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Hiya in my experience after constant loosing at a steady pace your body gets used to the foods and excersize need to give it a shock again maybe up the excersize drop calories or simply changing excersize days routines etc can do it xx

Have you been working out more? Increased muscle mass can cause weight gain as can TOM. Leave it a few days and weight aggain....weight fluctuates daily...so try not to be too disheartened! :flowerforyou:

I am frustrated as well! I have been at this for a week now and doing great with the food journal and exercising. However, the scale has not moved!!!!!! I have about 40 pounds to lose and really thought I would see a change after a week. When dieting before I always have. My husband is doing this as well and is losing and he says to just keep at it and only weigh once a month and If I don't lose then adjust my calories lower and keep lowering them until I lose. I am already not eating many calories and have gone to bed the last 2 nights hungry. I guess for us women we just want to see some small change to keep our focus:)

Shaynawess, when I get frustrated at the pace, I try to remind myself that I didn't gain the weight quickly, so I shouldn't expect it to come off quickly. Going to be hungry and starving yourself will only make you more frustrated and make it more likely that you'll revert back to your old habits. If you want to lose the weight and keep it off, the goal needs to be to figure out a sustainable lifestyle--one that you can live with for the rest of your life. A short-term diet only works in the short term. Remember that your weight fluctuates on an hourly basis, so don't put too much stock in any single scale reading. Keep weighing yourself, find an eating and exercise plan you can stick with, and plot your progress over time. (If you can, use measurements or body fat instead of weight, too--if you lose fat and build muscle, your body weight might not change, but your shape sure will.) You'll see it start to trend down. All of the studies I have read about looking at people who have lost weight and kept it off long term indicate that slow weight loss is much more likely to be maintained. Above all, stay positive!

As a couple of folks mentioned above: Keep a running measurement of your waist and hips, and whatever else you want to measure). This is the concrete way to measure weight loss--are our clothes getting bigger?