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Originally Posted by ladida
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My wife works out each day. 1h treadmill, does around 6 miles in that time frame. If she's not running she's doing various workouts in the gym for 1h at least. She's eating very little but healthy. Like 1 big meal a day (lunch/dinner) that i'd say is normal for her, and various daily snacks of fruit/vegetables/yoghurt etc (at least 4 times). She's not taking any supplements and please don't recommend those. She's at around 5.5'' and 122lbs. She's not losing any weight really (which is really strange to me considering how much she works out and how little she eats), and still has small cellulite patches on thighs eventho there's not much fat in there. Her goal is to get more muscular in the leg area, as the upper frame is good. I can't tell you the calory intake as i dont know.
Any diet recommendations, or what to change? I feel she's eating way little, but on the same side it's strange to me she's not losing weight.
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She needs to step up the cardio away from the basic long steady variety, and move into some HIIT. Look into the Tabata protocol -- which is basically 4 minute high intensity sessions of 20 seconds on/10 seconds off.
3 weeks after I started integrating it a couple times a week into my workouts, I noticed a speedup in fat loss.
If you want to really get serious with this, just do Tabata sprints about twice per week.
4 minutes doesn't seem like a lot, but you have to de-program the classic cardio mindset of "longer is better". HIIT is no bullshit.