Will my fitness routine help me lose weight?

I'm told by my trainer that it's 60% diet and 30% exercise. Stop the cheat days. His advice to me was to allow three "cheat" meals a week. It's all about the quality of food you eat. Are you basing that 1300 calorie goal on your TDEE? You should. There's a bunch of calculators online or figure about 10-12 calories for each pound.

I followed the app guidelines for a long time. They aren't working for me! You should look into the right settings for your carbs/proteins/fats ratio. I had to change those default settings as well. I was just told this week to start aiming for .7 grams of protein per pound a day. For me that's 100 grams a day! Definitely not what I was shooting for before! We'll see how it works, but the past three days I've gotten up to about 70 grams a day and have only managed to eat about 1300-1400 net calories each day because I'm so full!

Good luck

Nah I dont worry about how many meals, just make sure I get all my meals in my calories.
I sometimes skip breakfast and have a shake only, then eat a huge lunch and a small dinner, or no breakfast no lunch and a big dinner. Its calories in vs calories out. Some people do a thing called intermitant fasting.

Ive now learned since joining this site that meal times dont matter, I cant eat breakfast early else I get hungrier. Its all about the calories in vs calories out

If you really were in a calorie deficit, you would lose weight.
So you are either over estimating your calorie burn or you under estimate what you eat.

Do you weigh everything you eat?

I have a food scale but never use it! Lol I just started watching calories so I'm expecting some results soon. I've had significant muscle gain in my biceps, triceps, shoulders and back. Legs are catching up from a month long injury. I think if I was solely doing cardio I would definitely have lost weight on the scale, but I do a lot of weights, pull-ups, push-ups, deadlifts, squats, etc. with the purpose of gaining muscle. So I'm not sure if that's affecting my lack of results on the scale. Not gonna lie I could clean up my eating habits a bit more, but I'm still eating healthier than before I started working out.

You are not in a calorie deficit then.
Weigh EVERYTHING you eat.

If your main goal is to build muscle, you'd be better off with the advise darrensurrey gave you, though. But even if that's what you're gonna do, weigh your food. You can't log accurately with only "guesstimating" your intake.

The impulse for weight loss is not if you work out or not - it's the calorie deficit. Cardio isn't needed, you can create that deficit only through your diet. Lift heavy weights & get enough protein in to keep your lean body mass and eat in a deficit - that's it (if you want to lose fat - if you'd rather focus on building muscle, darrensurrey is right).

Honey, I never said I was at a deficit. And my goal is not solely weight loss, it's muscle gain with fat loss.

Well, the thread name is "Will my fitness routine help me lose weight?".

No, it wont.

Please help fitness friends! I just started a workout routine 3 months ago and enjoy focusing on strength training and some light cardio. 1-2 times a week I also incorporate a metabolic workout similar to a crossfit routine. I started training with hopes of losing weight and toning but so far I have gained 8lbs. Am I wrong to think my body will eventually cut fat with these type of workouts? I've thought about increasing the cardio but would have to sacrifice some strength training to make time for it (which I want to avoid) I would greatly appreciate any feedback, thanks!

You need to focus on diet to lose weight. Exercise can help, but you need to maintain a calorie deficit first and foremost to lose weight effectively. You don't need to bust your *kitten* in the gym.

Diet - to lose weight
Exercise - to be fit and healthy

Hi - I posted a similar thread a few days ago because I too started strength training about 4 weeks ago in a gym and like you have put on weight (3kg,about 6.6 pounds). I said I thought I was doing everything right and was shocked at the results of my hard work (I've been lifting heavy). Lots of people commented that it was all down to diet because I admitted that I'd not been completing a log. BUT...I've now logged 4 days and as I expected I've not been over eating and have had a calorie deficit. I've logged honestly and it is no different to what I eat normally because, you see, I logged back in May/June and consequently changed my eating habits. Some of the people who commented on my thread were a little demoralising towards me so I did some research of my own. Weight gain can be caused by other factors besides extra calories - stress, lack of sleep, medication, menopause, menstrual cycle, eating too little, not eating often enough, water retention, and medical conditions. Admittedly I've not been sleeping too well recently so I'm going to see if that is actually a factor. But, I also think there is something in an initial weight gain once you start out with heavy lifting, especially if you're not over weight like you and me and are just wanting to tone up. I'd be interested to see how you get on in a few more weeks. Good luck!