need a few ideas

How long are you giving each of these trials to work?

Have you lost 17 pounds in 5 months? Or am I not getting the starting info correct?

I'm not interrogating you, just trying to make sensible suggestions :flowerforyou:

I think some people just naturally lose slow. I have lost 17lbs since the end of July. At times it bothers me, but other times I am thankful that I am 17lbs less than I was 3-4 months ago. In a year that will equal to nearly 60lbs loss for me and that is good enough. There is no time or regularity to weight loss so apart from going to see a Dr or something, I think you shoule be happy with the loss. Everyone tells me that slow wins the race.

Since your biggest worry is having to lower calories even more when you are at a lower weight - and I completely agree that this is a legitimate concern - why not increase your calories? Stay at a deficit, but at a smaller deficit.

You won't gain weight, as you'll still be in a deficit.

Instead, one of three things will happen:

1. You will lose more slowly.
As long as you're losing, and therefore your weight is moving in the right direction, you should be pleased and proud of yourself. Why the rush? You have your whole life ahead of you. Make healthy decisions that will make lasting changes, don't torture yourself over the speed of weight loss. Honestly, think about it - what if you didn't decide to make these changes unil a year from now? Do you realize how much further ahead of the game you already are, let alone how much better of you'll be in two months, six months, 18 years time? So, once again - why the rush? Really think about that. What's the hurry?

2. You will lose at the same pace.
But you will also be eating an amount from which you can feel more at ease subtracting from later, if necessary. And if you lose the same amount of weight while being able to eat more, well, then - who's complaining?!

3. You will lose more quickly.
The body works in mysterious ways, and that's about the most concise and simple way to put it. The truth is our bodies are extremely complicated systems, and we really don't even know the half of it yet when it comes to how the average body works. Add to that the fact that actually knowing how the average body works *does not* account for all the rest of the bodies that don't fall under the category of "average", and, well, I think you get my point. It's really difficult to predict exactly what the outcome of a sum of actions will be on a specific person's body. It is certainly possible that your body will favor the higher intake when it comes to losing weight.


I'm a big proponent of doing what feels right on your body. That tends to get people where they need to be

*ETA* I realize you said you tried more calories, but I thought I might still through out my thoughts on this since you didn't exactly specify. I would still try it again. It doesn't have to be much more.

But on another note I just thought of, WHAT are you actually eating? You might want to take a look at that. Without going into any of my ideas as to why this is or quoting any research that supports my experience (low on time and patience atm!), I can offer you some personal experience I've had recently. Since moving to Russia in mid-September, I've lost 22 lbs. The biggest change has been in the foods I am eating. I am eating more real, whole foods than ever before, and I'm really loving it. I'm taking whole fat milk, butter, and food that is actually prepared from real ingredients, not processed crap. No diet stuff. Fruits and veggies in moderate amounts, certainly less than I was eating back home. Most things here are made with butter and oil - back at home, I hardly touched fats. I eat real bread here and porridge made of buckwheat or oats and with butter, and tvorog (cottage cheese), yogurts, etc. on a pretty much daily basis. I always did half an eye roll every time I came across someone saying that it's not just calories in/calories out, and that the quality of food matters a lot, that you need to eat real, whole foods; I always nodded my head and kept on thinking my diet of processed diet crap and very little fat and too much fruits and veggies (because they took the place of other healthy foods) would still be better for me. Well, what can I say? All I have to go on is my experiences, and so far, I've more than proved my previous-self wrong! It turns out that a varied, real-food, whole-food diet (with fats!) is actually really important. Go figure :P

HI...
I would see if I were allergic to bread and sugar, these two things in our diets can halt weigth loss.
This is what I would do;
Oatmeal for breakfast with green tea
Celerly with a dab of cream cheese for morning snack
Salad with vinegar for dressing with meat, cheese and egg with an apple for desert
1 Oz of walnuts or almonds for snack
grilled chicked or hamburger patty, fresh veggies, small amount of carbs from a 1/2 baked potatoe, rice, beans
popcorn or small amount of fresh fruit for desert.

Drink plenty of water, stay away from salt.

have u tried a keto diet??

I sympathise, I really do. I have lost 22lb in 6 months so a similar rate to you although I think I have less to lose. I have about 30 -35 pounds to go to get to goal. I went through a plateau in the summer where I lost nothing for 4 weeks. Changing my exercise routine, and upping the intensity worked. I started doing that 30 day shred DVD. My food diaries are similar to yours, similar calories too although less in the week, probably more like 1400. Don't eat all your exercise calories back on some days and try to eat less carbs and more protein. Set your macro's to 40%carbs: 30% protein:30% fat. This gives you less room to eat crap. Snack on nuts and fruit, cut out sugar. Basically clean up your diet a bit, and lower the calories a bit, do a bit more exercise and you lose a bit more weight. I've been losing 1.5lbs a week, a really good rate for me until recently but I realised I had let things slip, Good luck. The most important thing is don't give up, keep going.