is this site accurate on the calories your supposed to eat a day and how much weight your supposed to loose. cause mine says i need to eat 1400 calories a day and i excercise for an hour a day on my elliptical trainer and i have been doin this for 3 week and havent lost no weight yet except for 5 pounds of water weight which doesnt count so does anyone know?
natashav
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Sorry, I saw you said 3 weeks. 5 pounds in 3 weeks is still quite a lot even if it's just water weight! I would keep at it, or try upping your calorie intake.
you put in here your wieght hight and daily living excercise like house wife activish desk job not so active and then it calculates if you do no extra excercise you need to eat this much to loose the weight you want at the rate you put in then
you do some extra exercise and you burn some off which is great but you dont want to burn to much and go under i think it is 1200 calorie intack otherwise you are starving your body not helping it loose weight. hope that makes sense.
was thinking if you dont have a huge amount to loose then it could be your body slowing down or you could try changing your excercise routine i have just done this at the gym they cut me off from 5 nights to 3 nights as i had come to a brick wall and was going nowhere even put on a bit so we uped my intesity and i have to either rest or go do something different on those other two nights. im trying to go swimming but the pool i like to go to is always booked so might have to change either the time i go on those daysand do shoppng later in the evening. so could be your body has gotten use to it if you have been doing that for a while maybe push yourself to go harder in short burst give your body a shake up.
I.E. 1 lb a week, 1.5, 2 lbs...etc.
you may need to tweak it, the site is pretty accurate, but not every part of the plan works the same for every person, there may be some little things that you can do to help it along.
Who put you on the 1400 calorie diet? A doctor? I would question that. Hope that helps some.
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might also depend on the types of food you are eating and where those calories are coming from. there is a big picture that needs to be looked at to see where the issue may or may not be hope we can help you
I would try lowering that a notch. I see quite a few people thinking they work like constructions workers when they are really desk jockies.
The other part, measure your intake portions. You might actually be eating more than what you think!
Already mentioned, make sure you eat your exercise calories.
Try to eat foods that are less than 30% fat! If its a100 calories, and more than 30 calories are fat, DONT EAT IT!
Finally, STICK with it!
Even if it is starvation, with your bmi, your body should be able to deal with it for a while, not that that is the BEST way to do it, but the lack of any results with how much of a deficit you have sets off red flags in my head. There must be something we are missing. Something we didn't account for, because from what you have said, you should be losing weight. Have you had your thyroid checked recently? If I were you, I would give it another couple of weeks, and if it still isn't working for you, there may be something up with you glands, or some other chemical imbalance that is causing this. Best to at least rule that out so you know anyway.
See guys, with a high bmi, doctors many times will put people on a VLC (very low calorie) diet to get them down a bit (usually only for a few weeks though), then put them on a slowly increasing diet until they are in a bmi range of 30 or below.
I don't know, that's all I can think of, I mean, if you're eating a nutritious diet, with the right balance of carbs, protein, and fat (you are right?), and keeping a 1000 calorie deficit (even with workouts right?)
then the only thing I can think of is that there is something up with your body chemistry.