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Working out, lifting weights, and weight loss questions.?

Two co-workers and I go to the gym at least 4 days a week, sometimes more. I am doing a high protein, high fiber diet of around 1,200 calories a day. We use all the weight machines, free weights, treadmill and stairstepper. I wonder how long it will be before we begin to see weight loss on the scale. I realize that gaining muscle will cause you to sometimes gain weight before you actually loss, but I was curious as to how long it may be before we see results on the scale. It has only been 3 weeks, but at this point I have not budged on the scale. Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions? I have an 18 month old son and still have about 30 pounds of pregnancy weight on me. I plan to get pregnant again in about 4 months and really want that extra weight off before I gain baby weight again. Thanks in advance for any help!

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1. This may sound odd, but you might not be eating enough. 1200 calories is the bare minimum recommended intake for women, and with all your gym work, you'll be burning heaps more than usual. Counting calories is good - giving you body less food than it needs each day will force it to burn fat to make up the difference - but if you eat too little, you body will pull out all it's tricks and go into "starvation mode" where it burns away your muscles and turns as much incoming food as possible into fat. Lookup a bmr calculator to see how many calories you need to eat each day to maintain your current weight, then knock off 500-1000 from that figure to lose 1-2lbs a week, either by eating less or exercising more or both (as you're doing :). Also, check out this website - it'll help you figure out how many calories to eat, how many you're burning with your exercise etc: http://caloriecount.about.com Good luck!