NO MORE...I'M SO OVER TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT...

it is a little less each time, and frustrating.

OK, I know you're fed up but I'd like to offer another suggestion. Read Winning by Losing by Jillian Michaels. There is a chapter on oxidation. Most of us oxidize our macronutrients differently than other people. You may not be doing the right thing by eating the same foods as your sister. Some of us are fast oxidizers and our bodies prefer lean meats over carbs. If we eat carbs they instantly raise our blood sugar. This book may help you see how your particular body processes food.

Sorry but no.

Her diet is not on point and is too low in cals, that is why there is not progress.


Yes I did, But telling her to follow yet another diet trend and having her purchase another product is not the answer.
She is not oxidizing fast or slow, she just isnt eating enough which has slowed her metabolism to a crawl which is why she is not seeing weight loss. She isnt even giving herself enough food a day to live if she was comatose! Upping the cal level, and getting her metabolism moving is the answer. Not starving herself and wasting time and money on a fad diet.

She is not choosing enough foods in her "budget" that are nutritious.

sorry but there are way to many foods that are not good at all in her diet. Where is the fruit??? Why are we eating bacon nearly every day??

There is a ton of work that needs to go on in that diet and it is just a matter of making healthier food choices and upping cals.

Sorry, but 1200 is not enought o fuel your body on and making poor food choices does not help.

Its not about oxidation, this is simply a slowing metabolism due to undereating for so long. Upping the cals and resetiing the metabolism will work better in the long run.

Buying another book and following another useless plan is not what is needed. She has found, and rightly so, that these dont work.

Kicking out the foods low in nutrients and upping the fruit and veggie intake would be the healthiest thing to do.

Sorry, but I guess you didn't catch my next entry where I said she is not eating enough.

I'm right there with you. I started here on MFP Dec 23 2009 and have only lost 4 lbs. At most, I had lost 8 lbs, then gained it all back. I tripled my exercise over the year and experimented with eating exercise cals vs not eating them. I also got a HRM and that made a HUGE difference in the number of exercise calories. I discovered I was over eating by almost 800 calories a day! I've had tons of bloodwork done, was diagnosed with PCOS and put on meds for that and still haven't seen any weight loss. So I too, am lumped in with the group of no matter what, the pounds just want to stay there. I have not entirely given up. I have just resolved to watch my calorie intake, eat a healthy diet, and exercise. If the weight wants to come off, then it will come off.

Have you had a check up? Go to the doctor and make sure your thyroid and everything else is in order.

Other than that, I personally love your new outlook! You are embracing the healthy and ignoring the scale. If all you can lose is .75 a month than there ya go! At least you know each month you will go down a steady .75. If you set your expectations at that and you lose more, rock on! However, if you only lose .75 you won't be bummed.

There are pessimists, there are optimists, you are a realist. Who cares how full or empty the glass is as long as you have water to drink. :drinker:

Hey Reneeot,

I encourage you to stay motivated. Weight loss is about having the perfect balance, and for some it takes a longer time to achieve that balance.

First, make sure that you aren't taking in too little calories. Taking in too few calories can send your body into a type of starvation mode, where it will store energy instead of metabolize it the way it would in someone taking in an appropiate amount of calories spaced out over the day. I did not look at your food diary, but just keep that in mind. You don't want your calorie count to fall below your Resting Metabolic Rate, you need that many calories for your body to function properly.

Additionally, I'm not there with you when you exercise, but intensity and duration and two very important components for weight loss. If you are exercising for 30-60 mins 4 to 5 times a week and are seeing NO or very little results, it would be my personal opinion that:
1) You are not exercising at an appropiate intensity
2) Your diet is counterproductive to your workouts
3) A combonation of the 1 and 2. OR
4) Though very unlikely because your current weight is not an extreme value from normalcy, I would ask that you see a physician to run some tests to see if an abnormal amount of particular hormones were present.

My bet however is that it' falls with first 3. Stay encouraged in your workouts and dieting. Don't get into fads...Just try to eat balanced meals that fullfil all your nutrient requirements, and dont violate your calorie allotments. Also, think whole foods, and avoid processed foods as much as possible. Make sure you are spacing your meals out over the day, where your heaviest meals are at the beginning and middle of the day. Heavy dinners right before bedtime are counterproductive to whatever you do in the gym.

If anything, just stay encouraged! I know you can do it! And remember every pound and inch is a success, so give yourself some credit for your small successes and continue to move forward from there. I'm rooting for you!!!

I agree with your rant! you can only control what you eat and what you do, you can't control how your body will respond to it! keep up making healthy choices and good luck!

Here's my honest assessment from your food log....you need to clean up your diet. Things like bacon and butter and 100 calorie pack snacks should go. Same with Shakeology - eat your nutrients, don't drink them. You need much more fresh veggies and some fruit. I would change your diary to track sodium and protein. You eat a lot of processed and restaurant food. That's usually high in sodium.

I think if you switch to homemade lean meats like chicken and turkey with salt-free seasonings and no sauces, lots of steamed veggies, fresh fruits, brown rice, wheat breads, and cut out white potatoes, etc., that will help a lot. Weigh and measure everything. Also, I don't know how you're measuring your exercise calories, but if you're not using a heart rate monitor, the machine or MFP might be over-estimating them.

Sometimes you have to go hard-core to get results going. Good luck!

I have the bacon and butter because I was trying a new regimen in October. and that is what they said. If you looked at last months you wouldn't see that. I don't think 100 calorie almond packs is bad for you. That is the only 100 cal snack pack I do. My shakeology gives me a lot of the veggies/fruits and vitanmin i need each day. I dont use it as a replacement meal, I eat it as a snack. I also have no cravings because of it. I wasn't losing weight before it , I started it in June and it stays!! :-)

I don't eat alot of restaurant food. Check my diary for the past 3 months. Maybe 5 or 6 times. I eat majority of time chicken and ground turkey, whole grain, brown rice and fruit, and veggies( which I just cut for the new regimen I started in October, because watching I'm watching my sugar). I just switched my log tracking to monitor sugars. My sodium is usually under the reccommended amount given. My sister who is eating what I eat because I do all the cooking is losing weight. I'm not.

Being balanced should get results too. I went from no activity & lousy eating habits to activity every day and major overhaul in eating habits.

Thanks for checking out my food log!!! If you do a report for the past 90 day, you'd see I rarely eat over 1200 calories, so the exercise calories I log without a HRM should not be an issue.

MY POINT IS THIS: SOME PEOPLE CAN LOSE WEIGHT EASY AND SOME NOT. I FALL IN THE CATEGORY OF NOT SO EASY. IT WILL COME IN ITS OWN DO TIME. JUST TAKING ME LONGER!! SO I'M NO LONGER TRYING TO MAKE MY BODY DO WHAT IT DOES NOT WANT TO DO.

I've lost weight only 1 other time in my life. 35lbs without any major changes, except limiting carbs to 60 a day, I still ate junk food and hershey bar everynight. Why did I lose weight? who knows my body did it. :-)

Our bodies are different from one another and sometimes even from itself during different times of our lives. Don't compare yourself to other people and their successes, just focus on your own. If you can look at what you're doing with diet and exercise and honestly say you're doing EVERYTHING you possibly can to lose the weight, and you're not getting the results you should be seeing, then maybe it's worth a trip to the doctors office, you know, just make sure everything is in balance.

When I was younger, losing weight meant I ate tomato & cheese sandwiches for lunch and I lost weight - go figure. When I got older, that method didn't work. Even counting my calories didn't get the results I expected. So, when I hit rock bottom I decided to hire a personal nutritionist and she basically taught me how to eat and choose the "good calories" over the "bad calories." It's simple little things like swapping out 1 serving of low-fat cheese for low-fat yogurt - you get same amount of calories and calcium, but less than 1/2 the fat.

Keep fighting - you got a bunch of folks rooting for you...

I am no shining example of quick weight loss... I've only been on mfp for a little while... However, there are so many excellent tools... I discovered that my potassium level was never as much as it should be... in proportion to my sodium intake... I NEVER had enough fiber... I decided to try to suppliment those, along w/ a multivitamin and exercise...

EVERY DIET EVER says drink 8+ glasses of water...
I read the DR Oz books... very enlightening, in so many ways...
if you haven't had any biology classes in a while, he explains so much!!!
He says to treat yourself like your navigation system in your car...
if you make a wrong turn... take the next legal u-turn and keep driving...
i've firmed and toned and lost 5 lbs... nothing to get too excited about, but if I'm getting healthier...maybe eventually...
we all need to try not to be too hard on ourselves it should be enough to know we're doing our best.:drinker: