My Weight Is Unchanged After 2 Weeks Diet/exercise!

[elai]

If you only eat som tam and log 600 calories / 1.5 hours on the eliptical at an easy pace (trust me this is as easy as walking) you'll drop fast. My girlfriend did that Jesus, your in thailand, land of cheap diet food. It's easy to eat right here!

[doggie888888]

I don't see what this has to do with Thailand, so why hasn't it been closed?

Because many farangs in Thailand are overweight or obese???

[robblok]

If you only eat som tam and log 600 calories / 1.5 hours on the eliptical at an easy pace (trust me this is as easy as walking) you'll drop fast. My girlfriend did that Jesus, your in thailand, land of cheap diet food. It's easy to eat right here!

I beg to differ Thailand is not the land of cheap diet food. Unless you can point me to some of it. Mostly they use a lot of sugar in the dishes fry it in palm oil ect.

The only good food here you have to make yourself.

[robblok]

When your weight stops decreasing for some reason you have to check if you really stop loosing fat or that you are gaining some muscle. Scales are nice but a measuring tape is a lot better. The scales that are supposed to read your bodyfat percentage are highly incaccurate its better not to rely on those. If you drink before measuring you can get a whole different readout as when you have just sweated a lot of water out.

My weight stopped for a week but the measuring tape told me i was still loosing fat so please dont be too obsessed by the scales.

[mdy]

Chill dude. It has only been two weeks. The important thing is that you feel lighter & better. The next thing that will follow will most likely be you losing weight slowly but surely - an effect that will last for the long-term.

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Well, this is a bit depressing! 2 weeks ago, I decided to try to lose some weight and get into better shape. Prior to that I weighed 77 kg, (173cm height) flabby chest, paunch, love handles, cycled a bit, drank beer, eat rice etc etc.

I have never been a huge eater, but I wanted to bring my weight down to about 70kg.

I cut out beer, coffee, rice, extra sugar etc etc.

Started cycling 10km each day (level ground but riding strenously)

Press-ups, crunches each day, (slowly increasing the number each day).

My daily food is typically:

Breakfast:

unsweetened muesli with zero-fat yoghurt

2 boiled eggs

green tea

1 slice of toast with thin peanut butter

1 glass of cranberry juice

1 bottle of water

2 bananas

Lunch:

1 glass of red wine

1 tuna salad

Evening meal:

Grilled fish or chicken with vegetables

1 bottle of water

Snacks:

bottles of water, handful of nuts, fresh fruit

Despite 2 weeks of this, although I feel more 'healthy' and my chest is a little toned up, my weight is still 77.0kg! No sign of any improvement with the paunch (beer gut) and love handles.

I am enjoying this diet and not missing the previous foods. But can informed individuals advise me if it's normal not to lose any weight at all after 2 weeks? Should I continue with the same regime or make some changes? (to either diet or exercises)?

Thanks

Simon

[Enjibenji]

Agree with the previous comments.

You have to make sure when you are exercising to lose weight, you are not going by the scales too much. The chances are, you'll be losing a fair bit of weight (especially if you are very overweight - it's much easier to lose weight then), however you will be gaining some/considerable muscle.

Just remember muscle is heavier than fat.

I'm not really in this catagory of losing weight, i'm wanting to gain weight with bodybuilding. Before I came to Thailand in August I put on a few pounds of muscle by doing weights. 4 months later in Thailand, after not working out, I was back to my original weight. Came back to UK mid January, started up working out again in March and i've put on about a stone (14lbs / 6kg) of muscle since then. My build before was pretty small, 175cm and always had low bodyfat (however I was not ''skinny'') - which makes putting on that muscle weight in just a month and a half very satisfying.

I hate exercising but I do it to look good for my girlfriend. Also, a little satisfaction for myself. They are my only motivations. I'm not doing it to save my own life, I'm not doing it for my health and I'm not really doing it to be stronger.

Don't let 6 months pass with you thinking at the end "if only I tried to..". The amount of weight a strong minded overweight person could lose in such a time is staggering, and the change in their appearance could be amazing.

For someone who is overweight (doing it for a whole number of reasons) which could even be life threatening health-wise think about my case. For myself to gain 6kg muscle weight in just a month and a half with the smallish bodytype I inherited, the only reasons of my motivation, and how much harder it is for someone like me to put on muscle than someone overweight trying to lose fat... you can easily do it Keep trying and don't give up

Remember, don't always go by the scales. The scales can lie - the mirror can't

edit: just to say, during my time in Bangkok/Thailand, I saw a staggering amount of overweight/obese western guys. Probably more overweight than 'normal' guys.

Edited April 24, 2009 by Enjibenji

[BusyBee123]

haven't had time to read previous posts but i went through years of on and off training, eating properly then drinking ..... all the usual stuff. Thought i knew the theory.. less calories more exercise done consistently loses weight... it wasn't until i got a trainer for 6 weeks i really started to lose weight by eating 3 square meals plus fruit snacks in between (before i skipped breakfast had lunch and a large meal at night) metabolism is a fecker, try to eat less the wrong way the body just slows down to compensate. Cardi was great as i loved running but was taught never to raise my heart rate above 150 for me as i would start using up the wrong energy and not fat burn efficiently, and finally build muscle as it burns calories for fun. The most important hing he taught me was to lose less than 2 pounds a week as any more the body will put it back on rapidly if i just stopped, 2 years later i'm 24 pounds lighter and enjoying exercise and the food i eat plus i can eat shit too just in moderation. consistency is key to everything no point busting a gut one day and not doing anything for 4 days, 4 times a week is enough and allows a few nights out too

[robblok]

haven't had time to read previous posts but i went through years of on and off training, eating properly then drinking ..... all the usual stuff. Thought i knew the theory.. less calories more exercise done consistently loses weight... it wasn't until i got a trainer for 6 weeks i really started to lose weight by eating 3 square meals plus fruit snacks in between (before i skipped breakfast had lunch and a large meal at night) metabolism is a fecker, try to eat less the wrong way the body just slows down to compensate. Cardi was great as i loved running but was taught never to raise my heart rate above 150 for me as i would start using up the wrong energy and not fat burn efficiently, and finally build muscle as it burns calories for fun. The most important hing he taught me was to lose less than 2 pounds a week as any more the body will put it back on rapidly if i just stopped, 2 years later i'm 24 pounds lighter and enjoying exercise and the food i eat plus i can eat shit too just in moderation. consistency is key to everything no point busting a gut one day and not doing anything for 4 days, 4 times a week is enough and allows a few nights out too

Nice story but the heart rate story is totally outdated. I could fill pages with why its wrong. But just accept its wrong. Just think of it like this if you increase above that rate you will in fact burn less fat and more other sources of energy but in total you will still burn more fat because its a more intense workout. Also the calories you burned will have to be replaced and cant be added as fat in your total energy expenditure.

Last but not least the amount of fat burned during cardio is almost nothing. Most machines give a bad readout and show too many calories burned. If you do 500 in an hour is great. 50% of that is fat so 250 cal divide this by nine = 27 grams of fat.. not a whole lot for your hour of working out. So the heartrate isnt that important.

Its more important to get a better metabolism by working out and making sure you eat less then what you burn.