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how many cals do you eat?

yea along with what your eating, what you are actually doing at the gym, just because you are there for 4 hrs a day doesnt mean you are efficiently working out and burning calories, and since you are there for 4 hrs a day i would say you are not doing something right work out wise

we'd have to see what your eating to get the full picture

This...and as well track more than the scale track inches and how your clothing fits as well;)

opening your diary would make it easier for people to respond helpfully. why are you exercising so much? it seems like that's excessive and not sustainable. over-exercising can set you up for an injury as well which would only serve to set you back even further.

1. You are excercising way too much. How long will you be able to sustain that before you say "forget this" and stop all together.

2. What are you eating? That says a lot too.

i workout everyday and i dont take rest days i am determined to loose this weight even though my legs are screaming stop, I cant. I eat 1500 cals a day and I normally burn off 800 to a 1000 so i will eat half of that back. I have been doing this for a month. Just added insanity into the mix. I know its alot of pressure on my body.

That is WAY TOO MUCH!!!!!

Rest days are required. You need the so your muscles can relax and rebuild.

We all want to be done with our weight loss journey as quick as possible, but over-exercising sets you up for failure in a lot of ways:
1. you risk injuring yourself so you won't be able to do any exercise
2. over-training is an unsustainable lifestyle change (are you going to have 4 hours a day to exercise for the rest of your life? Doubt it, you'll have other things to fill your time)
3. when you are ready to maintain, your metabolism is going to be really confused, it is going to think you are training for the olympics, and you'll be just living regular life

Cut down your exercising to 5 days a week, and mix in hard workouts and easy workouts. You can't do 100% intense all the time. Take your rest days. Make 1 a complete rest day, and you can do light activity on the other one.

Weight loss is like a science experiment, you can't add in too many variables or it will be impossible to figure out what is working for you and what isn't. Right now you are doing every kind of workout out there all at once. Try 2 different things for the next 6 weeks, let's say alternate zumba class and the 30 day shred. Then when your body is used to your workout, try insanity and the treadmill for the next 6 weeks. Then compare, and see what gave you better results, or try a new combination.

Don't forget to eat enough to fuel your workouts. Insanity is really intense, you should probably eat at least 1800 calories on the days you do it.

Pick a sustainable goal: lose 1-2 pounds a week, and you'll be able to maintain for the long haul.

is your body changing though?

it's possible with all that exercise you're experiencing initial muscle increase (ie weight gain) but also loosing lots of fat (weight loss) which results in no real change on the scale but huge changes in your body.

if you arent noticing those type changes then you're either eating more than you think you are or burning less than you think you are.

if it's the initial muscle increase then eventually you'll get to the stage where you'll need to workout much harder to gain muscle, so at that point you'll just be retaining muscle but shedding fat = changes on the scale


i dont necessarily think the amount you are working out a day combined with the amount of calories you're eating is causing you to not lose weight. after all that's essentially what those people on biggest loser do (eat at BMR and spend hours and hours a day working out) and they lose tons of weight fast. but definitely add in a rest day. listen to your body. better to take a rest day than to get an injury and be out for several days or even weeks


OH yeah, you also want to take your initial fitness level into account since the more efficient your body is at doing something the less calories you will need to do it. for instance although i'm 70 pounds overweight, i've always always worked out, lifted heavy and did something akin to HIIT. so the intensity of my workouts are going to need to be higher than someone else who's also 70 lbs overweight and never worked out a day in their life. so really, it's kind of impossible for someone who doesn't know you to look at your workout program and conclude that you're doing too much.

Listen to your body, take 1-2 rest days a week. You run a high risk of getting injured, and when it happens you will not be able to work out for weeks, possibly months, and will be sooo angry at yourself for getting hurt (I speak from personal experience)