Why am i not losing weight?

Question

I have been on a diet n exercise plan for a month now,and i dont seem to losing any weight.I eat salads,n fruit.healthy stuff...i run about a mile every day and still no results help me

Answer 1

Well I'm sure it is benefiting you. Healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds a week, meaning you've probably only lost about 4-8 pounds. Now depending on how much you weighed to begin with, you may be more or less likely to notice this change. Rest assured you will see improvements if you stick to it. Has your diet been approved by a nutitionist? A lot of times people think they are eating healthy but cutting out all fat, carbs, etc. but they end up sending their body into a state of shock, in which it thinks it is starving, causing it to hold on to every bit of fat it can (this is why extreme dieting doesn't help). If you are doing everything right and don't see results within two months perhaps you should talk to a doctor. A thyroid condition can make it very difficult for certain people to lose weight, at which point they need some help from the doctor to control their thyroid glands.

Also, as was already said, muscle does way more than fat, so indeed go by your size and the improvements you see on your body, not on your scale.

Answer 2

Diets are funny things. Do you eat fairly often? If you eat small healthy meals frequently-about every 4 hours-it'll kick your metabolism up-your body knows that it's going to get meals often and it'll burn more fat for energy. If you eat, even healthy meals, only once or twice a day, your body can think that you're starving and it'll kick your metabolism down so that you burn less fat for energy. Your body is trying to protect itself.

And it could be that you're losing fat and building muscle with the aerobics of running. Muscle weighs more than fat. So you'll start to see less fat on top of the muscle and more definition but perhaps even a weigh gain-at some point it'll even out-look at Oprah. And, if you're not now, eventually, you may need to kick your exercise routine up a notch, add a different aerobic exercise-work different muscles.

Answer 3

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you exercise them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 4

Try to go by inches instead of pounds...

when you exercise regularly, you'll start adding muscle weight, but at the same time you'll burn fat.

Don't get discouraged! You're doing great!

Answer 5

if you re trying to lose weight with your significant other pack each others lunches the lunchbox surprises will keep the both of you motivated

Answer 6

If you have a seperate room keep small useful exercise equipment Use those equipment while reading and listening songs

Answer 7

when out at a restaurant ask the server to hold the bread snack mix or chips and salsa that might come before the meal if you re hungry youll be tempted

Answer 8

You need to run more than a mile. Even if you run slow that is only ten minutes of running....not nearly enough (you need to run AT LEAST three miles). Fruit has a lot of sugar and calories. Stick to veggies.

Answer 9

milk a cow for 34 minutes

Answer 10

strap on your 4 inch stilettos and you only have to climb 25 flights