How come I'm not losing weight? Is it that I'm gaining muscle in place of fat?

Question

I'm dieting and I dont understand why my weight isnt going down. i exercise every morning and eat healthy (only when i'm hungry). i weigh myself every day and my weight doesnt seem to be going down.---i'm taking the special K challenge by the way. what's going on?

Answer 1

You have not really given alot of detail but there are a few things that may be slowing the process. Best way to monitor your progress is stop looking at the scales and use a tape measure. I suggest once a month - you will see obvious results- or weekly if you need to see small changes.

1. Eating only when hungry can lead to over eating when you do eat. Spread your meals out over the day into 6 smaller portions. Drink plenty of water.

2. The type of exercise you are doing can effect your progress. Work out your target heartrate for fat burning and work within those limits. Its lower than you might think and going over your target heartrate will work your cardio moreso than the fat burning.

3. Not knowing the details of what you eat a handy rule to remember is 1/4 carbs, 1/4 meat and half vegetables on your plate.


4. Not eating enough can seriously effect your ability to lose weight. You have to eat to lose weight.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

The Special K challenge is just a marketing scheme to get you to eat/buy more of their product. Restricting food in any form is unhealthy. You need more than a bowl of cereal and milk. You are probably still hungry after you eat them because it's not enough to sustain you for any period of time. Try more variety. If you are still gaining weight or not losing it, consider that you maybe were not overweight to begin with and the exercise is toning your body so you may weigh more, but perhaps your clothes fit better.

Answer 3

You aren't eating enough, then. Stop the Special K challenge. You need to eat a real meal, not a bowl of worthless carbs. It's what?.....130 calories with skim milk? No. You need to eat protein, vegetables, whole grains (which Special K is not) and fruit. In that order...to lose weight. And you need to eat 1,200 calories a day, too. I'm sure you are way below that.

Answer 4

find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter your stats and it will tell you how many calories a day you need to maintain your weight. take 300-400calories off that number and that's how much you need to lose weight.
eat 5-6 small meals a day instead of 3 big ones.
5-8 servings of fruit and vegetables a day.
8 glasses of water a day.
4-6 times a week cardio work out for 30-50min plus light weight training.
no junk food, no sodas, no white flour (white bread, pasta, cookies, cakes etc)

Answer 5

Read tips & articles on different types of diets, exercise programs, yoga & much more....

All about weight loss, weight watchers, Tea diets, easy home exercises to name a few

Answer 6

if you lifting weights that might be your problem muscle ways more than fat, but keep it up fat will go soon

Answer 7

Muscle weighs more than fat so its possible.