Exercise

Hello everyone,
I just finished running for 20 minutes straight, no breaks, no rest.
I am running on 3 days of an empty stomach and it feels quite wonderful, I feel as if I can float, but the sad part is I still feel the need to lose weight.

I need to lose it all by December can anyone help??

For me I avoid carbs especially sugar and alcohol, but maybe you should see a professional since you are doing extreme dieting.

it's so nice to hear you're so motivated to lose weight

i wish that were me, when it comes to weight and exercise i'm not at all that healthy. (and i'm not even ashamed to admit it), i think that's the sad thing. i just don't care

I don't get why when I do this (exercise including running) and do not alter (increase) my food and even decrease my food (as I did recently as a direct result) that my weight goes up!

I just want to keep myself healthy! I've had exercise issues in the past, spent stupid amounts of time mostly multiple times a day in the gym, walking or running around the park and driven myself to the point of near complete exhaustion. my weight was just creeping up and up...I only lost the weight when I cut out the exercise.

I'm now at an age where I have to do exercise to keep myself healthy. I had just gotten to a weight I felt I could tolerate. OK so it was low, but I wasn't at deaths door and I was managing it, then I took up more exercise after finding a class I liked (ballet type fitness which is mainly focused on resistance rather than cardio) and I get my weight going up?! I am so disappointed! I feel like my body doesn't want me to exercise. I even cut back on what I was eating by 20% to try to get my weight to at least not go up as fast but it's made no difference.

I don't get it. I don't know what I am doing wrong- I eat exactly the same things every day and only increased the exercise yet my weight went up. I'm almost too scared to eat or to move! I'm not sure how I keep myself fit and my body not at risk of falling apart with lack of use if I don't exercise and keep it moving.

Hey guys,
To catch you all up on what has been happening, I've been running, sadly we had to give away my treadmill and that was my baby..
I have gained a boyfriend,
He is very sweet, and he is very motivational.
I still am having trouble motivating myself to run everyday, but If anyone has tips and tricks for more weight loss it would be grand.
I am taking diet pills now, 2 a week, and it''s seeming to help some but I look like I've gained weight and I don't understand that, I'm still in the 130s
I really want to go back to 115...
Any tips loves?

Not got any major tips, just that where weight comes into the equation, it's mostly through food that things are affected, exercise will have an effect but not by as much as people think- the human body is very clever and wisens to what we throw at it. One of the big reason we have survived so long as an animal is that we have learned how to store food in our bodies so we can survive famines. It means we can over eat and just store what we don't use rather than it going straight through us and for many of us we're better at this than others though unless we have medical concerns (eg thyroid issues) we all have the ability to become overweight due to storing food.

I would say to not get too stressed about losing weight soon after giving birth- partly our bodies try to keep the weight on us if we've just gone through a major bodily life change like that so we can take time to repair and rebuild and weight that our bodies don't require may be easier to get rid of when we're outside of the initial body-stress moment if that makes sense.

Keep a diary of what you eat, try to find times where you struggle and write down separately why and what you feel like doing and what you ended up doing weather or not you found a new coping strategy or couldn't stick to what you had initially planned. At the end of a few weeks of doing this and looking back each week to review, you may be able to see commonalities and put in to place things to help yourself; eg planning to eat where you feel most hungry rather than when you feel you should eat or planning to go for a walk when you feel hungry due to loneliness or tiredness.

Enjoy what exercise you do wherever possible. If you can do this, you are more likely to become better and stronger at it and find other forms of exercise previously beyond you feel easier and more achievable.

As long as you make life your priority and not food you should be OK, but IME it's when people feel so fixated and focused that little else mattered that they then feel depressed and it becomes a vicious cycle. Try to keep all things in relativity and remind yourself of what really matters and what's really important (food/weight aint it!). If you can do this every now and then and believe what you are reminding yourself, you may just find the weight falls off by itself.