Freaking OUT. I can't do this anymore. :-(

graysmom2005

I did a dusting of sugar on my Weetabix. I never have them, but I thought it was better than my 11g sugar a serving of Crunchy Nut cereal. :-)

charityateet

First of all, you look amazing. You have worked very hard and your body shows it.

You can do this. I know you are just having a bad day - month, but you can do this, you have proved to yourself at least once that you have the dedication and detrmination to lose weight.

I would say your body is adjusting to the extra calories, not quite sure that you are going to keep eating like that so it's holding on. I didn't look at your diary - but I know the rules, although I don't follow them all that close.
Eat back your exercise calories, at least 75% of them, if that means pre and post workout well, then do it.
No "white" foods - you can eat their colored relatives (brown rice for white, sweet potatoes for reg, etc)
Limit fatty cheeses and dairy
Eat LOTS of fruits and vegetables
Drink LOTS of water

When I lost the most weight - I was working out like crazy and EATING like crazy....pre workout, post workout, breakfast, snack, lunch, pre workout again, post workout again, dinner.

You are amazing! You can do this, Don't give up!

kdiamond

I think you're undereating too, if you're burning 1000 calories in exercise per day (? every other day?) .

1600 calories isn't enough for an avid exerciser. The days you burn 1000, eat 2200. The days you don't eat 1800. Try it for 3 weeks (no cheating or changing) and see what happens. Weigh only once per week on the same day,

milaxx

I did a dusting of sugar on my Weetabix. I never have them, but I thought it was better than my 11g sugar a serving of Crunchy Nut cereal. :-)

It is an improvement, but if you carefully review your diary there are several places where you are getting the sodium and sugar. If you think about it you can swap some of that out for things that will give you more protein and healthy fats. Once you balance things out you may do better. I always try to review my diary and check for the things that spike my macronutrients. It's a good way to tell if I am eating a balanced diet.

jonikeffer

You should check over your diary.
You might not want to believe this. But you have a very distinct pattern that happens over and over again for at least the last month.
Every day that you have logged food in the last month.
You are under on your net calories. You are over on your sugar.

Example. There were days where you took in 1600 calories, and worked out 1300 calories. (300 net calories)

You might not believe in eating exercise calories, but obviously that is not working for you.
You need to eat more.

I have noticed that the sugar was high...my protein is high...but so is sugar. Where I'm confused is that the past couple of weeks I have started to try and up my net....and I've gained SIX pounds. My pants are tight. So now that I'm trying to get closer to net...which is super hard when my job has me working out 2 times a lot of days...it's making me go in the wrong direction. I'm going to try and work on sugars..although it seems my sugar limit is pretty low...I max it out almost immediately. I've been to the dr, and everything seemed fine. Again...this didn't happen out of the blue...it happened when I started trying to reach a 1200 net. :-(

Sorry for the double quote folks but I thought it was all important....
This sounds exactly like "starvation mode"....while you are undereating severely (due to burning almost as many calories as you eat) you body holds steady. Your metabolism has tanked out, but you can't see it due to how little you are netting. As soon as you started to eat a reasonable amount, your body reacted by stockpiling the pounds, because your metabolism had been made so artificially low. It takes weeks of eating normally (ie netting over 1200, probably more for you due to your activity level) for your body to realize "oh, she's feeding me again, I can relax and trust that food will be coming regularly". In that time in between, your body is still thinking this is a time of "feast" and is storing for the upcoming "famine" it thinks is going to come again.

You will have to endure this and continue to eat enough, and then once your metabolism recovers, you can slowly and safely lose the extra weight.

lauragoat

I totally hate to ask this.. but you are so young!! Are you pregnant? or having any female problems? My friend had a cyst in her uterus that would not let her lose weight for anything until it got big enough to be removed and therefore calming her raging hormones.

hazelnutflav

sounds stress related to me.

you worry way to much about what the scale says your REASONS for wanting to live a better lifestyle is much more important than what the sale say, in fact throw out your scale and learn to relax, listen to what your body says and it will happen naturally.

chrisdavey

Have you thought about nutrient timing? As in taking in the majority of your carb intake around this time? (or in the morning but peri workout is best) If you had previously lost a lot of weight then you may be insulin resistant (meaning that you're body would prefer to store additional carbs that spike insulin as fat rather than muscle when you work out). I believe I have the same issue.

I noticed from your diary that you are quite low on the fats most days, protein looks good though. I only looked at the last week but have you tried playing with the macros a bit and upping the healthy fats (to fuel your workouts) and decreasing the carbs?

ltf304

I know I posted this on the other thread but, I understand your frustration. Read the 2 books I suggested and they should help you tremendously. The new rules of lifting for women book has a good nutrition section and the Eat clean recharged is a whole book about nutrition. The nutrition part is very important and I can't emphasize this enough. About 80 to 90% of losing weight is nutrition and exercise is just a tiny portion of that. Try to stay away from processed foods, eat your veggies, have some healthy fats, and drink about 2 liters of water a day if possible.