Feeling stuck and stupid!!

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Tor

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I just posted this in the Men's forums (so stupid!) and got some good feedback, but was wondering what the girls thought!

Hi everyone! I'm new to this bored, but it looked like a place where I might be able to get some of my questions answered...
I started working out with cardio and have added weights, I have been doing both for a year now. I started at 210 pounds, and am down to 168. Which I am SO happy about... but the problem is that i've been stuck at 168 since June. I have not lost a pound since then! needless to say I'm getting pretty frustrated!! I will give a little back ground to my work outs and diet, to see if maybe anyone might have some suggestions.

Monday- Chest, Shoulders, Tri's +20-30 min of cardio
Tuesday- Cardio 45-60 mins either running or elliptical and abs
Wednesday- Back, Bi's, plus cardio
Thursday- another cardio day and abs
Friday- Legs + cardio
Saturday- Cardio....
All workouts are at 5:30 after work
In the summer I do a little more cardio because I'm able to run outside in the morning before work... but to be honest, I never saw a difference!

A typical day in my diet:
8:30- 3 eggs whites 1 yolk
10:30 - banana
12:30- salad with grilled chicken lowfat dressing,
apple
4:30- 1/2 cup low fat cottage cheese
7:00 protein shake (On days that I lift)
7:30 salmon with veggies and brown rice (I tried the carb cutoff at night, but again didn't really notice a difference so I allow them on days that I lift.)


So after all this... I'm really not sure why I'm not losing more weight... I understand that muscle weighs more than fat, and I am gaining muscle with the amount of lifting that I do, but I would say that I am still considered overweight, and I don't like that!!! I also switch up my work outs so I shock my body, but that's not working anymore either! Thanks for anyone that might be able to help me! ahhhh.. I feel like I just wrote a book!

Oh I also wanted to add, that I know this is about weightloss... and this is the weightlifting forum, but weights are an important part of my workouts, and I would like to incorporate them into my weightloss!
 
You're a girl right? Could you please tell us your height and age? Also, have you ever counted your calories? Do you know how many calories what you are eating has exactly?

~Nicole
 
Since your workout looks pretty consistent, I'd agree with Nicole and check your diet. You can use fitday.com to track your calorie intake (as well as calories burnt off in activities) and see if there's anything you need to change.
 
I am 26 and 5'3...
I was using the dailyplate.com to track calories... but started to slack with that!
I think it is possible i'm not eating enough... but I'm totally stuck on healthy "clean" foods to eat! any suggestions would be great! Thanks to everyone for replying!
 
How many calories per day is your standard daily diet? And how many calories do you need to maintain your weight? It sounds like either the first number is either much smaller, or greater than the second.
 
I just figured out that I am eating around or less than 1200 calories... i've used the dailyplate.com
but i'm also working out alot! so maybe i'm just not eating enough for my body... That would be good! then I could eat more! haha
during cardio i'm buring around 500 calories... not sure with weights.... thanks for all your help stingo!
 
I also wanted to add that all my weight problems are in my stomach... which concerns me with health risks! and i have a desk job.. so not much physical activity during the day!
 
Tor said:
I also wanted to add that all my weight problems are in my stomach... which concerns me with health risks! and i have a desk job.. so not much physical activity during the day!
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I feel really bad for people with desk jobs (I'm a waitress and being able to walk around all day helps with my sanity). But even though you're sitting all day I'm still thinking that 1200 is too low. I'm not qualified like some other people here but I can compare you to me. I'm 21, 5'6'' and have been successfully losing fat the past two and a half months after yo-yoing a few times in the past year. I'm eating somewhere around 1500-1650 calories a day. I am losing weight slowly. I went from 149 pounds 11/1/06 (europe vacation weight) to 137 as of today. I'm sure some of that was water weight which is why I say I'm slowly losing weight. I only started lifting weights January first so before that my only exercise was my horseback riding and hiking with my boyfriend. So I would say I was not working out as hard as you and I was/am eating more than you and losing weight. Trying to put it in perspective so that you can see you are probably undereating and your body is in starvation mode.

~Nicole
 
Tor said:
I just figured out that I am eating around or less than 1200 calories... i've used the dailyplate.com
but i'm also working out alot! so maybe i'm just not eating enough for my body... That would be good! then I could eat more! haha
during cardio i'm buring around 500 calories... not sure with weights.... thanks for all your help stingo!
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As Nicole pointed out too - you need to eat more to lose weight. Sounds contrary to reason but it's true (especially so to support a full training regimen). Try increasing your calories a little at a time to bring it to around 1500 and see what happens then.
 
Thanks for the help everyone! I'm going to start an online journal, becuase hopefully the feedback will help... even this bit helped alot!
 
BigStew said:
That doesn't look like alot of food. How many calories is that?
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It's not alot of food! haha... It is around 1200 calories, I'm fooling around with my diet now, Eating more and stuff... hopefully that will help. I am just having a hard time finding "clean" foods. Any suggestions are welcome! I have pretty much no imagination when it comes to cooking!
 
Here's some examples

Proteins:
Red Meat (as lean as possible), Chicken, Fish, Cottage Cheese, Nuts, Beans, Milk, Yogurt, Cheese

Carbohydrates:
Simple - Fruits, certain veggies
Complex - Whole Wheat/Whole Grain Bread, Potatoes (sweet and white), Brown Rice, Pasta

Fats: Nuts, flaxseed oil, Cottage Cheese (full or reduced fat version), Milk, Cheese

One dinner I have pretty regularly is boiling a chicken breast, making some brown rice in nonfat chicken broth, and blanching some veggies. Very healthy and very filling.
 
I can't really see your fruit or your fluids and even though it's not alott of exercise, it should definately be enough to help you acheive what you're after..

add some fruit aand drink milk or do cheese and tomatoe and crackers a couple of times a day or a good low salt ham chunk n' sauce or something and you should still get yourself out of starvation and into a healthy burning zone..

I also think that, like aany program, you have to bear in mind that the process iis that we get soo far then plataue.. stay there a moment.. up the ante. .. and push on to the next level.

If you want to add some morre exercise, I wouldn't frown on thaat and if you added those fruits and fluids and extra proteins.. no doubt that would kick our metabolism up a level too.

Thinking negative stuff dooosen't help you.. It distracts you from getting on with it.
dont worrrry about your ego saying that stuff.. that is exaactly the demon that we fight to improve ourselves.. but warts and all you're doing it or you're not.. and if you don't start ( and as a noob at sommmething new sometime ) , then you don't get there ( somewhere new). .. and if you alreeady knew.. then you wouldn't need to ask and feel like you could improve.... I make an idiot of myself asking for more information alll the time.. and i've been doing this for a lonnnng long time!.. not that I always get it ( the better information .. like it existed) but if there's better information.. then I want it. please. ;) :D. :).

hope you hang in there.


Blooming Lotus.
 
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