Getting Frustrated. Help

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SweetStar067

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Last summer I gained about 30 pounds. I'm 5'5-5'6 and my "good normal weight is about 130. Once I realized what was going on I decided to hit the gym, eat better and lose it. I started spinning and yoga/pilaties classes in October about 4-5 days a week. With the occasional weight training session here and there, but mostly spin. I started to look better to myself so I thought it was working, but then about a month after starting checked my weight to find that it went up.

Keep in mind while doing this I was really watching what I was eating trying to keep it between 1200-1500 cals a day (depending on what I did at the gym)

December rolls around and I finally weigh in less.At the end of the month I lost my job and had even more time to work out, so I started going to the gym 5 days and spinning twice a day for about 45 mins twice a week. Plus 2 or 3 yoga classes during the week with some extra work with the big yoga ball at home and a small weighted one for crunches. And I'm still eating what I thought was pretty good.

So since then I've kept up the same plan with the classes at the gym, but am back up to my orginal weight. And I'm so frustrated and don't know what to do.

I feel terrible about myself at this point and would really like to take some of this weight off before I move to California in May to (finally!) be with the hubby:)

Any help/suggestions/things to try/questions would be great. Thanks again!
 
How are you tracking your calories?
 
No, I mean how are you physically weighing your food portions? Do you use a food scale?
 
I'd tighten up your caloric counting if I were you. At 130 lbs, the room for error is much smaller than the norm of what we talk about here. Small errors in estimating intake here and there throughout the day add up drastically.
 
Ideally you're doing 2-3 days per week of full body weight lifting and 3-5 days of some form of cardio per week.

You can do yoga on top of these things.

But honestly, things aren't heading in the desired direction merely b/c of nutrition right now. At least that's where I would put my money.

Not to mention women your size are lucky to lose 1-3 lbs of fat per month. For some, this can be entirely masked by water weight. From my experience, with the intense focus on the scale most women have, this fact of slow progress which isn't always evident by what the scale says is typically enough to throw them off emotionally to the extent they 'cheat' calorically speaking and hence, they're in a neverending cycle of dieting, slacking, dieting, slacking, etc.
 
Steve said:
Ideally you're doing 2-3 days per week of full body weight lifting and 3-5 days of some form of cardio per week.

You can do yoga on top of these things.

But honestly, things aren't heading in the desired direction merely b/c of nutrition right now. At least that's where I would put my money.

Not to mention women your size are lucky to lose 1-3 lbs of fat per month. For some, this can be entirely masked by water weight. From my experience, with the intense focus on the scale most women have, this fact of slow progress which isn't always evident by what the scale says is typically enough to throw them off emotionally to the extent they 'cheat' calorically speaking and hence, they're in a neverending cycle of dieting, slacking, dieting, slacking, etc.
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I'm in this situation too. It was good to hear again that it is going to be slow. I always expect the weight loss to happen faster than it really does. I need to be ok with going slowly, and get away from the diet/slack cycle.
 
With keeping your calories the same daily and working out the same amount daily I suggest that you pick one day a week one meal a week to eat what ever (higher calories) it should help jump start you to lose some weight. I lost about 80 pounds total and this was a trick I used that helped me a lot.
 
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