Losing momentum to continue

Please dont get discouraged!! You have hit the plateu that many of us hit. Maybe u need to change up ur routine a bit. When ur body gets use to the routine it takes more to lose the weight. Im sure u look great already. Dont give up and see about changing up ur routine a bit. I know im not much help but maybe wut i said will help out a little bit. Keep ur head up and remember u CAN do it!!

I cant do a sit up either cuz i have lower back problems. lol I use my elliptical when I have the energy. Measuring will tell u if ur actually losing any weight or not if ur not seeing it in the numbers on the scale.

When you get to a plateau, think of it as a landing on the stairway to your goal. And maintenance is a lifelong plateau, so a bit of "rehearsal" for maintenance isn't the worst thing in the world.

I heard that for taylor lautner (twilight wolf dude, my sisters a huge fan) he ate ALOT of meat. he carried meat patties with him. they had an article on him in a mens health issue i think. but i'd say up your workout, change your routine and pay attention to food.

I imagine you're also lifting when you go to the gym. Remember, muscle weighs more than fat, so if you're not seeing a drop in the scale, but notice your clothes getting looser and muscles looking more toned, it's usually because of that. Your muscle gain will lead to burning more fat anyway because they need the fuel.

If that's not the case, you're hitting a plateau. Which is a normal part of any weight loss regimen. Speak with your trainer about new workout routines to help with muscle confusion which will trigger your metabolism to wake up if you've been doing the same thing on each day for a while. Examples to switch up your workouts would be to lift on the days you normally do cardio and do cardio on the days you lift. Or switch up the days you rest, then do a different muscle group for lifting on another day; like if you do chest and triceps on a Monday, do back and biceps instead, then do chest and triceps the days you do legs, then do legs the day you normally would do back and biceps. Play around with your schedule, if you can. The days you do cardio, you can do little bursts of HIIT [High Intensity Interval Training] throughout your activity.

What also affects metabolism is actual weight loss [which can be coupled with the aforementioned workout routine]. As you lose weight, your metabolism slows down because it no longer needs the same amount of calories to sustain itself when you were bigger. There are 2 options. You could either cut your calories down by about 100 - 200 calories a day, or you could eat more by about the same amount. The option of playing around with days you eat more and/or less can still be applied. It will keep your metabolism guessing as to how much you're actually eating. The theoretical concept is, if you eat more, your metabolism will think it's gaining weight, and given your workouts, it will try to burn off what it doesn't think it needs. When you cut back on calories, you stimulate your metabolism into thinking that it doesn't need as much as you say it does [with reduced intake], and will burn calories to get rid of "excess stores."

I also hit a plateau around that weight, and every 10 lbs that followed, with 3 weeks being the longest plateau around 185, and I pretty much did a combination of all those things. When I literally just stopped worrying about it and let my body do what it wanted to do, it kicked back in. I ended up confusing my metabolism. So much that it just kicked into high-gear because it didn't know what was going to happen next. Of course it fluctuated, but the overall graph of my weight was still a steady decline.

If worse comes to worse, you may re-evaluate what you want your target weight should be. A lot of times, we're at our healthiest at a certain weight, and sometimes less isn't necessarily better. As long as you're happy with the success that you've earned so far and don't stop, it will all come together.

Hope that helps. Whatever you do, just keep an active, healthy lifestyle going and don't stop. It may feel like it's not paying off, but trust me, it still is.