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Hey guys,
I used to work in an office and closely related, used to be pretty fat (190 pounds) at 173 cm.
After i quit the office job, I lost 40 pounds in 3 months due to a harsh diet and lots and lots of sports. In the following year, I lost another 10 pounds.
Now I've been trying for the past 6 months to lose the last 10 pounds, but it doesn't seem to work.
I've restricted myself to 1200 calories a day while doing 1 hour of working out and I haven't dropped a gram in 6 months. My diet consists largely of fruit and nuts during the week, an excessively big meal (usually a pound of chicken breast and noodles or rice) on Saturdays and nothing on Sundays.
I'm really at a loss here, I should lose weight but I simply don't and it's really frustrating, cause to tell you the truth, the first 50 pounds were a piece of cake (lol).
What am I doing wrong?
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140 pounds at 173cm is fine depending on your build.
What kind of goal are you aiming for? It might be the time to start cycling between putting on and losing weight to reduce your body fat and increase your muscle without adversely affecting your weight
Theres no sense in losing weight at 140lb's if you have no more fat to lose
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On June 11 2011 23:18 caruso wrote:
nothing on Sundays.
Shouldn't that cause your body to burn less calories because it goes into energy saving mode.
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Also, your weight is fine. Why do you want to lose more?
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173cm and 140lb? And you think you still need to lose weight?
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70 kilo's of weight for a grown person is not unhealthy at all, I do not think you want to lose any more weight at this point in time.
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Shouldn't you be focusing more on putting on weight?
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There is still some (very visible) fat. I cycle a lot, but if I do it too much, I'll get too hungry and eat, that's counterproductive.
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You don't want to shed more weight. Your BMI is at this point 21, lose more weight and you end up weighing too little which is actually worse than when you were overweight...
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I think your eating schedule is what you need to change.
What is your body fat %
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On June 11 2011 23:28 pileopoop wrote:
I think your eating schedule is what you need to change.
What is your body fat %
How do i find that out? Does a doctor have to tell me?
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Being underweight is NOT somewhere you want to go.
Take it from a guy who's 6'2" and has weighed as little as 120lb. No energy, random aches and pains, hard on your immune system, can't maintain your body temperature well.
Mind you, I have a valid medical reason for having dropped to being that scrawny, but it's unpleasant.
Too low of a body fat content can also cause issues with your metabolism.
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1 hour of working out and 1200 calories is probably just hurting your body. The reason you feel flabby is probably because you're burning muscle. At this point you should be more focused on building a stronger body and a more protein based diet. You should do a little research and try to figure out what you need.
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1200 calories & 1h workout sounds very unhealthy to me. I'd recommend talking to your doctor about proper exercise and nutrition.
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On June 11 2011 23:27 caruso wrote:
There is still some (very visible) fat. I cycle a lot, but if I do it too much, I'll get too hungry and eat, that's counterproductive.
Eat, get up to 150-160 pounds again (whilst doing your normal weights and excercise/gym schedule), and then you will put on a lot of muscle and fat at the same time
Then when you cut back to 140 one more time, you will lose a lot of your fat and keep your muscle
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On June 11 2011 23:27 caruso wrote:
There is still some (very visible) fat. I cycle a lot, but if I do it too much, I'll get too hungry and eat, that's counterproductive.
Oh, and by the way, eating isn't counterproductive, it's healthy. As it turns out, if you don't do enough of it, you can die.
The secret is to hit the right balance of the right amount of the right type of food, and exercise.
It sounds like some idiot talked you into trying to burn more calories than you eat, which basically doesn't help much, but it almost guarantees you start atrophying your muscles.
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On June 11 2011 23:31 caruso wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2011 23:28 pileopoop wrote:
I think your eating schedule is what you need to change.
What is your body fat % How do i find that out? Does a doctor have to tell me? Yes. Don't ever take health advice on the internet. Go to a doctor, I promise you it won't hurt 
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Eat more your at a point where you've lost all the excess fat you can. From here you turning what you have left into muscle which is extremely hard. You need to be eating more around 2400+ calories but working out at least 5+ hours a week on top of 3-5 hours of cardio a week.
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On June 11 2011 23:48 VIB wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2011 23:31 caruso wrote:On June 11 2011 23:28 pileopoop wrote:
I think your eating schedule is what you need to change.
What is your body fat % How do i find that out? Does a doctor have to tell me? Yes. Don't ever take health advice on the internet. Go to a doctor, I promise you it won't hurt
You've clearly never been to a gastroenterologist.
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I think a lot of you guys just saw the weight without taking into account my height.
173cm is around 5 feet. I'm tiny.
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On June 12 2011 00:04 caruso wrote:
I think a lot of you guys just saw the weight without taking into account my height.
173cm is around 5 feet. I'm tiny.
5feet is 152.5 cm...
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