constantly failing to lose weight - losing hope!

christinartnd

now before I get into this i'll let you know this post explains my (short) journey of juice plus. I'm very aware i'll have hundreds of people going off on one about how it's stupid and blah blah blah marketing technique, you're stupid etc, but if you're going to post something like that then please don't read on - as i'm simply here to get advice and move forward.

we've all tried lots of different diets, right? i've always been chubby as a kid. I lost weigh now and again, never really paying attention to my weight but aware that I wanted to lose some, and making small changes to my diet. when I was younger, more extreme. skipping meals, etc.

the beginning of 2014 my friend became a JP rep and i figured why not try it as I really wanted to shift this last few stone and reach my overall goal weight. I started JP in march. the detox did nothing for me as I was already eating pretty healthily and monitoring my calories with MFP anyway. then i started the shakes. I DID lose about a stone in about 2 months, but from what I was promised this seemed slow. Its now October and where its gone back and fourth a little, i'm still around the same. not much has changed from that stone that i've lost.

I WANT to lose another stone and a half. After thinking about it, i figured, why am i eating/drinking these shakes when I could just be swapping these additive-filled-shakes (which apparently have sugar in them?! - which isnt even allowed in our "yes foods"?!) with clean eating foods and cutting down on gluten and wheat and too many carbs and dairy, which essentially is what JP is anyway? (minus the shakes) ??

Can anyone give me some good tips, and how many calories a day I should be eating? Im 5'6, 22, and I currently weigh around 11 stone. I WANT to be 9 stone 7 as my ultimate goal, but would really like to hit 10 stone first.

I don't understand how I was eating 1200 calories a day, monitoring and measuring all of my food intake, doing (albeit, irregular) exercise, and yet still not really losing any weight? I really just want this last bit of weight gone

also how much of an important factor is drinking 2-3L of water a day because i REALLY struggle with this!

Thank you

kimny72

If I'm doing my math right, you want to lose around 20 lbs, correct?

Plug your stats into MFP, Choose either 1/2 lb or at most 1 lb per week, and eat the calories it gives you. Track everything and be honest. At your age and height, you should be losing weight eating at least 1600 cals. I am twice your age and shorter and losing slowly eating 1500-1600 per day.

It doesn't matter if you are drinking shakes, or eating "clean", or anything else - if you eat less calories than you burn, you will lose weight. For most people who aren't losing, the issue turns out to be a logging issue - either they are guesstimating, or not logging drinks, or choosing incorrect user-added entries in the MFP database, or similar, so they are eating more than they think.

Read the "sexypants" post stickied in the Getting Started forum - it is really helpful. Good luck!

ETA: Please disregard the spam post above mine, I'm sure it will be deleted shortly :grumble: