I feel like i am stuck

If you've been going at it since June and haven't lost weight then you're probably eating too much or not enough.

Eating "healthy" does not necessarily equal "eating few enough calories to lose pounds." One can eat all lean protein and veggies in enough quantities to gain weight. You're going to need to open your diary if you truly want help. Most people here just want to help but we can't without enough information to offer it.

first of all, You and your man both have awesome hats!

I hired a trainer once when I was younger, one of the best things that I did was fire that personal trainer, they were charging me an arm and a leg to basically tell me to eat a lot of fruit and keep doing what I was doing. I got better results by myself.

I think that many personal trainers no there body and there passions, and not yours or mine. I was training to be a better bull rider, my trainer was a cross country runner. two totally different things and two totally different ways of training.

Are you logging everything you eat? You are probably eating too much or too little.

Dr. Says thyroid miniormal. clean eating nothing processed lots of veggies no refined sugar lots of protein. Minimal fat if I have fat it's minimal I try to avoid it or its a healthy fat like avocado. I spin for 45 mins I do bootcamp 4 days a week which is weights legs and cardio. I eat 1500 calories a day my Dr. says there isn't much he can do since the nutritionist says I have said what I'm eating is good. I really wish I could start seeing results.

I'm guessing you aren't counting accurately. You should be losing. Can you open your diary?

Please don't give up! have you felt any better since working out? maybe have someone look at what you are eating and see if there are any changes you could make. Also, there are other things like measuring accurately, eating back enough cals or not eating them at all. You have to play around with this and find what works for you! I'm not saying to undereat or anything, but speak to a nutritionalist or someone who can look at your situation. No matter what, kudos for hanging this long and don't quit!

So I have been training extremely hard I am doing 4 days a week with a trainer and then I do cardio on 2 of the other days and I have a rest day. I am eating healthy and drinking a lot of water but I don't seem to be losing pounds or inches. I am getting really frustrated with this and I am feeling like I should just give up and listen to everyone and just get over the fact that I will always be the fat one!!! I am at the point where I am at a lose does anyone have any advice?

Give up trying to lose weight? That may be a good idea for a little while.
What I mean is, focus on something else besides the scale. Come up with some fitness goals. Have you done C25K? How about weight lifting? One of my goals is to bench press 90 pounds like I did when I was in the military. I am working on being able to do 30 correct pushups.

Losing weight is definitely rewarding, but equally rewarding is knowing that I am getting stronger and faster. Knowing that I am accomplishing things keeps me sane. Oh, and I haven't lost weight in 2 months, but I am still working on those fitness goals!

I hired a personal trainer when I moved to my new city,and yeah well... no. Not saying that they are all bad, but they really just get paid to watch you do what they say do, without first really knowing your history your body or anything else.

Some ppl have a lot of muscle and their bodies will build muscle fast, so while like they are not loosing a damn thing they are gaining muscle and that should in time burn the fat, but it is a sloooowwww process. I know, I am one of thoes people.

Like you, I have been to a nutrionist, had my thyrioid checked, etc., and I am not loosing like I should be, I too have stalled, so to speak. Although I have gotten down, been a bit depressed and just felt like saying to heck with it, I have not given up and neither shoudl you. I am trying a new program and I will give it 10 weeks and see if it sparks results.

If it does not spark results, then I am going back to see the doctore because at that point I will need another exam to determine what may be going on internally that is stopping my weight loss.

But don't give up, keep going. I would probably take a breather from the personal trainer. I heard of a program where people simply run two days a week for about 3 miles (if you can basically run for an hour), weight lif two days a week (for about an hour or hour and a half) to strengthen your muscles, and then swim the other two days a week (for about an hour or more). For those who have done this and have mixed it with a good eating program they are having some pretty good results. The excercies are three very different activities that will work out your entire body, but they are different enough so as to challenge your body each time. I would do it but, yeah, me and swimming...yeah, no. :happy:

Good luck, and whatever you do, hang in there. There are many of us right there with you but we can't give up.

Check out my blog for more on working out hard and not losing but the bottom line is don't give up!

Each body responds to different things. This recent round of weight loss (15 lbs in the 2 months since I've moved) really surprised me because a) my joins still haven't recovered from my military trip, b) I really haven't worked out as hard as I used to and c) my diet, while ok in calories, hasn't been the organic healthiest it could be.

When I tried to figure it out, I realized: I am moving a lot - just at lower grade (taking stairs, walking the track for 1.5 hrs 3x/wk while my son has practice, etc) . and 2. I have GREATLY increased my intake of veggies (though it's been bad on the budget because I have been doing the salad bar at work - they have such great variety).

If you're working hard and no results, may I suggest two things:

1. a huge bowl of salad or other raw veggies before eating dinner. Some people say you wont be hungry after a big bowl of salad but I always am (and it's a big bowl), so I'm not saying don't eat your regular dinner. Just add these veggies

2. Take a week every so often from hard training and do lower-impact activities such as walking for an hour or yoga. I know you take rest days but maybe one week of no hard training might help. You're gonna have to find what works for your body!

I found an interesting program called the Venus Factor. http://betterbodyworkout.net/venus

The idea behind it is that there is an ideal shoulder-to-waist-to-hip ratio based on your height that men find most attractive. You plug in your variables and it gives you the nutritional and workout guidelines based on your current measurements.

The workouts are 12 weeks in duration with 3-4 workouts per week. You can add some cardio on off days but it's not required. You're in and out of the gym in an hour. I like it because I can download the workouts to my phone and there are how-to videos for all of the exercises. There's tons of variety and you'll absolutely see results quickly if you follow the plan.