75lbs down looking for motivation

Great job! 75 pounds? That's amazing.

Just keep up with your food. That's going to have a huge impact. Try to avoid eating out, since they like to secretly load up the food with butter, salt and sugar. None of which is going to help you.

Assuming your diet is good, you're going to need to focus on exercise. As frustrating as it may sound, you burned more calories when you were carrying an extra 75 pounds around with your everywhere. So if you want to maintain that same weight loss pace, you're going to have to make up for it with extra exercise. That or, accept that the new skinnier you is going to lose weight more slowly.

As for working out, Cardio is King! Additionally, research has been showing that HIIT workouts boost your metabolism, which you may want to try. Essentially, it's short 10 second sprints followed by 30 second walk breaks. You do 5 of these and you're going to be exhausted. Over time, you'll work your way up to 10 or 15, then start to change it up by doing longer sprints or shorter breaks, or a combination of the two. Either way, as long as you're doing it, you're burning calories and boosting your metabolism.

Also, take a multivitamin. It'll help keep your body firing on all cylinders. And that's a low effort, zero calorie metabolism booster.

Good luck.

You're MY motivation today. My goal is to get to where I won't gain or lose anything, to where I can feel comfortable with my body and with my choices. Sometimes it's hard to do the right thing when there isn't the payoff we want. I've been doing the logging and the reporting, and finally have started to exercise, and in a month will attend a family get-together. If they were to see me now, I'm right where I was eighteen months ago in terms of weight. My attitude is way better and my compliane with my eating plan is spot-on. I have to be glad to be back and willing to keep working. Some days it is work.

I too am about your size, or was...I started at 259.1 and am currently hovering around 175....80+ lbs. down! I too am tall- 5'9ish" and have a large build. I can't seem to get below 173....that was my lowest in this journey...I am aiming for 170 or even 169....I went from a size 22W to a size 10/12....Maybe we can figure this out together!?? I workout 5-6 times a week and love running and going to the gym, for now....Lets be friends!

Well, if you continue with the eating out and having lots of food you'll regain that 10 pounds you just lost and maybe more.
Depending on what you were doing your body may have changed shape without the pounds coming off. Take pictures for a real comparison. Take measurements. Look at those NSVs. Mix it up, do different things. Surprise your body.

Maybe eat and workout at maintenance for a little bit. Then try again.

As someone who lost 60 and was so incredibly proud of myself and then regained 30 of that back after several months, I can tell you when my mind was ready to get back on the wagon I was kicking myself for not at least maintaining and keeping on top of it. BTW I lost a heck of a lot more than 60, I just had to do many of those pounds a few times.

Best of luck.

Another tall, large frame lady checking in. You've done so much and so well. Don't throw in the towel. This a marathon, not a sprint. It's not about getting in and losing the weight then going back to the lifestyles we had that made us in the 240 to 260 range. It's about learning to make healthier choices daily, to love ourselves and to make habits that stick for life.

I lost 128 pounds in 1996/97, the year I turned 40. Actually, my 39th birthday sparked the decision. I did it! I did it! But looking back, I did wrong. I ate a Pop Tart for breakfast. I drank a Coke every afternoon. I did crazy amounts of cardio. I should have developed better habits, learned more about nutrition. If I had, I might not have wound up at 54 right back up at 266. My top weight was 297 back in 1996.

Now we have something I didn't have--this resource available, which means calorie counts AND support at our fingertips.

To use my favorite phrase from my generation, keep on keepin' on. Think about how disappointed you'll be in a year if you don't!

Ahh this sounds so much like what I've been going through....I lost 60 lbs....then in October I went on vacation, gained about 5....I got back into the swing of things when I got home, but couldn't lose a lb to save my life....I just fluctuated 5 lbs for the last 5 months... I stopped weighing food, I didn't indulge but I just lacked motivation and stopped counting calories....I think it was the fact that I was frustrated with no weight loss....so I fell back into old habits.
Last week I just found the motivation.....started weighing my food again, stopped snacking, etc....I saw how easy it was to fall back into old habits and I didn't want to undo the 60 lb loss, I was so proud of. The weather is getting nicer, and I just feel like I'm getting out of my winter blues.
I'm back to the lowest weight I've been from October 6th!!
Feel free to friend me, good luck! You will get the motivation back, don't undo all the progress you have made.

I stalled out too, started to follow the group Eat,Train,Progress. Here on MFP.

I saw suggestions that really helped me start to lose again.

I was guessing instead of weighing portions, just that change made a difference for me.

Remember weight loss is not linear. Hang on to the progress you have made. You can do it.,

You've come a long way. Just keep going. Don't stop. You'll break through and the scale will drop again. I've lost a bunch of weight before and then started cheating my way to gaining 10 or 20 pounds back and it is SO not worth it. I feel like crap and the amount of time it took me to eat the food I was eating was so minimal, but how long it takes to get the weight back off is exhausting.

You got this! Put the crappy food down! I promise you it'll be worth it in the end. It isn't easy, but you'll get there. 5 minutes of eating crap isn't worth it. Good luck dear =]

You should be super proud of yourself for not going down that slippery slope!! No one wants to lose the same weight twice.

make it lifestyle choices you can live with and not an "overhaul" that you have to suffer through. That way, the weight loss will be permanent and not come back on when the "diet" is over. You can do this AND be happy....people do it all the time!