Weight Loss Questions
Wednesday March 17, 2004
Losing weight can be a frustrating business, if your emails are any indication. The most frequent question I get is--why haven't I lost any weight yet? Clearly, you people have a problem with patience. That's okay, I do too...which is why I wrote this article. If you're frustrated with your progress, Weight Loss Dilemmas will help answer your questions and keep you focused on what's important...your health.
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im not bothered about my weight or my mesurments. its my body shape. mostly my tummy, inner thighs, and my “love handles” im a teen, so i know my body is changing, but im an older teen and i dont have hips, i more have “concave” hips, no matter how loose i buy my pants, from a back view ubove my pants is wider than below them. im also a taller girl. il 5′10 1/2 and i weight 155, once again i dont mind the #, just my shape. im also very athlectic. so i end up eating alot after practice but i burn that off easly. i’ve tried running more, that just made parts of me that are fine to get skinnier (like under my ribcage) and added muscle. What can i do to change my figure, that wont take very long
I’m 17 and six foot tall..I weigh about 157 to 160…I feel overweight. I look healthy but I see my flaws. I have HUGE love handles, wide hips, and my rib cage sticks out so far. I can’t wear certain types of clothes because of my mid section. Im very athletic. I play softball, cheerleading, and basketball. My boyfriend tells me all the time how beautiful I am and how I’m perfect but I feel so ugly. I just wish I was small and petite. A lot of people make fun of me, because they say that my body resembles a man. How can I lose the body fat in my legs and stomach? How can I make my body look more femine?!
I have started to diet and exercize. I know that you need to do both. I am wondering if sitting in a suana or steam room burns calories? If so what is the break down for the time spent in there?
A sauna or steam room is definitely not a great way to lose weight. Any weight you lose is water and will be replaced as soon as you replace fluids.
Hello,
I’ve been doing a cardio aerobic exercise for almost a year now in hopes of trimming my legs. I work out 4 times a week minimum and always focus the attention on my legs. Over the past couple of months I’ve noticed that I’ve had to keep moving up in pant sizes. It frustrated me to push myself harder while working out. I realized finally that my legs were getting bigger because I was building muscle!! I want to trim down my legs, not make them bigger. What can I do to reverse this effect and what is a good exercise for getting smaller legs?? Help!
I’ve been exercising, riding a stationary bike, walking, the Bean, for more than four months. My calorie intake is about 1800-2000 per day. I weigh 200 lbs. I have lost NOTHING , no weight, no inches, nothing. I was about 120 before I became pregnant, but gained 35-40 lbs with two pregnancies, lost it right after each, but gained it back within a year. the only thing that has worked to take off the weight has been a liquid diet. Of course, once I start eating solids I gain it all back. what do I do?
I have been working hard on losing weight, excersing no less then 5 days week on a eliptical machine and or walking 1 hour. I have tried the atkins diet and nutrisystem plan and with both have gain weight, now Im only eating salads and still am gaining weight, can anyone help me understand what in the world Im doing wrong.
I am having issues. I am 5 feet 2 and was 144 pounds. Very athletic and sort of muscular. On May 1st I joined a gym and started working out 4 days a week. I have always worked out at home but I needed something a little different. The gym have these classes called rep Reebok that includes weights with aerobic classes. I have developed muscle that I can see and have lost inches. However I weigh 147 pounds and I cant understand that. I eat very healthy and not much just average. What is up with the weight gain?
Hazel
hi my name is jessica and i am having problems with losing weight.last thursday i weighed myself and i weighed “240″.oh my god.so i started eating right and riding my bike 3 miles a day.well i weighed again and i gained “7″lbs how can that happen.someone please help me.
my names amiee im 17 and im about 5,7 im not fat but i still weigh 9.7stone about 136pounds!!! i work out alot and i swim weekly for a club and i dont really eat but when i do its really healthyily but i still weigh so much. i look at some of my friends who claim they weigh less than me and they seem much bigger than me everyone always says muscle weighs more than fat but surly i shld still weigh less than them, i have a very skinny top half and wear an 8/10 but my bum and legs are bigger iv tried dieting and everything but i jus cant seem to shift the weight it really gets me down
I just started to work out and was wondering why the gym has a sauna??? What is for and how does it benefit someone trying to loose weight???
Im 18 years old, 5″5′ and weigh about 170 lbs. By looking at the weight height ratio chart I am overweight, but I dont feel it.I’m active in sports, lift weights and do a lot of walking. Aside from that I have quite a large bust and wide hips, pretty much an hourglass figure. Am I overwieght? I realize that my figure was kind of an inherited gene, and I’ve tried diets and excercise but all i seem to do is gain more muscle! Its frustrating to me to see very tiny girls who dont work out at all, but at the same time I love my figure compared to having the body of a twelve year old. What should I do?
Hello, I have been working out 4x a week ,walk 3miles 5x a week, But I have only lost 8lbs in 2 months and 1 week, I have lost inches but not many pounds .Why is that I dont understand it.23inches total from my body!
Hi I have a wierd question.
I work out for 1.5 to 2 hours on the elliptical and stair master every other day. I’ve been improving the way I eat by not only lowering the daily calorie intake, but making better choices of what I eat. The thing is, I noticed I have been losing weight in my face. My triple chin has turned into a double chin that you can only see through certain angles (it used to be VERY apparent before), and I’ve lost alot of weight in my neck and shoulders.
HERE’S THE KICKER: Before I used to be very proportional. Very hourglass. I was very top heavy (big breasts and said apparent double chin) and then a slightly tighter waist (35 inches, used to be 38 inches) and hips were slightly slimmer than bust.
I’ve lost alot more weight in my face area, neck and shoulders, but now my waist and sides have thickened several inches. My hips have also gotten slightly larger.
My family has noticed this and said that it’s extremely odd that I lose weight from bust up. But from my bust down my measurements have gone up 1 to 2 inches. I’m guessing that since I do alot of leg exercises and cardio, is my weight possible shifting down? I’ve looked all over the internet and have seen nothing about weight lowering down your body as you burn it. Is this normal or am I doing the wrong exercises?
Hi…I am curious if n e one can answer this for me….i currently weigh 325 lbs and have lost about 30 in three months….the last couple weeks though i really havent lost n e weight but kept doing my routine….could i have a thyroid problem?
When trying to lose weight you usually will lose the first ‘chunk’ fast and then after that is done it will take a little more effort on your part to lose more weight. Try making changes to your diet and excersize plan but make slight changes nothing too drastic. This will hopefully help you step it up.
hi i’m a 18 year old male about 5″ 10 an currently weigh 11 stone 8, i dont no what the average is but im thin except i have a fat ring round my stomach and wondering what is the most effective way of removing it. thanks
I’m weighing in at 240 pounds, I don’t smoke, and am in good shape, muscle wise. I do want to lose alot of weight but am not worried about gaining muscle. What is the best exercise plan for me??
im 10 and weigh 200 pounds i have no freinds HRLP ME
Please help Micka. I agonize for her. I am 61 and joined the YMCA in January. I weighed 204 then. 3 months later I weigh 200. Not a big loss, but if I keep doing what I’m doing, and live long enough , LOL, I will reach 165– my goal. The YMCA has financial aid available for ANYone, but especially children. It can help Micka with a personal fitness assesment and weightloss plan designed just for her.
i have struggled w/ my weight my whole life after my daugher was born i bleww up to over 300 lbs i went through major depression that caused me to just stop eating and when i did eat i would feel so bad that i would make myself puke it back up. well i ended up in the hospital this way. now after 2 years of trying to loose weight the right way i just cant loose one pound the thought of all of the work that i do every day w/ no results and my boyfriend now all he says is that i am not pushing it out hard enough even though i feel that i am i dont know what to do i just need some help or some pointers please
hopelessly helpless
hi im brooke. i have been overweight since before i can remember. i have always just been chubby but in the last 3 years i have noticed myself getting bigger. i am 5′4 and almost 200 lbs. last summer i lost about 35 lbs but gained it back and that makes me even more depressed so i am having a hard time to get motivated. PLEASE HELP any comments would be helpfull.. i am running out of options!!
Hey, im 24 years old and weigh roughly 240. up until 3 years ago i played football 5 times a week and trained the other two, ive torn my cruciate ligament and am awaiting a reconstructin (for the past three years) so am unable to run, i have purchased an exercise bike and wonder if this will be of any benifit whatsoever? hoping to shed a fair bit of weight preferably 30 pounds ish?
I weigh 154…age 43 female…5 foot 6 and a half, and wear a size 8….
why is my weight so high? or are you seeing a problem here?
I am trail running, and am a past competitive swimmer, still involved with United States Masters Swimming program 2 days a week.
Just wondering? Is my weight high for my type?Should I be down in the 145 range/
Thanks,
Maggy
i’ve lost 45 pounds in 9 months.i started workingout alot an changed my diet completely.do i still have to workout alot to maintain my weight? i count my calories everyday an stay within a certain range.
hi
im 20yrs old, 5ft 8 inches and have probelms with my weight. i was never a size 8 or 10 but within the last year im wavering between a size 14 and 16. it is really depressing considering i eat very healthy and weigh more than my friends that eat take aways and junk food. im always on the go, eat lots of fruit and veg, drink ots of water, and eat 3 meals a day.
I’m a 21 year old girl at 5″2. My weight is currently 9 stone and 10lbs.
I started dieting this time last year when I stepped on the scales and saw that I had made it to 11 stones!.. I have been on and off dieting since and since I reached 9 stone have not allowed my self to go over 10 stones after that (so I’ve gone between 9 and 10 stones).
a few weeks ago I reached 9″2 again.. so carried on dieting (eating between 400 and 1000 cals a day) and burning about an average of 700 cals a day at the gym, hoping that I would carry on losing at about 4 lbs per week.. However, my weight loss stalled!.. I actually gained a lb!.. (granted I didn’t go to the gym again that week but still walked alot and certainly dieted)..
I gave up and started eating again.. like crazy!.. now i’m as i said 9″10.. i’ve got 35 days till a big event and would like to lose weight so i’m nicely in the 8 stone range?.. how would anyone suggest i do it without reaching a weight loss plateau this time?.. are there any experts who could guide me?.. i don’t mind only losing about a lb a week after the 35 days as i’ll have the time and patience then.. Any advice??…
loves Sophie xxx