i have lost 57 lbs,i've hit a plateu(3mo.) help!!!!!!?

Question

after having my second child, i was a size22 now a size 14-16

Answer 1

Wow, good for you!! Usually when you hit a plateau that means something like this is happening; either you are down to your last few pounds and those are the hardest because they are actually fat instead of water or you need to bump up your routine of exercise. Are you drinking lots of water? Are you eating healthy? Do you limit fats? Don't drink sodas? All of this helps.

Answer 2

Oh my gosh!!! that is amazing!, i wish i could lose 57 lbs...
cut back the calories a little more, and get more physical activity, little things like parking farther from stores so you have to walk more and things like that. eat less meat, and get plenty of fruits, veggies, and WATER!!! (seriously, e-mail me and tell me how you've lost so much!!! i only lose about 10 lbs before i hit a plateu)

Answer 3

it depends if my answer can help you , first i need to know your height and weight how you started before you lost it. if you were heavy its okay to hit a plateu its normal its that your bod already lost enough weight and its trying to find fat to keep so its ok

Answer 4

try to eat a little differently - if you are no carbs, add a little - if you are not eating much protein, try to add some of that, and vary your workout routines with wieghts and cardio. Great job on the weight loss!!

Answer 5

maybe u need to excersize... unless you are already. Work on toning your body! good job!!! 57 lbs is quite an accomplishment! Don't give up though... just work on being even healthier... it's not only calories...

Answer 6

Try upping your protein intake and see if that helps.

I'm interested to hear how you lost all the weight.....

Answer 7

Read some very effective weight loss tips and more on this site to help you with it

Answer 8

Congratulations on your success so far! If you have been doing the same exercises, it is time to change (e.g., change from jogging to stairs, spinning, or swimming). I change my routine about every 6 weeks for what athletes refer to as "shocking the muscles." Here are some other ideas to help you toward further gains.



On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

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.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

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 work 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.


Aloha

Answer 9

how are you dong it!?! I just posted a question on how I could lose 10-15 pounds. so can I get your advice my email is my username with @yahoo.com

Answer 10

Don't give up. It will eventually let go and start going down again.