Exercise

DKBelle
DKBelle Posts: 585
edited September 2024 in Motivation and Support
Hey all,
I am working out since end of January, but no big change on my body only getting muscular. I am not really in panic, but I would like to loose weight of course. Most of the time I eat between 800 to 1000 calories and also working out 7 days a week 30min to 2 hours, mostly closer to 2 hours. Depends on the weather, but I like to walk a lot so I go for a walk with my dumbbells (5p) for an hour, after I get back home I do 10 min of stationary bike and 10 min of gymnastic and finishing up with 5-10 min of sit ups. I am not really sure if it is my metabolism or I do something wrong the reason of not loosing weight. If anyone can recommend what type of workout should I do I would highly appreciate it.
Thanks for all the suggestion/help and comments :).
Dia

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  • modernmom70
    modernmom70 Posts: 373 Member
    You are not eating enough calories,especially if you are working out alot. You need at least 1200 calories a day to give your body the fuel it needs.
  • jdelot
    jdelot Posts: 397 Member
    Remember, MFP builds in a calorie deficit based on your weight loss goal..eat back your workout calories. If your net calories is 0, that's still a 500 calorie deficit if your goal is 1lb/week.
  • ocsurfmama
    ocsurfmama Posts: 127
    You are not eating enough calories,especially if you are working out alot. You need at least 1200 calories a day to give your body the fuel it needs.

    Yup! Also, walking is good but it doesn't really burn a lot of calories unless you are walking at a vigorous pace consistently. It would also help if you switched up your exercise so that one day you are doing cardio, one day strength training, one day aerobic and keep rotating it so that you keep your body guessing which in turn jumps up your metabolism. Your calories are so low that your body metabolism will really slow down and put you in a starvation mode where you actually store fat.
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