evanostrand
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Hi there,
I'm just wondering if anybody has any tips for me because i have been doing so good and then it's like my weight loss completely flatlined.
Okay. So a while ago, i weighed 244 pounds. I started off doing yoga 5-7 days a week for 45 minutes to an hour, eating one subway footlong sub a day and 1-2 cups of coffee, along with 1-2 cans of coke zero and water the rest of the time. Also a piece or two of fruit every day.
So that worked great, very easy. Got down to 218 pounds. No problem at all.
Now, when i hit that, i stopped eating subway subs, but i started eating more varied meals at home that had roughly the same calorie count. Throughout this time, i have been getting 1000-1200 calories a day. Nothing different in value of food, but just didn't do the Subway diet anymore. i just had salads instead and, you know, one or two small pieces of meat at a time depending on the circumstance. But like i said, my caloric values didn't change, or if anything, went down.
Now, that was about three weeks ago. i have been hovering around 218-220 now since then and have not lost any weight.
About a week after i hit 218, i dropped my calories per day from 1000-1200 to 600-800 since i wasn't continually losing weight anymore. Still didn't produce any results.
i tried switching a week ago to doing 100 situps a day instead of my yoga but that hasn't done anything for me yet. i basically just stopped losing weight. i thought maybe a switch-up of exercise would help, but it didn't.
Right now, i literally eat two regular-sized bowls of raisin bran a day plus a large dinner-sized salad with a homemade Italian dressing that is kind of fatty, but i haven't worried too much about it since i am hardly eating anything. It is basically a serving of 2 tablespoons of canola oil with seasoning and a little vinegar, nothing serious. i also use wheat bread croutons that i make from home as well, that have butter and the same seasoning on them. i usually have about 8-12 of those in my salad. That is IT for what i eat in a day. Sometimes, once or twice a week, i make banana bread or eat fruit once in a while.
So starting today, i decided maybe i should step up my workout to 1.5-2 hours a day, so i am now doing 100 sit-ups AND yoga every day. Going to try to keep this up 5-7 days a week.
I work out of my house, so i am largely sedentary most of the rest of the time because i work at a desk.
My question is, anybody have any idea why i would not be losing weight anymore? i feel like i should be because i am tired a lot and feel weak regularly throughout the day. i used to be hungry a lot, like all the time, but that has largely petered out over time and i am not hungry a lot like i used to be, but i am sometimes. i just don't do anything about it, or i'll have a banana or something very small in terms of calories.
Furthermore, if anybody has any advice on why i am not losing weight, do you know of anything i can do to start losing weight again?
I am 5'9" (69 inches), 27.8% body fat, 220 pounds, and i would like to get down to 150 or so if possible. i have a multi-vitamin every day to make up for some of my missed nutrients from dieting. i just don't know where to go from here.
Thank you so much in advance. i have read a lot and I think maybe i am getting too much of a calorie deficit, so now my body doesn't want to let go of the fat i have. i don't care too much what i weigh, just that i get rid of all this fat i have around my stomach area. If i lose most of my stomach/abdominal fat, i probably will stop tracking my weight, but i just have no idea where to go from here.
i don't want to start eating more and risk gaining more weight than i have already if that's not my problem. Anybody have any input? Again, i really appreciate it. I hope i included all the information you need.
I'm just wondering if anybody has any tips for me because i have been doing so good and then it's like my weight loss completely flatlined.
Okay. So a while ago, i weighed 244 pounds. I started off doing yoga 5-7 days a week for 45 minutes to an hour, eating one subway footlong sub a day and 1-2 cups of coffee, along with 1-2 cans of coke zero and water the rest of the time. Also a piece or two of fruit every day.
So that worked great, very easy. Got down to 218 pounds. No problem at all.
Now, when i hit that, i stopped eating subway subs, but i started eating more varied meals at home that had roughly the same calorie count. Throughout this time, i have been getting 1000-1200 calories a day. Nothing different in value of food, but just didn't do the Subway diet anymore. i just had salads instead and, you know, one or two small pieces of meat at a time depending on the circumstance. But like i said, my caloric values didn't change, or if anything, went down.
Now, that was about three weeks ago. i have been hovering around 218-220 now since then and have not lost any weight.
About a week after i hit 218, i dropped my calories per day from 1000-1200 to 600-800 since i wasn't continually losing weight anymore. Still didn't produce any results.
i tried switching a week ago to doing 100 situps a day instead of my yoga but that hasn't done anything for me yet. i basically just stopped losing weight. i thought maybe a switch-up of exercise would help, but it didn't.
Right now, i literally eat two regular-sized bowls of raisin bran a day plus a large dinner-sized salad with a homemade Italian dressing that is kind of fatty, but i haven't worried too much about it since i am hardly eating anything. It is basically a serving of 2 tablespoons of canola oil with seasoning and a little vinegar, nothing serious. i also use wheat bread croutons that i make from home as well, that have butter and the same seasoning on them. i usually have about 8-12 of those in my salad. That is IT for what i eat in a day. Sometimes, once or twice a week, i make banana bread or eat fruit once in a while.
So starting today, i decided maybe i should step up my workout to 1.5-2 hours a day, so i am now doing 100 sit-ups AND yoga every day. Going to try to keep this up 5-7 days a week.
I work out of my house, so i am largely sedentary most of the rest of the time because i work at a desk.
My question is, anybody have any idea why i would not be losing weight anymore? i feel like i should be because i am tired a lot and feel weak regularly throughout the day. i used to be hungry a lot, like all the time, but that has largely petered out over time and i am not hungry a lot like i used to be, but i am sometimes. i just don't do anything about it, or i'll have a banana or something very small in terms of calories.
Furthermore, if anybody has any advice on why i am not losing weight, do you know of anything i can do to start losing weight again?
I am 5'9" (69 inches), 27.8% body fat, 220 pounds, and i would like to get down to 150 or so if possible. i have a multi-vitamin every day to make up for some of my missed nutrients from dieting. i just don't know where to go from here.
Thank you so much in advance. i have read a lot and I think maybe i am getting too much of a calorie deficit, so now my body doesn't want to let go of the fat i have. i don't care too much what i weigh, just that i get rid of all this fat i have around my stomach area. If i lose most of my stomach/abdominal fat, i probably will stop tracking my weight, but i just have no idea where to go from here.
i don't want to start eating more and risk gaining more weight than i have already if that's not my problem. Anybody have any input? Again, i really appreciate it. I hope i included all the information you need.