Why isn't it working?

alleycat`

Agree with FL. I doubt many people would be able to put on 10lbs of lean Muscle in 6 weeks.

Forget the scale numbers, concentrate on what you look like / measure up as.

cherryblossomzel

fairy_lights wrote: »

After only 6 weeks its unlikely to be muscle, as its very difficult for women to gain significant amounts of muscle particularly if you're eating at a defecit. I'd say it's probably water retention - you've significantly increased your exercise and changed your diet and your body is constantly changing and healing. If you're clothes are getting looser then you know any weight you gain isnt fat anyway.

Agree with this: when you start a new type of exercise your muscles start storing glycogen and every glycogen molecule comes with quite a lot of water. Water is heavy and so people will often notice an increase in scale weight. It'll go away eventually. Focus on other things for the moment: how you feel, how your clothes fit etc.


Well done!

heartbreak_star

Also, you're not eating enough IMO...

HBS x

dawyldthing

I was once told to eat little and often to speed up the metabolism.

Also I don't know what cardio you are doing but I was told to do high intensity intervals. So I do 40 second maxed out on the rowing machine then 20 second a bit slower and do it 10 times.

Cycling I do like an interval thing to make me pedal more rather than constantly cycling at the same rate and I put my hands on the heart rate monitor and it definately goes up.

Running machine I run for a song then generally walk and try and do it again. As I was told the high intensity then slow down burns the fat. I realised its what the dance instructor also does.

Also got told to do the weights then a cardio then repeat the weights. It seems to have helped me a bit but I think it's all swings and roundabouts

Carl31

im classed as obese, yet i have a 34 inch waist and can barely pinch any flab

its an known thing in fitness land, when you put down the doughnuts and pick up the dumbells, the mirror is more use than scales

max99x

If you are doing the same set of excercises every week e.g Monday always do running/cycling etc then try mixing it up, do excercise you haven't done before.

Your body will get used to doing 40 mins of a certain excercise, so altho you may be sweating as much you body will find it easier each time.

spookalili

Thanks for all your responses guys!

Jumped on the scales this morning, had dropped 4lbs. Something has changed! I'll just keep doing what I'm doing

Pollycat

spookalili wrote: »

Thanks for all your responses guys!

Jumped on the scales this morning, had dropped 4lbs. Something has changed! I'll just keep doing what I'm doing

Maybe stop obsessing with the scales and start taking notice of how your clothes are fitting?

MRobert

Every body is different and responds differently on the various group of exercises and forms of exercise. Maybe you should try to change your training program or remove a group of exercises from the current exercise program? Be sure to continue with exercise and proper and balanced diet and the results will surely begin to show. Just be unremitting.

dixon-bainbridge

Firstly, well done on what you have achieved so far! Just a couple of things I noticed:
1) Your calorie intake of 1200 seems low for the amount of exercise you are doing. Make sure you add extra to your diet to fuel for your body.

2) Your schedule is very cardio heavy (which isn't a bad thing of course). Maybe consider upping the strength exercises. This has the dual benefit of burning cals and toning.

3) Try to mix it up a bit so your body does not get used to it. If you run 5k one week try a bit further or a bit faster the next week. If you can do 5 push-ups, aim for 6 your next week out etc.

4) Make sure you get a good nights sleep to enable your body to rest.

You seem like your doing a good job anyway so stick at it. And like others have said don't fret to much about the number on the scales. How your clothes fit and how you feel inside is a much better benchmark.