Totally fed up

Hello friendly people....

I did Lighterlife about 6 or so years ago and lost 2st then another stone over the following year by following GI. I have kept the weight off for all this time until the last year when over the whole year I gained 5lbs. Come this new year I decided enough was enough and to nip it now before it got any worse.

I found MFP on my android apps so had a look, thought that'd be a good idea and signed up. It gave me a goal of 1200 calories a day so I started logging everything. The scary thing for me was that in a normal day, without making any changes to my eating habits, I was actually struggling to reach 1200 - but within the first week I'd lost 2lbs of the 8 that I'd set myself, so thought I must be doing something right and carried on.

In the second week I didn't lose a thing, and nothing in the 3rd week.

So I came onto the message boards to read up and began to think that I wasn't eating enough so upped my intake, trying to ensure I ate 'at least' 1200 (after taking exercise into account). The 4th week has seen absolutely no change either (

I'm not one for 'exercising', simply can't stand it.... but.... I do walk to work and back every day (1 mile each way, and add on another .1 or .2 if I go the 'long' way!) and I do walk briskly and power walk up the hills. And I spend the weekend with my horses and can quite often burn 300-600 easily. And on these days find it even more difficult to reach 1200.

My OH has often said to me that I don't eat enough. He's as skinny as a rake and eats two full meals a day plus snacks. I've even tried to ensure that I eat 3 meals a day, something which I've never done my entire life.

A typical day would normally have been venti skinny latte first thing at work, nothing throughout the day if I wasn't hungry or I might go and get a small soup, occasionally a sandwich (oh, I've always watched fat intake, never counted calories btw) and if they had a birthday at work, would join in with a bit of cake or biscuit or whatever was going. I'd then get home and would have something to take away the mild hunger (usually some form of protein, maybe a slice of wafer thin ham or some biltong!) then wait till OH got home when we'd have our main meal of the day.

So that's it, that's me... slightly unconventional perhaps in my eating habits, but they've served me well these last 6yrs. But I can't carry on gaining and I'd really like to understand why my body is more than content to remain at this weight regardless of whether I eat my 'prescribed' 1200 or not!

I'm definitely on the verge of giving up tracking as it's just getting me down now (

Thanks for reading all that drivvel.
Mandi

Steve - thanks but I didn't say I wont, just that I hate it. I've been trying to find other ways - like the flat hasn't been so clean in a long time! I've been 'dancing' around, climbing stairs instead of getting the lift. And OH has just brought our Wii home from work so I can get on the Wii fit again. And the horses are getting fitter too as I've got more motivation (one of them has only just come back into work after being rescued with a lot of muscular and skeletal problems that I've been getting sorted over the last year).

dlaplume2 - yup, I've read it... hence me increasing my intake... but it still doesn't seem to be helping.

Linda - thank you... my colleague at work has been doing this along with me but has also reached a point where she's fed up. She suggested giving it another week, then another two, but I've persuaded her to continue with me until at least the end of Feb and see where we are then.

It's just so demotivating doing all the tracking, upping my 'exercise', and still seeing no changes.

Btw, dunno if it makes any difference, but I'm 5'1" and currently weigh 9st 5lbs. I wear sizes between 8 and 12 and I'm within the healthy BMI range but only just and would like to tip the scales at just below the 9st mark.

Thanks for your comments.