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Maybe eat more veggies and protein and less fruits and carbs. Tweak your diet a little and see what works for you. Also mix up your exercise plan. See if that helps. Good luck!

Ok, so here's what I have to say about this thread and reading your own comments OP... I think if you obsess over daily pics and several times a day weighing, you will make yourself quit! I will admit to you that in the beginning I was THE SAME WAY and almost quit several times. I didn't see the changes in myself even with taking pics every day. also stepped on the scale up to 3 times a day. It isn't good for you to do that so much. Trust me!! You will stress yourself out until you give up! Once a day MAX, same time every day, wearing same clothing. I now only weigh myself 2 times a week at the most, but usually 1 time a week. I used to take a picture once every 2 weeks, now I do it once a month unless I'm doing some weights with my exercises.

Also, even though people are going to tell you that they lost _____ lbs in _____ weeks, and if it is FASTER than you PLEASE don't compare yourself to them, because 1 lb a week is HEALTHY and good! So you are already making progress! And, like someone else said, 3 lbs may not have seemed like a lot to you, but think about that tub of butter thing. Or when I reached 10 lbs, it took me 2 months to lose that, and I thought it was sooooo slow, and I was going to give up, then my fiance said "pick up this bag of potatoes" and I did, and he said "you lost THAT off of you, why would you give up now?" and he was right, why give up?

I've had a plateau for a month,a nd I let it derail me a little and i gained back some weight, but ya know what, I'm back here, and I'm getting back to what I need to do to get healthy. I have been working on my healthier lifestyle for over a year, and I ultimately lost 30 pounds, gained 7 back in 2 months, and now I've lost some of that.

Also, sometimes the scale would say I didn't lose or even gained, but some of my clothes did feel different, looser, so you can't always go just by what the scale says.

Its awesome that you have reached out to get help. Please beware of the negative people who will say mean things, there's always people like that, just try to ignore them. Just remember that the weight didn't just suddenly appear in a week or a month, so it will not be gone that quickly. You're losing it at a healthy pace, and even if the scale goes up 2 lbs one day, the next day it could be back to what it was before, depends on all kinds of things like sodium, if I eat a high sodium meal, it will make me retain water and I will gain, which is why I stopped weighing myself every day, also that "time of the month" will make a difference, too, for me I usually gain anywhere between 1-4 lbs just in water retention during that time of the month, and it will start a day or two before I actually start that time of the month, so just be aware that could happen.

You are doing great, keep it up, don't get discouraged by simply a number. It took me 3 months before I really started seeing a difference that I was like "woah!" mostly because for me, I work from home so most of my clothes are baggy lazy clothes (stretchy knit pants/yoga pants, oversize shirts) so I didn't notice it and no one saw it because I was covered in baggy clothes. So, its good that you take pics of yourself, just dont do it to the point where you will get discouraged if you don't think you see results. there are things my fiance and kids tell me they see that I don't see myself. You will always be your harshest critic and pick at the tiniest things about yourself, its how we humans do, so don't be too hard on yourself. I still have about 60 lbs to go before I reach my goal weight, and I know it will be a long road, but I also know I will be working for the long term goal of being healthy and not getting diabetes or heart disease that runs in my family, not just what the scale says. Keep plugging in and reaching out to people, for me that is what has made such a huge difference for me in geting back on when I fell off the wagon!

Keep up the good work girlie!!! You can do this!!

T25 is high energy. I can tell you all about month one. Month one is a lot of leg strengthening moves and a few upper body moves. It has a modified version of every move. You may find that you will maybe use some modifieds and some higher level moves. All the modified does is help keep so much weight out of the knees. I used some of the modified myself. I was not able to check the "nailed it" until my 2nd month. Month 2 is a lot of upper body strength and ab core workouts. To me (my personal opinion) its alot easier then month one unless you hate using weights. 3 out of 5 of the workouts involve weights.

However I have seen a lot more weight loss in month 2 then one. I am not sure why that is.

anyways...

But I heard zumba was great. All you have to do is dance. I also heard that it is one of the highest successes. That it isn ot boring or anything. I wanted to try zumba myself.