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

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

I've lost inches and my weight has gone up. I've lost inches because I'm toning up with regular exercise and I've put on weight because at the same time I've eaten excessively and had a caloric surplus. I haven't somehow added on 5lbs of muscle in the last 3 months.

@Poppy54321

Eckhart I find you quite terse but anyway

Yeah, anyway. There's about a million articles on this. It works for everyone, to varying degrees. Maybe you didn't build muscle as fast as you could? Or maybe you're super special and unusual. But enough about you. Perhaps have a look at some of the articles about the facts.

@acatcalledjohn

*Do not forget muscle weighs heavier than fat.

Christ on a bike.

Thread. Read that fucker*

Quite. Your comment made splutter my tea

Same problem. But early menopause hasn't helped. Can not budge weight and it's just creeping up

Ostagazuzulum Do you think your weight would continue to creep up if you fell down a well and had no access to food for a fortnight?

Eckhart stop telling me to look at the facts. I looked at the facts you provided and calculated the potential muscle gain which was low. My post was about your article not about me. But I can see from your posts you are wanting to provoke.

Op I am same height as you, and pretty much the same weight - 9 stone 6. It's a BMI of only slightly over 21 which is very healthy. I obviously would like to be slightly lighter and slightly more toned (wouldn't most adult women) but I accept this is a good weight for me and trying to lose more causes great stress and chronic under eating. Maybe just try to maintain.

You are likely not eating enough to fuel your metabolism . I'd recommend looking at reverse dieting for a while

Poppy There are people on this thread who have put on muscle at the same time as losing fat. Their measurements have improved, but their weight has stayed the same or increased. I have many clients for whom the same has happened. It happened for me, too.

If you find this provocative that's ok with me. Have you considered getting a better personal trainer?

You are likely not eating enough to fuel your metabolism

Starvation mode is a myth

Bloody hell. Reverse dieting?! No
Wonder the OP is confused.

Eat less, move more, don't eat your exercise calories. Calorie deficit. That's it.

Yes there will be the odd person for whom this doesn't work, but for the vast majority of people it will.

Reverse dieting is eating too much I'm guessing??

OP is exercising regularly so is highly unlikely to have a sluggish metabolism.

Reverse dieting has no scientific backup, and is, frankly, bonkers. Want to lose weight? Eat more! It makes no sense.

The only benefit I can see is if you are on a severely restrictive diet, it night stop you bingeing if, every now and again, you eat more than your restricted calories, in a controlled way. However, reverse dieting recommends 50 - 100 extra calories per week, so it's unlikely to provide any great relief even on that score.

Starvation mode is a myth

Evidence please. I'm genuinely interested.

@Phonelock

The evidence is that nobody who is genuinely starving stays overweight.

What do you care more about, your baby or your figure?

What do you care more about, your baby or your figure?

Jeez, guilt trip much. She’s allowed to care about both.

Oh right, because she's had a baby she now has to completely give up on herself does she?

The evidence is that nobody who is genuinely starving stays overweight

How disappointing.

I thought that you might deliver some plausible evidence that proved that metabolism didn't slow down when calorie intake is severely restricted. Commonly referred to in the context of weight loss as, wait for it... starvation mode.

Proving that something doesn't exist is quite hard. You give me proof that the Easter bunny doesn't exist.

If you eat less than you burn, you will lose weight. If you eat even less, you will lose weight even faster. This has been endlessly complicated by the diet and exercise industry until we are baffled and don't know which way is up.

Muscle burns calories. If you lose muscle on your weight loss journey, your metabolism will drop. But I've yet to meet anyone who wants less fat AND less muscle, so a healthy weight loss regime will not allow the extreme where the person is so starved and unexercised that their metabolism drops. It's not something anybody needs to consider unless they're planning unhealthy weight loss.

I know right, just look at all those obese people in concentration camps, proves the starvation mode theory without a doubt!

Does the Minnesota Starvation Experiment not disprove starvation mode?

I know right, just look at all those obese people in concentration camps, proves the starvation mode theory without a doubt!

It doesn't prove it does or it doesn't, and I doubt just looking would help.

Starvation mode refers to a reduction in metabolic rate as a result of a severely restricted calorie intake. Just a reduction. The rate of weight loss will be slowed, not stopped altogether, so an obese person entering a concentration camp would, after a period of time on a severely restricted diet, become as emaciated as everybody else.

www.healthline.com/nutrition/starvation-mode#bottom-line

How about this article, does that help?

Really, maintaining your muscle mass is key to maintaining your metabolism. And even if your metabolism does slow, the answer is still to keep up with your diet if you want to keep losing weight, because you don't stop losing weight. You won't know the difference because you can't be the control and the subject of your experiment, given that you just have the one body.