SOME QUESTIONS HELP PLEASE

Eating 1270 and burning 1000???? For gods sake eat more, you're gonna hurt yourself! :noway:

If you really are eating 1270 calories a day and burning 1000 that is horrible. You are really in starvation mode and your body won't burn calories properly. You are definitely not getting the proper vitamins, nutrients, etc. either. Elliptical is not as good as many believe it is. Lifting is good as long as you are truly pushing yourself and doing them properly. Without going into many specifics and trying to keep it as simple as possible, try to eat more often and around 1500 calories a day. Walking on the treadmill with incline is definitely a better alternative to the elliptical. You will build more muscle and burn calories after you work out. If you want to maximize weight loss it is best to keep your workouts around an hour but push yourself so your heart rate gets around 85% of its max. If you have more time on your hands it is always okay to pull a double as long as you don't injure yourself. I like to keep my second workout to a good sweat session, like getting on a spinning bike or walking for 30-60 mins with a sweater on. That will help burn the calories without increasing the chances of injury and you will still have the energy the next day to go hard in your workout.

AAAaahhh. So scary. Your net should be at least 1200 cal per day. Aren't you hungry through the day, just curious. I burn about 500 cal at the gym and come home starving.

If you eat 2200 calories in a day, then go and burn a 1000 away, you are doing perfect.

Remember to log your drinks too.

I have noticed I burn more on the elliptical and bike then on the treadmill too. Try doing half your time of the elliptical and half on the treadmill and see if it makes a difference.

How are you calculating your cal burn? Because some machines WAY over calculate for women because they are calibrated for a man's body and a man's metabolism. I was working out at my local gym burning 900+ in an hour on the elliptical and 900+ on the treadmill. I bought a heart rate monitor at the recommendation of several MFP veterans. I was actually burning 600 cals on the elliptical and about 550cals on the treadmill.

For me workout is not really to important to lose weight this last week ive been slaking and ive got 90 minutes of workout but i still lost 4.1 pounds in a week ( i'm 175 and started at 197 lost 22 pounds in 6 weeks ! still got 2 more but im getting there ) remember to lift weights tho !

YOU SHOULD REALLY CHANGE IT UP A LITTLE. I DO THE TREADMILL A LOT NOW..WELL BECAUSE I BOGG OUT ON THE ELIPTICAL..BUT DO BOTH, BUT CHANGE IT UP A LITTLE....YOUR GOAL IS TO CONFUSE YOUR MUSCLE..IF YOU DO THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN, YOU WILL NOT SEE TOO MUCH RESULTS..KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

I was burning 1300 and eating 1300 and TOTALLY stalled for 3 weeks. As scary as it sounds, try eating more. Your body doesn't know your on a mission to get to your goal weight by June. It thinks there's a food shortage and a lot of work that you have to do right now so it will get VERY good at keeping every morsel you put in your mouth. Once it knows food is abundant, it will drop it's "reserves" more readily. Make sense?

Do what YOU like to do. That said I do like to mix it up and work different muscles with different cardio and think its important to do so every now and then. It is a good thing to mix it up. Most often when I have a gym membership I do a combination of bike, elliptical(even though that movement feels highly unnatural to me) and treadmill each visit. I'll also swim afterwards and relax in the hot tub/spa before getting a shower and leaving. When I got I end up there 2 hours a lot of the time to get in everything. cardio, weight lifting and some swimming and muscle relaxing in the spa.