I don't get it?

I've been working out for the past month; 6 days a week, 30 minutes to an hour at a time...and I'm not losing weight. I've stayed at 150 for the past month. What's happening?

I've also been eating subway like friggin everyday cause I can't cook or have time to learn how to.

Diet & exercise? Am I over doing it? or maybe not doing it enough? Maybe I'm just too impatient...and should continue for another month before expecting to see results I want?

Argh, what the efffff man!

You can exercise all you like and still not lose weight if you are eating more than you burn.

It's not like I eat 5 subway sandwiches drenched in ranch everyday?

Well if you weigh 150 you may well be eating too many calories.  I'm 180 lbs 5'6" and if I don't exercise I shouldn't eat more than 1200 a day.  I burn about 1800 resting so are you using this sites tools to determine how much you should be eating? 

You also say your working out -- what are you doing --?  are you stuck in the "fat burn zone" bs on the machines??  Get off the machines and into the weight lifting. 

Sometimes you have to play with the calories, and also if you don't know how to cook and too lazy to learn and eating processed foods your sodium is probably thru the roof and water is going to be retained.  Subway may be an easy route but processed lunch meat is not a good diet.

Go get some chicken breasts with no added solutions and bake them or put them in the microwave for a few minutes until no longer pink in the middle and chop it up and make a sandwich from that -- or add some barbque sauce teriyaki sauce  or whatever.  You don't have to cook fresh veggies.  If you take the $5 a day you eat for subway you can buy a nice selection of fresh fruit and veggies and be so much healthier.

what is your activity level set at? i set mine on sed and log all workouts.

how much do you eat/burn daily? deficit?

are you eating enough? not enough?

there is no way to tell what the efffff with the info here.

Are you building muscle?

lolll, well I usually have fruits for breakfast and as snacks. I eat chicken breast subway sandwich for lunch. And I eat philidelphia rolls (sushi) for dinner. And it's been that way for about a month.

I run on the treadmill for 20 minutes set on interval. speed 6.0 for two minutes with an incline of 3.0 and during the "resting" period; speed at 3.0 and incline of 0. Do that for 20 minutes.

Sometimes I do elliptical for another 10 minutes.

I also do tripcep press and hip abductors and lift those barbell things.

I don't do those exact things everyday but that's what I try and stick to.

its just like managing money, you have to run the numbers.  

Right. Think of your calorie intake as a sort of budget. Except to lose weight, you really want to be in the negative. Spending more than you make.

So for instance...

What size subway sandwich do you eat? On what bread? Do you get cheese? A footlong chicken breast on wheat without dressings or cheese is 640 calories. A philadelphia roll (full of cream cheese) is 360 per roll - at all the sushi places here, you get two rolls (about 4 pieces per roll) per order of sushi.

What kind of fruits? For instance the nectarines I like so much are 65 calories for a medium sized or so. A big peach is more like 100 than anything. Grapes are deceptive at times; about 3 calories per. All fruits are different, but don't forget to count them as part of your budget "just cuz' it's good for you doesn't mean it doesn't have caloric value!"

Add them all up, see what your total is. Subtract your calorie expenditures for the day from that. I personally use my sedentary modifier (what CC tells me I burn for sedentary) and never count exercise because I find the numbers to be somewhat misleading. My paper expenditures report that I should be losing about a pound per week, but I am losing closer to 2 because of the exercise. If I shoot OVER that number, I know I need to eat a little more - a fine line between listening to your body and number crunching!

If you insist though, always under-estimate with exercise, the machines are seldom correct. For instance yesterday mine wasn't so great. 1,862 - 2,170 = -308 deficit. I usually have a -600 deficit.

So crunch your numbers. Analyze what you eat, keep it honest. You will only cheat yourself if you do not.

There are 3500 calories in 1lbs of fat. There's no magic to it... you gotta burn that up.

Original Post by missvo:

I've also been eating subway like friggin everyday cause I can't cook or have time to learn how to.

 That. ^

You also might want to consider changing up your wrkout routine..muscle confusion is truly the best way to not only stimulate muscle growth but decrease fat..

Remember, exercise is not an excuse to continue poor eating habits. It is only part of the equation. Nutrition makes up...eh...70 percent of the equation no matter what your goals are.

Try and eat clean and more often [6 smaller meals a day]. Take it easy on the white stuff [talkin about breads,etc]. Eat a diet of high fiber and protein.

I would do a little less treadmill and add in more weight/strength training. It will help keep your burn a lot longer....

Best of luck! :)

Original Post by missvo:

It's not like I eat 5 subway sandwiches drenched in ranch everyday?

That's not what I meant... You don't have to eat excessively to eat back the calories from a workout; a few hundred extra calories can do it. You haven't mentioned any weight gain, so I'm guessing you have just been maintaining instead of losing weight.

I just meant that working out is by no means a guarantee of weight loss if you fail to work out how much you can eat to create a deficit.

okies, thanks everyone for their advice. i will try keep those things in mind and put them to use starting tomorrow and see how that goes for me...!

thank you :)

I had to go the doc last week. She told me that stress alone can prevent us from losing weight. Said it has to do with our cortisol levels and it causing a lowed metabolism.

Are you under a high amount of stress?

How is your water intake? Not drinking enough will cause your body to hold onto what water it has so then you have "water weight" to deal with.

Yeah, can stress really? Cause I just started working at a doctors office as a nurse and it IS very stressful to me but I never thought anything of it.

and also I'm trying to drink as much as water as I can but I don't think it's enough...

Now I'm starting to wonder...hmmm...

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