OMG FINALLY!!!

That's excellent. I know how hard it is to be stuck on a plateau. Have you been logging your food anywhere? Weighing everything and logging accurately all food/drinks would help you play around with the calories you consume every day and the type of food so you can try to break through the plateau by eating either up or/and down, or changing the type of food you have been eating.

I generally don't count calories but maybe 1-2 times a week. I just like to see where I am at. I know I've been doing everything right seeing as I've been losing inches consistently. But I do measure my food and control my portions. Guess it just took a while for my body to catch up.

@13tea - That is a long time to be on a plateau! I would probably go insane. Haha

When you hit plateaus, you need to count calories precisely to see whether it is the food, new exercise workout, may be underestimating how much you consume, etc. so you will know what works as you make changes to move downwards. Did you lose inches while you were in this plateau? Did you increase the intensity of your workout, or changed what you were doing?

Yes, I lost inches while in the plateau. The scale just wouldn't budge. I have been doing strength training and running, increasing reps each workout (sometimes repeating weeks if I felt I wasn't strong enough to move forward) and increasing run time with each session. And I have high and low days when it comes to calories. I tend to eat more on my workout days and less on my non-workout days.

@mayaitzcowitz - It's good to know someone else went through the same thing as I did. I hope you are right about hitting the 170s soon!

@needsalife3 - 8 week plateau? That's a real bummer .. I hope you get everything figured out soon and kick that plateau in the rear end!

And thank you all, again.