not losing weight

Hi,
How many calories are you eating each day?
Heather

Maybe dont look at weight and look at measurements instead!

Maybe dont look at weight and look at measurements instead!

This.

so true.

i dont care what my weight is.

i don't really know what's good or bad with measurements or what i should be aiming for? stones and pounds is more my thing unfortunately

if you lose inches but your weight remains then you are keeping muscle mass.

i weigh 72 kgs.

last time i weighed 72 kgs i was in nowhere near this shape.

hence why i say weight is not important.

Hi!
I have been working with the Insanity program. I saw good results the first go round, but this second time, I haven't really noticed the changes. I put my food into the tracker yesterday and was completely horrified that I had only eaten about 50g of protein and that I wasn't even hitting 1000 calories. I have started a new system today, that will hopefully help me up my calories and protein.

I agree with the suggestions of ditching the scale and possibly lowering carbs and upping protein. If you are trying to build lean muscle, the general rule of thumb seems to be one gram of protein for every pound you weigh. I really feel like the tracker on here does not advise enough protein and suggests heavy on the carbs.

I know it's hard to keep going when you aren't seeing the results you want, but seriously, look at your protein over the last few weeks or even days. If you are under 1 gram/pound of body weight, my bet is that you aren't getting enough. Also, if you are eating under 1000 calories, your body thinks you are trying to kill it via starvation! It will hold on to whatever fat you have with all it's got. Try the five small, protein dense meals, and, if you are afraid of fat, don't be! Adding some healthy fats to your diet, like coconut oil, avocado, and nuts will really help you in the long run.

Hopefully that helps! Good luck

Stephanie

Maybe you can try lowering your carb intake a little & upping your protein intake...And/or not eating back most of your exercise calories.

I love this idea. Removing grains is what has gotten me out of the plateau. I've lost a lot of weight when I've initially just added exercise, but when I've plateaued out, I had to change my diet. Removing most carbs, and mostly grains is not easy at the beginning, but I'm sure it would be significantly easier and much more productive than eating only 400 calories a day. Read about paleo eating, for example at http://primalblueprint.com/

It is 1g of protien per pound of lean muscle mass. Not pound of body weight. just saying.

I have read so much conflicting information on this subject... This could be spot on. My question to you, is how exactly are you supposed to figure out your lean muscle mass? I wouldn't have the first clue how much lean muscle mass I have on my body. It seems like there will be a formula involved, and I was an English Major

Seriously, though, if you Google "how much protein do I need to lose fat and gain lean muscle" you get about a million different ratios. I went with the middle ground, as some websites said 1.5g per pound down to .6g per pound. Thoughts?

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/lbm_calculator.htm

Scales DO NOT give an accarate measurement of you progress! Water retention and muscle mass- will effect it so much and will only make you feel bad becuse even if you are loosing weight the scales might not show it or say you are gaining due to WR and MM

i don't really know what's good or bad with measurements or what i should be aiming for? stones and pounds is more my thing unfortunately

I have gained about 3kg but lost 1.5 inches of my waist and thighs! And i have gone from 13% body fat % to 10% I drink loads and do strengh training!

My best advice is take you meausrement from part of you body you want to loose or the main body places e.g waist, hips, thighs est

Then say I want to loose say couple of inches of my waist inich off my thighs est

Just see how it goes!!

Very against scales!