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Jeanette401
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Well, the first thing I'd do would be to track how many calories you're getting on a site like to find out how much you're actually bringing in.
At your weight your maintenance calories are probably around 1700 to 2000 a day (depends on your metabolism + activity level). I can't speak for everyone, but I'm horrible at estimating how many calories I'm getting as I eat them.
Once you start tracking your calories you'll have a better idea of how close you are to your goal weight.
Also, while it's true that the walking should count for something (I was in a similar situation to you while in college - doing cardio, eating what I thought was hardly anything, walking a mile to school, and barely losing) the more it's part of the routine, the less calories it actually burns as your body simply adjusts to make it as efficient as possible.
The other factor is that you say you haven't been having anything "sugary or fattening" at all - well, you can technically get too many calories from non-fattening non-sugary foods as well (although you might want to pay special attention to how much salad dressing you use - sometimes a tablespoon of salad dressing can have as many calories as the entire rest of the salad).
Finally, while you're figuring out how many calories you're actually taking in, you can take your measurements rather than weight - it's a better indicator of fat loss than the scale.
I don't know anything about clen personally, my choice when I couldn't seem to lose back in the day was the Atkins diet. It worked, but now I can still lose/maintain without being on Atkins just by keeping a better handle on my calories (I have learned from fitday that I'm horrible at guessing how many calories I ate in a day). I also try to meet Lyle McDonald's suggestion of 1 gram of protein per pound of weight. Doing this has been working, even though in the past I felt like the standard methods of weight loss just didn't work for me.
Also, here's a link about by Lyle McDonald that I found quite interesting.
Hope this helps!
At your weight your maintenance calories are probably around 1700 to 2000 a day (depends on your metabolism + activity level). I can't speak for everyone, but I'm horrible at estimating how many calories I'm getting as I eat them.
Once you start tracking your calories you'll have a better idea of how close you are to your goal weight.
Also, while it's true that the walking should count for something (I was in a similar situation to you while in college - doing cardio, eating what I thought was hardly anything, walking a mile to school, and barely losing) the more it's part of the routine, the less calories it actually burns as your body simply adjusts to make it as efficient as possible.
The other factor is that you say you haven't been having anything "sugary or fattening" at all - well, you can technically get too many calories from non-fattening non-sugary foods as well (although you might want to pay special attention to how much salad dressing you use - sometimes a tablespoon of salad dressing can have as many calories as the entire rest of the salad).
Finally, while you're figuring out how many calories you're actually taking in, you can take your measurements rather than weight - it's a better indicator of fat loss than the scale.
I don't know anything about clen personally, my choice when I couldn't seem to lose back in the day was the Atkins diet. It worked, but now I can still lose/maintain without being on Atkins just by keeping a better handle on my calories (I have learned from fitday that I'm horrible at guessing how many calories I ate in a day). I also try to meet Lyle McDonald's suggestion of 1 gram of protein per pound of weight. Doing this has been working, even though in the past I felt like the standard methods of weight loss just didn't work for me.
Also, here's a link about by Lyle McDonald that I found quite interesting.
Hope this helps!
Hey Vicky I am exactly like you. I'm 20 as well and feel as though I need to sort out my health and lose a few stone and get healthy. I go to the gym and eat healthy but don't always lose much. I have started to try and calorie count now as a few people have suggested to me but I find it hard to kn ow how many calories I am consuming when I make myself a meal. I too am trying to fin d a way to lose it quickly but the right way as I am getting married in June and want to look the best I can. If you have any kind of advice at all I would be more than grateful if you could share it with me or if anyon e else has any advice.
Jeanette401
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This was hard for me too - that's why I ended up getting a food scale, and using fitday. It's still hard if you eat out a lot, but if you weight your ingredients and figure out how much you're really eating it's a lot easier to keep track. There's definitely some extra overhead - you have to figure out exact portion sizes if you're not eating everything you cook - but even a rough idea can be useful.
Sorry without sounding stupid what is a fitday? I need all the help I can get lol and welcome all kinds of help.
Thanks
Jeanette401
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Fitday.com is a website that makes it easier to track what you're eating and how many calories it is. It's been great for me 
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Thanks for the jeanette I have set up my fitday account now and will use that daily to help. Also someone else on here reccomend keeping a diary on here so I am going to look into that as well I'm the same Vicky have decided new day of the week new start so fingers crossed I'll start losing the weight.
I'm the same Vicky have decided new day of the week new start so fingers crossed I'll start losing the weight.Just a question to help me better understand your routine...
What else are you eating besides your breakfast and your dinner?
A big problem with people losing weight is that our bodies can't read our minds, only the signals we give it. Think about our ancient ancestors who didn't have heators to get them through the winter. How did they survive? By loading up on calories to put on body fat to get them through the cold. Then, when spring came, they were out hunting and being very active, so they would eat little bits here and there while being constantly on the move. Their body understood that they weren't going to starve, because they were eating so frequently, so it would burn off the unnecessary calories.
Now, in our day, we have to deal with the fact that our meats are no longer as lean as they once were and most of our food is packed full of salts and sugars and chemicals. Even so, it's all about what signals we send our bodies. If you eat 5 or 6 small meals every day (breafast + snack + lunch + snack + dinner + snack) and concentrate on a smaller portion size, your body is going to get the signal that it's time to shed the excess fat. If you're only eating two or three times in a day, especially if those are fairly large and heavy meals, your body will get the message that it's time to store fat. If you're only eating one or two meals a day, your body will fear that it is going to starve and will cling to the weight it already has and burn off muscle instead, which you definitely don't want.
It sounds like you're doing all the right things exercise wise, possibly even an excess amount of that, so maybe just look at adjusting the way you're eating? Remember also that if you're doing lots of work with weights and building muscle, muscle is much heavier than fat which may show an increase on the scale.
I hope that gave you another option to try and way of looking at things, best of luck on your journey!
What else are you eating besides your breakfast and your dinner?
A big problem with people losing weight is that our bodies can't read our minds, only the signals we give it. Think about our ancient ancestors who didn't have heators to get them through the winter. How did they survive? By loading up on calories to put on body fat to get them through the cold. Then, when spring came, they were out hunting and being very active, so they would eat little bits here and there while being constantly on the move. Their body understood that they weren't going to starve, because they were eating so frequently, so it would burn off the unnecessary calories.
Now, in our day, we have to deal with the fact that our meats are no longer as lean as they once were and most of our food is packed full of salts and sugars and chemicals. Even so, it's all about what signals we send our bodies. If you eat 5 or 6 small meals every day (breafast + snack + lunch + snack + dinner + snack) and concentrate on a smaller portion size, your body is going to get the signal that it's time to shed the excess fat. If you're only eating two or three times in a day, especially if those are fairly large and heavy meals, your body will get the message that it's time to store fat. If you're only eating one or two meals a day, your body will fear that it is going to starve and will cling to the weight it already has and burn off muscle instead, which you definitely don't want.
It sounds like you're doing all the right things exercise wise, possibly even an excess amount of that, so maybe just look at adjusting the way you're eating? Remember also that if you're doing lots of work with weights and building muscle, muscle is much heavier than fat which may show an increase on the scale.
I hope that gave you another option to try and way of looking at things, best of luck on your journey!
Wow Lacey I never thought of it that way!!!!!! So you would recommend eating more meals but less of them? I eat cereal for breakfast, a crackerbread with dairylea cheese in it and a banana for dinner, then eat a meal for tea sometimes a jacket potatoe or pasta things like that. Would you recommend cutting down on the tea and eating more dring the day. Also someone was saying everytime you eat your metabolism starts burning so I guess therefore to keep it going it is best to eat less but more times in the day?
Jeanette401
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I'm not a metabolic expert, but what I've heard is that eating more times in the day does have a positive effect on your metabolism, but it's really minor. So if it's convenient to eat 6 meals a day, go for it! If it's not, or it leaves you feeling hungry because your meals are too small, stick with 3 + some snacks or something.
is an article on it by Lyle McDonald - although in some respects it could be summarized as: Your body's reaction to meal frequency is complicated, but getting enough protein is more important than how often you eat.
* If eating more frequently makes it easier to control/reduce calories, it will help you to lose weight/fat.
* If eating more frequently makes it harder to control/reduce calories, or makes you eat more, you will gain weight.
* If eating less frequently makes it harder for you to control/reduce calories (because you get hungry and binge), it will hurt your efforts to lose weight/fat.
* If eating less frequently makes it easier for you to control/reduce calories (for any number of reasons), then that will help your efforts to lose weight/fat.
Again, I'm not an expert but this guy seems to keep up on all of the latest research, and the article is an interesting read. Hope this helps!
is an article on it by Lyle McDonald - although in some respects it could be summarized as: Your body's reaction to meal frequency is complicated, but getting enough protein is more important than how often you eat.
* If eating more frequently makes it easier to control/reduce calories, it will help you to lose weight/fat.
* If eating more frequently makes it harder to control/reduce calories, or makes you eat more, you will gain weight.
* If eating less frequently makes it harder for you to control/reduce calories (because you get hungry and binge), it will hurt your efforts to lose weight/fat.
* If eating less frequently makes it easier for you to control/reduce calories (for any number of reasons), then that will help your efforts to lose weight/fat.
Again, I'm not an expert but this guy seems to keep up on all of the latest research, and the article is an interesting read. Hope this helps!
You're absolutely right! The best thing you can do for your metabolism is to eat more frequently in smaller quantities. That way you're a) not overloading your body with food b) your body is going to be constantly processing food throughout the course of the day (aka metabolism is working all day!).
Part of the problem with weight gain today is that our portion sizes have increased ten fold. If you scale down your 3 meal portion sizes and include healthy snacks during the day, your body will begin to do away with the fat cell storage because it will know to expect food a lot more frequently. And since you'll be eating smaller portions, your body will actually be able to handle and process all the food you've eaten instead of turning half of it to fat when it can't process everything.
Think about a plate of spaghetti in a restaurant. Most of the time, you get a normal to large size dinner plate that is heaped with pasta. Your body can't possibly process all of that in one sitting, it's just too much! So half of that is immediately going to become stored fat. It's not so much of a problem when you're at home because you can control your portion sizes, but when you go out to restaurants, if this kind of thing happens, immediately ask the waiter or waitress to put half of what they brought you into a takeout box and bring you back the rest. That way you can have the left over as a meal the next day and you won't over eat just because it's there in front of you.
So I'll give you an example of what my meal plan was (this helped me lose 30 pounds in just under 3 months without any exercise at all).
Breakfast - should be eaten within half an hour of getting up.
1 cup of cereal and 1/2 cup of 1% or low fat milk
or
1 packet of oatmeal (and I used the flavored ones, not just the plain ones that I find ickie! haha)
Snack - should come approx. 3 hours after breakfast
1 yogurt cup that's low fat (I used silhouette personally)
or
250 mL of chocolate milk (the individual size cartons)
Lunch - should come approx. 3 hours after first snack
(you need to eat carbs during this meal, because that's what gives you the energy to get through your day!)
1 cup of spaghetti with meat sauce
or
1 Chicken Breast, cooked vegetables, and brown rice
Snack - should come approx. 3 hours after lunch
Unlimited amount of carrot sticks
or
1 pudding cup (I used butterscotch, tastes like a treat
)Dinner - should come approx. 3 hours after second snack
(you should avoid carbs at this meal. You will be going to bed shortly and don't need more energy!)
1 chicken breast and salad
or
1 minute steak and stir fry
(essentially, try to eat lean meat and as many veggies as you want. The veggies will fill you up and the meat will give you flavor, but avoid carbs and high calorie dressings).
Snack - should come approx. half an hour before you go to bed
(CITRUS TIME! Citrus can be digested through the night, so this will not add fat storage. YAY!)
1 Orange
or
2 Kiwis
etc.
Anyway, that's just an example of what I was eating at that time. There are obviously tons of meals you can supliment, but the main thing is to remember what your body needs at certain points of the day, and to reduce your portion size but up the number of meals so that your metabolism is working all day instead of shortly 3 times a day!
did you even read the post that you linked?
Yes, I did, but Fursey123 asked me for what I thought about how many meals to eat a day, so I answered with my own experience. I linked it because I thought it was great that there was an article and the points she made were really good...but I posted my experience for Fursey123 as requested.