Ready to quit!

AllonsYtotheTardis

I'm not sure what you expect quitting to accomplish.

stop using age as an excuse. You're only 2 years older than me.

BattleTaxi

Don't give up! Your clothes may very well get tight developing muscles. Adjust your diet. High proteins and lower the carbs. I have lowered my carbs to 90 grams per day. That means lots of green veggies and chicken. I even sneak in a bowl of STEELE CUT Oates oatmeal every day. When reading labels read the carbs not calories. you will be surprised how many carbs are in things that you would think would not have a one. For example check out ketchup or cocktail sauce when you go grocery shopping next time. Also when you give up the fat in fat free items you are usually adding a couple of grams of carbs( because for what ever reason). to the fat free item.

What type of exercise are you doing? Try three days aerobic and two days muscle building. Take it easy on the heavy weights. Less weight more reps.

What are you eating? Is it high in sodium? you could be retaining water. Where are you in your menstral cycle? gaining up to 7 pound during certain times is not unusual.

Lemons and apple cider vinager are natural diuretics.

Well I hope that helps. You will be glad you hung in there in the end.

I just want to say that most of this is awful advice.

Agreed x Infinity. Makes more sense when you see it's from someone with zero lbs lost.

QFT. Worst advice ever. Full of fail sauce. OP profile states only trying to lose 15 lbs..................................... >.>

Aumu95

Thank you to those who offered helpful ideas and/or encouragement. I have opened up my food diary so it's now public...please feel free to let me know what adjustments might help. (Just please be nice...my hormones are fluctuating!). :-) I know I had some days where I was over my allotted calories, but there some where I'm under. I also wasn't keeping track on weekends at first but I'm trying to get better about that.
Thank you!

arlenem1974

If MFP gives you 1200 calories to eat you have to eat all of them or your body will eventually go into starvation mode. I understand wanting to loose weight faster but eating less then 1200 is not the way to do it. If you exercise you need to bring up your net to at least 1200. Trust me this site will work.

SteelySunshine

Don't give up! Your clothes may very well get tight developing muscles. Adjust your diet. High proteins and lower the carbs. I have lowered my carbs to 90 grams per day. That means lots of green veggies and chicken. I even sneak in a bowl of STEELE CUT Oates oatmeal every day. When reading labels read the carbs not calories. you will be surprised how many carbs are in things that you would think would not have a one. For example check out ketchup or cocktail sauce when you go grocery shopping next time. Also when you give up the fat in fat free items you are usually adding a couple of grams of carbs( because for what ever reason). to the fat free item.

What type of exercise are you doing? Try three days aerobic and two days muscle building. Take it easy on the heavy weights. Less weight more reps.

What are you eating? Is it high in sodium? you could be retaining water. Where are you in your menstral cycle? gaining up to 7 pound during certain times is not unusual.

Lemons and apple cider vinager are natural diuretics.

Well I hope that helps. You will be glad you hung in there in the end.

Are you from Stepford? Seriously, aerobic activity should be done everyday for at least a half an hour. That's minimum for adults that are at or near goal weigh. Double that for over 20 pounds to lose but under 60. More if you got a lot more to lose only build up to that hour and a half or split the activity into 2 or more blocks of time. As for lifting there is nothing wrong with lifting heavy and 3 to 4 times a week not 2. Jeepers. about the only thing right here is to limit the sodium.

FattieBabs

Your calories do look very low although I can see from your diary that you are trying to get the protein in. With only 15 pounds to lose what setting would Mfp give for setting to lose 0.5 a week? I suspect it might be like 1400-1500 allowance. Ok, with that setting you would have to wait longer to get to your target goal but you could fit in more healthy stuff and train your body to be used to eating a bit more food once you get to the maintenance stage. Good luck!

letmebangbro

If you want to give up, give up.

No matter what people say on this forum you are going to do what you're going to do.

When you're tried of being the way you are, try putting in some effort to lose some weight.
The rest of us are busting our *kitten* off in the gym, dieting etc.
This isn't for everyone, maybe it isn't for you.

If you honestly wanted to lose weight, change yourself, you wouldn't even think about quitting.

Edit: saw your diet. Maybe try eating better + exercising hard.

Turtlesallthewaydown

How long did it take to put the weight on? Months, years? That's how long it will take to get it to come off.
I want to lose 30 - 60 lbs. It's going to take hard work everyday for years to achieve that and then maintenance everyday to keep the weight from coming back. I'm committing to that. I don't want to be a sad sack who let herself go. I don't want to feel awful in clothes and even worse in bathing suits. So I'm going to need to slowly and patiently undo years of eating whatever I wanted and then crash dieting and repeating. One pound at a time is what I have been telling myself.