So about 2 years ago for a solid 6 months I was KILLING myself at the gym, and lost some weight it was somewhat noticeable but I wasn't tracking my weight so i'm not sure exactly how much I lost. That summer was a series of unfortunate events and everything kind of went out the window, then I was introduced to MFP in September. I continued eating low calorie and killing it at the gym, when I could. I lost about 10 lbs between September and February and was STARVING and FRUSTERATED. I finally gave up all together this past summer, and attempted to focus on weight lifting and the diet went out the window.... I joined Weight Watchers in October, after a HORRIBLY DEGRADING doctors appointment, so again I was under eating and killing it at the gym and just feeling completely drained, miserable, hungry and light headed.... That's when I decided to switch back to MFP and looked into the book New Rules of Lifting for Women and really got back into strength training. Ironically my weight has not changed that much over the past 2 years, + or - the same 10lbs, but once I started really focusing on heavy weights that's when everybody started to notice that I did look better...I have now begun adding more calories, and I can feel a difference, I am not as light headed, hungry or grumpy and my performance at the gym has increased substantially.

I have decided to just focus on how I am feeling and use my weigh only to calculate number of calories. In the past 6 months I have had my doctor tell me to lose weight and I had a fitness evaluation in which I was told that I could lose another 50lbs.... I am sick of focusing on the number on the scale... if I didn't need the number to calculate calories I'd actually consider throwing it out all together...my entire life has been focused on the number on the scale and I can FINALLY say I am breaking free!