What's a typical day?

Maybe you have plateaued. I think I've read that this often happens to people after 3-4 months of weight loss. If you have been doing the same exercise routine for awhile, your muscles adapt to it and are no longer challenged, and therefore you won't burn as many calories. If you haven't already, you could try changing up your exercise routine.

Otherwise, maybe you are at your body's preferred weight??

Good luck

My typical day:

Breakfast, 7:30 am
Big mug of water
Slice of flax seed or other multigrain toast w/ low-fat PB or 3/4 cup of Kashi cereal and skim milk.
Coffee with 2% milk and one teaspoon of sugar. Surprisingly, I don't miss using cream.

Lunch, 12 pm
Amy's Organics burrito
1 medium-sized apple

Optional snack, 3pm
100 cal container of Danone Activia yogurt, or
140 cal Life Brand or Nature's Path granola bar
If I'm feeling really crazy, ONE piece of chocolate (I try not to, as I don't like to spike my blood sugar)

Pre-workout snack, 6 pm
Handful of almonds or handful of multigrain low-sodium nacho chips

Workout: 20-30 mins. cardio (elliptical or jogging) and
20 mins. strength training (alternate between upper and lower body). I change it up and incorporate pilates, power yoga and fitness videos as well. On the weekends I work out in the morning, otherwise I won't do it at all. I have just discovered hot yoga, and am going to try to do one class per week.

Dinner: 7 pm
Protein + veggie, and a starch if I'm feeling really famished. Lately I haven't been cooking, so dinner has been an Amy's Texas Veggie Burger on toasted flax bread, an organic ready-made salad (pre-washed greens and some cherry tomatos thrown in), and low-fat raspberry vinagrette.

Usually I have some cals left over so if I'm still hungry I'll munch on some trail mix or a granola bar, or some more nachos with a bit of salsa.

A bad day looks like:

Greasy hangover breakfast (recovering from the half-dozen drinks consumed the previous night)
A huge sandwich for lunch with big hunks of havarti cheese on it
Heaps of salt & vinegar chips
Take-out Indian food for dinner or fish and chips
Beer or wine
No physical activity except for walk over to 7-11 to get salt & vinegar chips and fitness magazine

Up at 5:30
1 cup shredded wheat
1/2 c skim milk
1 small banana

go to work
drive standard bus over dirt roads 1 hour. More like wrestling.
go home

1/2c dannon lite/fit 1/8 c homemade granola

type to all you guys and put food in

smalll salad for lunch
1 tblpn basalmic vinegar
1tblp olive oil

cardio or strength training

bring apple for snack

go wrestle with the bus 1 hour

come home
make supper
1/2 c veg
6 oz meat
3/4 rice or 1/2 potato
do dishes

enter food for rest of day
go to bed.

Pretty boring when I type it out soo sad:sad:

7:00am What I call my morning snack cause I hate to eat a full meal right away in the morning. So I have a south beach cereal bar and a big travel mug of coffee with sugar free creamer on my drive to work.

9:30ish - usually cottage cheese or yogurt, mixed with blueberries and a couple tablespoons of flax seed.

pre work-out snack: I have this about an hour before working out, so it usually sometime between 11:00 and 12:00. I try to make it a mix of carbs that have sugar, like a piece of fruit or yam, with some protein, usually a handful of almonds.

workout: alternate days of upper body, cardio, lower body workouts. Cardio is usually 50 minutes on the eliptical doing intervals or 30 minutes on the treadclimber followed by 20 mintes on the stationary bike

Lunch: around 1:00 or 1:30 - either leftovers from last nights dinner, grilled chicken salad or a wrap. Today I'm having a BLT! Turkey bacon, with lettuce and tomato on a low-carb whole-wheat wrap. I try to always have a balance of veggie carbs and lean protein with some grain.

3:00 - 3:30 depending on how full I still am from lunch I may have an afternoon snack. I try to do this cause I usually dont' eat dinner until at least 6:30 and if I don't then I've gone about 5 hours without eating and I try not to go more than 3 hours without eating. again I try to just do a simple protien, carb, fat balance like almonds or low-fat string cheese with a piece of fruit.

Dinner: 6:30ish. Lean meat and veggies. I try to stay away from starches at night, so no rice, pasta, unless it's whole wheat and no potatoes.

7:30 or 8:00 I get a dessert. I like all the sugar free puddings! or I'll have a piece of fruit.

I'm in bed by 9:00/9:30and try to have the lights out by 10:00/10:30, up by 6:30. I really try to get 8 hours since many studies say gettng enough sleep is linked to weight.

and I usually drink about 12 8oz glasses of water for the day....

whew, that wore me out just typing the whole thing! :laugh:

5 am breakfast
9-10 snack
12 lunch
3 snack
5-6 dinner
9 bed