Doing everything i can and weight wont shift!! Help

CurranBun

Hi All,
I have always been goodish with my eating habits and exercised every now and then.....
Since the New Year i started a Circuit Class in the Gym 3 days a week, where i really push it, and i would also get out for a walk once or twice...
I have also pushed my calorie intake down to 1200 - 1300 per day and only slightly going to 1400 maybe at the weekends...
Plus i drink 2litres of water a day...

What is frustrating me is that i am not seeing the Lbs come off... yes my body shape feels better, and i feel healthier, but i really want to loose half a stone... but cant seem to shift it....

Any ideas what is causing this?

Many folk who want to lose 7lbs don't have it to lose. Could take a year to shift it so keep up the good work. You might be eating too many carbs not enough protein or something like that too.

Dixie Chick

Do you know what your required weight loss calories are? The 1200 cals figure might be a bit too low, although many posters here dont seem to believe in eating too little causes you to retain weight, but I do.

In your circuits class is there a lot of bodyweight exercises like push ups and squats? Cos these will change the shape of your body but not necessarily the scales. 7lbs is quite low to lose so really if you can concentrate on eating properly and healthily however many calories you choose to cut down to and keep up the tough classes a few times a week then you will change your body shape, remember there is no one running after you with a weighing scales!

sammye333

It would be an idea to keep a food diary.
Write down everthing you eat for a week.
Buy yourself a small journal.
You could post your 1 days daily food intake here and let people more qualified than myself take a look.
The only thing i would say to you is to be HONEST.
Every biscuit, bar, sweets etc.if you have a sweet tooth like myself:D
If you are training hard then you should have noticed some drop.
Keep up the good work

CurranBun

Guys thanks so much for the replys....

RoverJames i do think i eat too many carbs, as much as i stick to the 1200 intake i tend not to eat the correct form of the 1200!! im not really a meant eater.... il look at this and hope to make some imrovement...

Dixie Chick yes allot of squats and floor workouts, i am only 5ft, so 7lbs is allot for my height, if you know what i mean... really need to shift it somehow :rolleyes:

sammye333 i keep a food diary already on the iphone whih counts all your intake, i do it religously... but isppose there are tiny things i miss out :cool:

Thanks for the posts gang, il let you know what happens this week!! fingers crossed 1lb comes off at least....

Amtmann

Dixie Chick wrote: »

Do you know what your required weight loss calories are? The 1200 cals figure might be a bit too low, although many posters here dont seem to believe in eating too little causes you to retain weight, but I do.

Dixie Chick, you're wrong. If the body uses more energy than it consumes, it MUST lose weight.

Amtmann

CurranBun, are you including all milk, fruit juice and fruit that you consume as part of your calorie intake? Do you eat jelly sweets?

metamorphosis

Best thing to do now is to lay out a typical days diet in detail (inc everything passing those lips)

Are you weighing food, clued in on portion size?

Lantus

Body composition and shape is far more important than weight in the grand scheme of things. If your lean and are getting into the clothes you want and have more energy and just look better then the number is in many cases incidental.

I was an unhealthy 83kg when I started exercising and a fat round fella that could harldy run 30yards without sweating and feinting. After losing a lot of weight and then adding some muscle I am now a very lean and tapered 80kg that can run miles and miles and has dropped 2 trouser sizes to a 32"waist (and may need to go down another one......)

My BMI says I'm overweight, and approaching obesity....

but the mirror says I'm a fine thing indeed!

Bottle_of_Smoke

CurranBun wrote: »

Hi All,
I have always been goodish with my eating habits and exercised every now and then.....
Since the New Year i started a Circuit Class in the Gym 3 days a week, where i really push it, and i would also get out for a walk once or twice...
I have also pushed my calorie intake down to 1200 - 1300 per day and only slightly going to 1400 maybe at the weekends...
Plus i drink 2litres of water a day...

What is frustrating me is that i am not seeing the Lbs come off... yes my body shape feels better, and i feel healthier, but i really want to loose half a stone... but cant seem to shift it....

Any ideas what is causing this?

The line I've bolded is all that matters. Who cares what your weighing scales thinks, its clueless about body composition:)

Maybe the hard work you've been doing in the gym has caused you to develop muscle, which is denser than fat and therefore makes you heavier - though not fatter

If you're doing any kind of weight bearing exercise weighing scales and BMI go out the window for most people, particularly when you're borderline.

I'm not suggesting you have a problem but it is this kind of worrying that leads people down the road of eating disorders. Should you eat even less I'd be concerned you'd start eating into your muscle and end up lighter but looking worse.

CurranBun

Hi Bottle...
Thanks for that, im certianly not on the road to an eating dissorder ha ha miles off that.. but thanks for the concern
i think you are all making very valid points, im just hoping i start to see some weight shift, i cant understand how i will become a dress size smaller if i am not looing the weight?? its puzzles me.... i am doing 3 times the amount of expercise i used to...
Suppose i should just be happy that im fitter, but who is ever hapy with just that... :P
I will keep going and keep you all updated...
its a pain in the bum really

Jarren

CurranBun wrote: »

Hi Bottle...
Thanks for that, im certianly not on the road to an eating dissorder ha ha miles off that.. but thanks for the concern
i think you are all making very valid points, im just hoping i start to see some weight shift, i cant understand how i will become a dress size smaller if i am not looing the weight?? its puzzles me.... i am doing 3 times the amount of expercise i used to...
Suppose i should just be happy that im fitter, but who is ever hapy with just that... :P
I will keep going and keep you all updated...
its a pain in the bum really

That is how

it looks like fat is bulkier and lumpier and will take more space IMHO

Bottle_of_Smoke

CurranBun wrote: »

Hi Bottle...
Thanks for that, im certianly not on the road to an eating dissorder ha ha miles off that.. but thanks for the concern
i think you are all making very valid points, im just hoping i start to see some weight shift, i cant understand how i will become a dress size smaller if i am not looing the weight?? its puzzles me.... i am doing 3 times the amount of expercise i used to...
Suppose i should just be happy that im fitter, but who is ever hapy with just that... :P
I will keep going and keep you all updated...
its a pain in the bum really

You need to think about this a bit more. If you're slimmer but haven't lost reduced weight you must have reduced fat and gained some lean tissue - this is a good thing not a pain in the bum!

great image from jarecki there should explain this better

Melodeon

jarecki1976 wrote: »

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That, right there, is why they invented the adage: "A picture is worth a thousand words"