weight gain from adding weights?
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weight gain from adding weights?
I have been working out on the elliptical since two weeks ago from Monday and I lost 10 pounds. I have been using the elliptical everyday for 30-45 minutes (3-3.5 miles). I started adding about 15 minutes of weight training starting this Monday and I gained 2 pounds back then, 1 more yesterday and stayed the same today so I am getting frustrated…could adding weights cause me to gain those 3 pounds back? I have totally cut pop for the past two weeks and I am adding protein and really watching what I eat. I was so looking forward to cutting more pounds this week and now I am feeling like giving up because today I worked out extra hard (4 miles) and I am still not losing anymore.Thanks!
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fitoverforty
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Re: weight gain from adding weights?
Hello, welcome to Shapefit!
As far as losing 10 lbs in 2 weeks...alot of that was probably water weight, & cutting out the sodas. The elliptical is a great way to begin exercising. It is easy on the joints and will help build strength, but it will not magically cause you to lose 10lbs in 2 weeks. That may be why you are seeing your body even out now, actually gain a pound or two back. I don't think lifting weights for the amount of time you have been will add enough muscle to gain weight. Weight constantly fluctuates. A better way to keep up with your weight loss is to take your measurements each week and record it. The bust, waist and hips is a good standard to go by.
Please don't get discouraged at this point. You have much to be proud of!
It is hard to change your lifestyle and eating habits and you are taking very positive steps to a healthier lifestyle. This site has so many great ways to help you. Use the diet tracker and exercise tracker. Keep a journal of what you eat everyday, when you eat. There are many exercises demonstrated here with videos to show how to do them.
If you post what you eat here, I know there are many (very qualified) folks here who can help you tweak your diet and give you some advice on food choices.
Keep up the effort! Stay positive! I wish you all the best in achieving your weight loss goals.
As far as losing 10 lbs in 2 weeks...alot of that was probably water weight, & cutting out the sodas. The elliptical is a great way to begin exercising. It is easy on the joints and will help build strength, but it will not magically cause you to lose 10lbs in 2 weeks. That may be why you are seeing your body even out now, actually gain a pound or two back. I don't think lifting weights for the amount of time you have been will add enough muscle to gain weight. Weight constantly fluctuates. A better way to keep up with your weight loss is to take your measurements each week and record it. The bust, waist and hips is a good standard to go by.
Please don't get discouraged at this point. You have much to be proud of!
It is hard to change your lifestyle and eating habits and you are taking very positive steps to a healthier lifestyle. This site has so many great ways to help you. Use the diet tracker and exercise tracker. Keep a journal of what you eat everyday, when you eat. There are many exercises demonstrated here with videos to show how to do them. If you post what you eat here, I know there are many (very qualified) folks here who can help you tweak your diet and give you some advice on food choices.
Keep up the effort! Stay positive!
I wish you all the best in achieving your weight loss goals.
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10 pounds in 2 weeks? Wow that’s fast! – make sure you don’t lose too fast!
You can end up with loose skin. 1-2 pounds per week is pretty normal.
Make sure you intake enough food… under eating can affect you in the long run.
You should increase more on your weight workout and decrease your cardio.
It might be a possibility that you could have gained some muscles… so your weight might have gone up a bit.
Try using a measuring tape! If the scale is not going down but inches from all over your body part is coming off... then it’s a good thing!
You can end up with loose skin. 1-2 pounds per week is pretty normal.
Make sure you intake enough food… under eating can affect you in the long run.
You should increase more on your weight workout and decrease your cardio.
It might be a possibility that you could have gained some muscles… so your weight might have gone up a bit.
Try using a measuring tape! If the scale is not going down but inches from all over your body part is coming off... then it’s a good thing!
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Thanks for the welcome and advice. You might be right about the 10 pounds being from no longer drinking pop. I was a moderate pop drinker.
I guess I forgot to mention that I have been taking a weight loss supplement BurnX…it really helps speed up heart rate for workouts. I forgot to take it one day and noticed a huge difference. I am 36, and so the machine puts high intensity heart rate of like 148 and that seems to be low because I can get it up to around 174-175 bpm. I have also been trying interval training…every other song…getting heart rate down low..to about 145-150 then speeding up and working out to the next song at about 165-175bmp. I read somewhere that you burn more calories by up and down heart rate because your body cannot get used to it and works harder..(don’t know how true that is).
I will try the measuring tape because the pounds could get me discouraged since I am not seeing them drop off like the first two weeks. And maybe I will try to increase eating, as I dropped it down a lot. I am going to try the diet tool that is here on this website. I might try increasing the weights, but I am afraid of bulking up and gaining instead of losing. I know what they say that muscle weighs more than fat, but I see this success stories here where people have dropped like 30-40 pounds in 4-5 months so somehow they know the secret to the weight loss success and maybe I can read them here and it will help me to know how to go about losing that amount of weight. Again, thanks for your responses and I look forward to using this site!
I guess I forgot to mention that I have been taking a weight loss supplement BurnX…it really helps speed up heart rate for workouts. I forgot to take it one day and noticed a huge difference. I am 36, and so the machine puts high intensity heart rate of like 148 and that seems to be low because I can get it up to around 174-175 bpm. I have also been trying interval training…every other song…getting heart rate down low..to about 145-150 then speeding up and working out to the next song at about 165-175bmp. I read somewhere that you burn more calories by up and down heart rate because your body cannot get used to it and works harder..(don’t know how true that is).
I will try the measuring tape because the pounds could get me discouraged since I am not seeing them drop off like the first two weeks. And maybe I will try to increase eating, as I dropped it down a lot. I am going to try the diet tool that is here on this website. I might try increasing the weights, but I am afraid of bulking up and gaining instead of losing. I know what they say that muscle weighs more than fat, but I see this success stories here where people have dropped like 30-40 pounds in 4-5 months so somehow they know the secret to the weight loss success and maybe I can read them here and it will help me to know how to go about losing that amount of weight. Again, thanks for your responses and I look forward to using this site!
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I don’t recommend “fat burner” type of crap! Try looking at the back for the ingredients (shit load of caffeine) that’s why your heart rate is speeding up with all those in it.
I personally wouldn’t use it or depend on it. (speaking from experience)
Interval training is GREAT! Yes... heart rate goes fast & then slows down then fast again… burns hella calories in a short period of time too!
I do 1 min fast/ 1min slow… now…but when I first started it was I did 2mins slow and 1 mins fast.
Maybe if you post what you eat and when you eat… people in here can help you improve it? Diet is a major role in weight loss… but that doesn’t mean… starving yourself but eating the right food and the right amount will help you reach your goals.
I personally wouldn’t use it or depend on it. (speaking from experience)
Interval training is GREAT! Yes... heart rate goes fast & then slows down then fast again… burns hella calories in a short period of time too!
I do 1 min fast/ 1min slow… now…but when I first started it was I did 2mins slow and 1 mins fast.
Maybe if you post what you eat and when you eat… people in here can help you improve it? Diet is a major role in weight loss… but that doesn’t mean… starving yourself but eating the right food and the right amount will help you reach your goals.
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fitoverforty
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Re: weight gain from adding weights?
I agree with Nokie. I have tried all those fat loss pills in the past too...and have learned that it is much healthier and longer lasting to speed up your metabolism by eating properly and exercising. That's why we say eat more. Eating 6 small meals a day. Breakfast....snack.....lunch.....snack.....dinner....snack. The snacks being healthy things like almonds, yogurt, cheese sticks, veggies. Eat more proteins, healthy carbs. It keeps your body's metabolism burning all day. I know it is a hard concept to accept, especially when we have been programmed to think eating less = weight loss, eating more = weight gain. But it really does work, and you don't feel tired, or run down all the time and are less prone to sickness. Energy levels go through the roof!! Without pills!!!
The speeding up and slowing down intervals you are doing are great! you may want to read about "HIIT training" It is the BEST way to burn up calories alternating with weight lifting.
Don't be afraid to ask questions. EVeryone here is very helpful and supportive.
The speeding up and slowing down intervals you are doing are great! you may want to read about "HIIT training" It is the BEST way to burn up calories alternating with weight lifting.
Don't be afraid to ask questions. EVeryone here is very helpful and supportive.
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Ditto on the Fat Burners, or any kind of Metabolic Enhancers.
You'd be advised to get off them, before you get dissapointed by potential weight rebound, poor results, or worse still, end up at some point on Thyroid Meds, when normal aging of your Thyroid, plus unwarrented tampering of it's regulation in earlier years, force it to disintergrate to a point, where you get a seriously health threatetning situation, that only meds would control. Meds you might end up needing for life.
Don't get hung up to much on target Heart rates, or how your Heart used to pump compared to now. Having a fluctuating heart rate as you say, could induce reduced chances of adaption, increasing potential long-term efficacy of Cardio.
You'd be advised to get off them, before you get dissapointed by potential weight rebound, poor results, or worse still, end up at some point on Thyroid Meds, when normal aging of your Thyroid, plus unwarrented tampering of it's regulation in earlier years, force it to disintergrate to a point, where you get a seriously health threatetning situation, that only meds would control. Meds you might end up needing for life.
Don't get hung up to much on target Heart rates, or how your Heart used to pump compared to now. Having a fluctuating heart rate as you say, could induce reduced chances of adaption, increasing potential long-term efficacy of Cardio.
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fat burners = no
Re: weight gain from adding weights?
Thanks again everyone for be so friendly and giving me some useful suggestions. I am going to stop the fat burner. I think maybe I need to keep working on diet because I have no idea on what I am really doing there except for what I read. I know to reprogram myself into eating the 6 small meals will be difficult. I am going to read up on the HIIT training. I am increasing weights, decreasing cardio to have more of a combination…still hesitant because it’s 4th day with doing this and I have not lost 1 pound all week and I get easily discouraged, but clothes are fitting looser so hopefully that can get me through this hurdle. I work out at Anytime Fitness and I just look so forward to morning workouts…just anxious to see results.
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Re: weight gain from adding weights?
Hey girl!
What does your diet look like? Weight loss is about 75% diet and 25% exercise. You can't outtrain a bad diet. Post an example of a typical day for you so we can help make suggestions there.
As for the weight loss, don't get discouraged. You didn't gain that weight over the course of a couple of weeks and you certainly won't loose it that fast. I can see why you would be discouraged after loosing so much weight in the first 2 weeks... however that rapid weight loss was probably the result of lost water and the shock from cutting soda and beginning an exercise routine. Realistically you really should'nt expect to lose more than 1-2 pounds a week... And keep in mind that your body is 60-some percent water so water and salt intake can play a HUGE roll in what you weigh on the scale. Some mornings I'll be 3 pounds down and then come back the next day and find that those 3 pounds came back... water weight.
Also, know that 1 pound of fat = 3500 calories. Soooo to lose 1 pound of fat means that you have cut that many calories either in the form of exercise or diet... or both (which is best). If you're trying to lose 2 pounds in one week that means that you have to cut 7000 calories in only 7 days! Thats 1000 calories a day! This can be done by cutting 500 calories from you diet and burning 500 in the gym. HOWEVER (and this is a big however) you really want to be careful of cutting that many calories so quickly as you could shut down your metabolism. The best way to lose weight is to GRADUALLY decrease calories over time while maintaing a regular exercise routine. Doing this will help you to slowly loose weight (remember usually the slower you lose the weight the longer you will be able to keep it off) while keeping your metabolism firing.
Soooo show us your diet and lets go from there.
Hope this helps,
Cassie
What does your diet look like? Weight loss is about 75% diet and 25% exercise. You can't outtrain a bad diet. Post an example of a typical day for you so we can help make suggestions there.
As for the weight loss, don't get discouraged. You didn't gain that weight over the course of a couple of weeks and you certainly won't loose it that fast. I can see why you would be discouraged after loosing so much weight in the first 2 weeks... however that rapid weight loss was probably the result of lost water and the shock from cutting soda and beginning an exercise routine. Realistically you really should'nt expect to lose more than 1-2 pounds a week... And keep in mind that your body is 60-some percent water so water and salt intake can play a HUGE roll in what you weigh on the scale. Some mornings I'll be 3 pounds down and then come back the next day and find that those 3 pounds came back... water weight.
Also, know that 1 pound of fat = 3500 calories. Soooo to lose 1 pound of fat means that you have cut that many calories either in the form of exercise or diet... or both (which is best). If you're trying to lose 2 pounds in one week that means that you have to cut 7000 calories in only 7 days! Thats 1000 calories a day! This can be done by cutting 500 calories from you diet and burning 500 in the gym. HOWEVER (and this is a big however) you really want to be careful of cutting that many calories so quickly as you could shut down your metabolism. The best way to lose weight is to GRADUALLY decrease calories over time while maintaing a regular exercise routine. Doing this will help you to slowly loose weight (remember usually the slower you lose the weight the longer you will be able to keep it off) while keeping your metabolism firing.
Soooo show us your diet and lets go from there.
Hope this helps,
Cassie
Re: weight gain from adding weights?
hat does your diet look like? Weight loss is about 75% diet and 25% exercise. You can't outtrain a bad diet. Post an example of a typical day for you so we can help make suggestions there.
Well…this is a typical day.
2 pieces Cinnamon toast with an apple or peach.
Then strawberries for mid morning snack
Lunch is usually chicken breast…could be leftover such as pasta with Yoplait everyday. Or sometimes I have a wrap with chicken/ham lunch meat tomatoes, cheese, ranch, and cilantro.
Afternoon snack – almonds, string cheese or strawberries
Dinner- pasta, roast (maybe 1 time per week), fish, or chicken with cottage cheese
Snack – almonds
I drink green tea all day, with water in the mornings and evenings.
As for the weight loss, don't get discouraged. You didn't gain that weight over the course of a couple of weeks and you certainly won't loose it that fast. I can see why you would be discouraged after loosing so much weight in the first 2 weeks... however that rapid weight loss was probably the result of lost water and the shock from cutting soda and beginning an exercise routine. Realistically you really should'nt expect to lose more than 1-2 pounds a week... And keep in mind that your body is 60-some percent water so water and salt intake can play a HUGE roll in what you weigh on the scale. Some mornings I'll be 3 pounds down and then come back the next day and find that those 3 pounds came back... water weight.
Thanks for the encouragement. I lost 1 (what I believe to be a solid pound this week). I call it solid when it stay there for 2 days or longer because I tend to fluctuate. And clothes are really becoming more comfortable and some loose(guess that is a good sign)
I have been keeping track of calories from the calorie tracker here, which is awesome and I think I am a bit low on some days.
I have changed from all elliptical workouts, with some weights…to now adding in biking and the treadmill. I have been doing HIIT on the treadmill, like jog 1 minute, slow down 1 minute and it has been quite a workout and I think it is slowly working…not in pounds but as far as clothes are fitting better. Thanks again!! I love this site and all the great advice I am getting. It is really helping me to not give up. I have tried this before and given up but this time…I started on Aug 10 and have been working out and mostly soda free since then. I do have 1-2 on weekends…but now when I go to drink it..it’s like I really can’t wait to drink it but after 4-5 drinks then it just doesn’t taste good and I end up throwing it away. Also energy levels are up…I mean they are a bit down, when I wake up at 4 am to workout (lol) but I feel great all day after working out.
Well…this is a typical day.
2 pieces Cinnamon toast with an apple or peach.
Then strawberries for mid morning snack
Lunch is usually chicken breast…could be leftover such as pasta with Yoplait everyday. Or sometimes I have a wrap with chicken/ham lunch meat tomatoes, cheese, ranch, and cilantro.
Afternoon snack – almonds, string cheese or strawberries
Dinner- pasta, roast (maybe 1 time per week), fish, or chicken with cottage cheese
Snack – almonds
I drink green tea all day, with water in the mornings and evenings.
As for the weight loss, don't get discouraged. You didn't gain that weight over the course of a couple of weeks and you certainly won't loose it that fast. I can see why you would be discouraged after loosing so much weight in the first 2 weeks... however that rapid weight loss was probably the result of lost water and the shock from cutting soda and beginning an exercise routine. Realistically you really should'nt expect to lose more than 1-2 pounds a week... And keep in mind that your body is 60-some percent water so water and salt intake can play a HUGE roll in what you weigh on the scale. Some mornings I'll be 3 pounds down and then come back the next day and find that those 3 pounds came back... water weight.
Thanks for the encouragement. I lost 1 (what I believe to be a solid pound this week). I call it solid when it stay there for 2 days or longer because I tend to fluctuate. And clothes are really becoming more comfortable and some loose(guess that is a good sign)
I have been keeping track of calories from the calorie tracker here, which is awesome and I think I am a bit low on some days.
I have changed from all elliptical workouts, with some weights…to now adding in biking and the treadmill. I have been doing HIIT on the treadmill, like jog 1 minute, slow down 1 minute and it has been quite a workout and I think it is slowly working…not in pounds but as far as clothes are fitting better. Thanks again!! I love this site and all the great advice I am getting. It is really helping me to not give up. I have tried this before and given up but this time…I started on Aug 10 and have been working out and mostly soda free since then. I do have 1-2 on weekends…but now when I go to drink it..it’s like I really can’t wait to drink it but after 4-5 drinks then it just doesn’t taste good and I end up throwing it away. Also energy levels are up…I mean they are a bit down, when I wake up at 4 am to workout (lol) but I feel great all day after working out.
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Re: weight gain from adding weights?
For your diet... What about something like this?
Meal 1: 2 pieces whole grain toast, 1 piece fruit, 4 eggwhites and 1 whole egg (you need some protein with this meal)
Meal 2: strawberries, 1/2 cup ff cottage cheese, serving of nuts
Meal 3: chicken breast, yoplait, veggies OR whole wheat pasta (make sure youre not going overboard on this), chicken, veggies, OR whole grain wrap with lunch meat and veggies. If you have yogurt, I would make that the carb source for the meal. I wouldn't have both yogurt and pasta or yogurt and a wrap... And to be honest, yogurt has quite a bit of sugar in it so you might be best taking that out all together.
Meal 4: almonds, low fat string cheese, veggies
Meal 5: I would hold off on the pasta for this meal as you really don't want to have too many carbs at night. Roast, fish, chicken, and ff cottage cheese are all good choices here. Eggwhites also work. Add veggies to this meal.
Meal 6: almonds, veggies, protein
I love green tea!
I'm glad you've been able to cut back on the soda. That stuff is soooo bad.
I hope this helps.
Cassie
Meal 1: 2 pieces whole grain toast, 1 piece fruit, 4 eggwhites and 1 whole egg (you need some protein with this meal)
Meal 2: strawberries, 1/2 cup ff cottage cheese, serving of nuts
Meal 3: chicken breast, yoplait, veggies OR whole wheat pasta (make sure youre not going overboard on this), chicken, veggies, OR whole grain wrap with lunch meat and veggies. If you have yogurt, I would make that the carb source for the meal. I wouldn't have both yogurt and pasta or yogurt and a wrap... And to be honest, yogurt has quite a bit of sugar in it so you might be best taking that out all together.
Meal 4: almonds, low fat string cheese, veggies
Meal 5: I would hold off on the pasta for this meal as you really don't want to have too many carbs at night. Roast, fish, chicken, and ff cottage cheese are all good choices here. Eggwhites also work. Add veggies to this meal.
Meal 6: almonds, veggies, protein
I love green tea!
I'm glad you've been able to cut back on the soda. That stuff is soooo bad.
I hope this helps.
Cassie
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Thanks...I will try to add more protein..and lighter on the pasta. I really appreciate your help