Massive fat burning failure

[zsuper]

So.. I've wanted to get healthy for a while, but whenever I started I thought 'Hey, I'm fat, nobody expects me to be healthy' and quit, because I didn't have the motivation to continue.

With graduation coming up in six weeks, I've been trying to binge diet/exercise to lose some weight (and more importantly, fat).


For breakfast, I eat something small like a muffin or an orange. Eating more than that so early in the morning gives my stomache aches.
The next time I eat is when I get home. I usually have a plain white bowl of rice or a sandwich; turkey, lettuce, mustard, cheese, whole-wheat bread.
After that, about three to four hours later, I'll eat supper, which is usually some kind of meat (a porkchop, half a chicken breast, something like that) and rice.
I drink water all day; usually four to six 250ml bottles.

Over the course of the day, I'll spend between 30 and 60 minutes at a time, running. I do this atleast once every day, but sometimes as many as three or four times. This past week, I did it twice every day.


I weighed 155 pounds at the beginning of the week. I weigh 154 pounds today, at the end of the week. I'm obviously doing something wrong.


I've thought about the problem being in genetics, but I read that genetics don't have a major effect on weight.
All of the men in my family are fat, just below the obesity line. My father, for example, works 9 hour days doing golf course maintenance (mowing the greens, sandtrap raking, ect.) and doesn't eat huge amounts of food, but he's still heavy and has a large stomache.


Is there anything I can do to lose some weight? Weight training is pretty much out of the question, for lack of availability.

[narcsarge]

First off, how tall are you? 155 is not fat if your say 5'8" or taller. Second, you don't need weights to start working out. Pullups, pushups, chair dips, sit ups, crunches, etc. all can help maintain muscle. Third going on a crash diet of severe calorie restriction can cause your metabolism to go into "starvation mode" and actually increase your fat reserves. Eat 5 - 6 smaller well balance meals a day to keep your metabolism chugging along.