Hello, I am 25, 5'5" and I just found out that I weighed 150 lbs...the most I've ever weighed in my life. I work out at least 5 days a week, usually 6, continuously for over the past 2 years. I started off about 2 years ago weighing about 145 lbs then dropping to a healthy 130. I counted calories and became really familiar with amts and calories and nutrition. I began to stop counting calories and learned how to estimate. About a year ago I was still about 135 lbs and I slowly gained weight. I started training for a triathlon beginning in Nov. and just completed it this past March. My weight kept climbing. I am not sure what to do.
My routine over the last two months has been splitting up weight training to include a body part each day of the week. Mondays: Tris & Bis, Tuesdays: Chest & Back, Wed: Legs, Thursday: Abs Fridays are usually off days and Sat : shoulders and Sundays I would try to do an hour of cardio. Each day I'm at the gym I always do at least a half hour of cardio. My cardio is swtiched up everyday. Spin classes, elliptical, efx, running, swimming, and I would throw in 1 or 2 days of interval cardio. (I'm looking for a new weight training routine???)
I workout every morning during the week at 6am...then I eat breakfast about 9am (oatmeal & yogurt and sometimes a banana) then lunch is usually whole wheat bread w/chicken breast or salad or turkey hoagie and a fruit, dinner I'll have steamed veggies, fish/or chicken breast and whole wheat bread and if i don't eat bread i'll have a bowl of puffed wheat with 1/4 cup peanuts to satiate my sweet tooth and maybe a fruit. Then I'll have tea and maybe snack on some popcorn later on.
What am I doing wrong? Not eating enough? Excercising too much? too little? not changing it up?
I even went to an endo to check thyroid everything is "normal".
I can't continue to gain weight and I'm starting to get really hopeless.
Any good advice out there?
Thanks
My routine over the last two months has been splitting up weight training to include a body part each day of the week. Mondays: Tris & Bis, Tuesdays: Chest & Back, Wed: Legs, Thursday: Abs Fridays are usually off days and Sat : shoulders and Sundays I would try to do an hour of cardio. Each day I'm at the gym I always do at least a half hour of cardio. My cardio is swtiched up everyday. Spin classes, elliptical, efx, running, swimming, and I would throw in 1 or 2 days of interval cardio. (I'm looking for a new weight training routine???)
I workout every morning during the week at 6am...then I eat breakfast about 9am (oatmeal & yogurt and sometimes a banana) then lunch is usually whole wheat bread w/chicken breast or salad or turkey hoagie and a fruit, dinner I'll have steamed veggies, fish/or chicken breast and whole wheat bread and if i don't eat bread i'll have a bowl of puffed wheat with 1/4 cup peanuts to satiate my sweet tooth and maybe a fruit. Then I'll have tea and maybe snack on some popcorn later on.
What am I doing wrong? Not eating enough? Excercising too much? too little? not changing it up?
I even went to an endo to check thyroid everything is "normal".
I can't continue to gain weight and I'm starting to get really hopeless.
Any good advice out there?
Thanks