Increased exercise + constant healthy diet= INCREASED WEIGHT
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Increased exercise + constant healthy diet= INCREASED WEIGHT
Hi all, I'm new here but I signed up because I need help. (Well more of an explanation). I am a 31 (almost 32 birthday is Sat.) year old woman. I am not petite and by not means over weight. I have always had an athletic build. Rather toned arms and stomach although neither are as defined as I'd like them. Hence, as I approached 32 birthday I decided to (on e again) get back down to "Super Sexy" size. (Size 8 @ 182 lbs YES someone can weight that much and be in shape *smile*). So last month I started "going hard" in workouts. 6 days a week I did a 3 mile jog, abs every other day, and boot camp once a week. I have a very healthy diet naturally so I just made sure took it portion size and be sure to eat every 2-2.5 hours. I was pleased when I lost 11lbs in the month. THIS month I increased workout to 4 miles, added squats with 5 lbs weights, abs & a 7 min full body. Horror of all horrors: the weight loss slowed down and actually started to INCREASE! (YIKES!). When I asked trainer about it he said I need to work harder but that's crazy bc I'm already working so hard. I also know it isn't diet and I do not buy into the whole "your body fluctuates on weight loss mentality". That being said, can someone ANYONE explain to me what is happening and what I need to do to make this stop? I'm open to any/all advice. I'm SO close I do not want to lose ground and I do not know what's happen() (ing) to cause this horrible reversal in progress. HELP ME PLEASE..... Desperate for answers.
Re: Increased exercise + constant healthy diet= INCREASED WEIGHT
1lb of added muscle burns an extra 45-50 calories per day, so you may have been doing too much cardio burning muscle and causing some weight gain.
You may also have caused a slight issue, because you may have increased your activity levels, but not compensated for that activity with added calories, so you might not be doing enough now to fuel the extra activity properly, if your activity levels relative to caloric intake were desirable before and then have become less than desirable.
Another reason for some of your weight loss could have been water weight. Too much salt in the diet can be responsible for things like hypertension, excess water weight and edema, (excess fluid in the legs).
So you will have experienced a slow down in weight loss, if your actual fat mass was around 2-3lbs a week, because when you're not losing as much or no more water weight, then what should hopefully occur thereafter is a loss of fat mass, but then that would account for why the weekly numbers tail off in many people.
I'm assuming it's not your T.O.M and I'm assuming you haven't recently taken any medication, which might have caused weight gain as a side affect, so I would rule both of those out unless you said otherwise.
So it may be down to things like muscle burn and calorie intake relative to exercise levels, as two possible factors.
You may also have caused a slight issue, because you may have increased your activity levels, but not compensated for that activity with added calories, so you might not be doing enough now to fuel the extra activity properly, if your activity levels relative to caloric intake were desirable before and then have become less than desirable.
Another reason for some of your weight loss could have been water weight. Too much salt in the diet can be responsible for things like hypertension, excess water weight and edema, (excess fluid in the legs).
So you will have experienced a slow down in weight loss, if your actual fat mass was around 2-3lbs a week, because when you're not losing as much or no more water weight, then what should hopefully occur thereafter is a loss of fat mass, but then that would account for why the weekly numbers tail off in many people.
I'm assuming it's not your T.O.M and I'm assuming you haven't recently taken any medication, which might have caused weight gain as a side affect, so I would rule both of those out unless you said otherwise.
So it may be down to things like muscle burn and calorie intake relative to exercise levels, as two possible factors.
Re: Increased exercise + constant healthy diet= INCREASED WEIGHT
You could be gaining muscle 