Under-eating, over-exercising?

Question
I excercise for atleast two hours daily, and eat less than 1000 calories a day but I'm still a little overweight. What am I doing wrong?

Answer
Brittney,

One possible reason can be your too negative energy balance, which is sending your body into a conservation (starvation) mode.

Another possible situation can be that you are not really overweight or that your body composition is changing without weight loss.

Or, you just slowed down your weight loss or even hit the plateau and your exercise routine needs to be adjusted to continue your fitness progress.

To figured out, what's going on, you need to:

1) Know your body composition. Go to:

http://bantadiet.com/banta/?page_id=23

From there, download body fat and fitness calculators. Then start monitoring both weekly to see your progress.

2) Check out the latest exercise trends:

http://atkinszone.com/did-you-know/2007/10/is-your-exercise-routine-keeping-you....

http://atkinszone.com/exercise/2008/06/high-intensity-interval-training-for.html

http://atkinszone.com/exercise/2008/01/should-you-change-your-nutrition.html

http://atkinszone.com/exercise/2007/06/evolution-of-cardio.html

3) Are you having enough nutrients? Figure it out:

http://bantadiet.com/banta/?page_id=49
http://atkinszone.com/fat_loss/2008/01/multivitamins-for-fat-loss.html

Tanya Zilberter  

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