Sorry this comment bothers me. As someone who works in the lab and takes blood for a living. If you are working out and not losing weight then yeah get your blood checked. Don't assume testosterone is the problem. Maybe it is if your growing hair on your chin and never have before now in other words your female. Cortisol, Estrogen, FSH and TSH your thyroid hormone are more to blame. If your menopausal and your Estrogen is really low your likely hot flashing and having night sweats and not sleeping worth a crap. If you don't get 7-8 hours of sleep that will affect weight loss so much faster than anything else. Your cortisol is more than likely to also be out of wack if you don't get a good sleep. Cortisol is the stress hormone and when increased will cause weight gain. Estrogen dominance as well causes belly fat and reduces progesterone your cancer protection hormone. If your having this issue than yep get your blood check and ask the doctor for a print out of your results so you can see where exactly you are falling in the ranges set out for the test. Remember that only 75 percent of the population fall in that bell curve and occasionally people are perfectly normal outside those ranges. That being said most ranges suit normal ranges for those test and the results are based on those ranges as well. I do agree with using weights to lose weight. Muscle will burn 50 calories per lb just being on your body. More muscle = a higher calorie burn. Aerobics burns fat but if you want tone and lean shape get lifting weights. Exercise also helps balance hormones. With that said it doesn't mean throw out aerobic workouts. Combine or do aerobic and strength training on alternate days.
I do 5min. on the bike first thing. alternating easy for a min. the balls out for a min. so forth. then weights. legs gut one day. top gut next. back gut. so on. then always after I walk incline on treadmill, hit stairmaster. is working well. have a lot of muscle anyway, just need to tone it up. going to start mornings also just walking ect. then later with phillip with weights. should be interesting.
Fantastic info! Thanks for posting this. Amanda has been trying to lose a couple pounds and tighten her stomach back up. She's been going pretty hard for the last 5 weeks. While doing this though she's had a ton of stress at work. That may be the problem she's running into. I am down 31lbs from about mid December. Hit a plateau. Nothing seems to be working. Time to change up the workout and the diet plan. I'm going to give this a go and see what happens. Low carb has worked in the past, i just didn't want to resort to it. If anyone's looking for a fresh program. This seems to be decent. https://www.campusprotein.com/30x30 Keep up the good work everyone!
K GLENN HERE WHY DOES THIS ONLY APPLY TO WOMEN? POOR CHOICE OF WORDS AND WHERE IS YOUR PIC:xyxthumbs:
No arguments here............just a few suggestions. Facts are building lean muscle mass burns fat! Testosterone levels are a key factor in women building lean muscle mass! And men for that matter..... You do what works for you! You making informed, conscious decisions that YOU believe in are what you need to be doing! I commend everyone that's working hard to lose a few pounds and get to a more healthy place!
Hit a plateau? Take a couple days off from workouts......EAT A BIG MEAL....not a fatty one.........but with some good fats.....your body thinks you"re trying to starve it! Then resume your workouts with a vengeance! I bet that works for you! If not ........... Consult a nutritionist and or a Personal Trainer. Losing the amount of weight you have is a major accomplishment! Be proud!
I was actually suggesting that some may wish to take..............with their Dr's supervision.........a testosterone supplement!
There is nothing wrong with plateauing, I lose tons of inches when I do. Just your body trying to play catch up. Keep working out through it and eating right.
This Is a email from my P.T I've been eating 5/6 small meals a day all with protein with no carbs There are 2 parts of your body (composition) that you are in control of in nutrition, muscle and body fat. You need to lose weight (to make the weight) and if you cut back equally on your macronutrients (protein, carbs and fats) you will cannibalise (burn off) muscle and body fat. Muscle is stored protein and body fat is stored energy normally from carbs and fats. What you need to do is eat enough protein so that your body has no need to cannibalise muscle but be deficient in energy foods (carbs and fats) so that your body has to cannibalise body fat for its shortfall in energy. In other words, less energy in (burn body fat) more energy out (training). What is a Kcalorie? A Kcalorie is not a nutrient, it is just a measurement of energy within a nutrient. Macronutrients are proteins, carbs and fats and these are measured in Kcals. 1 gram protein = 4 Kcals 1 gram carbs = 4 Kcals 1 gram fat = 9 Kcals 1 gram of alcohol = 7 Kcals although we would term these as “empty” Kcals because they have no nutritional value. There are examples of obese people that are malnutritioned because they have gained weight eating or drinking high Kcal, low nutrient foods. Some examples of these are Alcohol Sugars Processed Foods High Fat foods etc. Some examples of these high Kcal/low nutrition meals are A KFC meal – 3 pieces chicken, chips and a cola is 1500 Kcalories. A McDonalds average meal – 1500 Kcalories A large Pizza can be 3000 Kcalories The key is to eat low Kcal(to lose body fat) high nutrition meals (get adequate nutrient for the recovery from the trauma of training) Some examples of low Kcal/high nutrition meals/food/supplements are A chicken breast, baked potato and veg is about 450Kcals A Salmon steak, pasta and veg is about 550 Kcals A grilled piece of white cod, rice and veg is about 400Kcals 2 boiled or scrambled eggs on 2 pieces of brown toast is 300kcals A very big (250g) of green veg is only 60Kcals I piece of fruit 60Kcal A protein shake is 270Kcals If you eat too many kcals from carbohydrates and fats, the body will store those extra kcals for future use as body fat. If you train and eat too many kcals from protein, your body can store that extra protein as muscle, so very simplistically put, body fat is stored carbohydrates and fats (although in certain circumstances it can use protein) and muscle is stored protein.
K I got rid of that extra lb already. Back on track it's time to make every week count. 40 days I think left.
