FINIALLY DROPPING!!!!!!

You have all said it, hundreds of times. Eat TDEE less 20% and be patient. I never listened. Nope, I was stupid and thought eating 1200 calories (when I got that in) and exercising to the point of failure 6 days a week would surely get me to my goal. I wasted so much time NOT LISTENING!

now, finally, the light has gone on! I made a conscious effort over the last 15 days to log, weigh, account for everything, (Another thing I did not do previously) and polled 5 different TDEE calculators and took the average. 1700 Calories is my goal. 5 foot 0, 46 yrs, F, heavy exercising 6 days a week (weight lifting and cardio HIIT) I got just about there every day for the last 10 days. Maybe shy 25-30 calories daily.

I have now lost 3.6 in the last 2 weeks. If I could kick myself harder I would for WASTING SO MUCH TIME thinking I was doing it the correct way. I am also more conscious of the "just one bites" and how deadly they can be to a calorie budget. I never thought about them, sure I knew food was going in my mouth but I didn't count the pretzel here or the cracker there or the bite of chocolate everywhere. Now I do, now I got it. I am eating more frequently too as I am hungrier then I have ever been eating less calories. I hear my stomach growling every 3 hours. This is a strange concept to me. I guess the less you eat, or allow yourself to eat, the more your body says "nope, not gonna burn 1 calorie cause you aint feeding me woman!"

I have a goal of 110, (now 130) before May 2014, I hope I can stay as dedicated to this as I am right now.

thank you all for saying it 1000 times until I heard you all.