Hey everyone!!! Well i've been working out now for about 3 months before I started wo

[Honey]

Hey everyone!!! Well i've been working out now for about 3 months before I started working out I was 6'0 199 pounds now im 187-189. The thing is I don't lose weight anymore.. I don't understand why I run pretty much 5-6 days a week and stay on the tred for an hour and do about 5 miles of those 5-6 days burning 1000 calories plus I do a little bit of weight training but I cant seem to lose any fat.. I look the same as I did before I started working out but I dont understand what else I can do.. Should I give it more time? Maybe make the workout on the tred for an hour and a half or what. My family says im having a weight plateu but I dont see how I cant lose weight when I dont drink coke anymore hardly only on weekends I benge and I try to eat as healthy as possible.. Any suggestions?

[seraphyne1]

Maybe instead of only doing those "marathon" session, try to start using interval training sessions as well and/ or some tabata's. the reason is the body adapts to the same thing and you have to "shock" your body.

(tabata is 20 secs of max work followed by 10 secs of rest, this is repeated 8 times, so 1 tabata round is 4 minutes of work).

few tabata examples are:
(the 16 minute workout)
- tabata squats
- tabata burpees
- tabata pushups
- tabata what you want (eg jump rope, more burpees etc etc etc).

this are only 4 rounds so 16 minutes). But I would not do tabata's every day, maybe add them 2 days a week to your routine instead of the hour tred work. (plus point is you save a lot of time also).

Also nutrition is important. First do NOT skip breakfast (a good way can be a fruit breakfast as this digests quickly and gives you more energy as the body does not need energy for the digestion) and eat about 6 smaller meals a day (about 1 every 3 hours) and do not eat approx. 3 hours before going to bed.

Hope this helps.

[LiftGirl]

Originally Posted by Honey

Hey everyone!!! Well i've been working out now for about 3 months before I started working out I was 6'0 199 pounds now im 187-189. The thing is I don't lose weight anymore.. I don't understand why I run pretty much 5-6 days a week and stay on the tred for an hour and do about 5 miles of those 5-6 days burning 1000 calories plus I do a little bit of weight training but I cant seem to lose any fat.. I look the same as I did before I started working out but I dont understand what else I can do.. Should I give it more time? Maybe make the workout on the tred for an hour and a half or what. My family says im having a weight plateu but I dont see how I cant lose weight when I dont drink coke anymore hardly only on weekends I benge and I try to eat as healthy as possible.. Any suggestions?

Can you tell us more about your weightlifting routine? Exactly what exercises it consists of, how many reps and sets, etc.

Also, are you keeping track of calories? Use a website like fitday.com. Tell us more about what you are eating, maybe give us a sample day. You might be taking in too many cals or not enough.

Also, don't rely on how many cals the treadmill says you burned. Those things are notoriously inaccurate.

We can help, but we need some more info, please. :

[tim_mcf]

Also, don't rely on how many cals the treadmill says you burned. Those things are notoriously inaccurate.

Besides, who cares how many calories you burned anyway? What matters is keeping track of calories coming in, that and burning as much as possible while you're doing it. What if you're trying to burn 1000 calories (for instance) - one day you'll reach a point where that's pretty easy, and then what, stop trying? That means you'll stop progressing. If you don't present your body with a stimulus that is continually just a little harder than what you can currently do, you'll never get better. Pay no attention to the calorie counter.

[seraphyne1]

Another thing to add, throw the weight scale away as when you build muscles you may become heavier while at the same time you look more athletic. (1 kg of fat looks way lot more than 1 kg of muscle). Use a mirror instead to judge progress.