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fat2fit1981
fat2fit1981 Posts: 50 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am depressed..... I swear the scale has only gone up. My clothes fit the same... Yet tonight I am sitting here depressed my husband and he tells me I don't have to lose weight just get fit and healthy. I am 5'6 and 187. Am I being to obsessed with th actual weight?

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  • Citycat2015
    Citycat2015 Posts: 86 Member
    How long have you been counting calories for?
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    What does your doctor say? You are between overweight and obese on the BMI scale, so I'm guessing that losing a little bit of weight would provide benefits to your heart health as well as many other systems of the body. It isn't healthy to obsess about weight or weight loss. Instead of focusing on only the scale maybe you can focus on making improvements on diet and fitness. Such as increasing vegetable intake or finding active hobbies you enjoy. These improvements can add up to encourage other health improvements, which can result in weight loss.
  • Rocknut53
    Rocknut53 Posts: 1,794 Member
    fat2fit1981 wrote: »
    I am depressed..... I swear the scale has only gone up. My clothes fit the same... Yet tonight I am sitting here depressed my husband and he tells me I don't have to lose weight just get fit and healthy. I am 5'6 and 187. Am I being to obsessed with th actual weight?

    I am your height and started this 3 years ago at 190. When I saw my doctor a year later I was 175. My BMI was still borderline obese. My husband would tell me the same thing. I got back on here in January because I found I couldn't exercise any of my weight off. As usmcmp said, there are many benefits to losing some weight. Follow the forums on here and listen to those that have been successful, they are truly inspiring. I'm down 23 pounds now and flirting with the overweight/healthy weight BMI boundary and haven't felt this good in many years.
  • fat2fit1981
    fat2fit1981 Posts: 50 Member
    For the last 3 years I have worked out at least 30 minutes at lunch time 3 days a week. Then in October I started adding in working out 4-5 times in the evening on top of my lunch time workout. I know my eating habits are not on point like they should be but i don't feel i eat horrible and i try to stay within my calorie. I guess i need to get on and read the success stories and pick up more tips. Thanks guys! I want to be flirting with the overweight/healthy instead of being between overweight and obese.
  • TuesdayMarch01st2016
    TuesdayMarch01st2016 Posts: 56 Member
    edited March 2016
    Use a food scale, if you aren't losing weight; you're eating more than you think & it doesn't matter if you eat healthy or not, it's all about how many calories; you're consuming.
  • ptsmiles
    ptsmiles Posts: 511 Member
    Do you weigh or measure your food? Is it possible that you are under estimating your caloric intake? Or possibly not eating enough? Sometimes, if you don't eat enough calories it can cause you to not lose weight.
  • chelsy0587
    chelsy0587 Posts: 441 Member
    You say your eating habits are not on point.

    That's where I'd start. Log everything, get a food scale and weigh it all until you really know what is a true serving size.

    See what results that brings in a month.
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
    edited March 2016
    I've found to make this whole thing work is that your calories in/calories out have to be on point. And you have to drop all excuses and just do it. Decide what's more important. What's important to me is that my summer clothes fit comfortably. To do so, I need to lose 5lbs. So, I started weighing my food again and resisting tempations. There are donuts bigger than my head on the conference table at work right now and I didn't take one. Because I have bigger goals that mean more.

    Exercise will only do so much. Start weighing your food. Logging meticously. When my logging goes "soft" the scale goes up.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,974 Member
    If you're not losing weight, you're consuming more than you need to.

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  • Rocknut53
    Rocknut53 Posts: 1,794 Member
    fat2fit1981 wrote: »
    For the last 3 years I have worked out at least 30 minutes at lunch time 3 days a week. Then in October I started adding in working out 4-5 times in the evening on top of my lunch time workout. I know my eating habits are not on point like they should be but i don't feel i eat horrible and i try to stay within my calorie. I guess i need to get on and read the success stories and pick up more tips. Thanks guys! I want to be flirting with the overweight/healthy instead of being between overweight and obese.

    I was convinced that I wasn't eating horribly, but when I really started keeping track...I was more than a little surprised. Get a scale, weigh and track your food for awhile and see if it makes a difference. It has for me.

    ptsmiles wrote: »
    Do you weigh or measure your food? Is it possible that you are under estimating your caloric intake? Or possibly not eating enough? Sometimes, if you don't eat enough calories it can cause you to not lose weight.

    This is not true at all.
  • ilex70
    ilex70 Posts: 727 Member
    fat2fit1981 wrote: »
    For the last 3 years I have worked out at least 30 minutes at lunch time 3 days a week. Then in October I started adding in working out 4-5 times in the evening on top of my lunch time workout. I know my eating habits are not on point like they should be but i don't feel i eat horrible and i try to stay within my calorie. I guess i need to get on and read the success stories and pick up more tips. Thanks guys! I want to be flirting with the overweight/healthy instead of being between overweight and obese.

    Use a food scale and measuring cups to weigh/measure and track what you are currently eating for a week or more. Look at that vs. your needs to maintain/lose.

    I never thought I ate all that badly. Not great, but not impressively huge for the most part either. A regular breakfast for me would be two slices of whole wheat toast w/peanut butter and a glass of low fat milk. Not much, right?

    602 calories, 48 carbs/33 fat/29 protein.

    I presumed 3 tbsp. of peanut butter because I coated the bread and didn't measure it. Most women get set at 1200 calories a day to lose 2 pounds a week. Not saying you have to go that low, but that breakfast was more than half that. And I still ate lunch, an afternoon snack, dinner, evening snack.
  • fat2fit1981
    fat2fit1981 Posts: 50 Member
    that all makes sense. I do weight my food but not ALL of my food. So I guess that is where I will start. I had mine set to 1500 calories but maybe I need to drop it to 1300 a day.

    Thank you all for your help, ya'll are making me feel better. I have my eyes set on the prize, i just have to make it my mission and not just 'oh well, i'll do better tomorrow" type mentality.

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