frustration

Why the deadline?

Can you open your diary?

are u doing a workout routine and eating plan

jordanthesword wrote: »

To answer questions: I am 5'2" I work out for 3 hours every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I only do cardio. I don't have weights to work with. I will not be opening my diary, sorry.

Other: I don't eat meat except on occasion. I don't really know how to cook so I used to eat mostly pre-packaged stuff, I've been replacing that with fruit as much as I can. I do not and never will weigh my food on a scale.

I think I'm just stuck. I lost about 6 lbs before I started MFP and I've lost 1lb since I got it. My problem is I don't know how to get unstuck. I look up weight loss things online and I find out I'm doing a lot of the things they suggest and it's kind of disappointing. I know I'm being kind of impatient but I've been stuck at around 130 for quite a while and I'm just losing time. I've looked it up and it's possible to lose 10-15 lbs in 3 months but now I'm worried that I can't.

You're just going to have to accept the things the way they are. If you refuse to weigh your food, then maybe your body just refuses to lose anymore weight.

jordanthesword wrote: »

I have 15 lbs to lose in the next 3 months and the scale is hovering at 130 lbs. I'm getting so frustrated, I know I'm annoying the people around me but the longer it stays at 130 the less time I have. I don't know what else to do. I'm not sure what to do anymore.

Let me ask you this: if you lose 10 pounds instead of 15 would that be so bad? I ask because deadlines can drive you nuts.

You're going to get some good advice here about tightening up your logging and getting the weight loss started again, but the weight is going to come off on its own schedule. You can't always force your body to lose it as fast as you want and it might be a good idea to step back and try to take some of tge pressure off.

First of all, you don't HAVE to lose 15 lbs to go on vacation, you WANT to. If you are tying your enjoyment of your vacation on your weight, you are headed down a dangerous road. 130 is a healthy weight for a woman of your height, and vanity pounds can go slower.

Losing weight is about eating less calories than your body uses. You need to know how many calories you are eating. If you aren't willing to weigh your food or open your diary, there isn't much advice anyone here can give you. You need to plug your stats and goals into MFP and consistently and accurately log your food and exercise.

Considering your current weight and your goal weight, a healthy rate of loss would be half a pound a week, which would be 5-10 lbs in 3 months. If you work in some resistance training, like the body weight exercises mentioned in a previous post, you might not hit the number you want, but you will be lighter and healthy.

If you are hitting your MFP calorie goal and not losing weight, you are most logging incorrectly, either not measuring or eyeballing servings correctly or choosing inaccurate entries.

Read all the stickies, they will really help, especially:

Sexypants

and

Calorie Counting

Good luck

Are you sure you aren't at your natural weight? 130 lbs seems to be a healthy weight for your height depending on how muscular you are and your body type.

SideSteel wrote: »

If you open your diary then the feedback you get has a much greater chance of actually being helpful.

She said no way, no how, we cannot see the wizard!

Good luck w/o weighing and measuring your food you have no idea how much your eating!