Is it true?

Is it true that if you're working out a lot, but not eating enough calories to make up for a lot of working out, that your body won't lose as much weight because it goes into like a starvation mode?

Someone just told me this and I hadn't heard it before.

I've been on a big workout kick for the past month- kickboxing 4 times a week, lifting weights 3 times a week. I was trying to keep my calories down around 1300 a day (I'm very short- 5 Foot), but I haven't lost any weight.

Then someone told me that I may just not be eating enough to let my body release some of the weight.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Also, don't look at the scale! If you are gainning muscle, your weight should be going up.

Gaining muscle will make you gain weight (numbers, not fat) but pretty soon, you will start loosing fat.

When I started weight trainning, I lost at least 5 lbs of fat, but gained 10 lbs. I went down 1-2 sizes.

So don't look at the scale, get your body fat checked and look at the ratio of fat to muscle.

Also, are you trainning hard enough? Heavy enough?
Are you over trainning?

Kickboxing kicks my a**. I leave class feeling great, very tired, and in desperate need of a shower. :)

Weight training I try to do 3 set of 12 reps per machine- and make it so I can barely do the last rep of each set. Enough to make my muscles tired, but not about to give out.

My weight has always stayed within the same 15-20 pounds, but I'm finding the later into my 20's I go, the harder it is to lose weight.

Ok- I'm going to try adding a few more 'smart' snacks to my diet. Maybe that will work...

thanks for the info!