I'm a female who is 5'8 and I weigh 135lbs. I know that's a healthy weight but I honestly look like I weigh more. I want to be able to look nice in a bikini but I still have some fat kicking around my thighs and belly especially. I don't understand, I eat healthy. And exercise a decent amount. I go to the gym 3 days/week 1.5 hours/day. I try to focus half of the time on cardio and half on weights. I eat maybe 1200-1500 calories per day (I know, on the low side) but I can't seem to get rid of this pesky fat that just keeps hanging around. Am I doing something wrong? Any tips? I try to be active everyday I'm just only vigorously active when I go to the gym those 3 days.
tips for me to lose a few lbs
- Thread starter sarawr9
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I would suggest focusing on your weight training and clean eating. Or book an appointment with a trainer at the gym and see if they can help you. You may just be at a weight your body is happy with.
Well, estimating calories can often make you be wrong. I'm not saying you should always track your calories but maybe do so for a week to see how much you're actually eating, sometimes we don't know how caloric things we eat are. Check this out: [link removed]
There are things in your diet that may serve as a sabotage... Like mayo or being too generous while spreading butter, or drinking fizzy drinks: such things are ok in moderation but when you do them all...
There are things in your diet that may serve as a sabotage... Like mayo or being too generous while spreading butter, or drinking fizzy drinks: such things are ok in moderation but when you do them all...
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Thanks for your tips 
I do track my calories and I don't drink fizzy drinks. Or really anything asides from green tea, water, almond milk and occasionally coffee. I'm wondering if the calories I'm intaking are too few and I'm in starvation mode and my body is holding onto the fat. But I'm not wanting to eat more because A: I'm not hungry enough to. And B: I don't want to gain weight. But my diet is fairly clean.
I do track my calories and I don't drink fizzy drinks. Or really anything asides from green tea, water, almond milk and occasionally coffee. I'm wondering if the calories I'm intaking are too few and I'm in starvation mode and my body is holding onto the fat. But I'm not wanting to eat more because A: I'm not hungry enough to. And B: I don't want to gain weight. But my diet is fairly clean.
Johnny Fortune
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How to you make your meals? more of small ones or less meals, but every meal is one hell of a meal?
For me, it was the biggest change - once i reduce my meal size but made more of them, got a great progress in weight loss.
For me, it was the biggest change - once i reduce my meal size but made more of them, got a great progress in weight loss.