CAN'T Lose Weight!!

First off, DO NOT SKIP BREAKFAST!!!  They did research (read in magazines) where they had so many people skip breakfast and so many eat it....then they switched places after two weeks.  It was found that the ones who ATE breakfast actually consumed less food throughout the day.  I eat about 4 times a day (that includes my protein shake)  If you want to lose weight your going to have to eat the right stuff, get motivated, and have lots of SELF dicaplin!!

I am 5'5 ... and 127lbs. ---19.87 body fat%

Anyways,...this is my diet and work out routine.

Breakfast:
1/4 cup of oatmeal with splenda (no REAL sugar)
3 boiled egg whites.

3 hrs later...
Lunch:
a salad which consists of spinach leaves, 5-6 oz chicken and plain vinegar as my dressing.

Afterwards I work out....

Then I come home and have a protein shake.

Wait 2 hrs
Dinner:
Grilled chicken or salmon with a 1/2 cup of brown rice.

Basically, I don't eat any fruits really.... I just have complex carbs like the oatmeal and rice. It's definetly hard to stick to! If you have a sweet craving, I like to make jello. (sugar free of course!!)

Thats all....

For my work out....

Monday: 30-35 mins of cardio...immediately followed by an ab workout
Tuesday: 30-35 mins of cardio...immediately followed by weights for my arms (tri, bi some shoulders)
Wednesday: 30-35 mins of cardio...immediately followed by weights for my legs
Thursday: 30-35 mins of cardio...immediately followed by weights for chest and back

Friday: 30-35 mins of cardio...immediately followed with a booty workout (hahaha) Yes...I really do have a day just for my butt! This still includes legs though.
Saturday: Rest day
Sunday: 12 times around the track in the hot sun (boo) Plus, up and down the bleachers

I also try and throw in a little abs daily.

Hope this helps you a little....I doubt my workout is perfect... I'm just trying to give you an idea of what I do.  You don't have to follow this...my diet is VERY strict becuase I'm trying to lower my body fat % and want to be very very toned.  But if you did do this diet and work out...I guarentee you will lose weight. 

Two more things...remember....

1.  MIND OVER MATTER! --your brain gives out before your muscles.

2.  Food is to keep you alive....its ok to treat yourself every once in awhile.... but remember treating your body good is better than treating your TUMMY!

I find great motivation at http://www.worldfitness.com They have all kinds of forums.  http://www.fitness.com/forum/

Sorry to ramble....I'm as much into fitness as I am hair hehehe

Edited by AmberJune

moonlessbraclet wrote: Ok Im not an expert but in the past year and a half I have lost 89 pounds. Due to the fact that when I saw a pic of myself I realized how over wieght I was. I did it the right way , natrually. Please dont starve yourself ! Eating right is a start but you have to menatlly prepare yourself that this isnt an overnight results thing. It takes time and lots of hard work. You may need to change up your workouts , eat more thats for sure. Lots of fresh fruits and veggies. Cut out the sugar if you can. Or at least cut back. Above all you want to be healthy !

You couldn't have given better advice for your first posting, no flim flam just healthy words to live by! 

Ok Im not an expert but in the past year and a half I have lost 89 pounds. Due to the fact that when I saw a pic of myself I realized how over wieght I was. I did it the right way , natrually. Please dont starve yourself ! Eating right is a start but you have to menatlly prepare yourself that this isnt an overnight results thing. It takes time and lots of hard work. You may need to change up your workouts , eat more thats for sure. Lots of fresh fruits and veggies. Cut out the sugar if you can. Or at least cut back. Above all you want to be healthy !

I agree with the once a week cheat thing.  Anyone could go mad NEVER splurging.  I usually have my cheat day on Sunday.  Go to a big breakfast and everything.  I've hear it should be 80-20.  Eat good 80 percent of the time and you should be okay weight wise.

Thats incredibly unhealthy...

I'm 5'10" and about 135...I've been the same weight since I was 15, I'm 28 now...here's what i've been doing for a while (obviously there can be some variation, this is a basic day):

Breakfast (7am): 2 scrambled eggs, 2 slices of ezekiel bread - looks like this: http://www.mybloodsugar.net/foodforlife.htm with butter on top - cinnamon rasin is good, low sodium tastes like cardboard

Lunch #1(11am): about 1/4 cup of raw cashews

Lunch #2(2pm): big as I want organic salad with hummus (I LOVE hummus)

Lunch #3(5pm): vegetable.fruit juice - I have a juicer, so I throw in fruit and veggies, whatever I feel like...about 16-24 fl. ozs. love carrot juice/ apple sweetens anything...

Dinner: grilled salmon (about 4 ozs.) with steamed veggies - I like squash, broccoli, and asparagus...

And, once a week, I eat whatever I want for dinner, even pizza is fine...decide on a cheat day, and you'll cheat less the rest of the week...and twice a week, I get a cookie(never buy a bx of cookies, or you'll eat the whole box, only buy one cookie at a time, thats key:))

I also go to the gym twice a week (once a week -an hour- wih a personal trainer guy - he busts my butt if I'm not eating well) and two other days, I walk outside my house for 2-3 miles...

if you eat less than 1000 calories per day your body goes into shock and starts STORING fat.

I always follow a high fiber/low fat diet (I usually eat 5 small meals a day).  I excercise 6 times a week, cardio 3 x's at 45 minutes and a weight training regimen 3x's for an hour or an hour and 15 min.  Building your muscle will up your metabolism and up the amount of calories and fat you burn on a per day basis.  This is what works for me.  Since the first of January I have lost 18 lbs. and went from 26% to 16.9% body fat, and dropped two full sizes. 

 

P.S. The body for life program works wonders, too! go to www.bodyforlife.com 

Could be due to the mysterious 'high triglycerides' that apparently I too suffer from!

I would go BACK to the doctor and talk to him about healthy diets.  Ive also noticed this, if you drink a lot of "diet" drinks, you wont loose as fast as you would if you had drank water or juice.  My friend had a few stubborn pounds hanging on, the calorie intake was right on target but once she cut out the soda crap compleatly and switched to water and joices, the extra pounds practically melted off.

you cant just count calories, you need to pay attention to where they are coming from.  200 calories from healthy foods is way better then 0 calories from junk.

I have to say that I have the same problem. No matter what diet I follow I can't seem to lose the weight. I have tried everything including diet pills. I have come to believe that my problems started when I went on a starvation diet to lose 20 pounds I had gained having my second baby. I lost the 20 in about 8 weeks so I could fit back into my work clothes and go back to work following maternity leave. That was fine but then I gained most of that weight back and I haven't been able to take it off again no matter what I do (and that "baby" is now 13 years old). Some people told me that I ruined my metabolism by losing that weight so fast and with such an unhealthy diet (I ate one small meal a day--lunch-- for 8 weeks). So I don't know. Perhaps I am just destined to be fat and middle aged.