What's wrong with my diet/excercise plan?

Question

First, I'm gonna say I have been doing this by some weeks now and I haven't dropped a pound (5'5, 140)! Even worse, my period is late and I'm really constipated...Here's my plan, could you tell me what the h**l am I doing wrong?????

Diet: I'm doing weight watchers and I have to consume 20 daily points = 1,000 calories.

Breakfast: 1 fruit, 2 healthy carbs (export sodas/2 wheat cereal/ 1 cup oatmeal) and one lean protein (slice of cheese or turkey ham).

Lunch and dinner: 2 healthy carbs (2 wheat bread/potato/2 tortilla), 4 oz lean protein (chicken, turkey, tuna), 1 monounsaturated fat (1 tsp butter/ 1 tsp olive oil/ mixed nuts)

I'm taking the Lida daidai hua slimming pill, which has given results to everyone I know!!!! Its supposed to increase my metabolism, burn fat, and suppress my appetite. I feel its effects but I haven't lost any pounds. And, I'm excercising 6 days a week, doing cardio and burning approximately 500-600 calories. So...I have no life and these last days I just feel like crying because my body just doesn't want to respond...

Answer 1

You are not eating enough. 1000 calories? and you burn 600 of it? so what? That gives your body 400 calories to do its bodily functions. When in reality you need 12 calories per pound you weigh in order to maintain matablism, thought process, body temperture etc. Im surprised you haven't gotten sick yet. you need to be eating atleast 1500 calories at that body weight. Then you need to be eating even more to compensate for your excercising. Starving yourself = body goes into starvation mode and perserves ALL fat.

Thats your only problem.

Answer 2

i saw your picture, from the information you've provided i take it that you're planning to lose 15 pounds.  not an impossible task and realistic.

your diet plan seems confusing to me. 1,00 calories daily???? to low that would force your body to hold on to it's fat stores.  1,800 is more reasonable and manageable.

exercise, that all depends on what you do, the level of intensity, and the length of time you're doing them.  plus to lose wt, you need to vary them to fool the body.  you should still have enough free time to have a life

Answer 3

You need to but a snak in the midmorrnig and in mid afternoon and eat a smal dinner that consist of only protien. You could be over doing the cardio an under eating.  That could result in you body not responding. I think you are making this way to complicated.  You dont need to get in to all the fad diets and pills  all though some pills do give you and edge on weight loss.  I once weighted about 260 iam 200 now.  The way to loose weight is to burn more calories than you take in.  I am 200lbs, i need 2500 cal daily to maintain my weight because that is how much I burn just going about my daily life.  I droped down to about 1800cal,  do 20-25 min 3-6 times a week of interval training( HITT google it)  Hitt is better than getting out and running and killing your self.  Search the net Little to figure out how many calories you burn and how many you need.  It wont take that long there is plenty of sights out there.  You should also consider lifting weights 2-3 times a week because as the body build muscle it will burn more fat.  Eat every 2-3 hours because that will keep your metabolism high in turn burn more cal.  eat about 5 small meals aday  Stay away from refined carbs, like white bread except for a Gatorade after work out.  Look at the ingredients of bread if you see refined or bleached it is not true whole wheat, it is refined . No carbs afGatoradet 2 oclock.  All meal should have a serving of protien.

I hope this did not confuse you but in the end if you figer out that all you need to do is burn mor cal that you take in you will lose weight.  all the other tip will help.  It may seem alittle complicated but  it is easer once you but it to practace.

Answer 4

Well if you're constipated, you might wanna exchange that wheat bread and tortilla for something with more fiber and drink a lot of water. Eat raisins and plums, it might get your stomach moving.

And where are your vegetables?

Maybe you should try a different method? There is a real nice and healthy one, which isn't too hard.

* Eat little but often. Eat every third hour of the day. Don't eat in the three hours before you go to sleep.

* When you eat your lunch and dinner, never take more than a plate. At least half of what you take should be vegetables.

* Chew every bite 20-30 times, it will make you feel fuller.

* Stop eating when you're not hungry anymore. You might have lost the sense of being full though.

* Limit your intake of sweets and cakes to once a week.

The reason for eating so often is that if you eat seldom, you're body thinks it's going to go without food longer, and will try to store fat instead of burning it.

And also, you really don't have to drop that much weight. It's a pretty good weight for your length. Especially if you exercise as much as you do, muscles weigh a lot!

Make sure you eat something with protein after exercise or you wont burn calories as well. Also if you exercise, you need to fill up with more points.

This is not a weight issue but you need to be nice towards your body, so the day you don't exercise, make sure you really don't. Take it easy. Do relaxing stuff. Try make it a day when you're NOT working/studying or cook something that takes hours to make. All those things can make you feel stressed you know.

Oh and I hope you mean 1000 kcal, and not just 1000 cal! Otherwise you're clearly overdoing it!

Answer 5

I would cut back on the carbs a little.

Answer 6

when you exercise the fat is converted into muscle so yuo would have gained more muscle tone and lost fat, therefore yuo wont really have lostt any weight. you should be able to notice the difference in your body soon, you definatly should be more toned. i reccomend you measure your waist and thighs so you can see the difference, this i s what you should really do if you exercise instead of weighing yourself because evn though you have lost fat, you have gained muscle.

Answer 7

u don't need to lose weight ur fine if u weight 140 and your 5'5

u will be under weight if u keep dieting.

if ur not happy with the way u look go get fit.

Answer 8

Maybe you are being a little too hard on yourself!

Since you're exercising so much, you might be gaining muscle, which weighs more than fat.  In this case, you might not see the number on the scale move as quickly as you like.  But muscle is good, because it takes up less space and burns calories even while you're resting.  How do your clothes feel?  You might notice they fit better, even though your weight hasn't changed.

Give it time.  Your body can take some weeks or longer until it gets going.  Make sure you're not overworking yourself, and make sure you are eating enough!  If you're period is late, you might be stressing your body too much.  That's not healthy. Listen to your body! Try to eat more fruits and vegetables.  The fiber will help with your constipation.  Plus, you'll get lots of antioxidants for very few calories.

Answer 9

Well seeing as you have nothing to lose at this point, I would stop taking Lida daidai hua. Pills like that can have many side effects, and even the reverse effects on some people. For breakfast, I would choose a low-calorie wheat cereal. Other than that, you are doing a great job. Continue exercising, it is one of the best things you can do. Have you considered measuring your waist line, and keeping track of the fluctuations from week to week? This may be surprising to you because even though you aren't losing weight, you may be losing inches. You may be losing fat, but gaining muscle, and muscle weighs more then fat. Best of luck!