Grad school weight

barrelaround
barrelaround Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I graduated last year. During my two year program I gained 40lbs. I promised I'd immediately start working on losing it. A month after graduating I started seeing a trainer and watching what I ate. For 4 months I gained insane muscle but lost no weight. I switched trainers and diet. It's been 7 months.....still no weight loss. What am I doing wrong here?!?!

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  • BettyDares
    BettyDares Posts: 1,498 Member
    I'm in a similar boat barrel. I also want to lose this 40+ weight gain. I let stress from work, grad school, a family health issue get the best of me and it has been haunting me over three years now! Even working out consistently 3x a week and more I saw no progress (no weight gain either) but I wasn't logging cals like I should have been at that time.

    I am focusing more now on trying to more strictly adhere to my cal limits 5x a week and nutrition intake. They say nutrition is like 80% of your weightloss so I want to hone in on that while still getting some fitness in.

    Feel free to add me, I like to encourage others/be encouraged and I hope you find the approach that works for you!

  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    barrelaround wrote: »
    I graduated last year. During my two year program I gained 40lbs. I promised I'd immediately start working on losing it. A month after graduating I started seeing a trainer and watching what I ate. For 4 months I gained insane muscle but lost no weight. I switched trainers and diet. It's been 7 months.....still no weight loss. What am I doing wrong here?!?!

    You are not in a calorie deficit, too much food and/or too little activity.

    Also, no offense but to level set, you did not gain an insane amount of muscle in 4 months. As a female, at the very best (perfect diet, hard training) maybe 3-4 pounds in 4 months.
  • barrelaround
    barrelaround Posts: 2 Member
    I weight train 4 days a week and cardio 2xs a week. I snack on great protien shakes and quest bars. I am just confused because I went from 0 workouts a week to 6 and not seeing any loss.
  • msujack
    msujack Posts: 84 Member
    you can't out-exercise a bad diet. You need to eat less. When you burn more than you take in, you lose weight. The protein shakes and quest bars are nice and all, if they fit under your calorie goal. You can eat cheeseburgers all the time as long as you stay under the calorie goal. that is how you lose weight, not by exercising (though burning some extra cals can help, its not correlation to losing weight you think it is). How many calories do you eat a day? What does MFP say you should eat to lose 1.5lbs a week? Stick to that for a month and you will be seeing some progress.
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited March 2016
    For me, 99% of the battle is eating right. Staying within my calories.
    If I exercise, it's just for my health.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    OP read this

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300331/most-helpful-posts-getting-started-must-reads#latest
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