Why am I not losing weight?

CyberGhost

Sorry, don't know if this is the right forum to ask but.

I've been training for around month and a half now, I run in the morning, do warmup, pushups, squats.

Then in the afternoon I go to gym, run on a treadmill for about 30 minutes, again do a warmup, pushups, abs, squats, stretching, I train pretty hard and sweat quite a lot then I jump into the pool and swim for around an hour.

My main goal is to lose weight, today I weighed in and I was the same :mad: I compared some pictures, thinking, maybe it's muscles and I've lost some fat, but nope, nothing, no changes at all.

I ate the same amount I did before, and even before I didn't use to eat much, I just gained weight cause I wasn't moving and training... so why no weight loss not even a gram

I got to depressed and disapointed I didn't go to gym today.

lindak

Maybe you need to look at your diet, and your body may have gotten used to the same workout ! If you post your daily diet and workout up some of the more experienced people on here will be able to have a look at it and suggest some changes !

rediguana

You SHOULD be losing weight if you're doing all that training and keeping your calorie intake constant. But why are you keeping your diet the same anyway? You'll get more bang for your buck if you make appropriate dietary changes to accompany your exercise ones.

As the previous poster said, post a sample of your diet and it should be easy to see what you could strip out, or maybe include.

Incidentally, don't get disheartened. It may take more time than you'd like but if you consistently do the right things you'll eventually see positive results, which are hugely reinforcing. Opting out can really undermine your good work and intentions, especially if it becomes a habit. I sometimes make excuses not to hit the gym myself, but it's not good. Force yourself to go even if you don't feel like it. If it were easy, everyone would be walking around buffed to high heaven.

Best of luck.

6th

If you are jumping into it and make big changes I'dsuggest a trip to the GP for a once over, cant hurt.

cowzerp

If you where gaining weight before, then your diet was wrong, now your not gaining weight but burning the excess calories you consume, meaning your maintaining weight, cut some crap out and keep exercising and you'll start to go into a minus in calories and lose body fat if your training smart..

t-ha

I know this might sound odd - but one thing you can do is stop weighing yourself. Basically, weighing yourself and holding yourself to account for every gram or extra millimetre of skin thickness is all well and good for an experienced trainee who knows exactly what they need to do to gain/lose/maintain weight.

For the next two months why don't you forget about the scales and just try to enjoy training and improving your bodies capabilities. How many squats/press-ups etc. can you do now? Make it your goal to improve on it. Throw in some new interesting exercises every now and then. Try joining some kind of sports team or go swimming with a friend that you can race against. Basically what I'm saying is that it's the start of the summer and it's a great time to be active - and if you're giving it everything on a consistant basis, always looking to improve on whatever you did last time and eating healthy foods you'll probably find yourself getting into shape almost by accident.

Vikings

t-ha wrote: »

I know this might sound odd - but one thing you can do is stop weighing yourself. Basically, weighing yourself and holding yourself to account for every gram or extra millimetre of skin thickness is all well and good for an experienced trainee who knows exactly what they need to do to gain/lose/maintain weight.

...Try joining some kind of sports team or go swimming with a friend that you can race against. Basically what I'm saying is that it's the start of the summer and it's a great time to be active - ....

This is great advice and I would stick to it if I were you. I used to weigh myself on a regular basis when I was trying to drop weight and I was always disheartened by the results when I looked at the scales.

I posted here about a month or two ago and since then I have lost around a stone give or take a lb or two. From when I first weighed myself I didn't weigh in again until 6-8 weeks later. It was then that I realised I had lost the weight.

I used to be 22 stone, now 17.5 stone. Still a ways to go but getting there slowly. Don't be weighing yourself! Look good and feel good is the key.

Oh and my secret for weight loss is playing American Football - so join my team

The_Hustler

cowzerp wrote: »

If you where gaining weight before, then your diet was wrong, now your not gaining weight but burning the excess calories you consume, meaning your maintaining weight, cut some crap out and keep exercising and you'll start to go into a minus in calories and lose body fat if your training smart..

I agree with this, you were gaining weight, the result of your excercise is that you're not gaining wait. You either have to reduce your intake or increase excercise further. You already feel you're training hard so I'd recommend the above i.e. cutting some crap out.

CyberGhost

Thanks for the advices guys!

My diet, well, I don't really have a "preset" diet, I eat, soup, fries, rice, chicken. Just dishes basically, I don't eat out, so no fast food, I rarely eat sweets, I like fruit so I eat lots of apples, bananas, strawberries, I do eat close to going to sleep though at night

t-ha, that's a great advice, actually I've been trying to follow it but it's kind of hard to motivate yourself when your main goal isn't performance you know.