Why the f**k aren't I losing more weight on my diet?

[saveoursleepplease]

I only wanted to lose 1/2 stone(ish). Five weeks I started (on advice of my trainer) this diet:

10 portions fruit / veg
3 portions lean protein
3 portions essential oils (e.g. half avocado, seeds/nuts/olive oil)
He gave weights and sizes e.g. a handful of cherries is a portion, a slice of melon, a medium sized orange etc etc
2 litres of water

Week 1, I lost 3.8lb. Week 2 - put on 1lb!! Week 3 - lost 1lb. Week 4/5 - combined as week 5 I had flu and didn't go to exercise - nada. Stayed the same

I do Power Plates with him twice a week (vigorous with kettle bells). I then go to the gym and run 2 x a week for 35 minutes.

I thought I was doing enough and I still am not losing more! I'm 43 and perimenopausal so maybe that doesn't help - and to be honest, I do sometimes nibble at say DC breadstick or have a piece of dry pasta, a few bits from the muesli - but nothing much! Or is even that going to scupper my chances?

So - my questions a) what do I need to do to pull off those last few llbs? I've got weigh in on Monday and I've love to trump myself

It's fucking me off - it's totally boring and I'm still not losing.

Thanks!

xx

Really danteV? Ask your PT's time for 5k, 10k or half marathon on the rower and we'll compare And what was your HM time? lol
And it's a known fact that regardless of how good a PT is in their own right, they do easy on clients to keep the money rolling in Hence the kettlebells..

Off you trot I think...

go* easy...

My pt is professional, not a con merchant.
As I said my results speak for themselves. I don't pay anything for the class anyway.

If someone is telling one person one method, then someone else must tell the other side so the person can decide what works best for them- or go research it etc.

Weight loss is simple(r) if kept simple. Ie burn off more than you consume. The more complicated it's made and the more 'rules' that are instigated make it less sustainable long term.

If you eat no carbs after a certain time then you will likely simply be eating less calories than you would normally be.

And trust me, my pt doesn't go easy on me at all.
OP if you trust your pt speak to him. Mine is always giving me advice.

Despite what some people may thi k lots of pts are do a great job.

This thread is not really heading in a helpful direction. I don't need a debate over kettle bells v cardio; that's not really interesting to me. I can see that straight forward cardio is very good and calorie burning - hence why I've done it for years, but I also see the merit of kettle bells.

If I had less going on in my life, I'd probably go to the gym twice a day but I can't...so for the moment, that's what i've got.

Thanks all and good night.

Eat less, exercise more you will lose weight. The more you do may increase the loss. I've lost 2.5stone since Jan, everyone keeps asking me "how did you do it? What plan did you use?" I didn't. I ate the things I like to eat, I logged it on My fitness pal, and still ate a crunchie bar 4-5* a week as my treat, but walked an hour everyday on the school run with baby. No fancy gym, and shred £5 dvd, 2-3x a week when baby naps.

Every little snack from kids plates has calories its vvery easy to eat few hundred calories extra without realising and that's enough to stop you shifting those last few pounds.

i have slimmed down from size 12-14 to a size 6 and kept that way thru a secon pregnancy and a year beyond by rethinking portions to be about half (slightly bigger than child size) what i used to eat, drinking shed loadsof water before each meal and between and making sure that i eat half the size of main meal is green veg. little or no snacking, only wine as an alcoholic drink. only home cooked food. i eat protein with every meal but don't carb count as impossible with two small ones to cook for as well. no exercise specifically but do not use a pram and still breastfeed, which i suppose burns some.

i feel ill now if i overeat but still have wiggle room for the odd but of cake.

nothing else has ever worked for me in the past.

brian wansincks 'mindless eating' is a great insight (food industry psychologist) into how to overeat or undereat those 'mindless' extra 200 calories a day. you can struggle to lose but seemingly not overeat. but you can turn this the other way and undereat 200 calories a day without noticing

The nutritionist was a colleague and had a degree and was a state registered dietician, she wasn't taking money from me or anything as others have said its so simple eat less than you use, you will lose weight.

Another woman I worked with had been on every diet going for about 20 years, she lost a bit but usually gained, she had completely messed up her metabolism, she also went to the gym every day.

Well I was a size ten before this baby and somehow managed to put on five stone . I lost all but 2 of it naturally but my body just wouldn't let go off the rest . The dukan was the only way to get it off for me . I won't put it back on again . I prefer being thin to food and alcohol . ( not just be because I'm vain , I have a very bad back which is aggravated badly by those two stone!! )

You need to a) count cals fruit can be high in cals due to natural sugars. A bowl of fruit salad can have as many cals as a muffin.

Nuts and olis are high in cals.

Agree that you need to measure yourself- waist especially- and not just go by weight.

Can you do interval training as your running? Same amount of time but more effective

I would suggest you do some pilates or yoga or yogalates :-)

I had two childre in two years gaining 5 stone (1st) 3 stone (2nd) i managed to loose all 5 stone in a year before falling pg again. I never got that tone back though. Only in the last 6 months have i started to address the tone.

I found my body shape changed a bit and i hold extra around the mid section. That has almost gone now. I have the slightest touch of muffin.

Im also 35 plus and your matabolism changes. It will come straight back now if i eat too much but thats age.

I walk, hike, swim, aquafit, yoga and do pilates. 7 hours a week plus hiking.

I also eat my evening meal very early (5.) and i do drink wine. I eat loads of carbs, cheese. For me its about living happily not starving. The weight will just come back on if you diet.

I think you have to accept more excercise is neccessary to stay lean.

I'm small size 10 8.5 stone.

I agree it might be worth adding up your calories for a few days, just to check it isn't more than you think. You need to be accurate though, i.e. how much exactly is 'a few pieces' of pasta!

Do you drink alcohol? Milky coffees/lattes? Fruit smoothies? all can be higher-calorie than people sometimes realise.

It sounds to me like you're doing plenty of exercise, certainly more than I've ever done! For me it's much more about diet than exercise - not starving myself but not stuffing myself or snacking unneceessarily either. I don't worry too much about carbs or about time of day (though I rarely eat late at night), it's the calories that matter IMO.

(I don't really understand the cardio vs weights/kettlebells debate - surely they're different types of exercise, and both have their uses, it isn't either-or?)

It's very complicated Ephiny, but in short weights and CV are. In short (obviously) weights build muscle and CV burns calories (loses weight). KBs are a fad that achieves the age old aim of making money from people looking for an easy answer. They have a small amount of CV and weights value, but negligible. I know of 3 people who developed SI joint (lower back) issues within weeks of starting on them too, having had no previous issues.

I think kettle bells are v easy to do wrong, and of you do them wrong it is very easy to do yourself an injury.

However, I think strength training of some description is hugely important in weight loss. Apart from the whole speed-up-your-metabolism thing, it makes you look better (toned is infinitely preferable to skinny-fat, IMO). Weight training can take the form of using your own body weight - press ups, squats etc - it doesn't need to be expensive kit.

nice to know my nutritionist title i worked really hard for at uni means nothing

My first message, I need to loose weight, am currently going through the menopause, can someone suggest the best diet. Is it low fat? or no carbs? etc, have tried but nothing much works, have just put a stone on without doing anything different. And was already a bit overweight. help,.

If you have only half a stone to go, perhaps you need to cut your calorie intake right down. I do fitnesspal on 1200 calories a day and need vast amounts (by my standards!) of exercise to make any difference. It DOES get more difficult when you are older, too - I'm menopausal and used to be a 10; now I'm struggling to stay a 12! AND it goes on around your middle!

If you are finding it this difficult perhaps it's not worth it?

Interesting debate re: kettlebells.

'I am sorry but I disagree badger, when you have been asleep for 8 hours the carbs have already stored. They are not used for energy the next day, which is why you need breakfast.

food does not wait for the next day to be used.'

dante Sorry, but that's some seriously bad science there. Carbohydrates don't turn straight into fat if they're not used straight away. Excess carb (broken down to glucose in the body) is stored as glycogen, mostly in storage areas such as the liver and muscles. When blood sugar levels next dip, due to long time between meals or due to exercise, that glycogen gets converted back to glucose and used. Problems arise when those glycogen stores are not utilised as it will eventually be stored as fat but that does not happen overnight.

Incidentally, if you think that carbohydrates consumed one day, cannot be used the next, as someone who is doing a half marathon in Oct, I would be interested to hear how you managed to run the GNR in pro-athlete time without any carbohydrate loading the day before.

try doing ripped in 30 or 30day shred for a month. that really does help shift some inches, esp of the dreaded muffin top!
you may not lose weight but clothes will become looser.

Fruit is good for you in medium amounts but up to 10 portions of fruit and veg/day is an awful lot. Fruit is full of sugar and while it's a lot healthier than refined sugar, your body will burn the sugar first and the fat second as it's easier. So if you supply your body with the fruit sugars every few hours you won't burn any fat.

Good post MrsRyanLochte
I don't think poor dante had a clue really...I couldn't be bothered with lengthy explanations though!