Will this help me lose inches? because i have no results yet :(?!
Question: Ive been doing 3 days a week of indoor cycling, 1 pilates, i step class and one stability ball class every week. Ive been doing this for over a month now and haven't noticed any lose of inches yet.... will i start soon... if i keep it up with healthy eating and lots of water?... im kinda getting frustrated.... so any tips will help me out. Ive kinda had a couple of days of bad eating.... so i think im back where i started..? so anyways any helpful tips will help out. also, i can't change my routine because i signed up for all these courses.
To keep in mind: im 5'8 145
Answers: Ive been doing 3 days a week of indoor cycling, 1 pilates, i step class and one stability ball class every week. Ive been doing this for over a month now and haven't noticed any lose of inches yet.... will i start soon... if i keep it up with healthy eating and lots of water?... im kinda getting frustrated.... so any tips will help me out. Ive kinda had a couple of days of bad eating.... so i think im back where i started..? so anyways any helpful tips will help out. also, i can't change my routine because i signed up for all these courses.
To keep in mind: im 5'8 145
if you just started working out, it usually takes 4-6 weeks of fat converting to muscle before you'll notice a change on the scale. i would bet your clothes fit better, no? just be sure to eat enough so your body doesn't go into starvation mode. what really helped me break out of a plateau was eating more. also, concentrate on a healthy body, not numbers on the scale. try even not weighing yourself but once a week at the same time every week... Hormonal fluctuations will also make you retain water and gain weight. Keep it up, it sounds like your weight is fine anyway. Concentrate on a small goal and then maintaining that weight for a couple of months, then make a new goal...
try incorporating weights into your routine.
considering that you may be at a target weight for your body, the weight loss is not so much a matter of the amount of exercise you do, as it is the number of calories you consume, and the kind of calories it is. High nutrient-dense calories will keep you satiated longer and thus you will consume less, while at the same time burning those calories (which are simply a unit of energy necessary to expend fuel to meet the needs of the body). Weight loss happens when the calories needed to keep your body working at its present weight is greater than the number of calories you are consuming.
Look at some calorie counters online like at nutitritiondata.com, and in books like The Longevity Diet, a scientific treatise of calorie restriction for longevity and health/weight control.
Best of success to you.
Have you been putting on muscle mass? If so, that'll increase your weight quicker than fat and make it difficult to start losing inches, although from the sounds of it you're already at a pretty good weight (I believe a person at 5"8" is supposed to be between 135 and 150lbs.)
If it's not muscle, it could simply be that those couple of bad eating days are being stubborn. You should at least be losing a couple pounds, even if it doesn't bring own the inches right away.