Working HARD for 7 weeks with no weight loss...

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seabeeswife

Cathlete
What am I doing wrong here. My diet is clean (atleast I think so) and I am excercising 5-6 days a week for atleast 60 minutes each. I have even switched from all Cathe to SS and even running to help break a plateu. But I am still stuck at 135. This time last year I was at 125 and my clothes were fitting much better. DH returns from deployment in about 6 months and I would love to lean myself out. I know I am not overweight at all for my height 5*7 but I felt so much better at 125. Any suggestions on what may be holding me back?

Here is a quick example of my daily food intake..in case I am eating more calories then I think I am.

Breakfast-
1/2 c plain oatmeal (140) with either 2 tbs of ground flax (110) or 1/2 c All Bran extra fiber (50)
Apple (80)

Snack-
1/2 cup Hi-Lo cereal (90)

Lunch-
Wendys mandarin chicken salad..w/out dressing, noodles or almonds (200)
apple (80)
grapes (60)

Snack-
1/2 cup Hi-Lo (90)
1/2 cup ALL BRAN (50)

Dinner-
1/2 chicken breast (100)
1 cup veggies (60)
1/4 c low fat cottage cheese (40)
apple (80)

Snack-
oatmeal with a peice of fruit

Okay..where am I going wrong? Too much..not enough?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated:) THANK YOU:)
 
At first glance I would say your aren't eating enough, and maybe more protein in your diet would help if you are weight training and I am pretty sure that you are.

I am no expert but I did have success with increasing my calories after I switched to Cathe and it worked.

Try upping your calories for a week or so and see where that gets you and add more protein in too.

Hope that helps you some.:7 :D

Oohh after seeing the other post, zig zagging is a great thing to do, did that too and it worked. High calories one day, moderate the next, low the next, really high the next then moderate again and so forth. Check out the link .
 
I'm not a nutritionist, but three things stick out to me...

Calories on the low side
Not enough protein
Not enough calcium (are you having low fat milk with your breakfast and 2 snacks?)

You might also want to up your cardio - perhaps adding some HIIT sessions.

JMTC
 
Thank you for all of your responses:) The links were very informative!!

Protein..each serving of Hi-Lo has 12 grams in it. How much should I be taking in? This is where I get confused:)

Calcium..I do take Viactiv twice a day. Is this enough or should I be supplementing more? Alot of my veggies intake is broccoli..doesn't this have calcium in it?
I know I should be getting more..will work on that
:)

I am going to give the zig zag thing a try..I've got nothing to lose but these 10 pounds:)

BIG THANKS AGAIN :)
 
>Protein..each serving of Hi-Lo has 12 grams in it. How much
>should I be taking in? This is where I get confused:)

If you're building muscle, the general rule is to eat a gram of protein per pound of body weight a day.

After much experimentation, I found that eating .8 grams of protein per pound of my body weight works just as well. I hope you find an amount that works for you.

Here's an old thread that may help you:
http://69.0.137.118/dc/dcboard.php?...ic_id=73865&mesg_id=73865&listing_type=search

Pinky
 
Hi Seebees! I see that your eating too much cereal. I would substitute a sweet potato + a protein of your choice for your snack. Also Wendys has to be eliminated; no good for you. Instead I would suggest you eat brown rice/veggies/protein at this meal. Another snack idea could be handful of nuts or cheese + your fruit. You can either eat a large mixed veggie salad w/protein for your lunch or save the salad for your dinner. What I've found worked for me was eating most of my big meals at the beginning of the day & as the day wore on lessened my consumption of heavy foods hence the salad at dinner. Just a suggestion, take it or leave it! Kathy:D
 
I just want to applaud you for taking such a close and tough look at what you are eating. So many people don't want to hear that diet might be what needs to be tweaked..."just tell me what videos to do", etc....and I have come to believe what people are eating is HUGE in terms of how it will show on their body. Go for it!

Jen
 
Thank you again..I am taking to heart all of your advice:)
I thought I was making a wise chose with my Hi-Lo. I know I am eating it twice a day..but it us just so convenient here at work.
Where can I get some good protein from? I am not a big meat eater..though I do eat chicken. I like and eat cottage cheese..would this be a better snack for me. I just want something that will keep me feeling satisfied and not hungry throughout the day. I thought I was doing okay with my mandarin chicken salad. I don't use any of the dressing or extras they give you. I could just get into the habit of bringing my own salad to work.

Thank you Ladies..I really do appreciate all of your advice:)
 
Cottage cheese is another good choice. I would prepare a vegetarian chili; beans are loaded w/fiber & protein another good choice & you can prepare cornbread to go w/the chili. Yogurt also is another good choice as long as it doesn't have any high fructose corn syrup in it. You can add to the yogurt some low sugar granola to jazz it up. HTH, Kathy:D
 
Protein sources:

Cottage cheese
eggs (I eat hardboiled eggs a lot at work. 1 whole egg, 3 egg whites)
lf string cheese or any lf cheese
chicken
pork tenderloin
extra lean turkey
extra lean red meat
You can even do turkey jerky but check the sodium and carb counts
canned chicken
tuna pouches
soy nuts (check fat content)

Colleen
 
I agree that your diet looks low on protein. I'm also looking at ways of increasing protein (with normal foods not protein drinks). I have found a high protein breakfast that I really like (below). I think this is better for me than the bowl of cereal that I used to eat. (I usually still have a bowl of cereal for a snack at some point in the day.)

My high protein breakfast:
Tuna + lots of tomato puree + tobasco sauce, heated in the micowave. Pile onto one piece of granary toast with a little butter.
 
Seabeeswife, do you consistently eat 900 calories per day? You need to double that! I know it can be difficult to phathom how eating more can make you weigh less but a dieter should never consume less than 1200 per day and I find that less than 1600 leaves me hungry and grouchy as heck. Your BMR, the # of calories your body requires to do it's stuff without regard to your busy life or exercise plan, should be somewhere around 1300 at your height and weight and the more you do, the more you burn and the more you burn the more you NEED to consume to maintain a healthy metabolism. When you consmume too few calories, your body turns down the rate at which it consumes them and holds onto fat stores. Besides feeling tired and cranky, you plateau. I eat 60% of my calories from carbs, 30 fat and 10 protein. I consume twice as many calories as you do, am the same height and 20 pounds lighter. Eat!

Check out these websites to help you get an idea of what you should cosume and to track your intake: http://www.dietitian.com/ibw/ibw.html
http://www.fitday.com/

Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver
 
Seabeeswife, do you consistently eat 900 calories per day? You need to double that! I know it can be difficult to phathom how eating more can make you weigh less but a dieter should never consume less than 1200 per day and I find that less than 1600 leaves me hungry and grouchy as heck. Your BMR, the # of calories your body requires to do it's stuff without regard to your busy life or exercise plan, should be somewhere around 1300 at your height and weight and the more you do, the more you burn and the more you burn the more you NEED to consume to maintain a healthy metabolism. When you consmume too few calories, your body turns down the rate at which it consumes them and holds onto fat stores. Besides feeling tired and cranky, you plateau. I eat 60% of my calories from carbs, 30 fat and 10 protein. I consume twice as many calories as you do, am the same height and 20 pounds lighter. Eat!

Check out these websites to help you get an idea of what you should cosume and to track your intake: http://www.dietitian.com/ibw/ibw.html
http://www.fitday.com/

Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver
 
I didn't think I was getting 900 cals a day..really I thought I was more around 1500-1600.
I have learned that I need to eat more..to burn more..working on upping my protein intake:)

I went back at double checked my food journals...I am getting more than 900 cals a day..I never go below 1400:D
 
I didn't think I was getting 900 cals a day..really I thought I was more around 1500-1600.
I have learned that I need to eat more..to burn more..working on upping my protein intake:)

I went back at double checked my food journals...I am getting more than 900 cals a day..I never go below 1400:D
 
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