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Why am I not losing any weight?
Okay I am 16/f to start off :)
My height is between 5'6'' and 5'7'' and I weigh around 145lbs.
I used to be 180 lbs around about 2 years ago and I am glad I've lost that weight. However I am still not comfortable with my weight at all.
I even had minor eating disorder like bullimia and anorexia. But I never starved for over 3 days because it was pretty much impossible to not eat when my mom makes me eat infront of her. So I was bullimic on and off. Not throwing up everythign I eat. Only doing it when ever i thought i ate too much. Which I dont do that any more neither.
So I am sure I killed my metabolism then. So I am going on a new road without any eating disorders and I;ve been working out pretty regularly for 2 months now.
I used to jog about 4 miles but now I jog for 2-2.5 miles. I breakdance about 20-30 minutes here and there. I lift two 3 lbs dumbells when I workout my arms and do sit ups. (i am planning to do 200 sit ups, i used to do over 500 but then i stopped and now starting again)
and after my jogging, I practice my handstand and cartwheels.
I don't think I overeat, nor snack that much. In fact I dont eat junkfood at all, however there are days when I just go too crazy from depriving myself from it, I guess I eat junkfood sometimes.
For breakfast I eat a big bowl of cereal(which i am trying to eat the serving size now)
Lunch, i eat whatever my mom makes me. but she balances it out really good with veggies and meat
In fact I love eating veggies and we eat fruits for snacks
So why am i not losing any weight? My goal weight is to be 125 lbs
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Okay the short version. I eat healthy, I dont eat junkfood(if i do, it would be like one day out of the whole month) and I eat veggies and fruits over any other things. I exercise at least 1 hour a day. So why cant i lose weight?
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There are some things you can do to try to boost your metabolism. First off start eating very often. Try to work in a small balanced meal every 3 hours or so. Then, eat a few hundred calories below what you burn for say two weeks or so. After two weeks, take a day where you eat a few hundred calories above what you burn. The idea here is to let the body know that there is plenty of food, and that it should not go into starvation mode.
As for exercise, you seem to do well with cardio, but I would really recommend trying to work in some more resistance training if you can. Try to go to the gym and lift weights if possible. That type of exercise is generally more effective at making an impact on your metabolism for longer periods of time.
Also remember to drink plenty of water. You can also try include more hot and spicy foods in your diet, which also have a minor effect.
As for your general diet, its hard to comment since i dont have a good picture of what you eat. Just make sure you keep saturated fats very low, that you intake a small but regular amount of essential fatty acids (very important in the weight loss process... you get them from fish, nuts, olive oil, canola, flax, etc), and that you keep your carb portions moderate (including fruit).
Good luck.
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some peoples bodies are meant to maintain a certain weight, your body stores fat incase of stravation, dieting is considered that which will make you acually gain weight instead of loosing it. The reason you probably are not losing weight could be your metabolism is slow so you are going to maintain your weight most likely which isnt a bad thing being 5'7 and 145 is perfect. BUt if you really would like to loose more weight what you have to do is decrease your calorie intake and measure out the quanity of food you eat. AND keep up with that excerscising.
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