Too much exercise for weight loss?

You're exercising 5 days a week and I'm assuming an hour each session. That's 5 hours of exercise a week. Hardly too much exercise.

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Exercise burns calories, there's no way exercise would hinder weight loss. Cardio is made for weightloss.

I've seen these posts recently and it's normally some person who isn't losing weight because they aren't actually tracking their calories or they literally just started working out and it was ( possibly ) water weight gain.

Losing weight is simple (in words that is!) The amount of Calories you eat compared to what you burn must create a deficit. If you are balancing exercise with diet u are not going to see results. 3500 calories= 1 pound. So in order to lose at a pound per week. yOU MUST CREATE A 500 CALORIE PER DAY deficit times 7 days per week. Whether it be by diet alone or exercising. Find a way to do it. Also if you are constantly hungry you might be eating the wrong types of food. Try to get lots of lean healthy protein. I always follow my w/o with my BF which is 1.5 cups cherrios .5 c milk (1%) and half a banana with 1c Grapefruit juice. There is not much protein in that meal but I follow about 2 hours later with a yogurt and fruit. If you feed your body non nutrient dense foods then you are asking for weight gain. I would recommend taking a nutrition class at your local community college or at least borrowing actual text books to read up on nutrition. Best of luck-Jordan

The issue, as I understand it, is not that too much exercise will hinder weight loss but that it may lead to burn out. Many people get excited early on and hit the gym hard, then find that it is taking too much time and energy and quit entirely or end up hurting themselves due to overtraining. So long as you aren't overwhelming yourself and you stay healthy, there shouldn't be any issues with the exercise you have specified.

It sounds to me like your worry is the food end, because you are feeling hungry now. Is that right?

If you're following MFP, you should be eating back the calories you burn from exercise. Even if you're following TDEE, you should recalculate it to include this recent increase of activity. Bottom line: you are burning a lot more calories, so you should be eating more than you were before you increased your exercise. That will take care of the hunger and allow you to still maintain a caloric deficit without feeling awful or risking binge eating.

Common symptoms of overtraiing include: fatigue, irritability, restlessness/insomnia, depression, chronic soreness, you seem to get sick more often (decresed immunity) and/or you stop seeing results. Feeling any of these?

If you're having difficulting losing weight, the problem more likely has to do with diet. It looks like you're not tracking your food consistently. I would recommend starting there. And when you track, try to be as accurate as possible. Weigh, measure, check labels vs what the MFP listing says, etc.

Your daily calories should fall somewhere between 500 and 750 calories less than what your Fitbit says you burn in a day in order to lose 1-1.5 pounds per week. Any more or less on a regular basis may hinder your weight loss and not eating enough could also hinder your ability to keep up with your current workout schedule.

Hi we are about the same size so I thought I would weigh in. My fitbit says the same thing. As long as you keep your calorie intake at roughly 1500 calories a day and eat things of nutritional value and feel full, you should see the weight come off. Start calculating your food intake and don't eat more than you are burning. I hope that helps and good luck with your weight loss journey.

Common symptoms of overtraiing include: fatigue, irritability, restlessness/insomnia, depression, chronic soreness, you seem to get sick more often (decresed immunity) and/or you stop seeing results. Feeling any of these?

If you're having difficulting losing weight, the problem more likely has to do with diet. It looks like you're not tracking your food consistently. I would recommend starting there. And when you track, try to be as accurate as possible. Weigh, measure, check labels vs what the MFP listing says, etc.

Your daily calories should fall somewhere between 500 and 750 calories less than what your Fitbit says you burn in a day in order to lose 1-1.5 pounds per week. Any more or less on a regular basis may hinder your weight loss and not eating enough could also hinder your ability to keep up with your current workout schedule.

This. After looking at your diary, I am not sure how you can say you are eating the same amount of calories on workout and non workout days, since you don't seem to track more than 2 days in a row at any given time, and your calorie goal bounces between 1400 and 2000 on the days you do track.

How much are you eating? I would bet anything Fitbit is underestimating your burn. It can't determine how hard you're working at those classes; it's primarily a pedometer.

It's not too much exercise, but if you're hungry you should eat more. No need to keep more than a 500 calorie deficit each day. If your Fitbit says 2400 burned, eat 1900 or even 2000. As I said, I would bet you're actually burning more than it says.

Also, to stay satisfied, eat more protein. Get 20-30% of calories from fat each day. Eat high fiber foods. Combine protein, fat and fiber at every time you eat for the best satiety.

You don't have to worry about over exercising at 2445/ burn or TDEE per day. I hit numbers of 4000-5000 TDEE at least once or twice a week, and I'm 5'7" and 130lbs. That's about 7-8 hours of cardio in a single day.

My average TDEE is around 2500 kcal per day, per my Fitbit Flex. I see myself as being moderately active.

Unless you are doing 2+ hours of cardio a day as well as other forms of exercise (like weight training), you don't have to worry about getting too much exercise.