Am I doing something wrong?

I have the same problem. I work out at least 3 times a week. Each 45 minutes for cardio. Also 2 times a week for weight lifting. I only need 10 pounds to lose but I don't see the result. People kept telling me that maybe fat becomes muscle. Blah, but I want to lose some weights especially around my waist.

Please, I need some advice.

Keep in mind that p90x is building some serious muscle! All exercise does, but especially this. Muscle weighs more than fat, try taking measurements and going off of those to gauge success for a few weeks. I bet you're losing major inches!

I don't consider two weeks a plateau myself, just a normal variation - what you're doing sound pretty good - keep it up and you should see results.

omg.

muscle does not weigh more than fat..its just more dense. plus..you can not put on muscle while dieting. unless you are a super newb and are very strict about your eating and dont do cardio. especially in women. a female professional body builder who is super conscious of her lifting and diet may MAY put on 1 lb of muscle every few months.

and all p90x does is help burn fat. building muscle its an anareobic exercise..p90x is an areobic. fat doesnt 'turn' into muscle. is it possible to build muscle and burn fat at the same time..yes..but like i said..ONLY under the strictest of diet and training, and only if you are a newb to lifting.

i dont understand all the numbers you are throwing around. what is your T.E.E.? breast feeding in theory should help you lose fat. as if you are eating at a calorie deficit your body needs to get some energy from fat to produce breast milk. its probably very minimal..but still...

just keep at it, re-examine your cal intake. many of us over estimate our calorie expenditure and under est. our cal intake.

I hate to disagree with another MFP's opinon but unfortunately I can't let someone pass on (possibly unknowingly wrong facts) it goes against who I am and contradicts why I went to school for health science education. (I hope I'm not offending anyone here)

1. If you are doing any kind of toning exercise you will gain muscle while losing fat.. I don't know where this theory that you won't build muscle comes from... now you are going to "hulk" out but your exisiting muscles willl build and become stronger while fat will diminish. I have read multiple studies on the subject and it just makes sense based on physiology. Now the rates of change are vastly different - meaning that you will lose fat faster than you will gain muscle but you will gain muscles - nice tone muscle that will look awesome once the fat fades away!

2. Also muscle does weigh more than fat when comparing similar volumes which is where the saying comes from. For example 1 cup of rocks weighs more than 1 cup of feathers which is why the scale may stall or go up slightly while the your physical size goes down. Which is why people like to say it is only more dense because like my example a rock is denser than a feather just as muscle is denser than fat.


Now I am not sure that this is happening after only 2 weeks of working out and eating healthfully but I have never done p90x before and have no base of knowledge for comparing this to normal cardio/circuit/toning exercises... What I Think (and this part is only my opinion) is that your body may be acting slightly different than a non-lactating woman's body and and it may take longer to get the perfect food intake/exercise combo. I would just keep trying and making small adjustments until you hit that perfect combination.

I hope some of this helps you.
Good luck!!

just a quick advice, same thing happend to me, after 3 weeks of losing 6pounds i stopped losing for 2 weeks. but after that 2 weeks my weight just fell off. now im on week 7 and down 14 pounds. usually ur body starts building muscle or retaining water, i tried to drink more water and i decided to stop lifting because i wanted to lose alot of fat first.