Hello! Weight Loss Help Please

mygirlsthreads

I've been lurking here on the forum for a few weeks and have been using the calorie counting app for about a 6 months or so on and off. So a little about me, I was always very thin ranging from 120-130 my entire life. I became pregnant when I was 28 (two years ago now) and quit smoking and started an antidepressant all around the same time. I gained 70lbs during my pregnancy. I lost about 40lbs right away and have been sitting around 160 for the past 2 years and decided that was it I'm getting my old body back...so I have been eating 1200 calories for the past month and doing cardio for 3 weeks, 30 day shred on day 9 level 1. So heres where I am getting frustrated, I went from 160 - 152 pretty quickly, but now i keep teetering between 150lb - 152lb, there has been no change in my weight for over 2 weeks and I'm starting to feel discouraged. I feel like I'm eating pretty well and doing cardio/30 day shred daily so I'm not sure why I'm not dropping faster......does anyone have any insight, can you look over my food logs and critique? Thank You!

icemom011

Stay at the deficit, continue with your efforts, don't give up. I go through this every so often, but eventually it will whoosh, and pounds will be coming off quickly again.

GothamVeggie

You don't seem to have your diary open to the public. Once you open it, I'd be happy to take a look.

jolive7

I am sure your body requires more than 1200 calories a day to function, with your weight and with the exercise you have mentioned. Think about it, if you are stuck on 1200 where will you go to lose fat, 1000? 800? Or will you do endless hours of cardio to make up the deficit??

On such low calories you will decrease your leptin production, and increase cortisol production. Leptin controls everything with regards to fat loss, thyroid, mental state.

Seffell

1. You need to use a digital food scale if you are not using already. And you need to use it for all food.
2. At this weight you can't easily lose more than 1lbs per week. And considering you are a female you won't see it on the scale each week either. Weight fluctuates even during a diet. It goes up and down.

So be patient and use the digital scales to measure your food.

Loug1983

I saw a gain of a few lbs when I started the 30 day shred, I'd finally got under 200 and then the next day I had gained 4 or 5 lbs, it wouldn't shift for a couple of weeks and was disheartening. I powered through following the plan and after a couple of weeks finally saw the scale go back down. It's possible the new exercise routine is just causing water retention, don't lose hope!

chandraminick

It takes about 60 days on the 30 day shred to get the really good results. Don't give up. Day nine is very early in the program. You have to focus on a life change, getting healthy, building muscle and not getting stuck on the quick weight loss. It always slows down as you loose 20, 30, 40. I know its fustratimg to be heavy after being 125 for so long, but you have to realize that antidepressants put weight on many people. Also, you are almost 30. Its hard to have foresight at that age, but at 43, I can say that you are at that age where all your exercise and healthy lifestyle are necessary to maintain the weight you want now. Not only do you have to adapt to a lifestyle change, you have to learn how your thinking and choices affect all this. If you push too hard to loose the weight to quickly without adapting through the journey, you will most likely gain it back. Slow down, be in the moment of what you have to do, realize it will be something you have to dofor the rest of your life and just focus on healthy choices and fitness. I tell you this so frankly because I did the shred 60 days in a row last year going from 203 to 168. I plateaued too, and was logging everything mostly unprocessed at 1300 calories. The 30 Day Shred is not a miracle pill. It is merely a well designed tool to help you loose weight and look really good if eating properly. I still would have been skinny fat after 90 days, but would have had a defined abdomen and legs. By no means would I have been cut at three months because that really is a six month and longer goal, but I probably would have lost 50-55 lbs. Your weight will not melt off on a few weeks at a high rate, but if you can stick with the shred, you will LEARN so much and be able to maintain it easier