weight loss failure?? giving up

do you exercise?

you're losing it in a healthy way... When you exercise you gain muscle... Muscle replaces the fat (It'll be harder to gain weight back this way) Muscle weighs more than fat. There will be a point were you think you are gaining weight and you're loosing inches instead of pounds... that's when you know it's working.

I was an exercise bulimic (exercise off more calories than you consume) two years ago and i lost 15 pounds in two months.. I won't lie.. I looked great! But after a day at cedar point I passed out, rushed to the hospital, and had to be put on a high protien diet. Because I lost a lot of muscle (from loosing fat and not gaining muscle)My body didn't have anything to eat calories away, I gained 20 pounds in the same amount of time that i lost it.
Now I am watching my calories and loosing pounds slowly and trying not to exercise too much. I'm loosing weight terribly slow too... but i know it's the healthy way.

You are at exactly the same place that I am, except I'm a year younger. I know it's frustrating, I did that last year, but what happened to me was I didn't see any progress for a couple months and then the weight just fell off all at once, inside of a month. It's entirely possible that the same thing will happen to you, and I completely understand how you feel. Let yourself splurge a little bit here and there and it won't seem so bad, and just keep going - trust me you will feel great when you've gotten off those last pounds! Five pounds doesn't sound like a whole lot but it feels like a lot when you're only 5' 3"!

Keep going, and good luck!

Are you logging everything in? Did you know that unlogged bites, unlogged sauces, eyeballing portions (ie: is it 3oz or 4 oz, there's a big difference in calories) and guessing measurements (ie: is it 1 tablespoon or 2, theres a big difference) can add up to 400 cals a day and over a week thats the defecit to losing a pound. Do you overestimate what you burn exercising? Did you know that we grossly overestimate what we burn. A 120lb woman running at 5miles per hour (for an HOUR!!) only burns about 415 cals. I'm not sure we can say many of us run for a whole hour! With calorie counting, guessing can be sabatoge, buy some measuring spoons if you haven't, a cheap food scale from bed and bath and log everything in. If that is difficult leave a number of calories at the end of the day for "extras". Underestimate your cals burned through exersice if your numbers seem high because they probably are. Give yourself a couple splurge days, log in the cals but go over your amount guilt free, that can sometimes reboost the metabolism. Did you punch in that you are sedatary, lightly active or active person, that can make a difference in cals for the day, maybe you're not as active as you thought, try readjusting your goals. Change up your exersice, make it 20 percent harder or longer, if you tend to do the same cardio or wieghts all of the time do something different. Instead of wieghts do pilates, instead of biking do intervals of jacks, jump sqauts, jogging on spot, boxer skipping, pilometric jump exersices. Do you use all of the calories the program says to use? If it says 1200, if it says 1300, use it all. The end result is have you used more calories than you have brought in for the day? Sorry for the spelling.

Get your weight and healthy eatting habits in control now because in the blink of an eye you'll be 33 and have another 20+ lbs to loose (if you are lucky). Women don't loose weight like men, and no one who lives in the real world looses it like they do on television, it is going to have it's ups and downs and life is going to cut you off sometimes but you have taken the first step now complete the journey.

You are probably not eatting enough food and/ or exercising enough. You do have to eat to loose weight and if you want to keep it off you have to get up and moving on a very regular basis, tell your body who is boss!

Trust me, you want to do this now so you have a healthier, not a fatter, future!

Hey, you're the one who spent 2.5 hours one day on an elliptical, right?

I think you wrote in a few days ago and we told you to eat more calories.
Try it (and enjoy it!).
:drinker:

I am so sorry. :frown:
This has not been the best month for me too.
In fact I gained a pound this week.
But I feel better, healthier, and my skin looks great.
I do wonder however if you ate too little.
I am not a firm beliver in Diet.
After all...
DID* I* EAT* TODAY* spells diet.
If you think that you can only eat salads for the rest of your life, THAT does not sound like a good idea to me at all. What kind of a life is THAT!
SO, if you are going to eat what you want. Which I do in fact think you SHOULD, with in reason of course.
Try adding more steps that you walk each day.
IE park farther away, Take the stairs, Stuff like that.
If you just want to go away from here. We will hate to see you go.
--Diann...:flowerforyou:

Couldn't have said it better myself. I think everyone is focusing on a quick fix here. Diets won't succeed if you want to just lose the weight and then return to your normal lifestyle. This change has to be a life long change. And your body needs to adjust. It needs to get healthy and realize that you ARE going to do this for the long haul and therefore I will stop holding onto all of this food just incase you decide to binge eat one day and then not eat a lot the next.

Please STOP this. Every day you post the same type of posts. Every day people try to tell you what you need to do. Every day many people spend a lot of time trying to help you. Every day you post another post that is the same question worded differently. You know what you need to do. I'm sorry I sound harsh, but - please.

This is the last one of your posts I am reading.

Just do it. Or, please do give up.