Pilates and Weight Gain

[Anonymous]

Pilates and barre are the ultimate money scams. Sure , go ahead and pay $100 per month, but don’t except to lose weight.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been taking solidcore and have actually gained weight. I’m adding in spin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been taking solidcore and have actually gained weight. I’m adding in spin.

You don’t need to add anything in. You need to watch your diet. Exercise doesn’t burn as many calories as you think. Diet is the bigger bang for your buck, but no one wants to believe they gained weight or can’t lose weight because they are simply eating too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been taking solidcore and have actually gained weight. I’m adding in spin.

You don’t need to add anything in. You need to watch your diet. Exercise doesn’t burn as many calories as you think. Diet is the bigger bang for your buck, but no one wants to believe they gained weight or can’t lose weight because they are simply eating too much.

+1

I *love* solidcore, but it doesn’t burn nearly as many calories as it feels like it should, given how hard it is. I treat it the way I’d treat weight-lifting, i.e., purely as strength training. I do Peloton 3-4 times/week and run three times/week in addition to solidcore (yes, I double some days).

Diet is the bigger bang for your buck in terms of weight loss, but not for fitness. Do with that what you will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My clothes fit tighter than they did over the summer.
I think I need to accept the fact that it isn’t muscle

Pilates likely is not burning the same calories as running. It is still good for you but you may just need to eat less or e er use more. Or accept the added pounds.

[Anonymous]

My problem is that cardio makes me soooo hungry. To lose a few pounds, I actually cut back a bit on cardio so my appetite wasn't threw the roof.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been taking solidcore and have actually gained weight. I’m adding in spin.

You don’t need to add anything in. You need to watch your diet. Exercise doesn’t burn as many calories as you think. Diet is the bigger bang for your buck, but no one wants to believe they gained weight or can’t lose weight because they are simply eating too much.

The trouble with your advice is that most people have trouble consistently eating 1200-1400 calories per day and never going above that. This is why exercise works to help diets- it enables you to have that piece of cake at the office party or dinner out with the husband or other things to feel normal. It also makes the diet sustainable over time because you have a built in way to burn excess calories that will inevitably make their way into your stomach.

People here often write about how they can't lose or keep gaining back the weight and it's pretty obvious why. I'm 5'8 and if I don't want to gain weight I have to keep it under 1600 calories a day, every day. That isn't sustainable for me through diet alone. I can go work out and burn 500-600 calories an hour, and like the average healthy weight woman, the activity also suppresses my appetite.

OP does need to diet to get back on track. But working out will help her stay on track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My problem is that cardio makes me soooo hungry. To lose a few pounds, I actually cut back a bit on cardio so my appetite wasn't threw the roof.

This sounds like dehydration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pilates and barre are the ultimate money scams. Sure , go ahead and pay $100 per month, but don’t except to lose weight.

Barre is a money burner but pilates (reformer) is worth the cost.

[Anonymous]

You need cardio. Pilates doesn’t make you gain muscle mass in pounds.

[Anonymous]

I love Pilates and go to a class 2-3 times a week. But I do not count it as any kind of calorie burn. I think of it more like physical therapy and injury prevention. It helps me stay strong and flexible so I don’t get injured doing to cardio I love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Pilates and go to a class 2-3 times a week. But I do not count it as any kind of calorie burn. I think of it more like physical therapy and injury prevention. It helps me stay strong and flexible so I don’t get injured doing to cardio I love.

I agree w/ that, PP. Also helps w/ posture and elongates my muscles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My problem is that cardio makes me soooo hungry. To lose a few pounds, I actually cut back a bit on cardio so my appetite wasn't threw the roof.

This sounds like dehydration.

Not necessarily. It is actually pretty normal for women to have a tendency to replace the calories they burn with cardio by eating more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To gain fat or muscle you need to be eating in a calorie surplus. So in short, you gained weight because you are eating more calories than you were burning. Now could some of that weight gain could be muscle, yes, but putting on 2+ lbs of muscle is not easy, so my bet would be it's mostly fat. Now if you like how you look and feel, and if your clothes are fitting better then forget about the scale and a few pounds.

Um, nope.

You can gain muscle without eating a calorie surplus - you just have to focus on getting enough protein, which is what builds muscle.

Pilates will strengthen muscle and help build it if you’re eating properly.

Don’t worry about the number on the scale so much as the way clothes are fitting. It’s possible to be the ‘right’ number on the scale and a weakling too. You can also get lots of cardio and be weak. As we age our muscle mass diminishes more and more rapidly year after year - you have to work at keeping it, and Pilates is a great exercise for that.

I work with elders and it’s made me realize how incredibly important it is to keep that muscle mass intact. I’ve cared for lots of slender ladies and men who struggle to get up and down from a chair because they’ve let their muscle tone go to shit. Learn to love Pilates - and some gentle weight training - and not only will your clothes fit well, you’ll stave off dependency on others as you age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My problem is that cardio makes me soooo hungry. To lose a few pounds, I actually cut back a bit on cardio so my appetite wasn't threw the roof.

This sounds like dehydration.

Not necessarily. It is actually pretty normal for women to have a tendency to replace the calories they burn with cardio by eating more.

I agree with this! I play tennis and when I am playing tennis a lot, especially during the warmer months and playing a 2-3 hour match outside, I am absolutely ravenous and I know I eat more calories than I burned. I have to fight hard to not gain weight when I am doing this much cardio.