about to throw in the towel..

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  • jpalocy77
    jpalocy77 Posts: 114 Member
    water is not an issue.. i drink water all the time..i always have been a huge water drink.. i drink 3 cups of coffee in the AM..and water the rest of the day.. usually 2-3 liters if not more..
  • acogg
    acogg Posts: 1,870 Member
    Unless I am misunderstanding your post, you lost 20 lbs. in between March 1st and the first of April? Now you are doing everything right but haven't lost weight since the first of April? Whatever you did between March 1st and April 1st worked for you, so do that again. Long term weight loss is a series of rinse and repeats. Every day is a building block for tomorrow, so just keep working toward your goal and you will get there, no matter how long it takes. You can do it!
  • culkin1
    culkin1 Posts: 21 Member
    Don't talk about throwing in the towel because that means weight gain. You are changing your life not just your weight. So don't quit. You'll break the wall eventually. Keep up with the tracking and the exercise. You "throw in the towel" and it is guaranteed you'll head back to where you were. Just relax. The goal you set will come.
  • jpalocy77
    jpalocy77 Posts: 114 Member
    I opened up my diary..the last 2 weeks I have really logged as much as possible.. minus yesterday... but I've been trying! I'm sticking with the protein 100g a day (well trying to stick with that from this week on) and sticking with the exercise 3 times a week. . I work in a grocery job, and work 4-5 days a week..on my feet lifting, walking, jumping..for 8 + hours a day at my job...
  • thedietplate
    thedietplate Posts: 1
    Don't throw in the towel, you now what will happen, all your good work will be undone and the next time you step on the scales you will probably be in tears.

    It is not easy losing weight, if I were you I would stop fretting for a day or two, plateau's are quite normal when losing weight but i promise you, that if you are not going over your calorie allowance for weight loss the weight will start to come off again. Just don't give up, you have worked very hard to lose the weight already, just take a rest and with all this support you will succeed. Check your portions just in case they have creeped back up and start a food diary this week to check nothing naughty is creeping to your allowance. Good luck.
  • mamax5
    mamax5 Posts: 414 Member
    I was on a 7 week long plateau that just broke. It took 7 weeks to see a 3lb loss. I've lost 7lbs this month. If you weigh less, it will take longer to lose weight. Give it time, it will come off.
  • wibutterflymagic
    wibutterflymagic Posts: 788 Member
    i'm definitely not at a healthy weight..i'm 150 and 5'2.. I FEEEL better than i ever have.. I eat clean.. I eat whole grains food, no more white starchy food for me! When I do eat it, I feel the bloat and yuckiness... I am doing just a little bit of toning. Right now I stick to DVD's. . I may join a gym once summer starts up, and i have more time to do something. its just frustrating..cause inches and/or lbs are just not moving... i'm sure eventually I will figure how to get through it.. at least I hope I do!

    You are far from being obese. I'm your height and I was fairly happy at 150. It's all perspective. Could we be lower sure, but don't concentrate on a random # that doesn't mean anything at all. The longer I've been at my journey, I've come to realize that a scale # means absolutely nothing. Someone can be 175lbs and look like they are 140 because of how their body has been shaped due to lifiting. You are probably just at a plateau which I just got through. It was 2mos of hell. The same 1-2lbs up and down, up and down. If you feel better then you ever have, don't concern yourself about a stupid #. Again, they mean absolutely nothing!! Try lifting, it will do wonders but give it some time. Don't expect a ton of changes fast. You may even and additional lb or 2 but that is just water weight due to the muscles retaining water after lifting but it will go away. Lifting's purpose is to reshape and see changes in measurements not necessarily see changes on the scale.
  • wibutterflymagic
    wibutterflymagic Posts: 788 Member
    I am in the exact same place as you! I am down 10 lbs and now trying desperately to get down to the 140's. I am taking some drastic measures. I am putting my total (not net) calories at 1200. I put my goal to 600 calories so that when i put in my exercise (which is 600 calories) my total will be 1200 calories. Yes my net will only be 600 but I'm taking in 1200 total calories so my body shouldn't go into starvation mode. I know I'm going to get a lot of slack for this, oh well.

    When you want to do something that is actually healthy for you, give me a jingle because what you are doing now is extreme and really unhealthy. Have fun with the consequences of eating below the amount of calories that it actually takes to keep your body alive while you sleep.
  • acogg
    acogg Posts: 1,870 Member
    I remember a similar post back in December. The young woman was extremely frustrated that she was under her calories but not losing weight. She finally opened her diary and a very smart responder noticed that she was eating a lot of chicken. When she was asked about all the chicken, it turned out that she was eating at KFC once or twice a day, but was logging it as plain chicken. When she relogged it as per the KFC site, she was actually over every day.
  • H_Factor
    H_Factor Posts: 1,722 Member
    1. stop worrying about the scale. Its just a number. You said you are feeling better than you have ever felt, and you are making healthy food choices. Your body is probably just adjusting to the MASSIVE weight loss you have experienced so far.

    2. if you want to trigger fat loss, try HIIT...high intensity interval training. There are lots of ways to do it...including following along at dailyhiit.com (formerly bodyrock.tv). True HIIT would look like this....go all out until exhaustion and then rest until your heart rate drops again and then repeat that interval 6-12 times. Before I hurt my Achilles, I did sprint intervals where I did an all out, pushing from my *kitten*, sprint for 10-15 seconds. Sometimes I would add a bodyweight exercise after the sprint. And then I would rest until my HR dropped below 130....and then I would do another interval. With my Achilles on the mend, I am doing med ball smashes for my work interval. If done currently, its a full body exercise that can jump your heart rate very quickly. Anyway, if you do just a handful of minutes of HIIT 3x per week (along with continuing to eat well), I bet the scale number will drop.

    3. I'm not sure how much water you are drinking, but aim for 12-16 cups per day.
  • askeates
    askeates Posts: 1,490 Member
    You lost a lot in 2 months.... Your body is most likely making some adjustments (moving things around so-to-speak). Keep doing what worked for you with the first 2 months and if after another 2-3 weeks there are still no changes, then make 1 change at a time and maintain that 1 change for at least a few weeks before trying something new. You have to give your body time to adjust.

    Good luck and keep up the great work! 20 pounds is a HUGE success :smile:
  • rored85
    rored85 Posts: 4
    Coffee.....oh wonderful, horrible coffee.....unless you drink your coffee straight up black..(no sugar no creamer) it can be hurting you too! I am guilty of that! ....but yeah if you're like me and actually don't like the taste of plain coffee, you really have to re-think your sugar and your creamer, even if its fat-free/sugar free (its not really..take a look haha) and 3 cups is quite a bit. Something to think about!
  • cutlooseat60
    cutlooseat60 Posts: 19
    Add one more day of a work out. Just a 30 min walk might help.
  • ahviendha
    ahviendha Posts: 1,291 Member
    if you change something, make it consistent for two weeks and then evaluate what it's doing for you.

    make sure you are logging every single thing that goes in your mouth, like licking the spoon after getting out 2 T of peanut butter, condiments, sugar in coffee.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    Have a feeling you're be reactive too much. Meaning, that if you aren't seeing results by the next weigh in, you're changing tactics. SO, for at least 2 weeks stick to one regimen. Eat your BMR for a couple of weeks. Bump the intensity of your exercise, but lessen the rest time between sets.
    Check back in 2 weeks.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • lbesaw
    lbesaw Posts: 267 Member
    If you are doing all the right things calorie vs exercise it WILL come off. Try to be patient and reinforce yourself with the knowledge that sometimes it takes awhile to see results....but then when you do....wow. A friend of mine was within 5lbs of her goal it took her a full 6 mos before that last 5 finally dropped off. She was religious about her diet and exercise and was SO frustrated....but oh such a happy girl when that last 5 let go. Keep on track and stay the course and you will be successful.:smile:
  • amandaj1966
    amandaj1966 Posts: 342 Member
    well can you throw it over here, cause I just got out of the shower and forgot to take a towel again and i'm cold and naked and dripping on the rug.

    If your profile photo is you, I hope you don't mind me keeping this image in my head for a while. :wink:
  • leslisa
    leslisa Posts: 1,350 Member
    Have a feeling you're be reactive too much. Meaning, that if you aren't seeing results by the next weigh in, you're changing tactics. SO, for at least 2 weeks stick to one regimen. Eat your BMR for a couple of weeks. Bump the intensity of your exercise, but lessen the rest time between sets.
    Check back in 2 weeks.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

    Agree with this. Also, change up the times you work out if you can. I always stall if I run the same time each day. Changing up the time seems to help me by making things a little less monotonous, too.
  • MaryinBflo
    MaryinBflo Posts: 437 Member
    You need to throw out your scale and not worry about it. Take measurements and just focus on the positive changes you are making and on being healthy! I know it's hard to do but once you are closer to your goal weight the scale doesn't move like it did in the beginning and the scale should not be your only measurement tool! Keep at it!
  • kindasortachewy
    kindasortachewy Posts: 1,084 Member
    In feb i was stuck like that too. I upped my water up to a gallon a day and the weight started melting off. I try to drink 14-18 cups a day now

    This!
  • metacognition
    metacognition Posts: 626 Member
    Don't throw in the towel.

    When it seems that your body has stopped losing weight, keep doing your exercise and eating program anyway. Never give up. You will keep losing but it will take time.

    When I was obese and thought it was impossible to lose weight, I would still do my workout. I might always be fat, I wagered- but I won't be the miserable fat person hiding in a closet eating Doritos, watching soaps and lamenting how I round I looked.

    Diet and exercise in spite of the plateau was my way to rage against nature, genetics, and the unfair card that I was dealt in life.
    It didn't matter that my body was fat and resisted every step of the way. The sheer force of will would change it.

    My advice is to stop worrying. Chuck the scale for three weeks. Keep doing what you are doing, but up the intensity of your exercise and cut calories by 200 per day. Often the cause of a plateau is too many hidden calories and too little (or well-adapted) exercise. Give it time.
  • jpalocy77
    jpalocy77 Posts: 114 Member
    Its not my official weigh in day..but I do weigh myself just about every morning after I wake up and pee, and what not.. I FINALLY weighed below 150 this morning!! 148.6.. I weighed about 5 times to be sure..official weigh day to log in here isn't till thursday, so I won't put it down..but I was EXCITED!! Thanks for everyone's advice and support, I really needed it..and I still do!
  • freebirdjones
    freebirdjones Posts: 236 Member
    Wow. How did you try all that since March? I'm confused. You lost 20 lbs since Narch and you tried all those things since when? You need to mellow out. When you change cals up or down, you need to stay there for at least 4 weeks and let you body adjust. If you're changing everyday, nothing will happen. Ths is a slow and steady process.

    This is exactly what I was thinking. You need to give your body time to adjust and level out. I would throw away the scale for a while and go with how your body feels. I lost 7 inches in one month with no weight loss. I also find if I do a kick *kitten* workout I weigh a bit more from water retention. I go up and down by 1 or 2 lbs so I ditched the scale. I would go with photo's and measurements. I seen photo's where the chubby girl weighed 125 lbs at the start, and at the end with abs and all she weighed 135 lbs. So after seeing that weight has n bearing for me. I feel healthy and am losing inches that's good enough for me. I lift as heavy as I can. I would calculate your BMR on sedentary put that into my fitness pal by going to custom and eat back your cals burned. you can find your cals burned for lifting by going to cardio and typing in strength training :)

    http://www.muscleandstrength.com/tools/bmr-and-daily-calorie-calculator.html

    So if you try eating you bmr on sedentary and eating back cals burnt and do lifting you should give it a month at the least, and please don't get scared if you see the scale go up. msg me or add me as a friend and I have pages and pages of info bookmarked I can send you. good luck :)

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