Hi there

Lots of great comments on this so far. I agree that your body has been converting your fat to muscle which is why you may be weighing the same as when you first started. Having more wiggle room in your clothes is a great way to indicate that you're actually losing weight. I'm just wondering if maybe, now that you're working out, you might want to increase the amount of food you have rather than lower it. I've heard that a typical female (I'm assuming you are one) needs to eat about 2000 calories a day. This isn't to say you can eat junk food, but it means you may not have to worry so much about counting calories at all. Eat when you like how often you like-as long as the foods are high in nutrition (like yogurt, fruits, vegetables, meat), there's no danger of gaining weight from it. Especially not if you're lifting 40-50 reps in a weight training session. Holy! Way to go on strength training

Another thing I wonder is, are you taking any days off? Sometimes when you work out a muscle group, and especially if you're working it that hard, it can be better to take a day off weight training so you give the body time to recover from it. When you're weight training you're essentially breaking down the muscle so that when it rebuilds, it can build up stronger than it was before. Usually this rebuilding happens after you go to sleep or the day afterwards. If you continue to do heavy weight training day after day, it may be that the body isn't recovering as fast. So sometimes weight training every other day is sufficient (ie. weight training one day, next day off, weight training the next day, next day off), and some people weight train every day with cardio and take the last day of the week off. You can still do cardio on your off days when you're not weight training though. It helps you stick with the program you're on.

I just know this because when I've tried it, I sometimes saw a noticeable difference in weight loss the next day after my recovery day. Covert Bailey used to talk a lot about this too. He was a nutritionist/exercise expert who had a long running PBS series in the early 90's. I recommend any of his videos, truly (I'm not getting any money for saying that, I just like him a lot lol)

Well, hope this has helped a bit. Best of luck on your weight loss

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