I think my body's weird, help?

[tsukinoiri]

okay,

I look really chubby and blocky,
but I'm a girl that can do 4x800 in about 17 or so minutes,
do about 18 consecutive good form push-ups
and I have a 14.5 sec time for 100m sprint.
and I'm just basically pretty good at anything sporty.

But I'm just so fat and flabby..?
And it just won't seem to go down.

Plus, I'm finally in university, and I barely have time for exercise(Though I do try to run in the mornings), and I'm don't have much of a food choice
because I eat at residence.

I was pretty skinny before 15, and after that I just started growing.

will I ever get that really athletic body everybody else seems to have?
I'm so discouraged..

[reagansquad]

okay,

I look really chubby and blocky,
but I'm a girl that can do 4x800 in about 17 or so minutes,
do about 18 consecutive good form push-ups
and I have a 14.5 sec time for 100m sprint.
and I'm just basically pretty good at anything sporty.

But I'm just so fat and flabby..?
And it just won't seem to go down.

Plus, I'm finally in university, and I barely have time for exercise(Though I do try to run in the mornings), and I'm don't have much of a food choice
because I eat at residence.

I was pretty skinny before 15, and after that I just started growing.

will I ever get that really athletic body everybody else seems to have?
I'm so discouraged..

You might have a body that naturally wants to be a little bit thicker. Some of us are stuck with that, just means we have to work harder. IMHO you focus a lot on the workout, but not the diet. There are plenty of healthy options available at the dorm cafeteria, you just have to be committed to it. Also, you might try switching to different birth control pills if you're on em. Some can make you gain weight, some can make you lose.

[DAames]

I didn't see the word "calorie" once in your post. You need to figure out your maintenance intake and eat at a caloric deficit.

[sharpieblet]

Diet and caloie counting. Until you master these you can't expect to have agreat body. Anyone who says u can skimp on ur diet is retarded. I was in ur same exact shoes a year ago. Physically capable of exercise and being active, but didn't look it. Know what got me where I am now? Counting calories. That will be the majority of ur results. Read all the stickies. Eat high protein diet. Eat at a caloric deficit. Train your WHOLE body with resistance exercises and don't buy into broscience BS.

Id be more in dept but I'm kind on shift now

[tsukinoiri]

You might have a body that naturally wants to be a little bit thicker. Some of us are stuck with that, just means we have to work harder. IMHO you focus a lot on the workout, but not the diet. There are plenty of healthy options available at the dorm cafeteria, you just have to be committed to it. Also, you might try switching to different birth control pills if you're on em. Some can make you gain weight, some can make you lose.

Thanks. It's true that I feel like I have to work harder, and even truer that I have to focus more on dieting.

[tsukinoiri]

I didn't see the word "calorie" once in your post. You need to figure out your maintenance intake and eat at a caloric deficit.

I am eating at a calorie deficit, but I guess not enough.

[tsukinoiri]

Diet and caloie counting. Until you master these you can't expect to have agreat body. Anyone who says u can skimp on ur diet is retarded. I was in ur same exact shoes a year ago. Physically capable of exercise and being active, but didn't look it. Know what got me where I am now? Counting calories. That will be the majority of ur results. Read all the stickies. Eat high protein diet. Eat at a caloric deficit. Train your WHOLE body with resistance exercises and don't buy into broscience BS.

Id be more in dept but I'm kind on shift now

Thanks! I viewed your profile, and I look almost identical in body fat to your before picture. I'm amazed at how awesome you look now! That's motivation enough for me to focus more on diet.

I have another question: How many calories do you intake now just to keep your shape? Is it normal intake?

[Mightymuff]

I am eating at a calorie deficit, but I guess not enough.

If your are not losing weight, you are not in a calorie deficit.

[ashgonz]

If your are not losing weight, you are not in a calorie deficit.

I eat at a calorie deficit.
I have upped my workouts and cardio.
Most people would say that I am cheating or lying if I am not losing weight... but, why lie? I know how hard I am working and I know how great I have become at counting calories (I measure everything out during meal planning), with that being said... I am not losing. For awhile my measurements were changing, but now I am at a standstill. This is not some kind of plea for anything, it is just a comment that it is not always true that if you are eating at a deficit that you will lose. There are other factors that interfere.

[nlite2000]

I eat at a calorie deficit.
I have upped my workouts and cardio.
Most people would say that I am cheating or lying if I am not losing weight... but, why lie? I know how hard I am working and I know how great I have become at counting calories (I measure everything out during meal planning), with that being said... I am not losing. For awhile my measurements were changing, but now I am at a standstill. This is not some kind of plea for anything, it is just a comment that it is not always true that if you are eating at a deficit that you will lose. There are other factors that interfere.

Like water retention. But that doesn't mean you aren't losing fat.

The fact is, if you aren't losing fat and the scale stays the same, you are eating at maintenance. If you aren't losing fat, then you aren't eating at a deficit. There's no way around this.

[ashgonz]

Like water retention. But that doesn't mean you aren't losing fat.

The fact is, if you aren't losing fat and the scale stays the same, you are eating at maintenance. If you aren't losing fat, then you aren't eating at a deficit. There's no way around this.

Come live with me for a few weeks, I will prove it to you.
That doesn't mean that I think the OP is experiencing the same. It is obvious that committing to both a nutritional plan and workout program, is currently the missing link.

[Mightymuff]

Come live with me for a few weeks, I will prove it to you.

Prove what? That your maintenance is some low calorie figure? By the definition of the word, if you are not losing any fat you are eating at maintenance and hence not in a calorie deficit.

[CEGH]

You need to realise, if you body doesn't get energy, where else can it get it from? Fat. If there is no fat then you can't make energy appear out of nowhere.

This is why eating less calories will make you lose weight.

What I found was I started to lose weight, then I stopped. I had to eat less than I was when I was losing weight.

If you posted a weeks worth of what you eat I'm sure we would find out the reason why you are not losing.

You don't even need to do any cardio to lose weight either.