Help ! What am I doing wrong?

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I am doing 16/8 fast 7 days a week. No alcohol. water and herbal tea. I do 5x yoga /pilates sessions per week. 2x HIT sessions of 40mins pwr week and 3 runs per week of between 5-10k each. I walk 10k in 2 hours 1x per week. I have 4 kids 10/8/6 and 3 so am running around a fair bit. We eat home cooked soups/curries/chickpeas etc no meat except chicken. I have reduced meal sizes considerably, and dropped my puddings (except fruit and full fat yoghurt with honey or sqyare dark chocolate). I am still the same weight ! Arrrgh! I feel i cant eat much less and function, as i get so grouchy and tired ! I already take vitamins Help!

Weights!! You need weights!!!

Quit the runs.

Keep the HIIT.

gym doing lifting 2-3 times per week. Try the book New Rules of Lifting for Women. Give it 6 months. You’ll look SO different. I lost 2 stone, gained muscle, lost fat.

How heavy are you for your height? Perhaps you are swapping fat for muscle. Are you staying the same weight but your jeans getting looser?

I always find it hard to lose weight this time of year. My body has clocked that it's autumn, that winter is coming and I store fat. In spring, I can lose weight without issue because I swap to salads and sunshine.

Oh and drop 3 of the yoga/Pilates sessions.

You can work the HIIT into your gym sessions so you only have to go to exercise 3 times a week.

How old are you OP?

Exercise effectiveness depends on age, hormone levels etc

HIT is not good around menopause for example.

Kettle bells and diet is way more impactful

If you're doing a HIIT session for 40 mins, it's definitely not a HIIT session. Proper HIIT sessions are much shorter in length and there's no way you can do a proper HIIT workout for 40 mins. That said, 100% agree with weights. Far more effective.

I've just gone and bought a copy of this!

Can I ask, what does your programme look like? I'm menopausal and finding it hard to shift weight, I do subscribe to Hasfit but I wonder if I need a fresh approach. Desperate to have nice arms just for once in my life.

Thanks for your reply. I’m 41 5ft 7 and 73kg.

@mynameiscalypso is right. 40mins of HIIT is just high intensity cardio which you want to try and avoid.

I follow NRoLfW (not the diet I just try not to eat crap) and at the start of each session I do 10mins HIIT on cross trainer or running machine and then another 8 mins somewhere else inbetween sets of weights on the battle bike which is hideous.

if I’m tired I still go to the gym but cut out the HIIT. That way I don’t miss sessions.

I started 7 years ago - DH told me to try 12 weeks at the gym and said I would fall in love with it. I had always hated exercise before then but I truly did love it!! Then kids etc meant I fell off the wagon for a bit but just restarted again.

after about 6 months I didn’t use the book anymore because I understood what needed training and when and it became more intuitive.

good luck!!

Hiya. Sonits things like squats/sit ups :burpees/lunges/weighted exercises like seated rows tricep presses etc banded walks on legs glute bridges that kind of thing and short bursts of sprints.

Thanks!

Weights and start counting calories. I found I lost weight faster with slightly more calories with the amount of exercise I was doing and didnt feel like crap.

How long have you been eating less?

10 weeks