I feel like there's no point

LonelyPilgrim

So, just an observation? You fell in love, started a new life with someone, stopped your birth control? Have you considered if you may be pregnant? That would be a good answer to your problem I'm actually trying to get pregnant right now. But I'm on this website to change my bad habits to healthy habits!

thanks for making me smile!

I would be the worst OB/ER nurse if I didn't recognize my own pregnancy, wouldn't I.??

:blushing: :flowerforyou:

But I appreciate the smile, as it formed on my lips, so much. So much.

He had a vasectomy over 10 years ago. Having a vasectomy fail after 10 years is *almost* unheard of.

But, for further reassurance, my periods are regular. I have one due next week. Maybe i can chalk up my not losing this week to being premenstrual?

GemFB

Hold up a sec. Can you explain the way he get's here:
"Otherwise, all that you are doing is replacing everything that you have worked so hard to lose. "
What I mean by that is, how did you explain this site to him. Did you tell him that this site already builds in a calorie deficit before you exercise?
I also asked my doctor about this. I also spoke to my wife's trainer about this, she is also a certified nutritionist. I showed my plan to both of them (the site plan) and they both agreed that the plan is the correct way to go about it.
I just don't see what is so hard to follow for this. I'm not trying to be snide or trying to hurt any feelings but it's simple numbers. You have a certain number of calories that your body uses to maintain weight, you subtract say 500 a day to loose 1 lb a week. Everyone's with me so far right? So if you subtract say 500 more because you worked out, then you eat back that 500 your still down 500 from your maintenance calories. call maintenance 2000 calories (random)
so 2000 - 500 is 1500 this gets you 1 lb a week weight loss (500 X 7 is 3500 or 1 lb)
-500 is 1000 (the 500 you exercised)
+ 500 is 1500 (the 500 you eat to replace the exercised)
1500 is 500 less then your maintenance calories.

did you explain it this way to the doctor? Or did you just tell him maintenance minus exercise plus eating exercise?
Again, just trying to figure out why he would say this. I'm thinking it was just a misunderstanding.

I don't want this to look like I'm going after you Jessica. I'm not, this is done with the best of hopes that it can be cleared up for people. If you can just give a little explaination as to why it's wrong then I'm fine with it, I just have done a lot of research on it, and this flys in the face of most of it.
Just to clarify, nobody's saying Eat your exercise calories or else, when people say that they mean, on this site, there is a deficit pre-built into your calorie allowance, so exercise calories will increase the deficit over and above an already reduced calorie count, which can (and many times does) bring you below a safe calorie deficit.

I completely agree with Banks on this one. GemFB, you say you're eating 1500 calories and your doctor says not to go under that, but then you are exercising and not eating your exercise calories? I'm guessing you're burning over 600 cals (just a guess, I don't know what kind of exercise you do). That would make you only having 900 cals in a day, WAY less than your doctor said. MontanaGirl is right, that may be why you plateaued...

Hmm....Didn't think about that...My averaged left over is about 60-400...hmmm I might be hurting me then I guess...Damn...and I wanna be a Dr...lol