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mochamommy wrote: »I work my other job from 10 to 6 on Saturdays and 12-5 on Sunday.
The help you need in figuring out how to find efficiencies in your lifestyle are beyond the scope of MFP.
You're spending 15 hours a week(minimum) commuting, and still require another 13 hours of work a week+travel on the weekend.
The BEST thing you can do is cut out the expense of a gym membership and classes at the gym, and find low cost home or neighborhood activities.
At the pace you're burning you're unlikely to survive to see your next decade birthday whether that's 30 or 40 or 50.
You have my deepest sympathies(I have 3+hours a day of commuting) But there's no way commenters on a public forum can help you work through the complexities going on here.
Except to say, you're already burning the candle at both ends(2 jobs) and the middle 14-17 hours a week of training. The last thing you need to do is add to that load.mochamommy wrote: »I don’t have time to sleep. It takes me an hour and a half each way to get to work, so get home at 630, cook, go to
Gym about 8, get home about 1030, clean up house and do stuff and get to bed between 12 and
1230. Get up at 5 am and start again
Assuming 45-60 minutes to get up and out the door, you're working 12.5 hours a day during the week. That's 62.5 hours a week. + the rest of your work.
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- Unless you have some kind of elite fitness goals you are training for, cut your workouts down a bit and give your poor body a rest.
- Set your goal to no more than 1 lb per week, anything more is probably too aggressive if your picture is current.
- Get a food scale and start weighing out your portions.
- Check that the entries you are using in the database are correct - many are user entered and wrong.
- You are over exercising, under eating, and not getting enough sleep, which is stressing out your body, messing with your hormones, and causing water retention.
- Weight loss is not linear, it is totally normal to go 2 or 3 weeks with no loss.
- Pushing yourself to the extreme until you hit the wall is a great way to set yourself up for yo yo dieting and chronic exhaustion.
Please take a deep breathe, adjust your expectations a little, read the advice you are getting here and the sticky posts at the top of each of the boards, and take care of yourself!27 -
All of that^^ Well said, @kimny72, as usual.5
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mochamommy wrote: »
A barre/ lifting/ or other class for an hour then an hour cardio.collectingblues wrote: »So cut one of the hours at the gym? What are you doing for those two hours, and what are your fitness goals?
And do you have to do both every day? What do you hope to get from that? I get the idea of liking everything, and wanting to fit it all in, but you have to make the decisions that get you to your goals -- and you're obviously not doing that.
Look. it's clear that you're going to do what you want to do. So do that, but then accept that you're making decisions that aren't getting you to your goals.6 -
Why?mochamommy wrote: »I don’t have time to sleep. It takes me an hour and a half each way to get to work, so get home at 630, cook, go to
Gym about 8, get home about 1030, clean up house and do stuff and get to bed between 12 and
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People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.7
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mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
I don't think the question is why do you have to work. The question is why do you feel you need to work out so much.17 -
But why barre/lifting + 1 hour of cardio every day. What are you hoping to gain? Why wouldn't separating those out work?
I do a barre class + 15 mins on the elliptical, then the next day I do spinning and 5 mins of planks.3 -
You lose weight by eating less. Try that.14
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mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
I don't think the question is why do you have to work. The question is why do you feel you need to work out so much.
Exactly.3 -
mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
And two hours of working out each day?4 -
mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
All that is understood.
But most people who are spending 15+ uncompensated hours a week commuting don't need supplementary income from working on the weekend.
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My question is: how long do you honestly think you can keep up this pace before you burn out? IMHO you are abusing your body by underfueling and denying it the sleep it needs to rejuvenate. Take a deep breath and slow down a bit. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight, just like gaining it didn't happen overnight. Stress and lack of sleep only sabotage your efforts (speaking from experience).7
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My question is: how long do you honestly think you can keep up this pace before you burn out? IMHO you are abusing your body by underfueling and denying it the sleep it needs to rejuvenate. Take a deep breath and slow down a bit. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight, just like gaining it didn't happen overnight. Stress and lack of sleep only sabotage your efforts (speaking from experience).
Been working 7 days a week for 5 years in April.
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stanmann571 wrote: »mochamommy wrote: »People have to work to make money and pay bills. I have to feed my family by cooking and I want my home to be clean.
All that is understood.
But most people who are spending 15+ uncompensated hours a week commuting don't need supplementary income from working on the weekend.
Goverment jobs don’t pay well. Not much else around here
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Make sleep a priority over workouts, you can operate without workouts but not without decent sleep. You can lose weight without workouts too.
Spend any spare time doing active stuff with your family. You're no good to them if you're burnt out!9 -
It's possible that you have entered into an over trained state and have reached a slowed metabolic adaption problem, depending on how long you have been in a caloric deficit. I would figure my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and reverse your calories by 100 or so every 5 to 7 days until you reach your maintenance calorie number to slowly wind your metabolism back up. Then drop your calories to 20-25% below your TDEE to resume losing the fat. You definitely need more sleep and should need no more than a one hour long heavy resistance training session (5 times per wk) combined with no more than 3 to 4 HIIT cardio sessions per week to melt the fat off at a 20% calorie deficit from your TDEE. Supplementation can aid in this as well. Just want to help. Let me know if you want to know more.13
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Do you want help or not?
People have given you very good advice above. Have a read through and try some of it. Your health is also important, and weight loss can be achieved with far less/no exercise.15 -
It's possible that you have entered into an over trained state and have reached a slowed metabolic adaption problem, depending on how long you have been in a caloric deficit. I would figure my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and reverse your calories by 100 or so every 5 to 7 days until you reach your maintenance calorie number to slowly wind your metabolism back up. Then drop your calories to 20-25% below your TDEE to resume losing the fat. You definitely need more sleep and should need no more than a one hour long heavy resistance training session (5 times per wk) combined with no more than 3 to 4 HIIT cardio sessions per week to melt the fat off at a 20% calorie deficit from your TDEE. Supplementation can aid in this as well. Just want to help. Let me know if you want to know more.
You don't need any of that exercise to "melt the fat off" if you're in a deficit and MFP calculates the total calorie intake for loss just fine without exercise, so why overcomplicate it with TDEE. Agree some strength training and cardio is beneficial for health and muscle insurance but there is no need to be doing 5 hour long heavy lifting sessions per week.9 -
mochamommy wrote: »My question is: how long do you honestly think you can keep up this pace before you burn out? IMHO you are abusing your body by underfueling and denying it the sleep it needs to rejuvenate. Take a deep breath and slow down a bit. Weight loss doesn't happen overnight, just like gaining it didn't happen overnight. Stress and lack of sleep only sabotage your efforts (speaking from experience).
Been working 7 days a week for 5 years in April.
No one is criticizing your work. They are talking about your workout schedule. Workout less. Clean a little less. Sleep a little more.9
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