Planet fitness workout

[trainingday2]

Hi everybody,

Wanted to see if I can get some advice. I just turned 40 and for the last 11 years I have been over 300 lbs and up to 9 weeks ago I was 360. I’m down to 320 from dieting no sugar carbs and suck. The past 3 weeks I started working out and joined planet fitness. They have a 30 express workout room that works out full body. So my routine is:
Elliptical 400 cal
30 min express
Elliptical 400 cal
I have been doing that for 3 weeks everyday and have not loss 1 lb. I have gained 7lbs. So one told me to take a rest day from 30min express but I have not. It’s only 12 reps each machine and doing steps for 60 sec. I been told I’m not giving my body time to heal but I have not been sore since the first few days. I feel so good. No back problems headaches nothing i use to have but I would like to see lose of weight. Should I stop working out everyday or is it just going to take awhile? Thanks

[BillPhoto]

Your diet is out - you need to track what you eat. Cutting out sugar is good, cutting out carbs is not so good depending on what you want to achieve.

Also, your diet is out. You are eating more calories than you are burning.

One more thing - your diet is out!

[MrNismo]

What BillPhoto said is right. You are eating too much still which just takes some practice to get right. Exercise is awesome for general wellness (and of course looking good!) but it's terrible at burning excess calories. The far better way to burn excess calories is to not eat them in the first place

Start logging everything you ingest including coffee creamer, ketchup, whatever! Use something like MyFitnessPal or any other number of calorie trackers out there.

As for carbs, it's purely personal. I do much better dropping carbs when I'm in a large calorie deficit as far as not being as hungry. Being able to keep fat intake higher helps curb my hunger and also seems to help both mood and joint pain. This is purely personal preference though as all that really matters when it comes to losing weight is reducing calories below what your body uses every day.

[mtpockets]

Put the pizza slice down and back away.

[Gabbar99]

Elliptical 400 cal
30 min express
Elliptical 400 cal

Don't think of exercise in terms of calories. Do the elliptical for aerobic fitness and because you want to do it. Exercise for health and fitness. Eat (i.e., eat less) for weight loss. Don't mix them.

https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/115188...-burn-calories

[trainingday2]

Thanks I will track it. What about doing the 30 min full body each day is that hurting me? It is 12 reps for 10 machines. I have not changed my eating much since dropping the initial weight. I have had a few bad days but that is all.

[weiss1967]

OP, full body every day is not a problem, it should not be hurting you. People do that. Not optimal IMO but that is beside the point.

Billphoto mentioned something about your diet being out, he might have a point. What exercises you do every day and how, that does not have anything to do with fat burning. Elliptical-schmelliptial, doesn't matter if you eat too much.

[OldFartTom]

"If you do enough exercise you can eat what you like" that is told to you by people selling fitness memberships and pointless exercise gadgets.

"It's not the calories that's the problem it is.. pick one from the following list (any sugars, trans fatty acids, sweeteners, things cavemen didn't eat, yeast, fructose, carbs, fats)" this is told to you by people and magazine selling diet plans

"Calories in versus calories out" is what doctors and dieticians say

You decide which school of thought you should follow..

Exercise is great, it has a heap of benefits, keep doing it. But weight control isn't one of them. So if your weight loss is off track, check the calories are correct.

Good luck, enjoy..