30 LBS to lose, help !!!

Hows your logging? Are you using a food scale? Using accurate entries? Using the recipe builder? Calculating exercise calories correctly if you eat them back? Two weeks is not a plateau but if you're not losing logging accuracy is always a good place to start.

Ready2Rock206 wrote: »

Hows your logging? Are you using a food scale? Using accurate entries? Using the recipe builder? Calculating exercise calories correctly if you eat them back? Two weeks is not a plateau but if you're not losing logging accuracy is always a good place to start.

This. But also, you are not building muscle whilst eating at a deficit and it doesn't weigh more than fat, it is denser, therefore takes up less space. You are likely losing muscle in fact, as your goal is quite aggressive, even with the strength training (if in fact you are accurately tracking calories).

Also, was the popcorn salted? Can easily make you retain water and make it look like you gained.

AmandaJuneFit wrote: »

Did not put any salt on my popcorn. Maybe i should try to cut out all the treats. Right now im averaging about 3 unhealthy treats per week. Example would be cheesecake, popcorn, and kitkat bites. Which could completely ruin the entire week right ? Although my portions are small. I do my best to stay away from unhealthy junk. I just really want these pounds gone forever !!

Don't recommend cutting out foods at all unless you simply cannot help but binging on them. As long as you're logging your food accurately, fit your snacks and such into your calorie goal and you're fine. You get to eat more veggies than you do candy, but I'd slap the first person that tried to take chocolate away from me completely.

Keep in mind too that just because the package says it should weight XYZ, doesn't mean it should. Weigh out your popcorn just like you would your meat and veg.

At your stats, 1200 cal/day is not enough to fuel your body for everyday life much less workouts on top of it. I would re-do your #s and recalculate your daily intake. You need to fuel your body properly. You may see a bump up a pound or two of water weight from the extra food, but then your scale should start moving again.

I think you're doing all the right things, but plateaus blow. It might take a while, but if you keep on keeping on, the weight will come off. BTW, a good motivator might be to compare your measurements when you began to now. It will feel good to see it!

Are you eating any of your exercise calories? 1200 calories is starving yourself at your height, regardless of hunger you do or don't feel.

You also haven't confirmed whether you are weighing your solids on a food scale and measuring your liquids in cups or a jug?

Did you put the weight on quickly? As quickly as you're expecting to lose it? Fast is not necessarily better. You lose muscle when you lose weight, it's inevitable. Muscle not only makes you look good but organs are muscles too, your heart for example. The body can only metabolise so much fat stores per day, then it moves to muscle.

I have a little less than you left to lose and I am set to 1lb per week. I average exactly that. Average. Because I do not drop 1lb at 9am every Monday. It isn't about looking good for one summer, it's about looking good and being healthy for every summer for the rest of my life.

Only a food scale is accurate, a digital one isn't expensive. I can almost guarantee you are eating more than you think.

25lbs in a little more than two months is very fast considering where you started, even accounting for a water weight whoosh. I've lost 47lbs and am a week away from a year of logging (I have taken a couple of breaks too). It took two years to gain the weight but you think you can lose it in a few months?