Does ne1 know why im not losing weight?

Question

Im a 26 year old male, and i weigh 94kg. I have been attending gym 3 times a week for 5 months and my sessions consist of

45 mins Cardio (Cross Trainer/Bikes/Rowing)
30 Mins Weights

My diet during week is normally as follows:

8am - Bowl of Cornflakes/Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (sometimes with bannana)

1:00pm Pasta, Tuna and sweet Corn (normally about a cereal bowl full), normally have bag of Walkers Baked Crisps with it. (100 calories and are low in fat)

3:30 Sometime have another bag of Walkers Baked or Apple


6:00pm - Have a chicken/ham baguete with salad in it.


On weekend i try to stick to same plan but we may go to restraunt for steak or pub for sunday dinner.

I dont really drink unless i go out with ppl or with my sunday lunh have a pint of lager.

If ne1 can help me see whats happening id be greatful cos i eat nowhere near the 1500 calories im supposed allowed and i exercise every other day. I asked docter but he as good as called me a liar and said its impossible.

To answer ur questions I drink Tea (1 sugar), water or Ribena/Fruitjuice(fresh).

With regard to the intensity of workout i Normally warm up on bikes then do 6km on crosstrainer heart rat varies between 155-180 depending on if i do sprint finishs ect. then i use rower to cool down. sometimes i swap these around a bit

Just another thing i thought of. IN one of the answers it says to excercise 6 times a week. But my trainer said that this is counter productive. At mo i go every other day so works out /4 times a week. what do u guys think?

Answer 1

Have you had your thyroid checked? People with a thyroid condition will gain weight even though they don't change their eating habits.

Otherwise, go to www.bodyforlife.com and check out their advice on cardio exercise, weight training, and eating. My husband dropped 35 pounds in 12 weeks on that program! You eat six meals a day for six days. The seventh day you can pig out to your heart's content! We were skeptical, but we did it and it worked!

Answer 2

I think you can probably tell from pretty much everyone who has answered that your diet is not perfect for losing fat. You need to get a proper diet sorted out for your needs from proffessionals who know what they are talking about. Like weight watchers who have a much better view on diets than they did in the 80's and early 90's. By eating less calories than you should doesn't always equal weight loss. If you end up starving your body of the nutrients it needs your body will get them from else where. It gets them by breaking your muscles down which in turn makes your muscles smaller and reduces your metabolic rate. With this reduced your cornflakes, crisps, pasta and bread are more likely to get stored as body fat. Also by not eating enough your body goes into a starvation mode which makes it store fat more to give you enough energy for thenext time. Basically what a lot of us are saying is eat more and eat better.
Finally I think you should consider getting your bodyfat % measured which you can get done at most gyms or you can buy scales to measure it. I personally believe that it is much more important to know this than how much you weigh. You see you might find you weigh the same but your bodyfat has reduced and your muscle mass increased.
I hope this has helped, I have included a link to my blog below where I have more detailed information on diet and exercise and some links to some very good companies that give good information.
Good luck

Answer 3

Well as a 26 year old male you should be having 2000 Cal's to loose weight, if what you say is true then you might have an under active thyroid, that would stop you loosing weight get that checked out first

Answer 4

If your going for muscle gain you need to eat somehwhere around 1gram of protein for each pound of body weight. 200lb person would need 200 grams. You'll lean down quicker by eating complex carbs like broccoli, green beans and asparagus. As for your calorie needs; times your weight of what you want to weigh by 10 for sedentary, 11 for average exercise and 12 if you work out a lot, ie; 200 x 12 = 2400calories. If you want to gain muscle and lose weight, keeping protein in your system will keep your body in an anabolic (muscle growing) state. Avoid empty calories like beer, cornflakes and pasta.

Answer 5

It sounds like you're not eating enough. You have to give your body fuel to run on so that it will burn body fat. If you don't eat enough, you'll end up burning muscle instead of fat, which is the opposite of what you want. I recommend eating a large breakfast and add some protein to your snacks, and eat small things more often so your metabolism is always working. I also recommend signing up for the website below and make sure you're getting enough protein, "good" fats (poly and monounsaturated), fiber, and nutritents. You can also plug in your exercises and find out how much you're eating and burning every day.

Hope that makes sense. I just woke up, yawwwn.

Answer 6

Could you be sleep-eating? This eating disorder is quite rare but if you take sleeping pills, it could cause such an eating disorder. In case you don't know about it, sleep-eating is when a person falls asleep and can still manage to get up to find something in the fridge to eat or to even prepare something using an oven, stove-top etc. This is all done without the person's knowledge. If you want to know more about it, try this website:

http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/sleep-disorders/archives/parasomnias_sleepeating.htm

Have you ever found evidence of a middle of the night binge in your kitchen?
I wish you the best of luck. I know how difficult it is to lose weight!

Answer 7

you diet doesnt look good at all and i think you are underestimateing your calorie intake.
find calorie/fitness calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have lean meat (protein) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min, light weight training
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, past etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)

Answer 8

I have a follow-up: what are you washing that all down with? Juice? Soda? Water? Because what you drink might have a lot of calories in it. Otherwise, I'd say either your workouts are not very intense, or you're leaving something out. You do cardio for 45 minutes, but what do you do in that time? How far do you row? How far do you bike? etc. How many calories do you burn in that period?

Never mind what you're eating - you're eating enough that you're not malnourished, which means you won't burn protein for energy unless you're starving yourself. Suggestions that you're going to reduce muscle-mass before you reduce fat are simply ignorant. That's why you have fat stores - your body won't eat into your muscle tissue without exhausting its fat supply first.

Answer 9

Try eating more fibre. Instead of corn flakes you could have some shredded wheat or bran flakes. Do you use skimmed or semi skimmed milk? Try skimmed milk, it doesn't taste very nice but it contains the least fat.
Try eating brown bread rather than a baguette, or have a chicken/ham salad. Do you drink enough water?
Try eating more steamed vegetables and cut out the crisps. Even though they are the low fat ones they still contain a lot of salt and calories. Replace your crisps with fresh fruit. Don't eat after your evening meal. Hope this helps

Answer 10

why dont you try just try having your brekkie on a morning, and a full veggie packed meal on afternoon or skip brekkie n have a sarnie for lunch then your dinner bout 4ish. just snack on celery or sumthing if your hungry thru the day.
you should never eat at night, my mam always says you should never eat after 7.
why don't you try the slim fast 2 shakes, one on a mornin and one at night with your dinner on an afternoon.
i lost quite a bit weight with that.
also you should exercise at least an hour everyday to make sure you burn off more than you eat.