Weight gain/loss

[bedamon]

I'm in the gym at least five times a week and spend and were from a half an hour to two hours in the gym doing cardio and weights. But the issue is I've list five pounds and now I've put it back on and I'm not sure why any help would be great

[MTThrive]

Womens weight fluxuates often, some of the best ways to lose weight, gain muscle tone is interval training.  You also need to switch it up. All personal trainers I've worked with say to change your workout routine about every two weeks. 

If you are lifting weights - is it heavy weights?  If you are doing cardio - are you challenging yourself?  A lot of women plateau after dropping 5lbs and gain it back because they aren't evolving their workouts.

[Brifit4life]

this occured to me also, a lot is water weight... Your body holds on to the water to help with muscle recovery.. when i lift a lot, and starting off new.. your body isnt used to it and can hold on to the water longer... i had it hold it up to 2-3 days... but once it lets it go you can see the water weight go as well as any weight you loss go too. this happened for awhile with me... from bike riding to leg lifting workouts... the legs i believe have the largest amount of  muscle in the body so that would take longer. this is what i have researched.

[PaleoCrossfit]

@bedamon weightloss occurs in the kitchen, not in the gym. Calories in must be fewer than calories out. You can workout for 6 hours a day, but if you don't change your eating habits, you're likely to still not lose weight.

@Heybales is really good at breaking everything down.

[Heybales]

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@bedamon wrote:
I'm in the gym at least five times a week and spend and were from a half an hour to two hours in the gym doing cardio and weights. But the issue is I've list five pounds and now I've put it back on and I'm not sure why any help would be great

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Ditto's to water weight being the likely improvement to the exercise.

Exercise is about body changes, not weight loss, rarely does exercise have weight loss as side effect.

Diet is for weight loss - done right just fat loss, done wrong includes muscle mass.

You merely must eat less than you burn by reasonable amount.

Exercise can make that easier because then you burn more in total, so that when you eat less, it may be enough that you'll adhere to it well. Compared to how little you'd have to eat if not exercising.

5 x weekly for 1-2 hours is likely another water weight issue though.

Exercise if done right tears the body down.

Rest for recovery and repair allow it to build back up, stronger if diet allows.

Where is your rest for recovery and repair?

If your body doesn't get it, you are merely increasing stress levels.

Stress elevates cortisol constantly which is negative, rather than spikes which is positive.

You can retain upwards of 20 lbs with cortisol.

Now, 5 x weekly isn't bad if a well structured program. But rarely have I seen that occur with someone that is gung-ho on exercise now, and spelling out all these days and hours as if that's a good thing. That usually means all in a row, with each day being as intense as you feel like you can do it.

The problem is without a recovered body, it may still feel intense as it ever did, but your body flat out can't push as hard.

And a body that is overloaded with tiredness doesn't have anything to improve, except sleep.

A body that is fresh and is overloaded, improves by getting stronger.