so its not a thyroid problem

I actually was just about to post something very similar!!! i am frustrated as well... I had been really good about counting my calories and drinking lots of water... i was losing 2lbs every week... then the holidays hit and it took a long time for me to get back to it... almost like 2lbs a week wasnt enought motivation to keep me going.. i had my yearly exam and was up 22lbs since i quit counting calories...my doctor asked to see me again in 6 weeks, i got really motivated to lose the 22lbs i had gained and i went straight from the doctors office to Anytime Fitness and began working out EVERY single day... i have been counting my calories and while i started with 28 minutes (a weight loss program on the elliptical) and now i'm up to a full hour burning 600-650 calories daily and putting in 4 miles... my scale isnt moving... everyone keeps saying give it time, but how in the world can i go from no exercise to 4 miles a day...not counting calories to logging even a breath mint and see NOTHING??!!?!? i did get my thyroid tested (my brother and grandpa both had hypothyroid and lost a lot of weight with medication) but mine is normal.......... really frustrated and feel like you do... but now i've signed a 2 year contract with the gym, but i know if i hadnt i would probably just give up!

any chance you might have PCOS? I gain weight very easily due to that but so far that is also in check as of this last blood testing so I guess I will keep plugging away and maybe YIKES!!! even dare to eat more healthy stuff and not worry about logging every last almond sliver and relax and chill out about it to see if that makes any changes...any experiment is worth a shot.

Buy a food scale, and measure your foods. If you ever think or say, "I can eat this or that because I worked out today" then that's your main problem for not losing any weight. If you don't have a thyroid problem and the doctors cannot find anything wrong with you, then you have to be doing something wrong. Have you ever said, "I don't know what kind of brownie this is, but I better put down the low calorie brownie so I can have some calories for later?" Have you ever said, "I'm not going to count calories at this event?" Have you ever gone a day where you decided not count calories because you knew you would go into the red? The reason I ask is because these are ways to kill your diet. When you enter your exercises, only put in 90 percent of the workout into the computer. If the treadmill says, you've burned 500 calories, then only put 450 calories.

Uh....I have a accurate heart rate monitor and I ex 6 times a week and I don't eat brownies and if I do like on April 8th my son's b day I ate 1 and recorded it hopefully and then gave the leftovers away....why does anyone who sees someone else that struggles with weight think automatically that that is a someone who can't "control" their eating. It's not about will power because I am in fact STILL plugging away despite the stale mate.

Real life situations and the way I lost the first boat load of weight had nothing to do with a scale....measurements and lable reading. It was just healthy eating and exercise and now that is not working for me and in fact the more I lable read and cut out junk and push harder and chart more the MORE my body rebels and hold on.

Face it, there are going to be times you go to a party or a wedding and I am not whipping out a scale for that. Healthy eating should be common sense for life and that does not include counting out every damn grain of fing brown rice I eat. Yes I do know what 1 cup vs 1/2 cup looks like and more often than not I just skip the starchy carbs altogether so I don't think it's that. I think the extreme nuts that whip out scales at social events and fret over every grain of rice slowly implode and then screw up big time and then regain or binge like crazy because they have been nothing but restricted for so longl.

Hey, I have kept the major weight off for over a year and just wanted to lose a little more, so Maybe I should just be happy where I am at.

oh and usually I am pretty damn honest about charting even if I go into the red it's the only way to truly guage where I am....so I don't think it is that either.