Confused and Discouraged.....

Discouraged?! This is a success story!!! You should be immensely proud of yourself. Don't worry about the pounds - that will work itself out in a week or so. Want to gain five pounds overnight? Eat a whole bunch of salt, your body will retain a ton of water, and it will look like you've gained weight.

As an earlier poster noted, caffeine is a diuretic; this increases the body's production of urine. This means that without the coffee, your body IS adapting, producing less urine, retaining more water, and will need a little time to adapt.

Congratulations on quitting smoking! You will find that you have substantially more energy and feel better and more able to work out.

You may find yourself in the virtuous cycle now :-)

Well, I just weighed myself and I have lost 2 PDS in the past 5 hrs. I stopped drinking all that water........ water Retention perhaps. I hope so..........

That was my guess. But don't stop drinking water because of that. Likely part of it was due to your walking regime going from over 10k a day to 4k a day as well.

Congratulations on quitting smoking! I'm a Respiratory Therapist and I've seen end stage COPD. It's a slow and tortuous death and I don't wish it on anyone!

Be patient! And don't worry too much about the scale if your goal is getting healthy, you're on your way!

I realized when I was first trying to lose weight before my wedding in 2010 that I was putting too much stuff in my coffee. In January of that year, my coffee was a med French Vanilla Dunkin Donuts coffee with 3 sugars and 6 creams. My goal at first was just to use less of both and by May, I was down to 1 sugar and 3 creams.

I liked this mix so I kept making my coffee this way until January of this year. I could tell by my food diaries that I was still getting too much sugar and the coffee was to blame. So, I decided to eliminate the sugar completely and try to use a little less cream. Now I have 2 creams only and I find my waistline is finally starting to shrink a little more. It's sad how much calories are in sugar and cream when coffee itself as so little calories.

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If I were you I'd resume smoking temporarily, while working on reducing the creamer. If you can't quit it cold turkey, start adding nonfat milk to it every day until in a month you're drinking all nonfat milk and no creamer. If you can drink coffee with nonfat milk for three months and are sticking to your plan and losing weight I would then try to stop smoking. But remember, smoking cessation often causes people to gain weight so you have to be prepared.

There's no point in making yourself miserable; it will only backfire.

Are you serious? Resume Smoking? Temporarily? Sorry but that is just NOT gonna happen. I am on day 5....... a pack and a half a day to Zero. I feel much better already..... and if I have to have a choice between being a fat non-smoker or a skinny smoker, I will take the fat Option. LOL

Good for you on recognizing this for complete BS. You know what they say, if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice. Not entirely true, but funny. Anyway, I agree with others. Let your metabolism shake itself out. You've reviewed your plan. If it's a good plan, and you are sticking to it, trust your plan. Everyone has a few weeks where nothing moves for seemingly no reason. Could be sodium, could be glycogen rearranging itself, could be lots of things. Weight loss isn't linear. It goes in whooshes and stalls. The whooshes are fun. The stalls suck. Trust your plan and trust yourself. Don't lie to yourself, like with the creamer, but if you know you're accounting for things, weighing, measuring, tracking, etc. then trust yourself and trust your plan.

Well, I just weighed myself and I have lost 2 PDS in the past 5 hrs. I stopped drinking all that water........ water Retention perhaps. I hope so..........

I'd suggest not weighing so often. It will fluctuate, try once every couple weeks not multiple times a day.

Unsweetened almond milk is a great alternative to creamer! It's only 30-40 calories (depending on brand) per cup!! so per Tbs, that's only 2 calories!!

I count my coffee creamer... and it has helped me to drink less coffee in a day The regular (unflavored) creamers are 10 calories each for an individual tub. When I'm at work I try to have 2 per cup. At home, I use skim milk... And I drink diet coke for a caffeine boost in the afternoon.

You're doing great - stick with it! I've been on this diet for nearly a month... hadn't lost any pounds on the scale and then yesterday, I was down 4 pounds! Everyone is different