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Over time your body becomes more efficient on the cardio machines so that you have to keep going for longer and longer to get the same calorie burn, so I'd step away from the elliptical machine and look at a weight training programme that will increase your lean mass and metabolism meaning you burn more calories just from…

My advice would be to switch things up. Change what you do in the gym. Do things you haven't done before and stay away from stuff you've done a lot of in the past - your body has adapted to that and has learnt to be efficient with it's energy, so shock it by giving it something new to cope with. Heavy lifting is always…

There could be a few reasons. I strongly disagree with the suggestion that you're over consuming. If anything, you are under consuming! I am 130-ish lbs and I eat well over 2000 cals per day, sometimes more than 3000, and I'm still losing weight and leaning out. Calorie counting is far less important than knowing what…

I guess it depends what your goals are. If you are trying to gain weight you would need to eat back what you expended plus some extra. For maintenance you would need to eat what you expended. If your goals are performance related (like endurance running) then you probably need to eat at least almost as much as you burned.…

Yes, I have made a point of learning to belly breathe and breathing through my mouth :) I don't think I should be getting a side stitch from a gentle walk to the shop though. Surely that doesn't need water avoidance and belly breathing?

Yes, I'm drinking plenty of water :)

Thanks for the replies :) Will just move up to level 2 then and see how it goes :) Hoping that once I'm fit I can do more on one day and have rest days in between (maybe the banish fat, boost metabolism workout instead) but right now I find it very hard to motivate myself after a rest day so doing whatever I can to just…

Thanks everyone, All the replies made me realise that there might be something dramatically wrong here. No, I'm not sore. I'm working out as hard as I can and panting and grunting and sweating through the shred and the next day if I exert myself in any way I can feel fatigue in my muscles but I'm not stiff and sore. I am…

Just to add/amend: My husband just watched me shred and he said that I'm going 50% of the way down in the first set of push ups and 40% of the way down in the second (did proper push ups both sets today) And that I only had to stop 3 times during the second lot of jumping jacks and once during the second lot of jump rope…