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

Yawn.

Let's not.

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

Feel free to ignore. Or better still, why not add something constructive to the thread which may help the OP figure out why she ca't lose the weight?

@MarkRuffaloCrumble

Sorry you're bored. Why not go somewhere else rather than policing other people's posts?

(see how it feels to have your post policed? Annoying, innit)

Feel free to ignore. Or better still, why not add something constructive to the thread which may help the OP figure out why she ca't lose the weight?

erm like the post following the one that you quoted?!

Well it hardly offered any contructive advice on how to lose weight, did it? It just told her to more or less accept the staus quo

I agree about the breastfeeding. I lost loads of weight breastfeeding my first but not at all with my second.

In a nonbreastfeeding context, the only way I can usually lose weight is cutting out dairy and bread and pasta. I just use oat milk, eat rice or potatoes instead of pasta and eat houmous/guacamole/tuna salad, etc instead of cheese. I do eat cream crackers if I want something to spread something on. I also eat quite a lot of eggs.

I saw an Ayurvedic practitioner a few years ago who seemed very fixed on avoiding pizza and pasta - I think it was the flour, the cheese and the tomatoes that she considered unhealthy and that we rely on too much in this country. I did feel flummoxed at first at what I could actually eat if I avoided all those ingredients (esp as I was vegetarian), but it’s not too hard and you do feel better.

It certainly makes dealing with the flour/pasta shortages easier. I do still use the odd tin of tomatoes when cooking but I do feel much better generally avoiding those ingredients.

There seems to be a concensus that the body holds onto weight whilst breastfeeding. Has anybody got any idea how it does this? I can understand why it would (to keep some calories for the baby), but I can't imagine how it holds fat if the body isn't being given enough calories to maintain it.

@Endorphins

Are you building any muscle or strength? If so, this would indicate that you are eating more than your TDEE. Otherwise you'd be getting weaker and smaller.

www.thelactationnutritionist.com/post/2017/09/07/5-reasons-you-may-not-be-losing-weight-while-breastfeeding

This might be useful. See particularly point five about hormone balance.

Your fat is turning to muscle. Use body measurements not scales.

Fat cannot turn into muscle. But yes, body measurements are better than scales if a person is potentially building muscle at the same time as losing fat.

Your fat is turning to muscle

No, it's not

I gain at over 1200 but I am older. At 1500 I gain fast now regardless of whether I am lifting heavy weights or not. If you only eat meat fish and veg it’s quite difficult to get to 1500 cal unless you add a lot of oil

The whole thing about weight not changing because you are building muscle is not true. Anybody who has gotten into bodybuilding will be able to tell you that muscle is incredibly slow to gain

@poppy54321 Speak for yourself.

New bodybuilders can build muscle at a startling rate for a period of time when they've not lifted before. The thing you're saying doesn't exist even has a name: Body recomposition.
Hear's an article about it. There are many others:

www.healthline.com/nutrition/body-recomposition#what-it-is

Here is a quote from the article:

'Interestingly, favoring body recomposition techniques over other methods of weight loss may result in much slower weight loss, or no weight loss at all, due to the simultaneous gain in muscle'

Eckhart, I was lifting heavy weights for 6 months pre lock down with a good personal trainer. Got my weights up every week so I guess a little muscle was built but it was hard work and no visible change in fat or weight. But then I am 50 so its much slower when you are older. You can read online that the average woman can add ONE pound of muscle a month, that would be such slow weight loss one pound a month once you get older you can put a pound on in a day/weekend.

I mean you can put a pound of fat on in a weekend

There seems to be a concensus that the body holds onto weight whilst breastfeeding. Has anybody got any idea how it does this? I can understand why it would (to keep some calories for the baby), but I can't imagine how it holds fat if the body isn't being given enough calories to maintain it.

No clue, but if lactation suppresses ovulation, then maybe it's like perimenopause in that regard?

@Poppy54321

life.spartan.com/post/body-recomposition

blog.myfitnesspal.com/the-basics-of-body-recomposition-how-to-lose-fat-gain-muscle-at-the-same-time/

physiqonomics.com/body-recomposition/

Need I go on?

If your specific situation doesn't demonstrate something, it doesn't mean that the something doesn't exist.

Do not forget muscle weighs heavier than fat. A few years ago a lost several inches but my weight went up

Eckhart I find you quite terse but anyway. On the first link you provide muscle growth is 0.1- half a percent of body weight a week. So say 9 stone woman that is 0.13 of a pound to 0.6 of a pound and you would have to be bulking and eating lots of protein and eating clean to get those gains plus working out a lot with heavy weights, deadlifts etc. These figures I believe are for men, it doesn't specify but the rates for men and women are very different. Men bulk up and women don't the same. So I stand by what I said, I expect the gains for women are much lower but I would be interested to know.

Do not forget muscle weighs heavier than fat.

And it's not as if that hasn't been covered in the last 12 pages - and why it's wrong.

Do not forget muscle weighs heavier than fat.

Christ on a bike.

Thread. Read that fucker.