Another weight loss question has come in this week. Let’s tackle it straight away:
This is going to be a long answer, because I’m going to give you as much help as I can. I went through something similar very recently, and I almost went crazy with the plateau. My best advice: don’t give up.
Going from a 35 BMI to 31 is great! You still have a ways to go, but you’ve made huge progress! BMI is one useful way to check your weight health, but I would also measure various parts of your body about once a month - sometimes you shrink even when you don’t lose weight.
I’m 23 and actually just dropped from an almost 35 BMI to about 31. Recently I hit a pretty long plateau that wasn’t budging. I stay the exact same weight. I was eating very healthy, exercising every day, and still I didn’t lose weight.
Then I changed one thing and I started dropping weight in less than 2 days. It was weird but great.
I’ve changed my diet to include mostly veggies, some fruits, baked poultry or fish, and some whole grains. I don’t eat much bread or dairy at all. I do have whole grain pasta and brown rice, though. I eat 5 smaller meals a day (pretty much whenever I’m hungry) and about 1,200 - 1,400 calories a day. I eat treats once in a while, or a treat meal on special occasions.
My diet was what I wrote above, and I walked about 3.5 mph for an hour every day. Stopped losing weight at one point. Then I changed my exercise routine to light sprint intervals and a little weight lifting and a bit of stretching. After one day of that I started losing weight again.
My routine is:
Warm up by walking 3-3.5 mph for 10 minutes, then run at 6-8 mph for 30 seconds to 3 minutes, then slow to about a 3-3.5 mph walk for 4-5 minutes, and repeat however much you want. I usually repeat about 3 times, and I vary the lengths of the running as I go. It is a little harder than walking was, but it works.
Then I do weights for my arms - whatever I feel like doing. Three or four sets at most. The same for legs. Then I stretch and loosen up for a few minutes. Takes less than an hour to do all that. I do it 6-7 times a week.
Hope this helped.
You’re going awesome, by the way. Keep going! I will too.
Kaitlyn
Drink lots of water, don’t drink vitamin water, it has as much sugar as pop. Maybe around like 1400 Calories, not including sugar etc.
The more muscle you have, the faster your metabolism works.
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