dieting and exercising yet still getting fatter

[Thewper1]

And don't be so lazy, my wife and I both work, both exercise 4 times a week, and look after 2 kids under 5, without the help of any extended family!!! Oh and we cook fresh every day!

Wow....well done, you've won today's complete hero award!

 

[salad dodger]

I have just been told by my dad that for the first few weeks I am likely to put weight on until my metabolism changes (?). I have tried googling metabolism but it makes no sense whatsoever. How is it possible to reduce my calorie intake, increase the amount of exercise I do yet get heavier? Apparently I am not fatter, just heavier which is even more confusing when I am trying to lose weight.

 

[Marlon Brendo]

The trick is to eat rare chicken FFS. How many times am I ginna have to offer this advice? Stay fat, your choice.

 

[gizmoganzee]

High intensity intervals - for example use lampposts as a guide, sprint between 2 then jog next 2 : repeat for 15-30 mins will burn far more calories than 30 min jog on treadmill

Add walk into that

Walk, jog, sprint..Fartlek training

 

[pickles666]

I have just been told by my dad that for the first few weeks I am likely to put weight on until my metabolism changes (?). I have tried googling metabolism but it makes no sense whatsoever. How is it possible to reduce my calorie intake, increase the amount of exercise I do yet get heavier? Apparently I am not fatter, just heavier which is even more confusing when I am trying to lose weight.

muscle weighs more than fat mate. listen to your clothes and ignore the scales.

 

[gizmoganzee]

muscle weighs more than fat mate. listen to your clothes and ignore the scales.

this too! or the mirror test or pinch an inch

 

[S.S.R..]

You could have Reverse AIDS.

 

[Daydream Believer]

I am trying to lose weight. Have cut down on takeaways to only 1 a week from 3/4. Both working can't be arsed to cook. I cut down booze to only matchdays or otherwise one night a week from to be fair 7 nights a week. Bought a treadmill the other week and been hammering it, somehow I have managed to put on weight both weeks despite cutting out all the crap and actually exercising. If I continue with the diet and exercise at this rate I will be friggin huge instead of getting trim. Any ideas?

Muscle is denser than fat so initially as your muscle mass increases but you haven't burned much fat your body weight can increase.

You'd be better off monitoring your progress with a tape measure than a set of scales to begin with.