Killing myself for Nothing

You want to lose slowly. Remember its a journey not a race. Try to stay positive. Took me awhile to see results. It will happen

measure yourself. you are probably gaining muscle.

On that large a deficit doing cardio, the OP is not gaining muscle. If anything she is losing muscle.

Amen brother

If I lost 10lbs in a month I would be ecstatic. i just lost 2lbs in a month - but I had quite a few treat days off so I am still happy.

I would give anything to drop 10lbs this month and reach my goal by the time I go on my hols but its just not likely to happen. Its taken me 8 months to drop 40lbs and I think I'm doing great. You didn't put on the weight overnight so you can't expect it to come off overnight. Sounds like you need to chill out safe in the knowledge that you're doing all the right things and gradually you'll lose the pounds.

Seriously... I have been eating 1200 calories a day, doing Jillian Michael's Body Revolution for a month, jogging on a treadmill every evening and have only lost 10 pounds!!!! Jillian expects five pounds a week. If you do the math, not counting extra calorie burn for the metabolic training, just what my heart rate monitor says I have burned, I should be losing 3.5 pounds a week. I have barely lost a jean size. So depressed!

is this even real?

Jillian expects five pounds a week.

Jillian, to put it bluntly, is full of fecal matter.

Ten pounds in a month is absofrickinlutely incredible progress, and you should be proud. You should also not expect it to continue at that rate, because you don't have enough excess body fat to support that kind of weight loss.

Ideally, with 44 pounds left to go, you should be aiming for one pound a week. The only thing you should feel depressed about is that your expectations were unrealistic.

Yup...give yourself some time...like many have said. Feeling sorry for yourself is well, very destructive... “It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.” ― Debbie Macomber

Don't take yourself so seriously, this is supposed to be fun. Cheers :drinker:

Jillian expects five pounds a week.

Jillian, to put it bluntly, is full of fecal matter.

Ten pounds in a month is absofrickinlutely incredible progress, and you should be proud. You should also not expect it to continue at that rate, because you don't have enough excess body fat to support that kind of weight loss.

Ideally, with 44 pounds left to go, you should be aiming for one pound a week. The only thing you should feel depressed about is that your expectations were unrealistic.

This lady knows what she's talking about. Listen to her.

Don't get discourage which is easy to do when you are doing all you know how. You may need to change your routine some. The body has to be shocked out of routine every now and then by doing a harder exercise on a off day or increasing reps in something. I get upset too I has taken me forever to lose 20lbs and I got a few more 20's to go.

However, I don't look at it like its for nothing I farther along than I was a few months back also I have a thyroid issue that makes my efforts even harder but I just fall down sometimes get back up and start over.

Keep the faith because it's the faith that keeps us on a daily basis. Many blessings.

Seriously... I have been eating 1200 calories a day, doing Jillian Michael's Body Revolution for a month, jogging on a treadmill every evening and have only lost 10 pounds!!!! Jillian expects five pounds a week. If you do the math, not counting extra calorie burn for the metabolic training, just what my heart rate monitor says I have burned, I should be losing 3.5 pounds a week. I have barely lost a jean size. So depressed!

Jillian is full of ****e! so forget her.