over a year and no obvious results

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:eek: :confused: I have been working out for about a year, at least 5 days a week of cardio and 2 to 3 days a week of weight training.

About year before I was successful at losing weight and inches and was really happy with the results. But I was also really anal and obsessive about my calorie counting. I would log my food intake in DietPower everyday.

I'm not that crazy anymore but mainly it is because I can usually figure out the calories that I eat in my head.

I don't know what to do! I used to weight 144 lbs before I started going to the gym and watching my caloric intake. After about a year i was down to 132 lbs and a size 2. After I graduated I didn't have a gym so I would run every once in awhile and still watch what I ate. Then from September of last year I joined the gym and I started going almost everyday (5-6 days/week). I still go in the morning and haven't taken a break since.

But I'm not getting the results that I anticipated...instead I'm back at 142 and am about a size 6. I would consider my myself pretty muscular but I don't have a flat stomach and I could use to lose a few inches/fat.

What am I doing wrong?

My workout consists of at least once a week, spin class. Then another 4 days of 30 minute cardio workouts. I also do at least 2 full body workouts. With heavy weights 3 sets of 12 reps usually.

I have big thighs...and large arms. I'm not happy with the results of all this hard work.

Can anyone give me any feedback? Is my body becoming too efficient? Am i not eating enough calories? I will usually rack in about 1400 calories...Is that not enough? I eat a well balanced diet.

1/2 cup oatmeal
w/a fruit
or nonfat yogurt (90 cal)

then an apple for a snack
then two pieces of bread w/turkey and a fruit
or soup and a fruit

then dinner i'll eat some chicken or fish and lots of vegetables
and i may snack after dinner on a bowl of puffed wheat cereal


I need help!. :eek:
 
You could be eating to little and your body is conserving. 1400 a day is low. People eat that way at the beginning of a diet, then once they reach a point, after loosing some weight, start eating more with in their rmr. (correct me if I'm wrong people)
You'll also want to eat more than 3 times a day. Try 5.
If that doesn't work... it's genetics.
 
Has anyone ever trying getting there BMR/RMR calculated? It costs 50 dollars at my gym...do you think this would help me achieve better results in in losing fat?

It is really frustruating...everything I do...and achieving no results and even gaining more weight.
 
i've never had mine calculated because in the grand scheme of things i dont think its matters.

how long have you been doing your workouts that way? your body may have adapted to it
 
So I have changed my weight training workouts several times over the year. I don't think it is my body getting used to the excercises...and just recently over the past two month I've been doing more cardio interval training and spin classes. I even try to go swimming once a week. I think I will try to become obsessive again about calorie counting. I just weighed myself and I am the heaviest I've been in my life. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with muscle but I do believe that I'm thicker in inches. I'm really frustruated I can't believe that after all my consistent workout routine and my restricted diet that I'm gaining inches/weight.
 
I still know for sure that what I ate and the amount of excercise I did...shouldn't have caused me to gain weight...I don't know why my metabolism is so effin slow. I don't know how to increase it. :(

Sorry for all the complaining but I'm sure some of you know and can relate to the frustruation that you may have had or still have.
 
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