What is going on?

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santiken

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First a little background. I am a 47 year old white male 5' 7" 173lbs. In the past I have been down to 145 and extremely muscular and lean. Over the past 2 or 3 years I gained alot of weight and balooned up to 184, by far the heaviest I have ever been. 2 months ago I decided to get back into shape and set the goal of being able to see my stomach muscles. I must have had over 40 lbs of disgusting fat covering my body when I started my journey. For the last 2 month I have been doing intense cardio 6 days a week and bodybuilding 6 days a week. I estimate that I burn through exercise 1000 calories per day 600 cardio 300 weights, 100 afterburn. Now here is where it gets weird. I eat around 1200 calories a day, yet my total calorie burn is 2700. Now it's true that I have managed to melt away 70 % of my bodyfat, but my question is why am I not losing more weight. I lost 11 pounds total but seem to be stuck at around 173. I have always been taught that if you burn more calories than you take in, that you have to lose weight. Well, this has not happened with me. Any ideas, comments, explanations?

Thanks
 
by the sounds of it your a big guy and you should be feeding your body alot more. to me it sounds like your body is going into survival mode, burning a 1000 calories and only putting in a measly 1200 is nothing, and as a result will be completely depeleting your muscle glycogen stores everytime you exercise and more so you will be losing muscle mass to a certain degree even thou you are training with weights.

as a result of this you are putting your body under a huge amount of stress by starving it, so everytime you put something in your mouth you body turns it straight into fat becuase it knows that you are going to go and destroy it in the gym and it needs all the calories it can get to survive, or thats what its thinking - after all our body still behaves like a mammal. i think if you double or triple your calorie intake you will have more success as you wont be trying to trick your body into losing weight. it worked at first, now your body has cottened on and isnt having any of it, it wants to survive and your running it in to the ground.

i do a similar amount of exercise and consume around 4000 calories and i used to be 5 stone overweight, and have no trouble keeping lean.

be nice to your body, he doesnt like to be tricked, he'll bite you back in the ass, literally.
 
I totally agree with Ben. Simply put...you need to eat WAY MORE calories than you currently are! I am a 5'2" female and eat more than that every day to maintain around 120 pounds...and I don't do nearly as an intense workout as you are doing. You are starving yourself, my friend...
 
Yup. Add my agreement to this.

At 173 lbs you should be eating around 1800 calories a day. And with the amount of working out you're doing, you could probably go a little higher.
 
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