My early morning NSV!!

aabyrer

So I usually don't post topics on here but I just had to today.
I only started a month ago, but my scale just would not budge! I usually eat healthy and have been working out and running for years, so I didn't know what my problem was with not losing weight-it just would not come off! So when i started I lost a couple Ibs that first week, but nothing after that-for 3 weeks.

Last night I went out to eat to mexican-my biggest temptation. Margaritas, chips and dip, cheese, rice-oh man. I went out for my first meal there since starting and I really laid it on. A margarita, lots of chips and dip, and chicken and rice with cheese on top. I came home feeling helpless. But when I logged my food, i realized I had worked out enough earlier that I didn't go over. I was petrified of what I would wake up to this morning.

So I drag my butt outta bed and step on that scale. What do I find? A 1.2 pound loss!! SUCCESS!!! What I've realized from this is that the information has been in front of me the whole time. Maybe bringing my calories up from 1200 usual average (only eating a few exercise calories back) to 1500 or 1600 (eating most of my exercise calories) really does work!

Another thing I've realized in the past month is that weight doesn't really matter-the scale anyways. Even with not losing a single pound for 3 weeks, i still lost 5.5 inches off my total body. I think this is the new mind set everyone always talks about on here...and it works!
So thanks MFP, for all your support and encouragement!

erxkeel

mhm! starvation mode plateu's suck! Great NSV!

LHann360

congratulations ...what a great NSV ! always like to hear positive things :flowerforyou: . Keep up the hard work.

karenkwalker

You got it girl! Stay with it - much of this is just figuring it out. Eating back your exercise calories is hard because it is counter to what most of us have thought all our lives. We grew up thinking restriction with dieting, etc. I, too, have been losing since I started eating more calories - My normal is 1200 calories so if I don't exercise I can hardly eat - its a great incentive for me to work out to get the extra calories to work with. Good luck for your journey.

TS65

Awesome! I didn't start losing until I upped my settings (I was at sedentary, but because I work out 3-4x per week for 60 minutes, I'm actually considered active or very active). I was losing VERY little on 1200-1300 calories, but now that I've upped them, I'm losing more than 2lbs per week. Ironically, I tend to lose more quickly if I have one "big meal" day. go figure! It goes against everything we "know," but it works if people would just give it a chance!