I feel like throwing my scale away!

Tina0488

Blah Blah, where do I start... In 4th grade I weighed 108 pounds. In 11th grade I weighed 238 pounds. I quit weighing myself after that but know I went up a bit from there. My senior year in high school with out trying I dropped down to 190ish. I worked 2 jobs and had a very active social life, I also ate salad bar for lunch everyday at shcool. Not because I was trying to lose weight, but I like salad. I started working out and joined a gym. I got down to about 172. For someone who's been overweight thier entire life I was estatic for 172. I'm 5'5 by the way. Well then I started my "wild days phase" I went back up to 190 for a couple of years until 2009 when I got on another health kick, I worked out 5 days a week doing cardio on the elliptical for about 1/2-45 min a day. I didn't lift much and then I hit a plateu. I was stuck at 172 again! I joined weight watchers and my lowest weight was 162, which I held for maybe a couple of weeks Going from 190 to 162 took from september to March with steady weekly weight loss. I turned 21 and turned into a bar fly and gained the weight back slowly but surely. I joined MFP at 190 last year. I ate around 1200-1400 calories and burned about 400 of them off in cardio 4-5 days a week. I was dropping about 2.5 pounds a week. Then stalled off at 180. This past year I can not get that scale to budge! 180, 180, 180. For the last couple of months I've been eating 1,200-1,400 calories a day like I was before, exercising, this time with more weight lifting, running on the treadmill instead of the elliptical and doing a kickboxing class. I feel better, I have energy. I feel like I'm slimming up a bit, my tummy which has always been my problem area isn't as big as it usually is but that damn scale won't say anything but 180! I bounce each week between 177-182. I've decided that I should probably just stop weighing myself but I can't help but not too! Each time I get on that thing and see it hasn't moved, for weeks on end I want to give up. I decided to foucus on the health benefits of exercising instead of the weight part, I'd rather be healthy and 180 than unhealthy and 180 but I can't help to focus on that damn scale! I've used 4 different scales and they are all the same so I know it's not just mine. I don't cheat, I log EVERYTHING. Am I ever going to see that scale budge?

akilahleemarie

You should try calorie cycling..1200-1400 isn't a big enough gap.. lets say if you want to eat 1400 calories a day... 1400x7=9800...
so you need to eat 9800 calories a week... you could go like: 1600, 1200,1200,1600,1200,1200,1800=9800 calories a week. it sounds like your body got used to eating the same amount day after day so it said "hey i can get by on this"...but eating diffrent amounts your body doesn't know what to expect and doesn't settle