Weight loss struggle

Did you have your calories set too low? Your diary is private. Make sure you aren't being too aggressive with your deficit. Get plenty of protein, fiber and healthy fats so you're not hungry all the time. Don't try and do everything at once - if you're going gung ho and starving yourself and spending hours in the gym it won't be sustainable and you'll burn out quickly.

Possibly trying a weightloss pill might help! I've heard of a lot of success using quadralean or lipo 6 to lose the last few pounds. Maybe integrating some coffee between meals would also curb hunger.

Personally, when I'm craving something salty/sweet, I eat mozzarella cheese sticks from frigo, they are only 50 calories and had a semi salty/richer taste, so it helps me handle my cravings for chips/fried foods. When I'm craving sweets, I'll eat a handful of raspberries. I think the fact that they are 1) semi expensive and 2) rarely in my fridge makes them a sweet delicacy when on a strict diet, plus they are only 60 calories a cup!

I'd say everything in moderation. Don't go crazy hardcore with the workouts and don't go super healthy/low calorie on the nutrition. I used to do that and it just wasn't sustainable. I'd say try for half an hour of a cardio you like a day and maybe 2 or 3 strength type workouts a week. Slow and steady and increase if you feel like it but being a healthy weight shouldn't be an all or nothing adventure.

valkoffe41 wrote: »

Possibly trying a weightloss pill might help! I've heard of a lot of success using quadralean or lipo 6 to lose the last few pounds. Maybe integrating some coffee between meals would also curb hunger.

Personally, when I'm craving something salty/sweet, I eat mozzarella cheese sticks from frigo, they are only 50 calories and had a semi salty/richer taste, so it helps me handle my cravings for chips/fried foods. When I'm craving sweets, I'll eat a handful of raspberries. I think the fact that they are 1) semi expensive and 2) rarely in my fridge makes them a sweet delicacy when on a strict diet, plus they are only 60 calories a cup!

Disregard this crap OP.

Hey, you caught yourself before you gained it all back, so that's great! Don't wait to 'get motivated' or whatever - just decide to do it. But make it slow, steady, and sustainable. My problem before now was that I would decide, be motivated, cut out everything, buy everything I saw as 'healthy', eat hardly any calories, and work out like a mad woman. And within two weeks, I was miserable and bitchy and falling off the wagon because nothing I did was sustainable. Once I even lost 80 pounds back in 2001 --- I gained it all back and then some extra because I'm an overachiever that way.

This time, it's been slower and everything I did was with the mindset of "this is forever, so nothing is off limits, but I just need to moderate and control myself." Two years in, down from 291 to 165 with a slight uptick to 168 over the last 6 months as I slacked off a bit (but not like I did in the old days - I truly did make this sustainable). Basically, my slacking off really was more just being tired and eating at maintenance instead of at a deficit, and I kept my exercising up. Had I done that a month or two into my journey, I'd've probably failed (again), but because I took everything slow - I learned how to figure out my weak points, bolster them up, play to my strengths, and above all - stop making excuses for myself and just commit to doing it.