Not getting anywhere!

Where do I start with how wrong everything is?

Can you consistently workout over 2 hours everyday for the rest of your life, or eat less than 600 calories a day?

If the answer isn't obvious what you need to change now, than you're going to be stuck in this oversized boat.

cathiggs wrote: »

OMG really?

If you eat less then 1200 cal then your body goes into starvation mode and instead of losing fat/weight your body holds onto it! you need to eating roughly between 1400-1800 cal a day depending on what type of workouts you are doing! I am guessing you are only doing cardio i would recommend doing some weight training along side the cardio! and by doing weight training you will need slightly higher intake.
To begin with you will need to start looking at your relationship with unhealthy food and try cutting out sugar trans-fats and processed food and make sure you are eating plenty of protein,fruit and veg and good fats such as olive oil and making sure you have enough carbs to help you through those very long training sessions you are doing

and tbh it will be very hard for you to maintain doing 2 1/2 hours of exercise a day!

I would recommend you get some professional help such as a personal trainer (chose wisely though and make sure they are qualified) or maybe a dietitian! also maybe have a word with your GP who can point you in the right the direction!

No, it doesn't go into starvation mode. She also doesn't have to cut things out of her diet unless she either wants to or has to for medical reasons.

OP, you really need to be eating more before you take your body down a dangerous path. That little food with that much exercise is entering into ED territory.

No. No. No and No. I'm not sure what else to say.

If you are eating 600 cals a day and probably burning that much or more in the 2+ hours you say you exercise.... what exactly is fueling your body????

You are entering eating disorder territory here. I would suggest seeking professional help on healthy weight loss

I dont believe someone at 600 cals and working out 2.5hrs daily would not lose weight, especially with 65 to lose.

Id agree with dawnie I doubt you are working out properly for 2.5hrs a day.

OP you are being very foolish, learn how to lose weight in a safe sustainable way.

I'm sorry but that's a dumb idea, set to fail miserably.

With your stats, you could easily be eating 2,000 calories per day and still losing weight, but - here's the thing - it AIN'T going to come off in 2 weeks. You didn't gain all that weight in 2 weeks and it's going to take longer than that to come off.

Weight loss is a long-term thing. It's not a race.

From my personal experience, the issue in such posts is usually not being honest/strict enough with yourself.

You fry some stuff in a ton of olive oil that gets mostly soaked into the food, but you only add the thing itself, not the oil (which is over 100 calories per tablespoon, damnit). Or you eat canned fruit in syrup, but add it as "diced peach" or something, entirely forgetting about the caloric intake from the preservation method. You follow some 45 minute workout from Fitnessblender that claims to burn ~250 calories, but your knees are bended as heck during one exercise, and your abs are not contracted (belly push downwards into the ground) during those toe taps, and your water break is three times what they normally give you, and you instead of twenty push ups you do twelve because your arms hurt, and so on.

(These are just examples, but you know what I mean. We all say "meh, that's almost the same anyway" every now and then, and get very lenient with ourselves, but if you do it too often, you only end up self-sabotaging, and having a completely skewed perception of what you are really doing.)

Advice: set realistic, rational goals. An intake of 600 calories is morose and clinically absurd. Go for 1500 or something, but be strict and organized about it: weigh food, add every little bit of seasoning or whatever, plan ahead. Work out less, but do high-intensity, painful, proper training: weight lifting that pushed your muscles to the limit, calisthenics with some form of added resistance, HIIT without going easy on the active rest or letting your form go mellow.

You can do this.