Any sensible suggestions only please

I can't see your food diary to make useful comments but would offer .....

1) are you eating enough to fuel your activity? I wasn't eating enough for a while and was losing zip. Reviewed my food intake, upped it, started losing

2) as an occasional watcher of 'the biggest loser' a frequent thing that came up was people over doing it am taxing their system way touch. Result? Low to no weight loss and the body seems to go into some kind of crisis mode. Looking at what you say you're doing, that might be the case.

3) you said it yourself ... 1lb a week consistently is great!

Hope it helps in some way.

48yr old female, been on mfp for four weeks,have lost an average of 1lb a week, which i know is acceptable but i have been exercising loads, 35 mins on cross trainer,35 on treadmill,30 on rowing machine and swimming for an hour, i do all this every day, eating between 1500/1900 calories. Why isn't my weight loss greater, and not losing inches either. Take medication for high blood pressure from damaged kidney.Any help on what i need to do.

Hi the biggest misconception about losing weight is to hit the treadmill (I love cardio don't worry)
Try incorporating some weights then watch the weight fall off exactly what I did!
Also could be portions and what you're eating irrespective of calorie count?
For drastic results I NEVER use a full dinner plate, I use the plate size down (bread plate?)

Hope this helps and keep going!

My thoughts:

1. Eat more to support that level of activity
2. Take rest days each week - preferably 2
3. Sub weight training for 2 or three of your cardio workout routines

I'm just going to make a general observation. This may not apply to you, since I don't go to the gym with you to observe your workouts.

You would be much better off doing 30 minutes of intense HIIT (high intensity interval training) every day instead of doing 2 hours of other cardio at a snails pace. I see a lot of women at the gym making this mistake. They spend over an hour on the cardio machines and leave without breaking a sweat or being out of breath.

If you're going to work out, make it count. Don't get on the elliptical and do the bare minimum for 30 minutes, and then switch to the treadmill and walk at 3.0 mph for 30 minutes and then hit the pool and do the slowest breaststroke imaginable for 30 minutes.

Pick one and do a 5-minute warm-up, followed by alternating 1 minute as hard as you can possibly go, then 1-2 minutes slow to recover and then repeat until the end. You should be drenched in sweat, out of breath, and feel like you can barely make it to the locker room and your car afterwards.

Look into HIIT and try that for a few weeks, maybe with a little strength training added in. You will see much bigger changes over time.

I'm just going to make a general observation. This may not apply to you, since I don't go to the gym with you to observe your workouts.

You would be much better off doing 30 minutes of intense HIIT (high intensity interval training) every day instead of doing 2 hours of other cardio at a snails pace. I see a lot of women at the gym making this mistake. They spend over an hour on the cardio machines and leave without breaking a sweat or being out of breath.

If you're going to work out, make it count. Don't get on the elliptical and do the bare minimum for 30 minutes, and then switch to the treadmill and walk at 3.0 mph for 30 minutes and then hit the pool and do the slowest breaststroke imaginable for 30 minutes.

Pick one and do a 5-minute warm-up, followed by alternating 1 minute as hard as you can possibly go, then 1-2 minutes slow to recover and then repeat until the end. You should be drenched in sweat, out of breath, and feel like you can barely make it to the locker room and your car afterwards.

Look into HIIT and try that for a few weeks, maybe with a little strength training added in. You will see much bigger changes over time.

What she said.

Thanks, that's what my husband and son keeps saying,but exercising less and eating more seems wrong,

why does it seem wrong? A lot of people attach moral values to eating and fat loss, they see getting fat as some kind of sin or crime, and dieting as pennance for that "sin/crime" and feel that they don't deserve for it to be easy.... I don't know if that's how you're thinking or not, but that's what the above statement brought to mind.

However, it's not a moral issue, it's a health one. Exercising less and/or eating more (i.e. eating enough calories to fuel your body and your workouts) is what you should be doing for your health and for long term, sustainable fat loss. Why continue to do something the difficult and somewhat torturous way, when there's an easier, less painful and more sustainable way to achieve the same results? (and which will probably give you much better long term results)

Add weight training and cut cardio down

Calculate your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). Your BMR is what your body needs to function! For example, my BMR is around 1550. My TDEE is between 2100 and 2300 (depending on calculator and exercise that day). To lose, then, I eat 1800 everyday and more on days I exercise.