Two Hours A Day of Cardio?

Feeling dejected too this morning as the scales haven't budged this week. I've been under my calories all week except one day where I was over about 40 cals and I've done some kind of exercise every day, usually totalling about an hour so yes I can definitely sympathise. I have started a new exercise programme doing C25K jogging so i'm putting it down to that. My body isn't used to running. The last time I actually ran was probably at school 30 years ago !! I did lose over 2lbs last week though. I think MFP overestimates calories from exercise so I'm not going to eat all my exercise calories back this next week and I will try to eat better and healthier and see if that works! Good luck to you too

Add some serious resistance training instead. Doesn't matter if you join a gym or do bodyweight exercises in your living room, but you're going to want to add some strength training to your regimen, not another hour of cardio. It will benefit you more than the 200 odd calories that MFP will credit.

Three things work in conjunction with each other to help control your weight. Calorie control, some form of cardio, and something for muscular enhancement. Right now you're doing two of them. Instead of going overboard on those two things, try adding the missing ingredient and seeing where you are 60 days from now.

1. NO, you will not get bulky, manly, or anything like that
2. NO, you do not need to wait until you have lost a lot of weight before you begin strength training
3. DON'T use The Biggest Loser as a guide. Motivation, yes. Roadmap, Hell To The Naw.
3. DON'T feel bad about your progress. It's only been two weeks? The body takes a while to make sure you're serious before it will start adjusting to your new routine. Give it some more time to adapt to what you're doing. I'm sure it took longer than 2 weeks for you to become obese. Stop the self loathing. You're on the right path and you're doing something. That seems like a reason to feel good, IMO.

ewww why do so much cardio?

i've seen great results on focusing mainly on strength training and weight lifting. i'm a former athlete so i can tell you for sure that i'm the type of woman who easily gains muscle yet because i eat at a deficit the more weight i lift the slimmer i get and the more my body sheds fat. the majority of my cardio is of the HIIT variety (which i guess technically isnt cardio) and in general i steer clear away from the long steady state endurance type cardio

i spend an hour a day working out. i weight lift 3 times a week (was dong new rules of lifting for women and now i've switched to strong lifts 5*5). there's really only 1 day i spend doing close to 90 minutes of working out and that's on my long run day that i'm doing to prepare for some upcoming adventure and obstacle races.

also i wouldnt trust what half the trainers in the gym say about strength training. most try and push cardio down women's throats i think because either they think the non barbie plastic weights will scare us or they themselves don't know what the hell they are doing with regards to free weights so they try and discourage anything they cant sell. not all trainers are like this of course, but generally speaking any trainer that's going to tell you to emphasize cardio over strength training i'd advise to ignore.

the best thing about strength training is not only can you gain crazy strength , bu even when you have weeks where the scale weight stalls you will still be losing fat and can see the difference in your clothes. at one point over a few weeks i only lost 2 pounds, but those 2 pounds resulted in half a pants size

2 weeks is long time to wait for a change that you have earned.
Just keep swinging .......it will come.
I would suggest the addition of some strength training. I would also suggest you increase the intensity and ferquency of your cardio rather than the time per day. Maybe go up to 6 days a week.

you definitely need to try something different, if not to save your mental health! So change the way you exercise or change the way you eat. Question yourself - if you are feeling demoralised maybe you are "cheating" diet wise a bit, having that extra cookie here or there or whatever. I know I get slack when I feel frustrated with progress. So look at that and make sure you really can say you are logging correctly.
And yeah, maybe try something different ? If you like running, instead of running for an hour do 30 mins of interval training (combined sprints and moderate pace).
I don't think there is anyone who doesn't get great results from gillian michaels dVD's, maybe you could throw in 30DS which is only 20 minutes a day, do that for a month - you are almost guaranteed results from her DVD's they really do work.

If you are not losing weight with the amount of cardio you are doing your total calorie intake and macros are wrong, simple as that, it's not te exercise which is the problem.

This could be under eating (whic seems to plague this forum!) as well as over eating.

Would be interested to know your height/weight/age and current calorie intake

The exercise has been covered in the posts above
I would recommend a little red meat too, Only checked your diary for a week and you don't have much red meat
It was all chicken and seafood.

Hormones can cause weight loss to be uneven too.

Non-free range chicken is high in hormones and could be throwing you off too.

If you are not losing weight with the amount of cardio you are doing your total calorie intake and macros are wrong, simple as that, it's not te exercise which is the problem.

This could be under eating (whic seems to plague this forum!) as well as over eating.

Would be interested to know your height/weight/age and current calorie intake

This. I would also add in strength training over more cardio. And looking at your diary, while I know it's a personal decision, eating back some exercise calories might help with the exhaustion and get your body moving in the right direction.

1. Try eating your workouts calories - at least half.
2. Do weights
3. Check with your dr you have no thyroid problems, etc
4 Track sodium, the foods which you're eating (maccas etc) are very high in sodium, which will make you retain water plus do not have the highest nutritional content.

Try to shake it up a little, if you do the same all the time your body gets used to it and it has less effect. Even if you run further or faster as you progress you still need to keep your body guessing. Run backwards, up hills, do sprint intervals and add some different forms of exercise to your workout.

Our bodys get used to what we do so change your foods cals and exercise every 6 weeks

They also say 30 mins twice a day is better than 60 minutes?

Tbh you can only do any exercise that can fit into your life for a long period also something you love it's not worth killing yourself mentally getting in 2 hours a day you'll get injuries

I've lost 18 pounds in 5 weeks doing an hour to an hour and a half of cardio a day, i've since added in some weight lifting but not huge weights or reps mostly for toning and just to get a sweat going, my weight loss has been mostly evenly spread over the 5 weeks (with a 2 week 1lb p/w drop in weight loss when i started lifting actually)

I'd say its defo possible but everybody is different, depends how much you have to lose i imagine and how intensive your cardio is,

My cardio started out as walking, then cycling unfortunately a bum knee makes running a bit of a risk for me

Im sure more knowledgeable people will post advice (or have already) but this is what worked for me.

I drink water like crazy, whenever i can

before doing my cardio i drink a small black coffee

I increase distance and/or pace as soon as i get close to comfortable with my existing distance/pace

I split my cardio into 2 even chunks (right now bookending my lifting at the gym) 5 days a week and one day i do a long walk (between 1 -2 hours round trip, no lifting that day)

I end the day with a cup of green tea (after my evening meal/before bed)

Anyone else out there not losing weight or inches on an hour of cardio a day with calorie deficits? When I say I'm working my *kitten* off here, people, I mean it. If only it were TRUE and my *kitten* were COMING OFF.

If you want to add strength training that's a good idea, but it's not why you are not losing. Whether you do cardio or strength training or no exercise at all, if you are in a deficit you should lose weight.

Either you are not truly eating a deficit, or you should see a doctor to see if you have a medical condition that makes losing difficult, such as hypothyroidism.

I would add in some strength training. As another poster suggested you are already doing an hour of cardio and eating healthy but you're missing the strength part. I think it will shake things up and you'll start to lose.

As a runner for me, I remember having the hardest time losing and was at a plateau for the longest time. I was running a lot though, training for my first half marathon. After incorporating a couple days of strength training to start I busted through that plateau. I've been on a roll ever since.