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At my wits end!!

dlyeates
dlyeates Posts: 875 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I need suggestions thought I will put this out there.....I do not believe in fad diets, crash diets or restricting whole food groups (low fat, low carb, no sugar, etc). I'm trying to lose weight in a healthy, long term sustainable way.

But I'm at my wits end. I'm 5'4" and to even be in the healthy BMI range I should be 145# and under. I currently weigh in at 167. I started my journey a little over a year ago and for the first 5 months I did 1200 calories, exercising and eating back my calories. I lost the first 30 lbs. I have 20 or more to lose still. After the holidays which I did go up in calories to accomodate holiday treats but not much and I only gained like 1# I decided to go up to 1500 calories because I was working out more and even though I had lost 30# on 1200 I had stopped losing anything significant about a month earlier so I thought I was eating too few.

I've experimented (usually for 2 months at a time so I'm not just going up and down) with 1500 calories, 1700 calories, 1300 calories and virtually nothing. Since January 27th I've hovered right around 165-167 with 2 little dips to 163 but those never lasted no more than 1 weigh in even though I did nothing different in diet or exercise right before or after those "glitches".

This summer I did a metabolism reset and ate at 2000 calories (still exercising some but not a lot.....more playing with the kids) for 8 weeks. I gained around 3 lbs but that was gone within the first 3 days of dropping back down. I dropped back down to 1200 calories to kind of shock my body 2 weeks ago and went back to the gym. Did some running a few days a week. This week I started lifting following the New Rules of Weight Lifting for Women (boy am I sore!!!).

And I've gone up 0.8#. I was down to 166.2 and now up to 167. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I know I could eat more fruits and veggies and try to at least get vegetables with dinner. At 1200 calories I try to focus on getting protein since I'm lifting and don't want to lose muscle.

Please give me any healthy suggestions!!!

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