2 hrs of workout no loss?

Foodorlife wrote: »

lorrpb wrote: »

5 days isn't really flipping your life. It's 5 days. What were you expecting to happen in 5 days?

Let me explain, I did 2 weeks of cutting calories and absolutely zero activity and bam! 5 lbs gone each week, here I am doing everything the same eating wise and MAJORLY incorporated exercise. I mean, don't you see why I am confused?

Initial weight loss is almost 80% water. It is not unusual for someone to start restricting calories, dump a bunch of water and muscle glycogen, and think “this is awesome”.

You start exercising and now the reverse starts to happen—the body starts storing glycogen and increasing plasma volume. If you are losing fat that rate of loss is much slower and so—wham—everything comes to a screeching halt.

There is also a tendency to decrease casual activity in response to an exercise program—especially a high-volume one like yours. That offsets some of the calorie burn.

And, lastly, when substantially increasing exercise there is a tendency to eat a little more. Don’t know your details, so I’m not saying that’s for sure, just throwing out the most common scenarios.

Hang in there. If you are doing what you saying you are doing, then your program will start to work. If you are consistently in a deficit you must lose weight. If you continue to stay “stalled” then somehow you are in an energy balance.

Foodorlife wrote: »

yirara wrote: »

You'll get there And hey, keep up with this and I'm sure you can change your username to something more positive, once you found out how to eat food you like (in moderation) and life well.

My name is positive to me. Food, that kills, or life. That's what's meant there.

how does food kill? isn't it actually the opposite - you need food to live!

(edited to add that it sounds like some pro ana saying perhaps?)

Foodorlife wrote: »

elisa123gal wrote: »

Less is more. you'll get advice all over the place here. For me, working out like a nut stalls weight loss. losing pounds of fat is different than working out to build muscles and endurance. don't mix them up in your head. And starving your body all of a sudden shocks it. just eat healthy...and stick to your calorie goal if you do work out.l you have to fuel your body by eating more. stop being an extremist.

When you build muscle-you burn fat though? By gaining lean muscle mass you increase your metabolism aka burn stubborn fat.

Also, people are pretty harsh here, geesh. I just needed an advice,which I got. I feel no need to continue getting responses here.

yet you continue to make outlandish claims about food which you don't support with research or evidence and then tell people to go research it themselves?

Foodorlife wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

Foodorlife wrote: »

yirara wrote: »

You'll get there And hey, keep up with this and I'm sure you can change your username to something more positive, once you found out how to eat food you like (in moderation) and life well.

My name is positive to me. Food, that kills, or life. That's what's meant there.

food doesn't kill....?

Lol, read cancer and food. There are certainly foods that help breed cancer cells, I won't discuss it, if interested research.

Sounds like something from someone who doesn't understand the difference between stomach PH and blood PH.

Prove me wrong and share some of the research.

Foodorlife wrote: »

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You're learning a lot but you're eating low calories and doing incessant amounts of exercise? What school are you going to for nutritional science?

Foodorlife wrote: »

elisa123gal wrote: »

Less is more. you'll get advice all over the place here. For me, working out like a nut stalls weight loss. losing pounds of fat is different than working out to build muscles and endurance. don't mix them up in your head. And starving your body all of a sudden shocks it. just eat healthy...and stick to your calorie goal if you do work out.l you have to fuel your body by eating more. stop being an extremist.

When you build muscle-you burn fat though?

Not necessarily.

By gaining lean muscle mass you increase your metabolism aka burn stubborn fat.

Yes, all else equal, someone with more muscle mass will burn more calories, but adding muscle doesn't result in that much of an increased burn (and you will burn less as you lose weight).

That said, it's good for you to add muscle and retain that you have, and apart from adding muscle strength exercises are really good for you in lots of ways.

Nothing to do with stubborn fat, sadly, that's a matter of where your body tends to store fat first and maintain in most consistently.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

Foodorlife wrote: »

Brief explanation, I am 265 lbs, have very sedentary life(3k steps max), recently started hard core exercise and clean food(about 85-90% clean), count my calories. I do an hour on elliptical, then about 20 mins weights and finish with an hour of treadmill fast walking. I do not eat the calories I burn back . I have my own way of counting, I would rather undercount than over, ex.I do not enter my weight and work with generic numbers, so if elliptical tells me I supposedly lost 700 cals I log 400 as burned .
So for past 5 days I've been going daily and .... lost only .3 of a pound! How is that possible? I totally "flipped" my life upside down and this is the result? I must be doing something wrong but I eat regular food, will open my diary if anyone wants to check it....what you think is going on?

P.S. Also I sleep in until 10-11 sometimes so that's why sometimes I have skipped meals.

eating low calories...incessant exercise and not fueling that exercise = lots of stress on the body and raised cortisol levels = inhibits fat loss.

When I read the words "I have my own way of counting" on a MFP post from someone looking for answers to explain "no or little weight loss" , I just want to reach through the screen and say " you seemed to just answered your question yourself" to that person.

The more one fiddles with the mfp equation, in general the more it becomes a situation of that person not really working the mfp app as suggested by mfp. Just sayin'.

Foodorlife wrote: »

Brief explanation, I am 265 lbs, have very sedentary life(3k steps max), recently started hard core exercise and clean food(about 85-90% clean), count my calories. I do an hour on elliptical, then about 20 mins weights and finish with an hour of treadmill fast walking. I do not eat the calories I burn back . I have my own way of counting, I would rather undercount than over, ex.I do not enter my weight and work with generic numbers, so if elliptical tells me I supposedly lost 700 cals I log 400 as burned .
So for past 5 days I've been going daily and .... lost only .3 of a pound! How is that possible? I totally "flipped" my life upside down and this is the result? I must be doing something wrong but I eat regular food, will open my diary if anyone wants to check it....what you think is going on?

P.S. Also I sleep in until 10-11 sometimes so that's why sometimes I have skipped meals.

Lots of good advice so far. Another tidbit. Unless you're working a second shift job, get yourself up and moving before 10-11. Do some reading, successful people tend to be up early.

Best of luck.