stuck at 182lbs for 3 months... feel like giving up

Hi! Apparently you will lose weight quickly at the beginning by decreasung your calorie intake. However, once you lose weight your metabolic rate will decrease so you will naturally burn less calories (bigger people have a higher metabolic rate). Therefore you need to raise this rate & you do this with exercise. If you get a heart rate monitor you can measure how your resting heart rate improves after doing exercise for a few weeks which means you'll not only lose weight from exercising but your heart will be healthier too :-)

I'm no expert, but since exercising my body is a lot leaner. I'm not weighing myself but measuring success by how less flobby I feel & by being able to fit a bit more nicely into clothes that were previously too tight!

I'm having the same probably as you though so I've upped my brisk walking & have started some 10 minute Jessica Smith exercise videos on YouTube. She does a great standing abs video & 10 minute cardio one if you're short for time. If you want to up the intensity ,tone & strengthen I recommend Gillan Michaels 30 day shred video which is 20 minutes of exercise to get you sweating but you really see a difference in your ability to keep up with her after only a week = improved fitness!!

Hope this has helped!

Oh boy...yes. You need to exercise if you're suck, in my opinion. When I get stuck, I increase the intensity of my workouts for about a week, and then I'm unstuck. Feel free to add me as a friend, and look into my food diary.

And yes you can @cheekymoi83‌ . You can be better with your food. You can do it! We've all been there!

When you say measure, are you going by measuring cups or a food scale? Are you recording every single thing you eat and drink with calories? If you aren't losing, you're eating more than you think.

Calorie deficit=weight loss. Exercise=fitness. Though it can help your deficit, you still need to make sure you're within your calories.

Hey there

Don't give up remember the reason you started this journey.

I lost weight at the start by just making changes to my diet and decreasing my calorie intake. After a couple of months like you there was not further weight loss and thankfully no gain. So I started to introduce exercise, first gentle walking, brisk walking followed by the odd hike. I have now introduced a weekly 5k park run and a work out at the gym which includes treadmill running (started with walking), some strength training, swimming and I am hoping to introduce a kettlebell class from next week. I have noticed inch loss as well as another 4lbs.

So continue to monitor, log, weigh your food and start to introduce exercise hopefully you will start to see a move down the scales again. I would recommend taking your measurements because sometimes you won't see it on the scales but you will feel it in your clothes. This can help keep you motivated when you don't get the results you were hoping for on the scales.

Good luck and if you need some support and motivation please feel free to add me

OP, I'm in same position/predicament as you. I started all this back in October. I originally weighed 203 pounds. I very quickly and easily went down to 193pounds. After that I carried on losing but at a slower pace.

About a month before Christmas I got stuck at 185-187 and for 2 weeks at Christmas, I gave up. I put on a couple of pounds, nothing drastic and then easily lost them again.

I'm now stuck again, fluctuating between 182 - 185. Always eating less than 1600 calories per day but very little exercise.

Next week I'm starting a new job which will mean I have to walk too and from work. So maybe, hopefully, that will help but yeah, I'm also stuck and I know exactly how you feel.

I can't offer any help but just to let you know, you're not alone

It is a natural survival mechanism of the body to not want to lose weight. The equation of eat less than you expend should be very simple, but the no one told my body, or yours, about those rules!

I agree with the other postings; it's time to fan the flame! Begin an exercise routine, and shock your body's defenses by doing something it's not prepared for.

Definitely get a heart rate monitor and understand your zones. Drink lot's of water!

Be ready for fluctuations. Water can do some funny things to you when you exercise regularly. Weight will drop, but you may find it easier to go by how you feel than a number of the scale.

Dieting can be madness. You may trade one stalemate for another, but the benefits of working out are more than worth it!

I was also stuck at 175lbs for the month over Xmas. I was eating 1400 and not exercising but to be honest I probably was under estimating portions and not logging little tiny bits of food. I went back down to 1,200. I'm a lot more strict, have got back in to weighing things and the weight is coming off again without any excercise! I weighed myself this morning and I was 166!
I also don't agree that your body "doesn't want you to lose weight". Over weight people burn calories quicker and underweight people slower. Your body wants to be at an ideal weight, it makes sense if you think of it in survival terms.
Exercising will definitely help you lose weight or eat more, but it's not necessary. I've lost 60lbs without it!

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Exercise is great in so many ways. But I lost 24lbs in 3mths with zero exercise

Don't give up! I was in the same boat. I was stalled for about three months, probably due to slacking over the holidays. I switched my exercise routine, started being VERY careful about weighing food, stopping the little snacks here and there, and I'm on another downward trend. Make sure you're drinking a lot of water, too.

Open your diary.

If you're stuck, try something different. Try something new. When I got stuck I increased my calories for a couple of weeks. It's counter-intuitive, but it worked for me. In the weeks since then, I've added some walking and a hill occasionally. I'm losing steadily again. And the next time I get stuck, I'll change something. Give it a try and DO NOT QUIT!!

Over the years I've tried to lose weight by just eating better and not exercising or exercising and not eating better, and I end up about where you are--losing just a little weight and then it stops. The only time that I've consistently lost weight is when I've done both of them together. I don't even do either of them particularly well or intensely, but I've lost 35lbs in the last year fairly easily. Definitely start exercising, even if it's only a little bit at a time!