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First off, NEVER measure your weight loss progress by weight.
Weight is not what you need to be going by, you need to be going off bodyfat %. This is a VERY common mistake for people trying to lose weight. Get a good skinfold test from a local YMCA or trainer at a gym.
I would not be suprised if your overtraining. You can't just say you lift weights 45 minutes 5 times a day. You need to break out what you acutally do for those 45 minutes. If your telling me your hitting every bodypart in those 45 minutes, you not doing it right.
Wow, your cutting out a lot of calories...what is your protien uptake like? You need a quality high protien, low fat intake to build up muscle and increase your metabolism.
Your also an older lifter. Your test level are not going to be at the levels of a 20 year old. You make want to consider natural herbal test boosters like Fenugreek.
The Fenugreek herb is native to southern Europe, the Mediterranean region and western Asia.
It has numerous health benefits, including increased libido, elevated testosterone and increased insulin release.
Up your cardio to 30 minutes a day. You are probably putting on muscle mass.
If you want to strictly lose weight, then focus on aerobic cardio, and go for 30 minutes at a time. Weight training will produce new muscle mass. If you're sure that you've put on some muscle, then it's probably equal in weight to the fat you've lost. Muscle is much heavier than fat.
muscle weighs more than fat so if the scale hasn't moved it doesn't matter. take your measurements. legs arms waist
don't give up it will come.
OK, the carbs thing was a gimmick. I think you are not measuring your portions. Start! And ZERO fast food. If a bean burrito at Taco Bell is nearly 400 calories...well anything else is too much.
20 minutes of cardio in only half of what you should be doing. Your body can adjust to the 20 minutes that you are givin' it. And if you are congratulating yourself with a little bag of chips after your "work out" you will not move the scale.
Also, lifting twice a week is enough for beginners; the muscles build during the down time...NOT the work time. So do the cardio 5 times a week for 45, and lift twice a week for 20 minutes and you will drop weight. Also, people I know go to kickboxing class twice a week and have lost 4 pounds in a week. The instructor smokes them but the feel very chilled out when the class is over. It is also very manly.
PS. recent clinical studies show that muscle mass is not the cause of the scale not moving. This is something the exercise industry thought up in the 80's to make women feel better about lifting weights...its a myth. Check out the NIH site, the American Dietetic Assoc. site, American Kineseology site. And don't get advice from 22 year old overly thin aerobics teachers that go to tanning beds...you want health, not just looks.
Check with your doctor,especially about the ratio(as it were)
of age, height and weight,. Although you are doing some
very healthy work-out, you're PROBABLY substituting the fat
your losing from the cardio and diet, with the muscle you're building from the weight training. As for the time thing (3weeks?),remember you're no longer 15,so it will take a little-bit longer to see the results that you're looking for. Just don't kill yourself in the process!
drop the wights to 3 days a week, change your diet and go to 30 minutes of cardio
Lifting will build muscle unless you lift very light and many reps