Am I Doing It Right?

[ShortFox]

Hello everyone 🙂

I just got my Charge 2 and I'm looking for advice on how to lose weight. 

I'm 5ft 1 and I'm 10 stone, I work in an office so it's hard for me to move around a lot during the day so this was my plan:

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday go for a 30 minute jog before work. Every day at work (Mon - Friday) go for a 30 minute walk on my lunch break. 

Do skipping ropes and running on the weekend and squats on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 

I'm drinking over 2,000 ml of water on weekdays - but not 100% clear on the importance of water (if someone can explain that would be fabulous)

I don't actively count calories, but I'd say I have around 1,300 on a good day!

I want to lose a stone, and I've struggled before in the past and have struggled to even lose 1 pound a week. 

Can anyone suggest anything for my plan which might improve it?

Thank you in advance 🙂

[WendyB]

Food is the most important thing. Exercise helps. But to lose weight its all about food.

You said you didnt track. But when begining I think it is real important. Especially since you said you are not losing.

I also think at first its important to weigh your serving sizes. You might be suprised.

You dont have to do it forever. Just until you get it down to what a serving size really is.

[SunsetRunner]

@ShortFox Welcome! You seem to have a great workout plan in place so I would have to agree with @WendyB that your next step should be to start logging and weighing your food to get a baseline for portion size and calories. Good luck  and keep us posted on your results!

[Reinhartz]

@ShortFox you have a great and nice plan for exercise 🙂 , but as mentioned by people above me , and so many people before , that losing weight is not about exercise , it's about healthy lifestyle IMHO.

When you have instant and fast way to lose your weight , usually ( Not all ) you will gain back your weight ( Called yoyo effect ) because your body metabolism cannot keep up with your new Weight

When you want to lose your weight , my suggestion is Count and Calculate your Calories Intake vs Calories Burned.

Healthy Diet for losing weight is deficit 500 calories / day , with Composition of Nutrient Is usually Carb:Prot:Fat = 50:30:20 or you can make it 40:40:20

Of Course with only deficit 500 calories / day , you will take  a long journey to lose your weight , but it's healthy and with a lower chance for gaining your weight back 🙂

There's so many tool that can help you count and calculate your calories intake , such as fitbit food logging , MFP , and many more. I Personally use MFP For Food Logging App and Fitbit For Exercise Logging App

Based on my experienced , i Regularly do exercise and control my calories intake , i loss +/- 18 kg in 3 month and still on going 

Hope this is helpful

[emili]

@ShortFox welcome to the community!! You need to figure out the math of your weight loss. how much do you burn without activity. How much do you burn with activity. This will tell you how much you can eat. Then you have to weigh, measure and figure out the food that will give you the biggest nutritional values for the calories. It takes a bit of effort at the start, but once you know what and how much, its a matter of building up habits and keeping track.

As far as water, it helps with pushing through toxins and helps you feel more full. it helps with digestion in some cases and initially helps with water related weight loss. Since your body is mostly water, you need it to help it work more efficiently. I don't follow the notion of forcing yourself to drink, but if you build a routine it helps.

[DeafFred]

Another tool I've found useful is Trendweight which is based on the hacker diet.  It does a very good job of showing you your weight trend and takes the worry out of the odd out-of-the-ballpark reading (e.g. my scale weight suddenly went up 2 kg literally overnight (even after taking 5 readings to make sure )  2 days later and I was back down those 2 kg and on track for losing my normal 1/2 kg a week: slow but sure.  Trendweight meanwhile didn't really show it even as a blip: nothing to worry about here folks, move along.  As long as scale weight is normally below the trend line I know I'm losing - if it starts edging above the trendline then I need to check my intakes (food) and outgoings (exercise).

As for water - when I started trying to reduce, I noticed little change until I increased my water intake.  Then I started to lose.  Supposedly many of us are chronically dehydrated and this interferes with our metabolism.  We also tend to interpret being thirsty with being hungry.  2 L a day should be sufficient though (personally I struggle to get above 1.5 L a day, so well done!)