mrspete15

thanks for that - most useful. Yes I'm being good on my diet as well and swapped out all but one of my diet cokes for water. I also don't eat hardly any "manufactured" food but my diet consists of fresh veg / meat / fish etc. I am limited with exercise due to having a 3 hour commute during the week - which means I leave…

so basically the general concensus here is to keep going, mix up the training a bit and don't get disheartened - so as I've invested the last 4 weeks to eating healthy / going to the gym most days I guess I will persevere and keep my fingers crossed ! :laugh:

Thanks for the advice - I hadn't thought of it in those terms so will aim to add some weights in and see what'll happen !

Very true ! Guess I just need to reign back my impatience ... and just keep with the plan to see if it's the right one. I am feeling much better for doing more cardio and sleeping well so there's 2 bonuses I guess !

It is just sooo frustrating isn't it - the previous time I reckoned it was down to simple maths of in - out = weight loss - but this time it just doesn't seem to be working the same way. I'm not sure if it's down to the fact that I'm fitter than I was and therefore need to mix up the exercises or not.

I eat up to the recommended 1400 a day - occassionally I go over but not by a huge amount but I should still have a deficit from not using all the calories I gain in exercise. I did start to include some weights but thought that might hinder rather than help so have gone back to just cardio