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DON'T GIVE UP....like a few people have already mentioned...try to mix things up with your exercise routine. Could it be you're not eating enough if you are execising that much. Try to add another protein...you'll get there hang in there girl!!!

I didn't read through all the replies but it seems like you should be eating more... I have a very similar goal and am about the same height. I was set at -2lbs per week (1200 calories) for several months and I didn't really lose any weight... (about 1-2lbs total). Since the start of the month I increased my calorie goal to 1600 and have reduced the amount of cardio I am doing, I have also added in more strength training... I lost the 5 lbs I gained during the holiday and an additional 5lbs... so based on my experience I would suggest you try (for a month or a couple weeks) increasing your calorie goal and switching up your workout routine! Best of Luck to you!

It took me 2 months to lose the first 10 lbs, which for some ppl comes right off. most of it was in the second mo. So I'd say just stick to it and make sure you do get enough calories and rest for your exercise regimen. It will happen.

Don't exercise for a week, stick to the same calorie amount, and make sure you get enough fiber. The second week just walk for 30 minutes or do a 20 minute pilates tape.

A couple of things:

1. Watch your salt. No matter how much water you are drinking, if you take in too much salt, you will hold water.

2. If you are burning a lot of calories, but not eating enough to sustain that, you will not lose weight. You need to increase your calories just a bit to include some of your burned calories to lose weight. This is because if you burn calories, but not eat back some of them, your body's metabolism will slow down a bit.

3. You just started the weight loss regime, so I would have thought you would have lost at least five pounds in the first month. Are you measuring your food accurately? How about measuring your exercise? Many times a diet fails because the person is only estimating. Research shows that humans oftentimes 'estimate' too high when it comes to how much we are eating and the amount of exercise we do.

4. It sounds like you may want to get back to what you looked like a few years ago, before you gained the 50 pounds. That may not be realistic thinking. Which do you want to be - thin or healthy? That is the question. You can weigh a bit more than you were 50 pounds ago and still be healthy by making muscle. When you put on muscle, your metabolism will increase because the muscle needs energy. This means you will burn more calories than you would without the muscle. Muscle is compact, so it will take less space than fat on the body. Unfortunately, it makes it appear that one is not progressing when it comes to losing weight. We need to get over relying on the scale to tell us how we look. Look in the mirror or try on clothing to determine how you are doing.

5. Try interval training. Hop on a treadmill or exercise bike and go your regular rate. After about five minutes to warm up, ramp it up to as fast as you can go for five minutes. Cool off for five, then repeat the ramping up. This often helps burn more calories than just going at one speed as well as boosts your metabolism.

6. Vary when you exercise. I exercise in the morning before breakfast and in the afternoon. If you exercise before breakfast, you will burn fat because you have not eaten for at least ten hours. When you exercise in the afternoon, you have all those calories from eating in the morning and for lunch to burn. It does make a difference when you exercise. Additionally, exercising in the morning bumps your metabolism. In the afternoon, the metabolism likes to slow down, so if you exercise, you are bumping it up again.

7. Did you gain the weight slowly over a period of years or over a short time? Do you have signs of a slow thyroid? (You can look them up online.) You may want to get checked out for a thyroid issue.

Good Luck.

I drink abround 3 litres of water a day, my daily diet is below:

Breakfast: Bran flakes or Fruit and Fibre with skimmed milk

Lunch: Heinz big soup (chicken and veg) or tuna and cucumber wholewheat pasta or chicken salad sandwich on wholemeal bread with pack of salt and vinegar french fries

Dinner: 2 poached eggs on 2 wholemeal toast or salmon salad with new potatoes or chicken stirfry

snacks: bananass, apples, mixed fruit and nuts (2 off the list)

I want to lose 50lb which will take me into the ideal weight range, im 5ft 8

Thanks for your reply

That is A LOT of carbs and like no protein!!

if you're exercising that much every day, you should be eating more than 1200 calories a day. Your metabolism is going to get jacked up if you keep going like that. Give it a few days of eating your exercise-gained calories back, in addition to your baseline 1200 calories a day, and see if you don't start dropping some.

this is absolutely correct! You never want to go below 1200 calories. Eat 1200 plus your excercise calories. Your body is in starvation mode and holding onto everything. You need to eat.

Try this for a week, no more than 70 of fat, 95 of protien and 40 of carbs daily within your 1200 cals.... gram measurements. this should help kickstart it.... let me know if it works. after a week of this go back to whatever numbers you are hitting at 1200 calories a day.

You are putting your body into shock. If you go from not doing alot of exercise and dieting to boom tons. It takes the body time to adjust. It thinks you are using your food faster than normal and it is in the mode where it wants to hold onto it untill it figures out what is going on. To be honest loosing weight is about what you eat and if you are eating 1200 and you work outa nd loose 300 cal then you are functionaing on 900 cals a day. Meaning YOU ARE STARVING yourself. I know this because is did the same thing and felt the same way as you. Start to eat around 1400 cals a day and work out about an hour a day and do it 4-5 days a week. do that for a few months and you will start to see it come off gradually... the faster you loose it the faster y ou will gain it back. Good luck and you can do this just dont be speedy gonzales about it.

I know how frustrating is. I screwed up for a week and gained almost 5 lbs. But it's my own fault for eating out! I would monitor your inches also. A trainer once told me that Jillian Michaels weighs 190 lbs, but it's all muscle. So don't focus too much on your weight per se. If you're strength training and toning it could just be muscle. Keep it up!