starting to lose a little bit of hope.
You're eating too little and working out too long/hard so your body is "stressed" and clinging on to body fat as it presumes its in some sort of crisis. Your body doesn't know that you're trying to lose weight, all it knows is that its not getting enough energy and its exerting itself too much, so its going to guard itself from wasting away by hording your fat reserves. Ergo, no weight loss.
additionally, I believe the benefits of exercise are achieved within 1 hour, anything more and its just wasted energy/effort and putting your body under unnecessary strain.
Scale back the exercise, up the cals to your BMR; you need to find a balance where your body is getting an adequate energy intake, to fuel your work outs, to burn off the calories required for weight loss.
Original Post by vonapathy:
You're eating too little and working out too long/hard so your body is "stressed" and clinging on to body fat as it presumes its in some sort of crisis. Your body doesn't know that you're trying to lose weight, all it knows is that its not getting enough energy and its exerting itself too much, so its going to guard itself from wasting away by hording your fat reserves. Ergo, no weight loss.
additionally, I believe the benefits of exercise are achieved within 1 hour, anything more and its just wasted energy/effort and putting your body under unnecessary strain.
Scale back the exercise, up the cals to your BMR; you need to find a balance where your body is getting an adequate energy intake, to fuel your work outs, to burn off the calories required for weight loss.
I agree with everything but the bolded.
For most, yes, an hour is sufficient. For some, like myself in a competitive training program and probably the OP who is trying to join the military and prepare for boot camp and the physical requirements of the job, 1 hour is likely not enough.
But I would say you're definitely not eating enough. I work out 1-5 hours a day every day, am 5'5", 128 pounds and eat 1600 on the days I just do yoga and weights and upwards of 3000 on long bike days. On most days, it's 1900-2300. You are at a healthy weight so weight loss will be slower and smaller deficits will help you keep losing.
Original Post by kelrantymus:
Original Post by vonapathy:
You're eating too little and working out too long/hard so your body is "stressed" and clinging on to body fat as it presumes its in some sort of crisis. Your body doesn't know that you're trying to lose weight, all it knows is that its not getting enough energy and its exerting itself too much, so its going to guard itself from wasting away by hording your fat reserves. Ergo, no weight loss.
additionally, I believe the benefits of exercise are achieved within 1 hour, anything more and its just wasted energy/effort and putting your body under unnecessary strain.
Scale back the exercise, up the cals to your BMR; you need to find a balance where your body is getting an adequate energy intake, to fuel your work outs, to burn off the calories required for weight loss.
I agree with everything but the bolded.
For most, yes, an hour is sufficient. For some, like myself in a competitive training program and probably the OP who is trying to join the military and prepare for boot camp and the physical requirements of the job, 1 hour is likely not enough.
But I would say you're definitely not eating enough. I work out 1-5 hours a day every day, am 5'5", 128 pounds and eat 1600 on the days I just do yoga and weights and upwards of 3000 on long bike days. On most days, it's 1900-2300. You are at a healthy weight so weight loss will be slower and smaller deficits will help you keep losing.
Eh, fair enough, I didn't take into consideration people who would be training for something, just average Joes trying to get fit. But regardless, OP you should definitely be eating more.
