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doing cardio but can't loose weight
Hi,
I'm 36, 1m78 and i weigh 77 Kg. This is not a total disaster, but i'd like to loose some weight, especially 'around the mid section' as they say. I don't diet, but i don't eat fast or junk food. I don't eat very little but not much either. I guess i eat normal which is vegetables, not that much meat, etc. But most of all, i started doing a lot of cardio a few weeks ago! Currently, since my health is improving, i'm burning between 350 and 500 calories per day!! I find this personally quite a lot and increasing this is virtually impossible due to lack of time and having a girlfriend who is not into sports :-). Anyway, because of this cardio exercising, i feel better, my health is increasing and i can exercise longer and longer! I feel great and i don't intend to stop doing it. However -here comes the problem- i am not loosing any weight. Nothing, nada! Also in the past, when i was doing A LOT OF CARDIO(!!) -- running 20 km's without stopping-- i didn't loose weight. My health/ stamina increases a lot and i love that, but i don't loose any weight?! Because i'm getting older, i'm having a bit of a problem in the mid-section ;-), so i'd love to loose some weight. What can I do? If this much cardio doesn't help me and in the past even more cardio didn't help me. It's weird.... Any thoughts? I'm willing to try several things like counting calories (which i never did before so i have no idea where to start). But can someone tell me why all this cardio never helped me to loose calories? I don't gain weight and i don't loose weight. Basically, watching tv all evening or doing cardio all evening does have its effect on my health and stamina BUT NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on my WEIGHT! Is this possible?? Thanks for your input people! Best, Luc |
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doing cardio but can't loose weight
Perhaps with the new exercise you have lost a little fat, but are retaining
water in your muscles, which is very common when you first start an exercise regime. Other possibility is that with the added exercise, your appetite is going up too, and you might not even realize that you are eating to compensate. I would reccommend counting calories for a few weeks, even if you hate doing that, to attain a baseline. Try something web-based and free like fitday. Count EVERY SINGLE MORSEL. There are so many little ways to sneak calories in, a bite here, a bite there. It really adds up. It doesn't take much to totally derail a 350 calorie workout. wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I'm 36, 1m78 and i weigh 77 Kg. This is not a total disaster, but i'd like to loose some weight, especially 'around the mid section' as they say. I don't diet, but i don't eat fast or junk food. I don't eat very little but not much either. I guess i eat normal which is vegetables, not that much meat, etc. But most of all, i started doing a lot of cardio a few weeks ago! Currently, since my health is improving, i'm burning between 350 and 500 calories per day!! I find this personally quite a lot and increasing this is virtually impossible due to lack of time and having a girlfriend who is not into sports :-). Anyway, because of this cardio exercising, i feel better, my health is increasing and i can exercise longer and longer! I feel great and i don't intend to stop doing it. However -here comes the problem- i am not loosing any weight. Nothing, nada! Also in the past, when i was doing A LOT OF CARDIO(!!) -- running 20 km's without stopping-- i didn't loose weight. My health/ stamina increases a lot and i love that, but i don't loose any weight?! Because i'm getting older, i'm having a bit of a problem in the mid-section ;-), so i'd love to loose some weight. What can I do? If this much cardio doesn't help me and in the past even more cardio didn't help me. It's weird.... Any thoughts? I'm willing to try several things like counting calories (which i never did before so i have no idea where to start). But can someone tell me why all this cardio never helped me to loose calories? I don't gain weight and i don't loose weight. Basically, watching tv all evening or doing cardio all evening does have its effect on my health and stamina BUT NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on my WEIGHT! Is this possible?? Thanks for your input people! Best, Luc |
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doing cardio but can't loose weight
On Apr 23, 9:05 am, wrote:
Any thoughts? I'm willing to try several things like counting calories (which i never did before so i have no idea where to start). " I exercise and eat well, but I still can't lose fat" is a common lament. There have been studies that even educated, conscientious people will consistently underestimate how much they eat unless they track their intake. It is extremely easy, even with healthy food, to undo the weight control benefits of exercise with what you eat. I saw on a web site that if a man of my size works out on a rowing machine for an hour, he will burn 661 calories. It would seem that if I did that everyday, I would be golden in terms of weigh loss. A person only needs to use 500 extra calories a day to lose a pound a week. Assuming all of my meals are reasonable, lets say that after my workouts I like to get a drink and a snack: 1 20 floz bottle of coke - 220 calories 1 1.5 oz bag of potato chips - 228 calories Both of these are sizes you would get from vending machines.....like the snack machines at a high school or in the office. Then, lets a few hours after I had my reasonable dinner I stay up late to watch the news and pick a few Hershey Kisses out of candy dish. Lets say I had 8.....another 200 calories. All of my snacks for the day seem innocent enough. Anybody watching me would not have said that I was a glutton and gorging myself, but look at how it adds up: 220 228 200 -- 648 calories - from typical snacking habits. 661 deficit from rowing - 648 snacks = a mere 13 calorie deficit in my day, not enough of a deficit to make any meaningful change. However, if I had counted my calories I would have known to skip the snacks.....a very small sacrafice and at the end of the month I would be about 5 lbs lighter. No starvation, just trimming the corners. |
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:22:20 -0700, determined wrote:
Perhaps with the new exercise you have lost a little fat, but are retaining water in your muscles, which is very common when you first start an exercise regime. You spit this garbage out like you have a clue, which, you don't. Other possibility is that with the added exercise, your appetite is going up too, and you might not even realize that you are eating to compensate. I would reccommend counting calories for a few weeks, even if you hate doing that, to attain a baseline. Try something web-based and free like fitday. Count EVERY SINGLE MORSEL. There are so many little ways to sneak calories in, a bite here, a bite there. It really adds up. It doesn't take much to totally derail a 350 calorie workout. Totally clueless. -- http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/mnnster.html |
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doing cardio but can't loose weight
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:51:19 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
I don't count calories either since in my opinion it would turn my life into food micromanagement hell and I have been succesful with losing weight anyway. Anyway, just logging everything you eat can give you a better understanding of how much you're eating. Sanity, a breath of fresh air. A Saari mentions, focus on the volume of food you are eating. Counting cals is so inexact as to be practically useless. -- http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/mnnster.html |
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doing cardio but can't loose weight
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:22:20 -0700, determined wrote:
Other possibility is that with the added exercise, your appetite is going up too, and you might not even realize that you are eating to compensate. "If there are any magic bullets in losing weight - exercise is it. ~Determined Nov 28 2002, 7:08 pm" -- http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/mnnster.html |
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doing cardio but can't loose weight
On Apr 23, 6:05 am, wrote:
Hi, [... can you interpret my posting and point out the obvious? ] Sure! I'm 36, 1m78 and i weigh 77 Kg. This is not a total disaster, but i'd like to loose some weight, especially 'around the mid section' as they say. [ You see, I've only run into forty-seven people who told me that there isn't such thing as spot reducing, short of surgery, liposuction and perhaps injection of thermogenic drugs into specific fat tissue sites. If only seventeen more people tell me that, I will believe it, I promise! ] I don't diet [ I don't bother controlling intake, so I'm relying on dumb luck for my intake to be less than expenditure. ] , but i don't eat fast or junk food [ ... because I read in a very reliable blog that that only junk food has calories. ] I don't eat very little but not much either. [ That is to say, my eating pattern is somewhere between near starvation and stuffing myself to a stupor. That ought to be in the right ballpark for losing body fat, right? ] I guess i eat normal which is vegetables, not that much meat, etc. [ I don't get it. Vegetables aren't particularly fattening, and neither is lean meat in small quantities. Do you suppose it could be all that ``etc'' stuff? ] But most of all, i started doing a lot of cardio a few weeks ago! [ Ah, did I say earlier that I rely on dumb luck for my caloric intake to be less than my expenditure? What I really meant to say was, ``exercise-assisted dumb luck!'' ] Currently, since my health is improving, [ Aerobic capacity equals health, right? No endurance athlete ever keeled over from coronary heart disease. ] i'm burning between 350 and 500 calories per day!! [ Or, should I say, some unknown base number /plus/ 350 to 500 calories from exercise. So my energy expenditure is: unknown number X + 500, where X is my base metabolism plus basic daily activity. And my intake is unknown number Y, where Y is an unknown quantity of calories from food which I don't measure or control. When you subtract these, don't the two unknowns cancel out, leaving --500? So, damn it, why aren't I losing weight? ] Any thoughts? I'm willing to try several things like counting calories (which i never did before so i have no idea where to start). [ Well, I /thought/ at starting by writing down the very first thing I put in my mouth after waking up in the morning, and determining the number of calories in it. But that seems too obvious to be right! ] |
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doing cardio but can't loose weight
On 24 apr, 00:19, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On Apr 23, 6:05 am, wrote: Hi, [... can you interpret my posting and point out the obvious? ] Hahaha :-), i had a really good time reading your reply. Thanks! So counting my 'intake' as you call it, will be the solution to my problem? Cool! I'll start today... Another question, let's presume(!) that my intake is still higher than what i burn.... I never have a feeling of having stuffed myself, feeling absolutely 'full' or that i have eaten so much. So.... if i should lower my intake then, won't i walk around all day feeling (a bit) hungry?... -Kris |
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