HELP! Working out alot but no weight loss! WTF?

What is going on. Are my pregnancy hormones causing this or is this weight strictly hanging on in my c section belly? How can I be spinning twice a week and still weigh the same since June 12th. I don't understand this!!! My diet is ok but I'm burning so many calories! What gives? Can someone please help!

What are you intaking as far as calories and what type? Is this the only form of exercising you are doing? Do you eat late in the evening? Are you drinking enough water?  Are you eating protien after your spinning class? There could be many reasons but with out more input it could be just about any or all of the above. Please dont get discouraged.  More input please.

I must admit that I haven't been counting calories as I should and I don't think I'm eating enough. I have started the New Rules Of Lifting for Women program which uses a different formula than this site does and it says that I'm supposed to be eating about 2000 calories. More on spinning days. Even though I haven't been counting as I should be and I don't really drink water I still feel that I should be losing given all the calories I've been burning. I have a HRM with watch and I can see just how much I have burned. I don't think my thyroid is out of whack because I had that checked in May, 5 months after having a baby. 

ok so how many days do you actually work out? Since you have a HRM watch does it tell you your total burn for the week. I have a polar F6 and I get an end of week report. You need to drink water or try the gatorade g2. You maybe with holding water. Log your calories. You maybe eating more than you think. Im 5'2 and weigh 141 so we have about the same stats. I think eating 2000 cals is alot unless your buring 1000 + cals everytime you work out. According to phords total cal intake for a nonactive/bedridden person is 1610. Light to moderately active person is about 1700-1900 for intake cals to maintain their weight. So you would need to eat under that number in order to lose weight. I know in one spinning session one can burn any where from 400-550 approx. cals.

So I input your stats into the phords calculator except I guessed your age to be about 25 cause you dont state that anywhere. For some one who works out 2-4 days a week would have a cal intake maintenace of 1914. You would need to eat 1329 cals in order to lose 1.17 lbs a week. So eating the 2000 cals a day is what is stopping you from losing weight. Exercise alone cant completely burn the weight off. Yes it helps but eating healthy and balanced works best. I hope I didnt confuse you. Even though your working out alot you need to eat under your daily maint. number.

Edit: I wanted to add the 1914 already has calories burned from working out added into the number. If you wanted you can work from the sedentary number of 1650 and just add your cals burned from working out. So say your daily burn is 1650 + 450 cal burned at the gym. your total daily burn would be 2100 cals. so you would eat around 1500 to have a deficit of about 600. say 2100 cals is your normal daily burn and your eating around 2000 cals thats only leaving you with a deficit of 100. It would deff explain why your not losing. Just remember to count your calories. Also to make yourself more full eat more veggies with your meals, they are low in cals but extremely filling.

That's what I thought as far as calories. I have been on this site for a few years now and I was logging and counting everything before I got pregnant and my daily limit was around 1300-1400 on days I didn't spin. I got down to 125 and that felt great. This book I have NROLFW is telling me to eat more calories than all the other equations are. I'm confused. I think I need to do another Own Index reading on my Polar. But regardless if I'm burning that much and logging calories the own index shouldn't really matter right?

Ive never heard of Own Index. what is it? If what you did before worked then go back to doing that. Yes log your calories. I know for myself I stick to the sedentary number then add on my workouts. It just makes more sense to me cause on days I dont work out Im extremely lazy and just sit in bed plus  I work at a desk for 8 hrs. I would not go with eating more cals. If you just wanted to maintain then yea eating 2000 cals would be fine but your not. Eat around 1500 cals for 2 weeks and see if anything changes.

NROLFW is not a weight loss guide.  It's a weight lifting guide.  I believe what it tells you to eat is around maintenance for a month or so, then cut 300 calories if you want to lose.  (That seems to be what I remember... it's been a while since I read it). 

Now, that's great if you are looking to lose slowly, and recompose your body... because newbies will probably gain muscle at least for the first coupel of months.  Also, if you eat close to maintenance you can *possibly* do some recomp -- building a bit of muscle and losing a bit of fat weight.  But it is a slow process and takes time.

If you want to lose faster, then it's likely you need to really pay attention to your calories, and if they are not too low then cut a couple hundred.  But in order to do that you really have to count them.

A lot of people think they are doing okay on food, because the foods they are eating are healthy.  But if you don't weigh and count everything that goes in your mouth... well you're probably fooling yourself about how many calories you are getting. 

One of the biggest myths out there is "eat anything you want and just work it off". Not true. While exercise is an essential component of all weight-loss and healthy life-style changes, exercise by itself it has little effect on weight loss. What you eat and how much you eat of it is the key to weight loss: 

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Get back on the counting calories horse, and follow Michael Pollan's advice: "Eat Food. Just less of it." I've cut out almost all processed foods (sorry, Fiber One is just too good!), tried to eat all my fruit raw and most of my veggies raw, made sure I get enough whole grains every day and watched my fat intake (I'll be measuring the rest of my life, no more "that looks like a tablespoon of olive oil) (low-fat dairy options like yogurt and cottage cheese are great) very carefully, added more servings of fish and only eat lean protiens, and am down 28 pounds.

With your workout, and a healthy diet of the right amount of calories (not too much, not too little), you will be gorgeous in no time. Just tinker with the calories till you find the formula for you. I use the CC Calorie Target and do just fine. Just try an "activity level", see if it works, if it doesn't try another till you hit the magic number for your body.

^ I need to get myself back in the habit of using my measuring spoons. I watched rachael ray too much and formed a bad habit of 1x or 2x is a table spoon of oil or whatever Im measuring.