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What am I doing wrong?

susan4488 Posts: 1 Joined: 2004/02/01	2004/03/17, 12:10 PM Iam at 135 pds. and would like to lose 15-20 pds. and for the past month everyday I have been going to the gym and doing 30 min on the eliptical machine, 20 min on the stepper machine, 200 crunches in different variations and for a cool down 10 min on the tread. After that I come home and do a 40 min workout tape and 5 days a week I do an extra 200 crunches on top of the ones done already. All this for a month while not eating a bad diet (trying to stay away from carbs and the really fatty foods) I have only lost 4 pds.!!!!! What can I do to help lose more weight.......
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2004/03/17, 01:07 PM add so serious weight training to it cut back a little on the cardio and what is a good diet for you?:big_smile: -------------- LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
Hellscream Posts: 272 Joined: 2004/02/25	2004/03/17, 04:52 PM 4pds cant be too bad, better than no progress at all. BTW I think watching the calories and having 250-500 caloric deficit a day should help some. Cardio on an empty stomach has been shown to produce fast results when it comes to loosing weight though it comes with a threat of loosing muscle. Im no expert on loosing fat though, just some stuff I picked up from surfing these boards.
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2004/03/18, 10:36 AM You are way overdoing it, check your resting heart rate, is it high? You are doing a lot of cardio, almost an obssessive amount. Weight training will help, but only if you cut back on your excessive amounts of cardio. Look through the forums here - the hardest thing to accept about weight loss is that more is not always better. if you overtrain (you are doing close to 2 hours cardio a day), you will fatigue your heart and throw your body into a survival mode where it will hang on to fat becasue it percieves you expending way too many calories. You don't have your profile filled out. You say you eat a good diet, give us a day's example to see what you are eating. most people think they are eating right, yet they either eat too little or not enough of the right macronutrients. Give us more info and take some time to educate yourself by looking through the forums here. -------------- "To be able to go to the gym and train hard is a joy and a privelege, even though the hard work necessitates driving yourself through considerable discomfort. Savor this privelege and blessing, and revel in it." Stuart McRobert, Beyond Brawn