Hi everybody,so my story so far....so I'm now 23 and a very active person, I started off at about 18.5 stone - 19 stone at my biggest, this I can put down to my uni days of drinking too much and eating all the wrong quick and easy meals you do as a student!
I have been out of uni now for a few years and execrising pretty regularly for about a year after knee surgery for an old rugby injury, at the moment I am going to the gym 5 times a week burning about 1000-1250 on the cross trainer and a further 150 in the pool after, I'm also playing badminton once a week which is around 200 calories.
I have a calorie controlled diet of around 1500 to 1750 a day through a slim fast 210 meal bar for breakfast and lunch,fruit and a low fat/low sugar fruit and jelly pot and then what ever everyone else has for dinner, I don't snack between meals the only thing I have is flavoured gum. I have worked out I am supposed to have about 2100 calories a day for a 23 year old 5'11 guy of my weight.
When I firtst started diet and exercising I quickly dropped down to 16.5 stone but then seemed to stick at that weight about 4 months! I then decided to log everything that I ate,what I execrised and calculate that again my daily allowences to get a total day loss or gain for calories, I am under everyday normally by a good amount around 1300-1600 when I go to the gym. I have been logging everything for 3 weeks now, I seemed to lose half a stone in the first week and 2 days and am now currently 15.5 stone.
My problems seems to be that I am now stuck at this weight, I'm currently exercising more and for longer than before and have a smaller calorie intake but my weight doesn't seem to want to shift, I was just looking for some advice on why this might be happening or if anyone else has experienced similar?
Thanks Nick
I have been out of uni now for a few years and execrising pretty regularly for about a year after knee surgery for an old rugby injury, at the moment I am going to the gym 5 times a week burning about 1000-1250 on the cross trainer and a further 150 in the pool after, I'm also playing badminton once a week which is around 200 calories.
I have a calorie controlled diet of around 1500 to 1750 a day through a slim fast 210 meal bar for breakfast and lunch,fruit and a low fat/low sugar fruit and jelly pot and then what ever everyone else has for dinner, I don't snack between meals the only thing I have is flavoured gum. I have worked out I am supposed to have about 2100 calories a day for a 23 year old 5'11 guy of my weight.
When I firtst started diet and exercising I quickly dropped down to 16.5 stone but then seemed to stick at that weight about 4 months! I then decided to log everything that I ate,what I execrised and calculate that again my daily allowences to get a total day loss or gain for calories, I am under everyday normally by a good amount around 1300-1600 when I go to the gym. I have been logging everything for 3 weeks now, I seemed to lose half a stone in the first week and 2 days and am now currently 15.5 stone.
My problems seems to be that I am now stuck at this weight, I'm currently exercising more and for longer than before and have a smaller calorie intake but my weight doesn't seem to want to shift, I was just looking for some advice on why this might be happening or if anyone else has experienced similar?
Thanks Nick