Ok I'm at my wits end here! I cant seem to lose anymore weight Ive ate less calories, ate more calories, Ive ate less carbs, more protein and still NOTHING! Have any of you ladies changed your workout schedule to workout in the morning instead of the evening and seen a change in weight loss? I currently workout in the afternoon or evening (When I feel most awake) but recently thinking about trying to workout in the morning. Suggestions?
I'm right there with you, Pammy I've totally hit a wall :C In the past I've worked out whenever I had the time, so it varied between morning and night. Maybe try three morning workouts and three night workouts and see where that puts you after a week? I've been trying to do zigzagging a little bit with my calories - on days where I do spinning and kickboxing I eat in the higher range of my allowance and on days where I only walk or take a rest day I eat in the lower range of my allowance.
In my experience, when you work out makes very little difference.
Maybe since you're close to goal, you loss has just had a little natural slowdown.
What might make a difference is taking two workouts or so a week to High Intensity Interval Training - Google HIIT or check the exercise forum for more info.
I am currently jogging/walking every day except Sunday for about 20 min and going for 35 on mon,wed,and frid. And also doing the Chalean Extreme workouts 5 days a week mixed in with the Insanity dvds plus I bike ride on Sunday mornings for 2 hours, and im not sure what else to do!!
switch up your workout, do completely new things. maybe do a bike or elliptical, or dance, or yoga, or jump rope. it might also help to do a really strict diet for one week just to kick off the weight loss again, like no wheat (breads, pasta, etc).
Pink- I have tried different stuff that I can do at home. (jump rope,jumping jacks, situps, etc,)I don't have a gym membership and have done all of this on my own. Once I move to Chicago I plan on getting a personal trainer and joining a gym (CANT WAIT)
Mary- I was eating 1400 then uped it to 1600 and still sitting on the same weight!! I drink close to a gallon of water a day. I have a water obsession lol
I don't think the time you work out will make any difference at all....
I would just change the routine as your body usually get used to it.
And I would not let this put you down... Sometimes is happens and when the scale #s comes down it is a great surprise!!!
I'm going through the same things right now too... do everything I can and still no change on the scale. I agree with what a couple of the other chicks have said... time of day doesn't really matter. I'm gonna take the advice given... try changing up what workouts I'm doing.
I switched my workouts from evening to morning and didn't notice a difference, other than having more time in the evenings. I agree with what's been said about trying a different workout routine.
I by NO means am undermining your efforts. I'm positive you work out hard. However, our bodies are crazy machines that adapt super quickly so even if you are THINKING you are working hard, your body might not be burning as many calories as it was before because it's a lazy SOB. Fact of life.
Are you doing strength training? I can not stress enough how much weight lifting helps. Muscle burns 3 times more calories than fat, granted a pound of muscle only burns 6 calories a day, a pound of fat only burns 2.
As for the jogging/walking part, what I do suggest is interval training, like Mandalinn recommended. The best way to do interval training is to do high intensity, so roughly 90-100% effort (so you're seriously huffing and puffing and you can't talk) and then do a recovery (50-60% effort where you can talk, breathe, regain composure). Start off with shorter intervals, longer recoveries, then increase to longer high intensity intervals, shorter recovery. This will help increase your VO2 max as well.
A lot of times, it's not necessarily how LONG you spend doing something but how intense it is because you have to trick your body into thinking that it can't adapt. Unfortunately, it sucks because that means you always have to change things up, but it'll be fun because you can add things to your routine. I would add in body weight workouts (squats, push-ups, lunges, pull-ups, wall-sits, tricep push-ups) if you don't have gym membership. You don't need a gym to do strength training.
AND, sorry for the essay Just trying to throw all possible ideas out there!
Jess- I have always been a fairly active person, even when I was heavier I walked 5-6 times a week just didn't do well on the diet end of it and now that I'm doing good on the diet and harder workouts its just UGH not getting anywhere. I strength train 3 times a week (Chalean Extreme) which consists of tons of squats, push-ups, etc. I also do interval training when I'm not doing the normal C25k with my sister. I run at about dying pace then slow it down the go again. Plus I do the interval workouts of the Chalean videos. Plus I do Intervals on my bike on Sundays.
Hey Pammy - I don't know much about BeachBody even though I've seen some incredible youtube video results. Don't you have a beach body coach or something? It might be helpful to turn to them to ask for advice on how to make your workouts more effective. They're the ones that put out P90X too right?
Workout times?
