Why do i lose weight while my friend, who tries more than me to lose her weight, can't?
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She may be starving herself. Just because she eats, doesn't mean she eats enough. You should never take in less than 1200 calories a day. Your body goes into starvation mode, and conserves the calories it does take in.
Your situations are going to be different. You have to consider a lot of things: start weight/height, age, "other activity" (what you do during the day, do you have an active job?), genetics, types of workouts. Everyone is different. She may never lose at the rate you do. I would look into the number of calories she is consuming though... because that could be a real problem.
she's definitely binging and not telling you.
Starving doesn't work for the long term, but if she has been doing it for 3 months she would have lost some weight. Maybe she binges and doesn't tell you.
no info about her being overweight. maybe she already has her ideal weight
There are so many differences between people that anything can be causing her to not lose as much weight. She may have a slower metabolism than you naturally. If this is the case, she should not be starving herself, as that is the best way to slow down your metabolism even more. She should be eating healthy foods that give her energy without the fat so she has more energy to exercise.
The best way to lose weight is to eat more often, but with the same amount of calories, meaning she should try eating 6 small meals, as opposed to three large ones. That will cause her to be less hungry at meal time and therefore not crave fatty foods as well as give her continuous energy throughout the day to keep burning calories. Without energy from food, your body is incapable of burning calories and instead stores them as fat.
Also, she should avoid eating within three hours of going to sleep. During sleep, the body does not need the same amount of energy as when we are awake and constantly moving around. This means she will have burned off the calories from eating before going to sleep and in turn use the stored calories (fat) for energy while sleeping.
Finally, your friend might be exercising too much. She should try training that keeps her heartrate up for 30 minutes. A recent study showed that exercising for 30 minutes followed by a 20 minute break of just sitting followed by 30 minutes of another bout of exercise was beneficial for losing weight. Also, you must consider that if she is doing weight training while you are doing mostly cardio training, she is gaining weight with the increase in muscle mass. She may be losing weight from losing fat, but it may not show up on the scale because muscle weighs more than fat. This is why scales are usually not used as the main form of measuring weight loss. Your best bet is to get a body fat measurement from your local gym, nutritionist, or college (health department...look for an exercise science, athletic training, or physical therapy department) and talk to a nutritionist or weight loss center
Good luck!
MB Gilliam, Certified Athletic Trainer
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