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Q: Cardio Exercise

asked by: chris041661 on October 12th, 2006

New User

Hey everyone!!! Well i've been working out now for about 3 months before I started working out I was 6'0 199 pounds now im 187-189. The thing is I don't lose weight anymore.. I don't understand why I run pretty much 5-6 days a week and stay on the tred for an hour and do about 5 miles of those 5-6 days burning 1000 calories plus I do a little bit of weight training but I cant seem to lose any fat.. I look the same as I did before I started working out but I dont understand what else I can do.. Should I give it more time? Maybe make the workout on the tred for an hour and a half or what. My family says im having a weight plateu but I dont see how I cant lose weight when I dont drink coke anymore hardly only on weekends I benge and I try to eat as healthy as possible.. Any suggestions?

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BlinkyBill

replied on October 12th, 2006

Experienced User

Your family is right - you are having a weight plateau, within the next couple of weeks you will see the scales going down again, measure yourself with a measuring tape rather than weigh yourself as this will be more accurate. You are still losing weight it's just not reflecting on the scales, your brain has just haltered proceedings until it get use to what's happening with your body (if that makes sense).

It's very normal. Mix up your cardio workouts that way your body won't get use to the same thing over and over and you might have less weight plateaus.

Goodluck with it, try and keep the coke to a minimum!!! :d

Makoto

replied on October 13th, 2006

Experienced User

You also could be losing fat, and gaining muscle. Therefore no difference on the scales.

Also, looking at yourself in the mirror everyday, you are not going to notice the difference. Just keep going, and do not worry about the weight scales so much.

It is body fat percentage that is important, not your actual weight.

Also, do not even look at the bmi charts, they suck.

maralovesyou

replied on October 31st, 2006

New User

Keep Up the Good Work =)

In the beginning of weight loss you will tend to lose a lot of weight, but eventually weight loss will slow down and you will hit a plateau. I wouldnt give up, keep up the good work and eventually you will see results again, they probably will not be as quick and large as your initial results though. I wouldnt go by weight as success, go by size and your body mass %. Especially working out so much and rigorously you're probably adding a lot of muscle mass.

chris041661

replied on November 4th, 2006

New User

Well its november 4th and right now I weigh 183 pounds so its going down I drink coke only on saturdays now and very little I dont eat as much and im still exercising trying to change it up doing alot more weight training and I added swimming so its doing pretty good, as far as how I look in the mirror my stomach is going way way down and my face is alot thinner so hopefully I can keep losing Smile

bhabe

replied on November 9th, 2006

New User

You might want to try ''kwando" the kind of exercise with constant movement,sweating a lot,which is make you losing wieght,and its help you to increase energy also...Just my 2 cents

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