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Anonymous
Alright /fit/ I'm absolutely beaten right now.

For the past two months, everything has been great. I had been on a steady decline of weight with my diet and exercise program. In about a month and a half, I lost about 40 pounds.

Then suddenly, it ended. I continued the biking and the walking and the dieting, but no more weight loss. I even tried upping the ante with the biking, doing it for more hours and higher speeds each day, but still I'd only lose one or two pounds just to gain it back the very next day with the same amount of food.

I just don't know what to do anymore. I want to get rid of this weight so badly, but I feel like I'm stuck. I can see I've only got around 10-15 pounds max to go.

What should I do?
>> Anonymous
I'm 20 years old. 190 pounds. 5'11" Male
>> Anonymous
>>440835
You're still a fat fuck then, I see. Lower your calories, eat better, eat more natural, eat at appropriate times and appropriate portions and start running, you lazy, fat, disgusting slob of a man(?)
>> Anonymous
>>440836

I'm eating only 1500 calories a day. in the form of around 4 to 5 meals a day.

Usually for breakfast I'll eat 250 calories; lunch is anywhere from 250 to 350. Then dinner when I get home is somewhere around 600 to 700 a half hour before I go biking. Then I'm done eating for the day.
>> Anonymous
>>440840
Could you give us a breakdown of what you eat? Are you eating a lot of carbs in afternoon-night? Do you eat foods with high fat % after working out?
>> Anonymous
>>440840
There's also a phrase that goes something along the lines of this, that's very true:

Eat like a king at breakfast, a citizen in the afternoon, and a pauper at night.
>> Anonymous
I've been pushing myself with cardio, but last week my aunt offered me a cheap membership to her gym. Should I start running and swimming or should I start weight training?

Also, what time of the day should I do what? Right now I've been biking at night and not much in the morning because I have work from 6 am to 2 pm.
>> Anonymous
I'm in the same boat as you, OP. I lost 60 pounds really quickly, and then it suddenly stopped. Even now, it's just crawling along.

From my experience (your mileage may vary, of course), 440834 is half right. You should mix up your exercise routine, but match that by mixing up your diet too. You've been eating at 1500 calories, which gives you some wiggle room. You probably can go up to 2000 or so without gaining weight. So fluctuate your calorie level. Eat 1800 calories one day, 1400 another day. Try to change the food groups you primarily eat. Your body has gotten good at balancing the amount of calories you eat, and the amount of exercise you do, so you need to confuse it again by altering both your routines.

You need to be very careful though. When you give yourself an inch, you'll be tempted to take a mile.

Also, 440832 is probably very wrong. First off, it's hard to gain any muscle while you're eating at a calorie deficit. Also, muscle gain tends to cap out at about 1-2 pounds a MONTH. That's compared to the 4-8 pounds of fat you can lose a month. It doesn't add up.
>> Anonymous
>>440875

My boss told me to try eating nothing but fruit one day to confuse the heck out of my body. I was thinking about trying that to see how it works. I think I'm going to try mix and matching my diet to sort of toss it up.

Thanks a ton guys
>> Anonymous
>>440875
1-2 lbs/month? Really? I'm in the opposite boat as all of you; I'm trying to GAIN weight. 3 months ago, I was 138, and now I'm 148. For reference, I'm 5'7 3/4, so I'm still one skinny sonofabitch but I'm gaining muscle :D My body fat was about 11% then and I have yet to test it right now. I eat a LOT of food a day (light breakfast, a small meal at 11 AM, full course at 3:30-4:30PM, full course at 6:30-7:30PM).

Of course, I also make sure all of the food I eat is healthy (i.e, chicken/fish/steak etc that I cook along with a lot of veggies etc...for breakfast usually a few bananas or on some days I have enough time to cook, around 2 or 4 eggs...the small meal is usually 2 sandwiches (PP&J ftw), some multi grain snack things and some fruit).

Are you sure it's limited to 2 lbs a month? Because I had an eating scheudel like this before when I worked out (When I started working out my body fat was around 16%, last time I got it checked it was 11%, so I'm losing body fat and gaining lbs).
>> Anonymous
>>440898
10 pounds over 3 months is still only 3.3 pounds a month. I'm willing to accept that you could be quicker at it than the average, but it still doesn't disprove my point, that 3.3 pounds a month gain is still less than the 4+ pounds a month he should be losing, depending on his weight and height.

Also, I think the body is at it's most efficient at building muscle when you just start a new work out routine, and end up with Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. That might have affected the speed of your muscle growth.

Disclaimer: This particular anonymous only knows of this kind of stuff from reading about it on the internet, including /fit/, and thus is roughly as accurate as your average wikipedia page. Take everything I say with a grain of salt.
>> Anonymous
Alright guys I just went shopping and picked up some really good healthy stuff. Hopefully this will help.