HELP!!!!

KimGasbarro

I am not really someone who posts. But I so need some help!!! I have really been trying to make a change in my lifestyle. Prior to February 2012, I was a couch potatoe with horrible eating habits. I was tired all the time, depressed and knew something had to change.

I began a local program and used MFP for tracking my food. I began trying to run. Well let's say walk/run. I have participated in 2 - 5ks and did the Dirty Girl Mud Run (really more of a fun thing than a workout). And now I joined a 6 week bootcamp.

Logically I know that I have to be healthier because I am exercising and eating healthier. But I have only seen a 21 pound loss (well that was a couple of weeks ago). Now it appears the scale is going up. I really can't afford to have it go the other way.

I am short (5' 2") and my starting weight was 226. The lowest I got was 205 and this morning I weighed 212.

I tell myself that its the muscle I am gaining from the boot camp (I haven't stopped being sore). But yet I don't see much change in my body....clothes are slightly less tight but not significantly.

As a person being over weight for most of my life, I have been trained by the scale. So that scale being stuckor actually going up is really have a major effect on my emotions. I am fighting with all my power to make this a lifestyle change. And it is a fight to eat healthier and to exercise. I feel better because I am doing soemthing but I want results! I want to see the scale go down, I want to see my current size pants falling off of me.

And I am trying to be logical and trying to tell myself all the positive things.

So I need motivation and support. How am I suppose to be happy just knowing that I am healthier and that the other results will come in time? What things do you do to keep yourself motivated and moving forward even when there seems to be no results?

vice1989

Hi!
I lost 45 lbs a few years ago, and I hit my goal weight. But then now I have gone up by a bit so I am trying to get the last bit off, but it is very hard. The less you weight the less calories you burn, so like before when I was 175 I did 20 min a day or something and it came off easily (well I had to strictly not eat over a certain calorie range) but now It takes more like 60min and i have put my calories lower to since The less you weight the more your calories per day goes down.

A few thing to try would be,
1- re check your amount of calories you should be eating a day, since you cant stay at the same as when you were heavier, you need to decrease them.
2- do more min of cardio or change up the style
3- maybe you are eating differently then when you were losing it steadily?

leslisa

In addition to the above suggestions I'd like to recommend you research exercise afterburn and also change up the time of day you do your cardio. And, if you are like me, if you don't exercise before you eat you lose weight slower than slow. I do abs in the am and also a 15 - 20 minute walk with the dog, but even 5 minutes of jumping jacks seems to work (42 cals burned too, BTW).

Take care and stay strong. You deserve this!! And I believe in you.

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