Weight loss and swim times

Sometimes you can eat too little and stall your metabolism. If you are running and swimming and not eating enough to fuel your body, your body can go into "starvation mode" and hang on to the weight. Believe it or not, the answer is to actually up your calories. You did not say how many calories you are eating a day, but to lose 1 pound per week, you must create a deficit of 500 calories a day. You do not want to create a deficit of more than 1000 calories a day. So if your normal basal metobolic rate burns 1400 calories(what it takes to function without exercise), and you burn 900 calories swimming, then to lose a pound a week, you should be eating 1800 calories a day. Another way to rev up your metabolism is to weight train. More muscle on your body burns more calories at rest then less muscle, which explains why men tend to lose weight faster. They generally have more muscle than women. Many, many exercisers have found the answer is not to lessen even more, but add healthy foods to lose weight. Your body needs fuel to work-out and it will fight you if you do not give it enough fuel. Another thing is to shake up your routine, do different types of exercise. You must keep the body guessing so it does not adapt. And bottom line, I have been exercising for 30 years, but until I cleaned up my eating I did not lose. It took Weight Watchers and paying attention to portion sizes to lose 30 pounds.

Sometimes you can eat too little and stall your metabolism. If you are running and swimming and not eating enough to fuel your body, your body can go into "starvation mode" and hang on to the weight. Believe it or not, the answer is to actually up your calories. You did not say how many calories you are eating a day, but to lose 1 pound per week, you must create a deficit of 500 calories a day. You do not want to create a deficit of more than 1000 calories a day. So if your normal basal metobolic rate burns 1400 calories(what it takes to function without exercise), and you burn 900 calories swimming, then to lose a pound a week, you should be eating 1800 calories a day. Another way to rev up your metabolism is to weight train. More muscle on your body burns more calories at rest then less muscle, which explains why men tend to lose weight faster. They generally have more muscle than women. Many, many exercisers have found the answer is not to lessen even more, but add healthy foods to lose weight. Your body needs fuel to work-out and it will fight you if you do not give it enough fuel. Another thing is to shake up your routine, do different types of exercise. You must keep the body guessing so it does not adapt. And bottom line, I have been exercising for 30 years, but until I cleaned up my eating I did not lose. It took Weight Watchers and paying attention to portion sizes to lose 30 pounds.