Just here to say..

If you are losing weight (following MFP, measuring/weighing your food, exercising) don't expect the scale to give you a nice loss on every visit. You need to think in terms of trends. I'm pretty nerdy and run a spreadsheet graph of my daily weigh-ins. The graph always always always has a saw-tooth look to it--it goes up and down. BUT, the trend over time is down. It's just like a stock market graph. Reacting emotionally to upticks is self-defeating, change your expectations and look at trend over a month or more.

Girl! You are totally normal both for fluctuating and for being frustrated by it. There are so many things that afects that number, and menstrual cycle alone can have such an mpact that for some women you can really only compare the same week of the cycle to that week of the pervious cycle. Keep your chin up and keep going, if you are sticking to it the results WILL come!

Hang in there @macymgc. Totally understandable rant there. This weight loss journey of ours can definitely be a little frustrating. Especially when the scale does not move in our favor. I have found for me anyways that if I go by the MFP calorie numbers ie. Eat 2100 cals and I will lose a pound a week (yeah right) not for this guy. Even with exercise and weighing all my food out I had previously struggled to get the weight off.

Upon further investigation however I found it was not the amount of calories however it was the type of calories (fuel) that I was putting into my body. I was not giving my body what it needed and adding exercise to the mix only made things worse as far as the scale went.

Knowledge is power is what I am finding now. My co worker has given me two books to read. One of them has been the 5day 2day Fast Diet. The other book is the New Glucose Revolution. Both books have been great however the second book mentioned really goes into detail at how our bodies use the types of food that we eat.

So perhaps it is time to mix things up a little bit.

I am a little over a week into trying out the 5day 2day diet. How it works in a nut shell is for 5 days a week I eat my normal amount of calories. Twice a week on non consecutive days you restrict your calorie total to 500 calories for Women and 600 calories for Men.

When this idea was first thrown my way I was like........600 calories...............yeah right!!!!!!

Well a little over a week into this.....the fast days are a breeze and I am finding that I am way more selective with my choices the rest of the days of the week.

For the second book. Learning about how different foods effect my body has been very enlightening....

As a bonus my last weigh in was on March 15th I was 226 pounds. This morning the scale told me that I have erased 8 pounds. We shall see if the weight continues to pour off.

I loosely count my calories (due to my job I am not always able to tell how many calories are in the food that I eat). I do try to limit my portions when I do eat (try not to overeat) and I exercise daily focusing on fat burning and looking forward to soon adding weight training.

Hang in there and keep on going despite what the scale tells you. Head down to your local book or thrift store and see if you can find an interesting book on nutrition that might catch your eye.

Cheers

Fred