Why am I not losing weight?

[Alienwho]

You are so vague in all of your posts that it's hard to help you.

What is "Plenty of muscle mass"? I find this very hard to believe, especially since you've done cardio only for over a month now, and I bet you've killed just as much muscle tissue as you have fat (Which very well could be zero according to you).

We don't know your height/weight/age.

"I do some muscle toning exercises with my cardio" What is this supposed to mean? Muscle toning exercises are 100% BS. Lift Heavy, and push yourself. Squats are 100 times more effective and will melt your wasteline faster than an hour of cardio and some worthless "muscle toning exercises", whatever those are. Also, if you truly did dedicated Weight Lifting for two years (properly, which I do not believe you did) you would know exactly how to lose weight because you would have had personal experience.

I just don't think you're giving us the whole story, OR you honestly do not see what is going on. If everything you say is true, you are defying the scientific laws that govern mankind and aught to be studied and evaluated as an exceptional human being.

I'm sorry if I am coming off as harsh or a jerk, that is not my intention, but being honest, precise, joining reality, and checking your ego/estats at the door is the first step.

 

[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: Alienwho
You are so vague in all of your posts that it's hard to help you.

What is "Plenty of muscle mass"? I find this very hard to believe, especially since you've done cardio only for over a month now, and I bet you've killed just as much muscle tissue as you have fat (Which very well could be zero according to you).

We don't know your height/weight/age.

"I do some muscle toning exercises with my cardio" What is this supposed to mean? Muscle toning exercises are 100% BS. Lift Heavy, and push yourself. Squats are 100 times more effective and will melt your wasteline faster than an hour of cardio and some worthless "muscle toning exercises", whatever those are. Also, if you truly did dedicated Weight Lifting for two years (properly, which I do not believe you did) you would know exactly how to lose weight because you would have had personal experience.

I just don't think you're giving us the whole story, OR you honestly do not see what is going on. If everything you say is true, you are defying the scientific laws that govern mankind and aught to be studied and evaluated as an exceptional human being.

I'm sorry if I am coming off as harsh or a jerk, that is not my intention, but being honest, precise, joining reality, and checking your ego/estats at the door is the first step.

Whatever. Heavy lifting is silly for losing weight. When I was lifting heavy for two years, this was after losing about 85 pounds (65 pounds in 4 months through swimming). Heavy lifting is for adding muscle mass, not losing fat.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Why are you even asking for help if you are not responding with factual/complete information and arguing people's valid points?

I am going to guess you're 275 since you said you are 125 pounds over your ideal weight. Your body would be consuming over 3000 calories a day. So if in fact you were burning 500 calories a day in exercise and eating only 2000 calories you would have a deficit of 1500 calories per day. While this is probably not good for your metabolism there is no possible way you wouldn't have lost *any* weight in 5 weeks. You would have had a deficit of over 52,000 calories in that time frame and should have lost around 15 pounds.

Heavy lifting in fact will burn more calories and help you lose weight than just straight cardio. Heavy lifting will help you build muscle mass, and muscle mass burns calories at a very high rate. That being said weightloss is 80% about diet and 20% about exercise. You could easily lose weight by not exercising at all if you eat properly, but you wouldn't exactly have a healthy body unless you exercise fairly frequently.

 

[Alienwho]

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: Alienwho
You are so vague in all of your posts that it's hard to help you.

What is "Plenty of muscle mass"? I find this very hard to believe, especially since you've done cardio only for over a month now, and I bet you've killed just as much muscle tissue as you have fat (Which very well could be zero according to you).

We don't know your height/weight/age.

"I do some muscle toning exercises with my cardio" What is this supposed to mean? Muscle toning exercises are 100% BS. Lift Heavy, and push yourself. Squats are 100 times more effective and will melt your wasteline faster than an hour of cardio and some worthless "muscle toning exercises", whatever those are. Also, if you truly did dedicated Weight Lifting for two years (properly, which I do not believe you did) you would know exactly how to lose weight because you would have had personal experience.

I just don't think you're giving us the whole story, OR you honestly do not see what is going on. If everything you say is true, you are defying the scientific laws that govern mankind and aught to be studied and evaluated as an exceptional human being.

I'm sorry if I am coming off as harsh or a jerk, that is not my intention, but being honest, precise, joining reality, and checking your ego/estats at the door is the first step.

Whatever. Heavy lifting is silly for losing weight. When I was lifting heavy for two years, this was after losing about 85 pounds (65 pounds in 4 months through swimming). Heavy lifting is for adding muscle mass, not losing fat.

Says that man who does nothing but cardio and can't lose a pound.

You're still living in the 90's when the runners mentality was the only way of losing weight. Science has progressed and the understanding of the human body has as well. Do we still perform lobotomy's to solve problems with the brain?

Not only do you have absolutely no idea what you are doing, but you are in denial. Enjoy wasting your time and being fat! And in the case by some miracle you do lose weight, enjoy being skinny-fat!

You ask for advice, wondering why what you have been doing doesn't work, then when somebody tells you EXACTLY what you are doing wrong and EXACTLY how to fix it, you think you're the professional. Your absolute laziness and stubbornness defies all logic.

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: Alienwho
You are so vague in all of your posts that it's hard to help you.

What is "Plenty of muscle mass"? I find this very hard to believe, especially since you've done cardio only for over a month now, and I bet you've killed just as much muscle tissue as you have fat (Which very well could be zero according to you).

We don't know your height/weight/age.

"I do some muscle toning exercises with my cardio" What is this supposed to mean? Muscle toning exercises are 100% BS. Lift Heavy, and push yourself. Squats are 100 times more effective and will melt your wasteline faster than an hour of cardio and some worthless "muscle toning exercises", whatever those are. Also, if you truly did dedicated Weight Lifting for two years (properly, which I do not believe you did) you would know exactly how to lose weight because you would have had personal experience.

I just don't think you're giving us the whole story, OR you honestly do not see what is going on. If everything you say is true, you are defying the scientific laws that govern mankind and aught to be studied and evaluated as an exceptional human being.

I'm sorry if I am coming off as harsh or a jerk, that is not my intention, but being honest, precise, joining reality, and checking your ego/estats at the door is the first step.

Whatever. Heavy lifting is silly for losing weight. When I was lifting heavy for two years, this was after losing about 85 pounds (65 pounds in 4 months through swimming). Heavy lifting is for adding muscle mass, not losing fat.

I completely agree with Alienwho - you are not worth helping until you start being honest with us and yourself. You're clearly either flat out lying, exaggerating or wrong and you refuse to give us the info we need to help you out.

* You won't tell us your height/weight/age?
* You say you're under 2000 calories a day, but how are you calculating this? Where is the fitday journal?
* On top of that, you say you're exercising 1-1.5 hours EVERY day? Really? You think your body just uses solar power for energy?
* You talk about vague "conditioning" exercises and don't at all explain what you actually do - how many calories are you actually burning?
* You clearly have 0 understanding of weight training and its effects on the body.
* And then, after showing all this ignorance and odd behavior, you claim to have somehow lost 85 pounds before but can't shed an ounce now?

 

[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
Why are you even asking for help if you are not responding with factual/complete information and arguing people's valid points?

I am going to guess you're 275 since you said you are 125 pounds over your ideal weight. Your body would be consuming over 3000 calories a day. So if in fact you were burning 500 calories a day in exercise and eating only 2000 calories you would have a deficit of 1500 calories per day. While this is probably not good for your metabolism there is no possible way you wouldn't have lost *any* weight in 5 weeks. You would have had a deficit of over 52,000 calories in that time frame and should have lost around 15 pounds.

Heavy lifting in fact will burn more calories and help you lose weight than just straight cardio. Heavy lifting will help you build muscle mass, and muscle mass burns calories at a very high rate. That being said weightloss is 80% about diet and 20% about exercise. You could easily lose weight by not exercising at all if you eat properly, but you wouldn't exactly have a healthy body unless you exercise fairly frequently.

I am 6'2", 25, and weigh 321. I never said I did "fit day", just that I have been measuring. It is conceivable that I was off, and I apologize for any confusion. My exercise today was 3.5 miles on the treadmill @ 3.6 mph (666 calories) and then, as I was a little tired, I did 34 cals on the elliptical (a little over 2.5 minutes) to round it to 700.

I did an incline chest press at 4 sets of 10, pec dec at 4 set of 15, and 4 sets of 10 on the rope tricep pulldown. I didn't measure weight as I was just trying to get a comfortable weight and not strain myself as I am just starting out. I will start back with heavy lifting once I get back in shape and lose at least half my goal weight. I do know I did 100 pounds on the rope pulldown.

Also, I wore a shirt today, that would not cover my belly a few months ago that fit fine today, and my summer shorts were looser than before. So I don't know what is going on.


I did a fit day just for you questioners, and this is my total today:

Plum, raw 36 0 9 1
Nectarine, raw 67 1 16 1
Chicken, breast, with or without bone, roasted, skin not eaten 245 5 0 46
Tuna, canned, water pack 194 1 0 43
Mayonnaise, low-calorie or diet 72 6 5 0
Bread, white 160 2 30 5
Cucumber pickles, dill 9 0 2 0
Spaghetti sauce 36 1 5 1
Spaghetti, dry, enriched 211 1 43 7
Corn, raw 265 4 59 10
Pork, fresh, loin, sirloin (chops), boneless, separable lean only, cooked, braised 298 11 0 46
Boston baked beans 193 6 27 8
Pepper, raw, NFS 20 0 5 1
Totals 1806 40 200 168

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
I am 6'2", 25, and weigh 321.

At that height/weight, your resting metabolic rate is around 3000 calories. You claim to eat a diet of 2000 calories per day. Now you also claim to exercise 1-1.5 hours every single day. Even if you were just walking at ~3 mph for 60 minutes, that burns an additional 400-500 calories. If everything you said was true, you're living at a MINIMUM 1500 calorie deficit. If you had actually done that for 5 weeks, it would be physically impossible for you not to lose weight.

So now you have two options:

1. Get your ass on fitday.com and start tracking every morsel of food that enters your mouth. Start being honest with your exercise numbers and track those on fitday.com as well. Make calories in less than calories out.

2. Stay fat.

 

[ScottyB]

Anyway, thanks for the advice SociallyChallenged. I will see how things go.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Anyway, thanks for the advice SociallyChallenged. I will see how things go.

No problem and I'm sorry to sound harsh in my posts. I just wanted to get the facts out. However, alienwho and brikis make great points. The optimal way to lose weight is to get on a lifting program and do cardio. Look into it or PM any of us, and I'm sure we'd all be willing to help you with that. Also, check out the fat loss thread I've written. It's stickied at the top of these forums. It goes over the general facts of weight loss.

 

[Alienwho]

Despite your complete lack of gratitude and embracing of reality, I offer you a parting gift. Check out what this guy accomplished in 11 months, http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=4343513 . http://bodyspace.bodybuilding....p?section=progresspics .

Don't give up, and work smart first, and hard second. At your weight, with the proper diet and exercise, you should initially be able to melt off 20 pounds without even trying.

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: Alienwho
Despite your complete lack of gratitude and embracing of reality, I offer you a parting gift. Check out what this guy accomplished in 11 months, http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=4343513 . http://bodyspace.bodybuilding....p?section=progresspics .

woah. that dude is some freak of nature - dropping ~170lbs in 11 months and somehow, virtually no loose skin. very very impressive.

 

[gramboh]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
Whatever. Heavy lifting is silly for losing weight. When I was lifting heavy for two years, this was after losing about 85 pounds (65 pounds in 4 months through swimming). Heavy lifting is for adding muscle mass, not losing fat.

/facepalm (stolen from crt)

Seriously though, get on a proper weightlifting program like SS 3x5 or SL 5x5. Your isolation exercises are useless as a beginner. You will melt a TON of fat doing heavy squats/deadlifts. The isolation stuff is just going to frustrate you and waste time, trust me I did it. For cardio, keep at what you are doing, and when you are able switch to intervals (e.g. 9mph 30sec followed by 6mph 60-90sec on treadmill as an example).