This mom needs advise!!!

Hi

I agree - way too much exercise. I went a boot camp run by the guy who advised for the 'biggest loser'. He said that he gets so angry when he sees very overweight people doing weights. The biggest danger is the weight itself which needs to get knocked off. My advise - knock the weight off FIRST then tone and build muscle.

Walk, walk and more walking try for at least 45mins to 1 hour a day and walk faster and faster and then uphills.

Food - fill up on HUGE bowls of vegetable soup (not creamy ones!) Huge salads with low cal dressing (not creamy ones)
Big vegetable omlettes., quinoa is great too as low fat and high protein.

As someone said - vegetables stoke your fire so pile them on as they help with weight loss, fill you up and are so good for you..

What's your diet like? Are you measuring and tracking everything? Diet is more important for weight loss than exercise.

Desperate need of advise. I'm 182 pounds 5'7 and 34 years old I workout 6 days a week which I enjoy averaging 30 min cardio with a heartrate of 150. I was previously keeping heartrate about 175 but my doc said that's to high and 150 to burn fat. That's slow but I've been doing it. I eat great and sometimes slip with water intake but should be seeing results!! After cardio I always do weights for a hour. When the heck do the inches and weight come off?? Calorie intake is about 1400-1500. Advise would be great, I really want muscle mass and weight loss! Goal is 40 pounds and scale isn't budging!!! it's discouraging seeing no results and my baby is 6 months old.

Try circuits...my trainer is not a huge supporter for weight lifting because you're sitting and not mobile and doing. Just a thought.

Try weighing your food, and if necessary, over estimate. I have know lots of trainers in my life, most will say the same thing; if you want to loose weight lift weights. But for right now you should not be interested in muscle mass or muscled definition, that will come when the weight comes off. Start with light weights high reps, that will work a litle cardio as well, and walk. Also you should give a full rest day after weights workouts to give your muscles time to recover. Good luck.

Really? A trainer said that I need to pick up on the weights because it assists with burning more calories. So many different opinions, no wonder it's confusing!!! I need to eat more salads for sure and love cous cous and quineo. I will get there it's just a slow process.

I personally would agree with the trainer you spoke to on this one- starting to lift weights now will minimize the amount of lean body mass (muscle) that you'll lose during the process. Don't stop the weights, you'll look and feel better in the long run if you keep them up.

That said, you are doing a LOT of exercise, and that can mean a lot of stress on the body, and possibly a lot of water retention. Water retention (whether from exercise or from salty foods) can translate into little to no scale movement.

Disclaimer- Are you breastfeeding as well (since you have a 6 month old?). If so you should disregard the advice you see on the internet and make sure to take your Dr's advice. Assuming that you aren't breastfeeding and have no other medical conditions to consider (and recognizing that my advice is based on my experience/research and that I have no medical training):

My advice would be to back off a little bit on the exercise, and to be diligent about logging your foods. Everything you eat goes in your log, and you need to make sure you're accurately estimating your intake- weigh or measure things. It's really really easy to underestimate your calorie intake. Finally- are you eating back any exercise calories? If you want to be able to keep up an active lifestyle with the amount of exercise that you're doing healthily, you should consider eating at least some of them back.

Good luck! I hope that things start moving in the direction that you want soon, just remember that the exercise and limiting how much you eat will make you healthier! Weight loss comes with perseverance and dedication, as well as figuring out what works for you

(Edited slightly to reflect that I was agreeing with the trainer she spoke to, not the Biggest Loser one that dislikes weight lifting for overweight people)

Hi

I agree - way too much exercise. I went a boot camp run by the guy who advised for the 'biggest loser'. He said that he gets so angry when he sees very overweight people doing weights. The biggest danger is the weight itself which needs to get knocked off. My advise - knock the weight off FIRST then tone and build muscle.

Walk, walk and more walking try for at least 45mins to 1 hour a day and walk faster and faster and then uphills.

Food - fill up on HUGE bowls of vegetable soup (not creamy ones!) Huge salads with low cal dressing (not creamy ones)
Big vegetable omlettes., quinoa is great too as low fat and high protein.

As someone said - vegetables stoke your fire so pile them on as they help with weight loss, fill you up and are so good for you..

Um, no....I lost all my weight doing VERY little cardio, and strength training three times per week. I started at 192, @ 5'7" and HATE cardio, but loved lifting. Lost all the goal weight AND some, and am currently ending a bulk cycle.

I recently interviewed a personal trainer for my blog and I asked her about this whole waiting to lift the weight until all the weight is lost, and her response was, "From an overall health perspective, strength training is great for your bones and joints. As women, it’s a great way to reduce your risk of osteoporosis.

'Working with weights while losing weight helps you to retain the muscle you already have so that the weight you are losing is primarily fat. This helps to keep a nice shape to the body. Muscle also burns more calories at rest than fat does (not a load more, but any bit helps!) so overall your body is expending more calories which is never a bad thing.

"Strength training also helps to improve day to day activities. If you have small children, you will find it’s easier to carry them around or lift them up. If you have pets, you will find that carrying those large bags of pet food is much easier. Even things like regular house cleaning gets easier because you are stronger and more fit."

How funny, I just posted a similar post a few days ago about weightlifting and calorie intake. I recently changed my workout routine and started heavy liftting for 45-60 minutes 6 days a week and do cardio (jogging) for about one hour once to twice per week. I was at 1,200 calories a day (eating back some exercie calories) but I knew something was off when I wasn't dropping any weight for 6 weeks straight. So after some input from fellow MFP folks and some research, I upped my calorie intake to 1,500 last week and it's been going great. I no longer log my exercises as it's figured into this TDEE method and my macros are 45% carbs, 25% protein and 20% fat. I really try to focus hard on the protein intake, I am sure you know how vital that is when you are lifting and wanting to build muscle.

I am 5'4" though, you're quite a bit taller so I would advise to take a look at your daily calorie intake and see if you shouldn't eat more to sustain the workouts you are doing. I used this website fro my own calculations (http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/) and when I put your stats in, it came to a TDEE of 2,350 a day (already figuring in that you work out 6 days a week). With a 20% deficit, that's a daily intake of 1,880 calories.

And it sounds like you have a great trainer, don't stop the weight lifting - it'll rock your world and the inches will melt away, I promise!

Thanks and that's a good thing to bring up! Should I be doing a post protein shake?? I always heard the stories of it will put on weight not in a good way. Thank god for this forum!! Sure is helping!!

As long as you are getting enough protein throughout the day (80-100g), you do not need a post protein shake.