Weight loss plateau—maybe I’ll always be this weight

ilittle0919

I lost two pounds the first week and this week i gained half a pound . I’ve been on a ton of diets and diet pills and I do excersize 30 minutes each day at least 5 days a week. Excersizing includes things like a brisk walk with my teenager, vigorous house cleaning, and cardio. I work a lot of hours and I don’t have the money for fancy solutions.
I am about to give up. I can’t lose these last 20 pounds. Maybe this is the weight I am destened to be and can’t get any smaller. Nearly all my life i have been 25 pounds lighter hanni am now. Any suggestions?

hippysprout

Time.

You can't expect results in 2 weeks. The first week generally has a woosh of excess water weight (prolly your 2 pound loss) and then you have to just keep doing the right things. Make sure your goals are realistic for the amount you have to lose - maybe .5 to 1 pound per week, then weigh and measure your food and eat to your calorie goal. Rinse and repeat. Special food and exercise not required. Give it two months just trusting this system, and see if you don't have results.

fr33sia12

ilittle0919 wrote: »

I lost two pounds the first week and this week i gained half a pound . I’ve been on a ton of diets and diet pills and I do excersize 30 minutes each day at least 5 days a week. Excersizing includes things like a brisk walk with my teenager, vigorous house cleaning, and cardio. I work a lot of hours and I don’t have the money for fancy solutions.
I am about to give up. I can’t lose these last 20 pounds. Maybe this is the weight I am destened to be and can’t get any smaller. Nearly all my life i have been 25 pounds lighter hanni am now. Any suggestions?

First of all there are no fancy solutions, you just need to eat less calories than you burn. So you need to weigh everything you eat and log it. Secondly you sound defeated and you've only just begun. Stop thinking about what you've done in the past and stick to just counting calories, weighing food and logging it and exercising if you want to or need to. Thirdly you don't plateau after a couple of weeks. Give it at least a month or so after diligently weighing food and logging it and then come back if you haven't lost weight.
Also you may want to open your food diary so we can see how you're logging food and advise you more on that if needed

Muscleflex79

you are thinking of giving up because of one week? weight fluctuates - weight loss is not linear - be more patient (if one week makes you want to give up you will not last long at all!)

tinkerbellang83

You can lose the last 20lbs, it's the last that are always the slowest, you can expect to lose around 0.5lb per week max, but this can easily be masked by water weight, the only exercise you need to worry about is exercising patience and consistency.

Review your logging and see if there is anyway you can tighten it up, you don't need fancy solutions, you need a calorie deficit. What you are doing in the kitchen is far more important than the exercise.