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unfadedsprkl
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I was already active but wasn't working out at all. My part time job has me on my feet on weekends and some weekends I would track 80-100K steps on my pedometer, so I'm not sedentary. Last year, I lost 15 lbs in 2 months for a wedding/cruise and maintained it until October 2012 when I hurt both my feet and couldn't work out as much. I gained 10lbs back through the holidays while my feet were healing.
Here is my issue...my feet are now better (ish) so I've been working out pretty hard for the past 10 days. An hour of Zumba 5-7 days per week plus light strength training such as push ups, sit ups, lunges and squats. Body resistance stuff.
I've cut down to the suggested 1200 net calories per day and I eat my exercise calories back 90% of the time. Sometimes I just am not hungry and refuse to eat 200 calories right before bed because I'm short.
I've lost ZERO pounds in 2 weeks.
As for diet...I don't drink soda, I drink 80 ounces of water minimum per day and occasionally treat myself to a semi-sweet tea (calories included in my tracker). I'm eating 2 snacks of fruit per day and eating high protein healthy meals. A typical day is:
Breakfast - a protein shake (I eat in the car and its quick and easy)
Snack - a banana or apple with peanut butter
Lunch - a tuna fish sandwich on whole grain deli thins with minimal low fat mayo (1/2 tbsp), brown rice and broccoli or other green veggie, no butter
Snack - granola bar or fruit
Dinner - Lean Protein (salmon or grilled chicken) with lots of veggies and sometimes a small starch (sweet potato, 1/2 baked potato butter only)
I do ocassionally have a glass of wine or two on the weekends, but I include it in my tracker and don't exceed my 1200 net calories per day.
How is it that I'm not losing anything?!?!? Every website I've looked at says I may be consuming too few calories, but 1200 is what MyFitnessPal says I should be eating.
Any tips or advice?
Here is my issue...my feet are now better (ish) so I've been working out pretty hard for the past 10 days. An hour of Zumba 5-7 days per week plus light strength training such as push ups, sit ups, lunges and squats. Body resistance stuff.
I've cut down to the suggested 1200 net calories per day and I eat my exercise calories back 90% of the time. Sometimes I just am not hungry and refuse to eat 200 calories right before bed because I'm short.
I've lost ZERO pounds in 2 weeks.
As for diet...I don't drink soda, I drink 80 ounces of water minimum per day and occasionally treat myself to a semi-sweet tea (calories included in my tracker). I'm eating 2 snacks of fruit per day and eating high protein healthy meals. A typical day is:
Breakfast - a protein shake (I eat in the car and its quick and easy)
Snack - a banana or apple with peanut butter
Lunch - a tuna fish sandwich on whole grain deli thins with minimal low fat mayo (1/2 tbsp), brown rice and broccoli or other green veggie, no butter
Snack - granola bar or fruit
Dinner - Lean Protein (salmon or grilled chicken) with lots of veggies and sometimes a small starch (sweet potato, 1/2 baked potato butter only)
I do ocassionally have a glass of wine or two on the weekends, but I include it in my tracker and don't exceed my 1200 net calories per day.
How is it that I'm not losing anything?!?!? Every website I've looked at says I may be consuming too few calories, but 1200 is what MyFitnessPal says I should be eating.
Any tips or advice?
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I'm not losing inches either...nothing...0
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Are you sure you're eating enough for the amount of calories you're burning? I had the same problem before I joined. I THOUGHT I was eating enough calories and worked out on the elliptical for an hour four times a week. It turns out I wasn't getting enough calories for what I was putting my body through. Discounting the holiday madness (oh, fudge, why are you so delicious!!), I've lost a few pounds VERY slowly. I had to play around with the numbers until I saw the scale start to move. Slowly I'll get there!0
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I just ordered a heart rate monitor so I can more accurately calculate my calories burned. Zumba (surprisingly) isn't in the Exercise lise on MFP, but it puts High Impact Aerobics at 540 calories in 1 hour. Zumba is certainly high impact aerobics and the peaks during the class have even the fittest people in the class breathing heavy and sweating like crazy, but does 540 seem too high?0
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I haven't done Zumba but I taught step aerobics WAAAAYYYY back in the day and was burning around 450-475 an hour. I'd think it'd be really comparable. I LOVE my heart rate monitor! It's the only way I've found that accurately tells me my calories burned! Mine is a Suunto that bases calories burned off your weight, age, and gender. It's so awesome! It'll give you a more accurate way to figure out how much you're burning compared to how much fuel you're taking in.0
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Give it more time. The scale will catch up. I've found that weight loss requires patience.:grumble: Good luck!0
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Just don't give up, your body will take time to adjust. It is a medical thing, if you are burning more calories throughout your day, then you must lose weight, just becaureful no to put your body into starvation mode, or it will start using up the lean muscle not the fat! If you are not sure, use an official medical site (in the uk we have NHS website) that will calcualte your BMR to check xx0
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I just found this zumba calculator - I think you're calculating pretty accurately (if this is accurate, that is): http://caloriesburnedhq.com/zumba-calories-burned/
I try not to eat back my calories, but I'm just now beginning ...0
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