lynn_is_happy Posts: 152 Member
    The fitness media/advertising is lying to us???
    Who would have guessed, and making a tidy profit as well.
    Stick with it, and it will come, not easy not fast, but nothing great is easy, it isn't supposed to be..

    Try enjoying your weightloss/gain/health/fitness journey, not just wondering when it will end, otherwise you might be missing all the important lessons that will change your life once you "get there"

    Love this! Thanks.

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