After two years of one tragic event following another, I realized that I had gained an incredible amount of stress-related weight. This past July I decided it was time to get myself back in line and introduce a new, healthier lifestyle for myself.
Being almost 100 pounds overweight, I started a strict diet of 1200-1300 calories per day (high in protein, vegetables, fiber, calcium) and began walking 1.5 miles per day. As I have dropped pounds, I have kept my caloric intake the same, but doubled my walk and added a 30-minute Taebo workout daily.
Since July 22 (just under three months) I have dropped 46 pounds; however, I have dropped a mere 1.6 pounds this past three weeks.
I am feeling very discouraged and want to get back on track. Does anyone have any SERIOUS advice or suggestions? I want to do this the healthy way and have really embraced my new eating/exercise routine. I have more energy than I’ve had in years and want to keep going!!
If anyone has anything rude to say about my weight, please refrain from responding. It’s hard enough to live as an overweight woman, without ridicule for trying to correct it.
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Your caloric intake is fine and you dont need to adjust it.
What you need to do is vary your exercise regime, as your body gets used to certain exercises and they become less efficient.
Try cycling or rowing on a machine instead of running- it will work different muscles.
If you try to keep a varied work-out, your body wont have time to adjust and you will get the most out of it.
Good luck and good on you for looking after your health
I don’t think you HAVE to adjust your diet or your workout to lose the weight. a 30 minute taebo workout daily is pretty darn good. What happened is your body lost quite a bit of weight in a short period of time. I lost 45 in 5 months back in 2003. Your body is adjusting to the loss right now. Keep on track, keep doing what you are doing and before long you will be seeing the scale move again. When I hit a plateu I examined my diet, and my excercise, and if I can honestly say I am on track, I stayed the course..and the weight started falling off again… be patient. Resist the urge to lower your calories, as it will stall your loss in the long run
Try high intensity interval training it is short bursts of energy followed by a cool down pace. For example: On the elliptical warm up for 5 minutes then go as fast as you can for 1 minute then come down to a moderate pace for 2 minutes and repeat this cycle till 15 minutes are up. Also nutrition is very important even though it sounds counter productive you might need to eat more since your body has become efficient at burning the 1200-1300calories you currently consume for energy. Your body adapts like everything else. When you first started cardio it was probably hard to do but you got better as time progressed. So now because of the additional cardio your body needs more fuel to use as energy. I suggest you increase your portions not by alot but just a bump or soon you will lose muscle to compensate for the lack of calories. I hope this helps.