To ask why I’m not loosing weight with all the excercise I’m doing?!

[Endorphins]

So I excercise 6 days per week and eat healthy 5 days per week!

I do 3 days of weight and strength training
2 days of running, generally about 7k each time
1 day of yoga for 60 minutes

I track via MFP and generally have about between 1300 and 1500 cals per day

On the weekend I relax the cal counting but don’t binge

I am still breast feeding my 2 year old and she feeds multiple times per day and throughout the night

I weigh 9 and a half stone

@Endorphins

It’s 70% food, 10% exercise & 20% lifestyle (i.e. sleep, no stress).

Also it can take up to 2 years for your post baby hormones to balance out. Could also be your gut microbe (due to anti-biotics taken after birth).

There are a number of things, but would need to do a case history before I can say what is causing the limit in weight gain.

@Riddlediddle I agree with you and your comments muscle is heavier than fat.

I couldn’t shake the weight at all while bf, look at your macros , high protein etc.

1) you don't say how tall you are.

2) if you are breastfeeding should you really be exercising this much as you need calories.

3) 9.5 stone is fine unless you're under 5 foot tall (I would love to be that weight).

4) exercise builds muscle and that weighs more than fat so you may lose inches but weigh more on the scales.

1. She's 5' 6"

2. No idea: I know nothing about breastfeeding

3. It's completely irrelevant that you would love to be that weight: the OP doesn't love it

4. At the risk of repeating myself, you'd have to be on a plan to develop serous muscle for it to have any impact on your weight.

Argh, muscle is not heavier than fat! (Bangs head against wall)

1lb of muscle weighs the same as 1lb of fat. Obviously. Muscle is denser than fat so she might weight the same but be getting smaller, if that's what you mean? But even that is unlikely. Ask @NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace - it takes a lot to build the amount of muscle which is going to make that kind of difference,

It's more likely that OP is, by her own admission, eating back her exercise calories and if she stops that then she'll lose the weight, it might be slow, but it will come off.

Breastfeeding- no idea. But I doubt it burns 800 calories a feed to breastfeed a 2 year old.

No it doesn’t but a kg of feathers is a hell of a lot bulkier than a kg of rocks... this is where mass & volume comes into it ... muscle is dense, fibrous different tissue & lb for lb smaller than fat

@mistermagpie

Muscle is heavier than fat.

A jam jar filled with muscle will weigh more than the same jam jar filled with fat. In the same way that lead is heavier than jelly. A jam jar filled with lead will weigh more than the same jam jar filled with jelly.

What is your argument against this? I don't understand.

My argument is clear (and is the same as yours...). 1lb of muscle weighs the same as 1lb of fat. But muscle is denser than fat so she might weigh the same but be smaller.

I feel like that's exactly what I typed in my previous post... but somehow you think I'm saying something different to you? I'm not.

Also, your jam jar analogy is about volume, not weight. Surely you know that?

So, nothing weighs more than anything else, then, because a lb of any thing weighs the same as a lb of anything else?

Using your method, how can anything be heavier than anything else?

Sorry, that was really snippy. What I mean is, what you are saying is that the a specific volume of muscle will weight more that the same specific volume of fat.

But that's not the same thing as 'muscle weighs more than fat' which is essentially a meaning phrase unless you know the amount or each, or both.

It's not 'my method' - weights and measures are a pretty standard used thing. And yes 1lb of one thing will always weigh the same as 1lb of something else.

They will take up different amounts of space though, and that's what you are getting at.

But surely if we're talking about how much space is taken up on a body and how that represents on scales, (or my jam jar analogy) muscle weighs more than fat? ie a large bicep muscle will weigh more than a fat bicep area of the same measurement?

I think we all understand that a lb of muscle weighs the same as lb of fat. And a lb of feathers. You seemed to be frustrated that someone had said different. They didn't.

It's not about weight it's about density!

A jam jar filled with muscle will weigh more than the same jam jar filled with fat.

Yes, this is about density.

In the same way that lead is heavier than jelly

An ounce, or a gram, or a pound or a kilo of lead will weigh exactly the same as an ounce, a gram, a pound or a kilo of jelly. Weight is a standardised thing.

A jam jar filled with lead will weigh more than the same jam jar filled with jelly

Yes, again, because it's about density.

Right. So muscle is denser than fat. So, on 2 bodies with the same measurements, the one with the higher proportion of muscle will be heavier.

Like I said.

And... nothing is heavier than anything else, is that right? Because a lb of anything weighs the same as a lb of anything else. So the phrase 'substance a weighs more than substance b' means nothing unless you're also stating the volumes of each. Is that right?

Have you had your thyroid checked? That may be worth examining. If your TSH number is high (over 4) that will totally explain lack of weight loss as hypothyroidism slows your metabolism and makes it very difficult to lose weight.

Keto

You probably don't need to lose weight and should be eating more but healthy foods. Also, you could be built muscle which is heavy.

I am in my 40s and same height as you OP.
I've weighed between 8st3 and 11stone over the past 20 years and there is no doubt I look better below 9 stone. At Christmas I hit 11 stone which felt massive.
I'm down to 10 now, through diet and exercise, though it has been very slow going.

I eat about 1500-1700 a day average (MFP tracked) and exercise off about 400-600 calories (5 mile run 4 times a week, 12 mile bike ride 2 times a week). On top of that I usually do a 2-3 mile walk. And 20 squats with weights and 1min30 or so plank. No treat days.

I think you need to cut your treat days. They're probably undoing the good work. Or just stop the breast feeding. I lost half a stone in a week both times I did that. Mostly from my tummy bizarrely, as that is not where I hold weight normally.

So, nothing weighs more than anything else, then, because a lb of any thing weighs the same as a lb of anything else?

When referencing nouns in general, and without reference to volume, then ...... yes.

However, we'd all acccept that a single feather weighs more than (say) a small pebble. So, let's see if I can take that further.

Before my training, I had a lot of body fat and minimal muscle. My arms contained fat - lots of fat - which took up lots of space. So, as an illustration, my bicep area may have contained twenty pillows' worth of feathers. With training, I lost the fat and developed muscle. The muscle in my bicep, even though very visisble, is only the size of a small pebble and weighs less than the fat did.

It's a very common fallacy at weight loss classes - and trust me I've been to plenty - that the scales aren't moving because someone has been to the gym that week. It's really not true and I maintain my argument that to gain weight in the form of muscle mass you need to be on a serious programme with that specific aim.

Indeed and running 7k a few times a week is good for you, but is unlikely to have much effect in terms of building enough muscle to affect your weight in this way.

oh, stop bragging! You are only doing that so that other Mums can pay you compliments.

However, we'd all acccept that a single feather weighs more than (say) a small pebble. So, let's see if I can take that further.

Yawn.

Let's not.

This is OP's thread about her weight loss not a bloody physics lesson.

It’s the breastfeeding. A significant proportion of women hold on to weight while feeding and don’t lose it til afterwards.

Agreed, your body is literally holding onto the energy it needs to feed your baby. By all means keep being healthy, eat well, exercise, but give your body a break and let it do what it needs to do while you're feeding your child.