My lifestyle, habits, am I doing something wrong?

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Arsen2391

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Ok so I am 22 years old and recently moved into my parents house and gained 20 lbs. When I was living on my own I was working and eating healthy ( shopping at whole foods for everything ) but my parents don't do the same. I've recently invested in a elliptical and this is what i've been doing to lose some weight.

I normally tend to wake up between 12-3pm since I stay up till around 3-4 am ( no job at the moment ) I drink a glass of water when I wake up and I normally eat a cup of oatmeal with 1% organic milk and 2 tea spoons of organic honey, this lasts me until oh say 6-7pm where I eat a small snack usually some quinoa ( I put hot sauce on it ) then my light snack holds me over and I like to use my elliptical around 10-11pm which right before I eat another small bowl of oatmeal for energy wait 30 minutes or so then I hop on the elliptical for another 30 minutes and really get a good sweat in. After my workout of course I shower then I eat either a bowl of oatmeal or more quinoa after the workout. I've been doing this for 3 days now I've lost two lbs but I woke up today and was back to what I originally was (175) I used to be 155 when living alone.

I make sure I don't eat 3 hours before I go to bed ( I stay up late playing video games ) so my question is what am I doing wrong? If im eating foods like oatmeal / quinoa most of the day I definitely should be in the calorie deficit take in mind my goal is to lose some weight and im working out 30 minutes a day shouldn't I see weight loss every morning when I step on the scale? Only thing I could think of is the sleeping schedule could that effect weight loss? I try to drink 5-8 glasses of water a day also. Should I be eating oats or protein before/ after my work out for best results?

Any suggestions would be helpful im new here and hoping I can get the right information to start seeing the results I want.

thanks guys
 
In order to know if you are doing something wrong it will be good to know what you are trying to do.
If it's weight loss I would say add some variety into your training, more resistance work, variation of cardio, intervals etc.
I am not sure on this obviously but am guessing you are not active outside of the time on your cross trainer, which obviously won't be helping you. Get some time outdoors walking etc. take a gaming device if this bores you, it is amazing how far you can end up going when distracted.

Light snacks, always interesting to see that one. For some this is crisps, sweet foods, including a lot of 'healthy' muesli bars etc. Diet needs balance, food pyramid style for proportion not portion numbers.
Predominantly inactive lifestyle and very low calorie intake will slow your metabolism, the body will assume you don't need to be burning much energy so won't be ready to do it.

Sleep pattern wise, there is no direct correlation between the times you sleep and body weight as long as you sleep regularly and well. That said there are a number of things that aren't helped by having out of whack sleep patterns. One friend of mine was heavily into online gaming years ago and decided to live on US time, in the UK, he ended up with SAD due to not seeing daylight. On a totally non-fitness related point, if you are wanting work, not everyone does, I would like to retire, living on normal work time helps you finding it.
If you are happy with life on your current schedule that's your choice.

if I have totally missed the point of what you want let me know.
 
Thanks for the reply, I read up on some things online and well I've been trying to target my stomach / chest area to lose weight since everywhere else is fine but losing weight through cardio becomes a global thing apparently, so yesterday I didn't touch my elliptical instead I started my exercises for core I think I'm going to just start building muscle mass instead of non stop cardio because i've came to the point where I need to push myself REALLY hard at cardio just to see a lil result which might not even come from my stomach. Im eating lots of protein no sweets no carbs ( other than fruits and oats ) lean meats like chicken. I'll incorporate a lil cardio maybe 3 times week and see what happens, but other then that I think thats what I need to do.

I'm 6 ft 175 lbs my body frame isn't big boned or big at all just I have some flab on my stomach and a lil in my chest area I want to work out, so I t hink just gaining muscle there will get rid of that flab correct?
 
I think there is some changes in your daily routine,that is the reason.....And also you are with your parents and enjoying a lot....
 
Well you are don't doing something wrong but if you think that there is something wrong with you than you can read the whole health articles on my homepage.
 
Spot training fat, one of the biggest money making myths out there. Still a myth, you will burn fat from everywhere and it won't go evenly either. Where it goes from will be decided by your genetics and several other factors.

Mixed training, cardio and resistance will burn fat faster than cardio alone every time, so your change is definitely for the better there. Make sure your program is well balanced though, you want the body to work well as a unit, not be held back by weaknesses that were once strengths.
 
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