How is it that i get 3 hours of exercise a day and get like, no results?!

How is it that i get 3 hours of exercise a day and get like, no results?

i'm 15, and i heard to lose weight, you need about 1.5 hours of exercise a day. well, 3 days a week, i walk briskly (4.0-4.3mph) for 1.5 hours, and i do other cardio and strength training for an hour and a half. i keep a food log and eat healthy and drink tons of water... why is it that my weight just won't go down and my waist and thigh measurements stay the same?

At your age, the way you exercise could lead to too much exercise, which could actually harm you.

Too much exercise creates huge stresses on your body. Everything’s heightened - you can’t sleep, your brain’s racing fast all the time, and you feel like can’t sit still.

This ‘high’ will alternate with bouts of feeling tired, lethargic and burnt out.

Your body goes into starvation mode and releases cortisol. This prevents any fat metabolism and eats into your muscle mass. Less muscle mass means lower metabolic rate, so you burn lower number of calories, hence no weight loss.

(Note: muscle is metabolically active, so more muscle means metabolic rate will be higher, hence burn more calories, to lose weight).

Try to cut down your exercise time to 1 hr per session, 3-4 times per week and see how it goes.

Give yourself time to see weight loss results. A safe and healthy weight loss is a loss of 1-2 lbs, max, per week. Anything more than that, you're likely to lose not fat but lean body tissues as well - hair, nails, skin, blood.....

I don't know how much weight you target to lose but I reckon an 8lb loss per month is quite a good start already.