I Feel Like I'm Not Getting Anywhere (NEED TO VENT)

I've been doing this whole lifestyle change thing for 6 months and I'm still pissed at my belly. I just figure where will I be in a year if I quit, still fat and squishy, it has to get better if I keep working at it, has to.

It takes time.

Also, it's normal for women to have a little belly fat.

Anything worth having is hard work. You can do it! Stick with it!!!

^^^ so sorry! Quoted the wrong person!!

TWO WEEKS? Patience my love !!!!

2 weeks?

Just keep going. It's going to take A LOT longer than 2 weeks!

Patience is a virtue. I know how you feel. I've been doing this seriously since August. Although I do see some changes in my body, I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere. I just started doing weight training, so hopefully in two or three months I'll see some more changes.

Keep at it, don't be too concerned with the scale, and think of it as a lifestyle change rather than a diet.

Good lord, I was just about to begin a topic on this exact problem, but I figured I'd browse through first to make sure I wasn't being redundant with other posts from someone else. Lo and behold, I see your post!

I do have some similar issues w timing and impatience. I had done nutrisystem for like two months and lost a little more than 10 lbs. then I stopped that and dealt with IBS issues and had to eliminate foods that were making me sick. Around this time, I began student teaching and went on a very regimented, routine eating cycle and lost another 7lbs. The studen teaching was for 4 months and now that's over. So we're talking about 17-20 lbs in 6 months. At least, bc I'm not even totally sure when I did the Nutrisystem. NOW, the student teaching is over, I a, graduated and unemployed. I attempted to maintain my routine eating but it wasn't happening. Add the holidays, and I gained 5 lbs. like within 2 weeks. For christmas i asked for a zumba game on xbox kinnect. I have been doing that multiple times a week ever since. I also look up videos online and do them that way at home too. Realizing that exercise alone wasn't going to cut it, and that I needed more structure, I decided to go back on Nutrisystem.. It's been only 5 dys and I'm like tapping. My foot all pissed off that I haven't seen 5 lbs come off. I'm delusional!

I feel like even with working out I cannot get past 157.8. Like every time I step on the damn scale it says 157.8, whether I worked out for an hour that day and ate very well, or whether I had a recovery day and ate like crap. 157.8. Sometimes it'll go up or down by a few tenths of a pound, but that's nothing. i knowhow you feel.. like youre plateaued and cant get passed a wall.

I think we have skewed ideas of how fast we should lose weight. We have this idea in our heads that just bc somoeone else lost weight quickly that means we have to as well. Ever see the fine print somewhere that says "results not typical"??? Also to point out, for people not significantly overweight, weight loss will come slower. People who have more than 60 lbs to lose typically see weight loss happen faster bc there is more fat available for burning right away. People with like 30 lbs to lose will not see results instantaneously like that. You ever notice how on The Biggest Loser they work out for a week and bam they lost 19 lbs?! Hell, my freakin goal weight requires me to lose less than that! If I lost 19lbs in a week something would be seriously wrong. Aside from that, Sometimes it takes our metabolisms time to adjust.

I'll end with this analogy: you ever stir a glass of chocolate milk? You're stirring and stirring in one direction. Suddenly you stop the spoon and begin trying to stir in the other direction. The milk kind of goes everywhere for a second while the inertia of the previous stirring attempts to reverse. The milk wobbles a little but you keep stirring in your new direction and eventually everything syncs up. Think of your life before your lifestyle change-- being stirred in one direction... Now you're suddenly going against that grain and starting a new direction. It's going to take a minute for everything to sync up. Mind, body, psyche ... Everything. Give it some time. Oh, And don't be a slave to the scale! I already am and it's a pointless habit! Checking 700 times a day will not get you anywhere. Check every few days instead. A watched pot never boils. Good luck to us both!

But I feel like I'm missing out on an easy way to get rid of the belly fat, you know? I just want it to be easier

Being fat is hard.
Losing weight is hard.
Keeping weight off is hard.

Choose your hard.

Seriously - you're young and it's normal to be impatient, but you need to change your attitude about this. It's taken me over a year to lose 46lbs, but it was worth it. And I'm not even done yet. I can tell you though that it was more meaningful when I just "enjoyed the ride" and put in the work than it was any time that I did a crash diet or tried a special "fat blasting" workout.

Keep going and you'll get there.

I do have some similar issues w timing and impatience. I had done nutrisystem for like two months and lost a little more than 10 lbs. then I stopped that and dealt with IBS issues and had to eliminate foods that were making me sick. Around this time, I began student teaching and went on a very regimented, routine eating cycle and lost another 7lbs. The studen teaching was for 4 months and now that's over. So we're talking about 17-20 lbs in 6 months.

That's a really good weight loss rate for a woman!

I have occasionally lost 6 pounds in a month, but in general, I found that it was almost impossible to sustain a weight loss of more than about 3 pounds a month. If you're a woman, I think even a pound a week is pretty hard to manage. So if you're losing 2-4 pounds a month, you're doing great!