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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I exercise decently and eat an OK diet, yet am massively struggling to lose any weight.  Everyday I run 30 minutes at lunch for 3-4 miles, depending on howmim feeling. After work, I lift weights for about 1 hour and have been lifting for the last 2 years. I am quite strong at this point.  I think I've been eating relatively healthy for a while.  Yesterday I had one cup of yogurt and an apple for breakfast, for lunch just a 1/4 cup of nuts and a banana and then chicken soup with a tomato based broth with potatoes and carrots and a side salad.  That's a typical day of eating for me. I do not snack that often, never eat fast food, and barely drink alcohol. Yet I cannot lose weight.  My blood pressure remains high and I may have sleep apnea.  [b]I estimate that after exercise and with my typical diet, I am living off of 1500-1800 calories per day. [/b] I just cannot fathom that my metabolism is so slow that I need to cut even more food out so that I'd be living only off of 1000 calories or less per day.  Is this a sign of some sort of metabolic syndrome?  I'd think I'd passout if I ate less and tried to workout. It'd also significantly impact my strength training if I ate a lot less food.[/quote]

There is really no secret as to why you are not losing weight. The clues are in your own post.

It has been shown over and over that people overestimate calories they burn, and underestimate calories they eat.
You are clearly eating more than 1500-1800 calories per day, as you are taking into account calories burned, which are overestimated. Do not take your estimates into account, you have no idea how many calories you are burning. You are eating over 2000 calories as you take into account what you think you burned. You don't say how many potatoes you are eating nor carrots. All are healthy, but all could be highly caloric. You do not have any kind of metabolic issue; you would not pass out with less than 1500 calories without taking into account what you think you are burning during your work outs.

Weightlifting might be good for you, but it does not burn many calories. How fast are you actually running to go over 3-4 miles in half an hour? That is fast running indeed, do that in the evening instead of weightlifting, do not take into account your "burned calories" to add more food to your daily intake and voila.
I am, quite frankly, surprised that you are not gaining weight eating that much and more.[/quote]

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