Help! I'm not losing anymore...

Holy carbs and sugar, Batman!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, to me your diary reads like I ate BEFORE I changed my lifestyle and decided to get healthy. That's A LOT of carbs, A LOT of sugar, and LOT of yucky processed foods in there!!!!

1) If you noticed the change when you upped your calories, that seems pretty obvious that you need to back your calories back down.

2) You eat a LOT of junk food and A LOT of sugar. I would suspect that if you cut those out, you'd see some pretty awesome results and I would bet cutting that stuff would also increase your energy.

Good luck!

Are you sleeping enough?

Also, your body might need to adjust to your weight loss so far. It's more than dropping weight. It's tearing and rebuilding muscle fiber, strengthening your heart, your lungs, your circulatory system and your central nervous system. You might be melting fat, but your are also changing your body for the better. Perhaps you need your body to catch up to where you are. Be patient with yourself and keep going.

When I hit a plateau I switched up my exercise and put more protein in my diet. That worked for me, but you'll have to find what works for you.

Hello. Congradulations on your weight loss so far. I know it's a hard and frustrating journey.

I looked at your diary and although your meals are not terrible, your snacks are what are holding you back in my opinion. You say you upped your calories, but if you upped them with high carb/sugary snacks that will not help. I think you need to go on a one week cold turkey withdrawal of sugar and high carb food. No more brownies, cereal, noodles, snickers etc. Replace these with vegetables. Butter can be added with salt and pepper, or Mrs. Dash or whatever, but the main thing is to try to completely cut out all sugary starchy foods. It will be really hard the first week, but after that, you cravings will go away. At least, it worked for me. Many other people on here have also said that keeping your carb intake under 50g a day really helped their weight loss and the cravings went away after one week or so.

You may eat any meat or fish or veggie. Just no pasta or potatoes or rice or candy. And keep making your own food, good job on that. Unprocessed is best.

The low carb diet isn't for everyone, but since you are at a plateau, it may be worth a try. You will have to change your settings to include carb counts. Good luck

When I say carbs, I mean "net" carbs, which means total carbs minus fiber carbs. That is your net carbs. Those are what counts.

Have you re-adjusted your maintenance level? I see you've lost 15lbs from 225 which is closing in on 10% of your original body weight. Remember that as there is less of you, your body has to work less to move you around - in other words, you burn less calories doing the same things as before because your body is now both lighter and more efficient. It takes less fuel to make a sedan go than a truck. Every 10% of your body weight or so you should adjust your goals to make up for this.

I wouldn't worry too much about plateaus. Your weight loss will not be consistent ever, some weeks it will crawl and others weight will drop off fast. That's just the nature of such a complex system as the human metabolism.

Hi, it seems your not drinking water which is a must not only will you feel better if your hydrated, it will help your body repair after workout and you'll feel a lot fuller at meal times. It took me a lot to get used to but I find it really does help. you could try snacking on more fruit and salad instead of the crunchy nut. Good luck mate were all in this together.

Luke,

WTG on what you've done so far. I looked at your food diary, too. To help lower sugars (if I were you) I would try to limit the man-made sources of carbs in your diet. Try only having one meal with a bread or pasta in it. For example, if you do have the pancakes, the next meal should probably be made up of veggies fruit cheese protein...There's lots you can do with that combo!

Natural sources of sugar like fruits and veggies I wouldnt worry about, its the extras that you're having that will do the harm. Chose one "special" thing to have, like your morning coffee...but then ditch the mints, candies, crackers, etc. Its all about moderation. Its unrealistic to think you'll never have any of that again, but you'll have better long term sucess if you decide that you're worth the smarter choices and savor them in small amnts.

Thats my 2 cents from the peanut gallery.

Disclaimer: I'm unorthodox, but I don't think it's the carbs or sugar per say. I have been loosing weight not by cutting anything out of my diet but by adjusting portion sizes and adding way more vegetables. Maybe this doesn't work for everyone but I don't think you need to radically cut out everything you eat in order to lose. Just my two cents.

So I think hitting a mini wall just just happens in slow and steady weight loss. After I checked out your diary I would do this: add more veggies to bulk up your meals wbefore adding in the carb or starch, that way you may get fuller on the fiber of dark green vegetables and end up needing less of refined carbs. I'd also eat more lean protein.

2 weeks is not that long to plateau though. Our bodies are tricky. Just keep going!

Two weeks isn't enough time to call something a plateau. Your weight goes up and down due to sodium and water enough to mask any real weight loss in that short a period. Your food choices do seem heavily weighted to "sometimes" foods, though.

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