Blame it on the dairy??

:grumble: I've really been at a standstill with my weight loss lately. I try to eat a fairly balanced diet with my carbs/protein/fats all within limits. I drink copious amonts of water, well over 100 fl oz daily (nothing else). I keep my calories at or around 1200 and I burn between 400 and 500 of those daily with exercise.

My question is does me think too much or could my dairy intake be to blame? I probably consume more dairy daily then anything else. Usually yogurt or cottage cheese for breakfast (fat free of course), lowfat cheese stick as snack or Laughing Cow swiss, occasionally (apx once a week I treat myself to a Skinny Cow cone or some other frozen treat). Sugar Free pudding sometimes after my work out. Anyway, you get the idea.

I'm definitely getting my quota of calcium (which I also take supplements for), but could that be a reason my weight loss is stalled?

Thanks for reading,

To answer your original question::
Why do you think its at a stand still...Did you start in April? if so its definately not enough time to consider it any kind of plateau in my opinion...also make sure your being 100% honest with yourself regarding food and excercise and always boost your excercise intensity and switch it up every few weeks if your physically able...I know for myself I cut dairy when I felt the need and I havent plateaued thus far...I try to listen to my body and go with that...It cant hurt to cut some of it and see how it goes...I was eating way too much..there are other foods to get calcium/protein from..

Thank you Dave, you've made very good points. I started at the beginning of the year getting serious again, but for the month of April I have been up and down with the same few pounds. So, actually not at a stand still or plateau technically.

I do input everything into the food diary including my SF gum and anything that has calories including crystal light. I'm really not that anal but I did want to track EXACTLY what I was consuming to the calorie so I couldn't be deceiving myself. In the end it's minimal what I take in with gum, crystal light, and fiber supplements, etc. But I just wanted to be honest about EVERYTHING I put into my mouth. In regards to my exercise I have an eliptical with an SD card that has different work outs and the calories are calculated for me as I go. I agree though I need to change it up, and I need to get some strength training in.

Everyone has given great advice I will work on cutting back the dairy a bit, eliminating cool whip :bigsmile: and changing up my calories. Something's gotta work.

Thanks again,

Why not blame it on something else totally arbitrary, like wearing blue too often or eating a certain brand of bread? I would never support removing an entire food group unless there was some allergy that prevented you from eating anything that it contained. Why anyone points to a specific food group and blames everything it encompasses for a weight plateau is beyond me.

do you eat cool whip?:laugh:

:huh: I have a feeling I'm missing something. But "yes" I do eat cool whip. Not every day but often on my SF Jello cup. Is that the culprit?? :noway:

APPARENTLY there is some sort of inside Cool Whip joke going around which I have tried to chase down but which no one seems to want to fess up to. :grumble:
Lol. :laugh:

Thank you Leslie I'm pretty new here so I thought maybe it was just me that wasn't privy to an inside joke. :drinker: