ready to give up

Can you tell us what a basic day of eating is like. You say you don't eat your veggies so I'm curious what you do eat. That can be a MAJOR factor. Calories are not all the same and everybody's body is different on how they respond to it.

List a typical day and let's go from there.

Ok?

Agree with viviakay - at the very least go to the doctor. Do your physical. Make sure everything is fine before trying 1,000 different things. Since you are in BC, this shouldn't be a problem right?

DON'T GIVE UP. YOU CAN AND YOU WILL DO THIS:flowerforyou:

Sounds like you've got a plan! The ladies are soooo right about seeing a professional. Takes the guess work out, you won't waste time and perhaps could uncover something about your health. Make sure you take with you a copy of what you eat daily and notes on your exercise. It will help state your case and show them how serious and frustrated you are!

Quick story...friend of mine told her doc she couldn't lose weight and felt like crap...blah, blah...they tested but found nothing. Everyone thought she just wasn't trying hard enough. She then journaled what she ate and exercise and went to a nutritionist. The nutritionist noticed a lot of gluten filled meals and suggested she be tested for food sensitivities and allergies. Low and behold she had intolerance to gluten and as soon as that was cut out of her diet all other issues were solved.

So..don't give up...get busy figuring this out!

Don't fel bad, I am in the same boat as you. Despite this fact I refuse to give up and you shouldn't either. What you should do, and what I have had to do myself, is take a hard look at your current actions and find areas for improvement. Once you identify them focus on making incremental changes until you start to see an impact. In my case, I need to replace my current snacks (100 calorie packs of cookies, crackers, sugarfree gum) with more healthy options. Since Rome wasn't built in a day and radical changes often lead to failure, I have decided to limit my self to one processed food a day of no more than 250 calories. This will allow me to indulge in one of my vices but also force me to find new options such as fresh fruits and veggies. In your case you probably need to incorporate more veggies into your diet. As I can attest, it probably won't be easy and for the first few days you'll probably be craving every thing you shouldn't have. However, once you start losing those new alternatives will seem more and more appealing. To help shake things up, and break out of your rut, try a few new recipies and change up your exercise routine. If your a runner try a cycling class, if your a cardio junkie, add a little strength training. Whatever you do don't give up, you have a whole community of people behind you and with a little help, I'm sure you (and me too) will succed.

I know exactly how you feel today and your words could be my words.

My weight loss story starts in August when I returned from vacation. The end of Sept I signed up with a weight loss/detox plan and lost 20 pounds by Thanksgiving and about 12 inches (about 8 weeks). Between Thanksgiving day and Jan 6th (about 6 weeks), I went off the program and regained 10 of the pounds, but none of the inches, hmmm??? I found this site about the 21st of Jan and put my information in and since then I have lost only 2 pounds and a couple of more inches, which really surprises me because that's a noticable difference. I've tried doing less exercise, more calories, I've tried going totally off everything for four days and starting again.

I'm totally frustrated with my progress everyday and basically feel, what's the use. Then the sensible me kicks in and asks, what's the alternative. I feel better, have more energy, have something constructive to focus my time and attention on. In my heart, it's really not enough. I finally got insurance and it kicks in on the 15th. I'm going to the doctor for a physical and some baseline testing to see if there is something physical that is stopping my progress. If not, then I'm off to a nutritionist to do an evaluation of my eating. I don't know what else to do. If anyone lives in the NW, between Portland OR and Seattle WA, and has suggestions on nutrition services that are available, I think I'll be needing them come April.

The problem may be that you're eating to your exercise calories and not to the pre-exercise calorie level.

I guess the question that should be asked is on any given day how many calories are you allocated before you work out and then how many calories a day do you actually eat.

When I wasn't losing weight it was because I was eating to the exercise level of calories (2000) a day vice the initial allocation (1470) that i was supposed to be eating.

I hope this helps. Please keep us posted because, as you see, we all want to help. Bob

I thought we was suppose to eat our exercise calories? You will go into starvation mode if you dont?

I know people have said it before but check out your carb intake. Also you may want to go to the doctors for a physical just to make sure nothing else is going on

I just had to ask, since no one's mentioned it, what medications are you taking, if any? I found that some meds I'm on really interfere with my weight loss, but I kept plugging along, doing little things (like giving up cheese on my sandwiches, drinking a lot more water, etc.). It took me about 4 months to get my metabolism on the rise before I lost any weight. A nutritionist was a BIG help! She reminded me that even if I only lose a half pound a week, by the end of a year, that's 25 pounds!!! Some days it is just plugging along....