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Its been quite a while now that i am noting how many calories people are burning in each workout.

I am having a feeling that i am burning too less cals as compared to all other people and want to find out why.

Sandya - u hv mentioned using life vesting machines and u burn almost 600 cals in 30 mins. I assumed it may be bec u hv been working out since long. I noticed ppl in my gym - no one runs as slow as i do, my speed seems to be slowest. I can jog for more than a minute continuously. while others in my gym can easily walk at a speed of 6, i just cant. 5.9 speed is what i hv touched max for walking and got exhausted soon.

On the cycle, i am always at the lowest level - easiest one. though my speed is quite fast and i can maintain it for long, i cant pedal at all even when i go one level up.
Others in my gym, even some fat women, cycle at levels 4 or 3 and i just cant go above level 1, my thighs start aching a lot.

on the cross trainer i am better, i can go to level 5 and thats what i hv seen others too.

My highest speed of burning cals has been on treadmill - 100 cals in 15 mins. I have never done better than burning 200 cals in 45 mins of treadmill!

In 2 hrs of gym - i burn 200 on treadmill (45 mins), 100 on cycle (20 mins), 100 on cross trainer (20 mins). Then i do some crunches, yoga, steam.

This is the best schedule. I dont always have all that time.

And now i read about this Ireland lady with 11 m son who burns 300 cal in 45 min.

Where am i doing wrong friends? Why am i not able to do better, its been 2m of gym now?
Its not that i havent improved ... earlier i cd not jog for more than 30 sec, now i jog for 1 min continuously.
But, hello! 1 min???? people laugh at me when i say this.

and then when i calculated that against my calorie intake and my metabolic rate (around 1440), i had to cut on my food intake to make sure i lose.
I started being on liquids all day and only having dinner - 2 times a week.
Result? weakness as expected.
And then once after giving feed to the baby I was so damn hungry, i ate everything that was available in the fridge - including rice and laddoo :(

I want to burn more cals. Is there anything i am not doing right? How come other fat ppl in my gym able to burn more cals than me? (some ladies are as fat as me and with kids).

I asked my instructer. But he is a young bachelor and did not seem to hav any idea about physical issues of a fat mom.

Pls help! sandya replied. dear patlivated, to me it seems like some kind of mental block that is not letting you do your best. Please don' t take me wrong, but some of the things that you wrote are i don' t know how to say it, but maybe a little weird(sorry for the lack of my vocabulory skills). At 5.9 on the treadmill, you can' t walk...you only run..not jog but run. alright, now at 5.9 you increase your inclination to about say 3.3 - 3.5 and you could burn the same 100 cal in about 10mints when compared to 15. And on the cross training i could easily manage level 15. even when i started off i started at 8..so, i' am guessing that 5 is really low. What happens when you increase the resistance? its ok to go slow but the resistance is where you are using and building your muscles in the right way. so, don' t worry about going slow.

and another thing about getting tired when you try something new. Say you put yourself up for 20 mints on a machine for say at level 8(cross training) and you get really-really tired in say 10 mints. Then what do you do?..here' s what i do. I take a few mintues off, go get a drink of water or sit for about a couple of minutes and take it again exactly where i left off for the rest of the time. I don' t switch to another machine b' cos that makes me feel as if i cannot complete my thing. I hate to give up on anything. I guess what i' am saying is perseverance and determination take you a long way in this battle. Don' t consider yourself weak to someone based on gender or ethnic background or anything else. I agree with you on one thing i.e when i don' t go the gym for say a week, then i can' t get back to where i left it off in a day or two...but i try my best to get there atleast in a week. So, even stopping for a bit to do what you do on a regular basis will take a while for you to get back to that point, remember that. So, when you don' t go to that gym for the weekend or for couple of days then it might take you a day or 2 for you get back there. so, good luck and take care. Have a fantastic workout filled weekend. The weathers definitely getting better out here, so we are planning to go hiking and cycling tomorrow.