I’ve been working out for about 4 months now (HIIT on a spin bike and a bit of weightlifting ~20 mins.) three times a week. I’m seeing good improvement in health and physique despite having no idea what I’m doing.
My motivator was calories, but now when I work out I burn way less calories because my body is getting used to the stress, I think. What’s happening? Is my workout less useful than before? Can I not eat as much or is my body burning more fuel now?
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Short version: You probably want to talk to a doctor, physical therapist, or personal trainer. These things are complicated.
Longer version: every cell burns calories just sitting there. Fat cells barely any, muscles burn quite a bit. So if you add muscle you burn calories sitting still.
How are you measuring calories burned? I don’t know of a good way to do this. There are bad ways, so you perhaps you are being mislead by your metrics. Specifically, if you are doing the workout consistently, you feel better, and you look better, what is the problem?
If you haven’t improved your diet, you probably need to do that.
You might want to do more different things to challenge your body. Doing the same thing can become less demanding as your body gets good at it, so to speak.
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