What is wrong with this picture?!?

Are you eating back your exercise calories? And on a regular basis? It sounds like you aren't but sometimes you have to "fool" your body into thinking it is getting all of the allotted calories for weight loss PLUS the exercise calories for a couple of weeks and then drop back to the weight loss calories again.

The other thing you say is that you have been doing boot camp and JM 30 day shred and feel fitter and stronger. However, remember that muscle weighs MORE than fat, so your measurements may have gone down and your weight may have gone up.

Try eating the exercise calories back for a minimum of 2 weeks and then dropping back but log it ALL. Also, drink plenty of water - the "glasses" of water mentioned on here are 8 fluid ozs because they are based on the US pint, which is 16 fluid ozs, as opposed to the UK pint which is 20 fluid ozs.

Weigh yourself and do your body measurements at the beginning but DON'T do them again until the end of the 4 week period. This might just be enough to tip the balance for you.

If that fails, look carefully at your nutrients - salt retains water and also there is a lot of sugar, albeit natural fructose, in fruit, so sometimes cutting that down in favour of something with less sugar helps. And I am sure I don't need to mention alcohol - I have no idea if you drink any alcohol but it is packed full of empty calories. I do have a drink now and then but I log every time and have to sacrifice something else in order to do so (but I reckon it's worth it if you have a good quality wine!)

I'm losing weight for health reasons too, so you have my sympathy on this one! It is damned hard! (Especially in my case, as I have a medical problem which severely curtails my ability to exercise - but I do what I can when I am able).

Give it a try - and good luck!

You haven't logged for a month and you haven't been losing weight for a month. I think it means you're overestimating your calories.
Why don't you go back to entering everything you it and see if it helps with your weightloss?

Good luck!

I haven't entered my food in my diary for the past month so there's no point looking at it but I measure everything and know I'm doing that part right.

What is going on with my body and why has everything come to a standstill? It's the longest plateau I've ever experienced in weight loss, yet I'm working out, watching what I eat and apparently, doing the right things.

I do not take any medication nor do I have health issues that would cause this. My thyroid is fine as are hormones, etc.

Please help me out.

hmm ...sorry the oracle is taking a break on the weekend, check back Monday :-)

in all seriousness essentially this is a rant after saying you are doing everything right and nothing happens and at the end you are asking people for advice. Anything anyone will be able to say i.e. maybe you are not logging correctly, you are going to reply 'yes I am' and there is no way for anyone but you to check whether that is true.

Somebody else said this on another post, but I am going to repeat it here. You body is keeping a very accurate diary of your calories in and out and it's saying you are not in a calorie deficit, which is why you are not losing weight.

The weight gain from starting a new exercise program is most likely water retention as your sore muscles repair themselves from the trauma of being used. lol It'll disappear as you get stronger.

You say you're eating back your exercise calories? Maybe try only eating back 50% or 75% and see what happens. I agree with the other person that at some point a plateau becomes "you're eating at maintenance".

hmm ...sorry the oracle is taking a break on the weekend, check back Monday :-)

in all seriousness essentially this is a rant after saying you are doing everything right and nothing happens and at the end you are asking people for advice. Anything anyone will be able to say i.e. maybe you are not logging correctly, you are going to reply 'yes I am' and there is no way for anyone but you to check whether that is true.

Somebody else said this on another post, but I am going to repeat it here. You body is keeping a very accurate diary of your calories in and out and it's saying you are not in a calorie deficit, which is why you are not losing weight.

No rant. Just looking for suggestions from those who have experienced something similar. I don't post a lot on this forum so I don't read many threads. My best bet would be to look up threads where posters have asked something similar and see what worked for them.

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Look, the reason for my post was that your original post has very little information in it.

It is impossible to tell what sort of calorie burns you are logging each day/week and whether you are eating your exercise calories back and if you do so then maybe you are overestimating the calories burned.

It is impossible to see whether your logging is as accurate as you claim or whether you measure instead of weigh, or whether you are not using accurate values for your food (I have seen people who log 2 pieces of toast with butter and jam for 100 calories and I wish I could get me some of that toast or butter, because mine is much higher).

Could it be water weight? Absolutely.

You have lost a whole heap of weight already and you say you need to lose another 30 to be in a healthy place, but it's hard to judge without real numbers of where you actually are. If you are still overweight then something is not working otherwise you would not have stopped losing weight. One thing I do want to say is that as you are nearing your goal weight or if you never had a lot to lose, there is less room for error. Anyway, good luck :-)