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Originally Posted by EmilyRae83
I have been working out for three months and I have drop only a small amount of weight. What I just found out is you need to count your calories. Everyday Health.com is a great way to count your calories. It helps you see what you are eating and then you add your daily work out to see what you have burned. My problem, I havent been eating enought calories. Weird huh? Never would have thought by eating more calories it would help me lose weight. Your body needs enough so it does not think your starving yourself.
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With all due respect - you're a bit confused. Lowering calories too much especially when doing a lot of intense exercise is not a good idea for a number of reasons but fat loss is not one of them for most people. ** If you haven't lost much for three months, increasing calories is unlikely to help. Shorter term water retention could be masking fat loss but three months means something else is going on.
If you are only monitoring your weight than it is difficult to measure progress if you're working out a lot. Many things could be happening. Measurements and pictures are more telling than the scale as a measure of progress.
**The exception is people who have very little fat to lose and it is difficult to mobilize for a number of reasons.