Hi reds! looking for a bit of advice here. I am not shifting weight. It had slowed down painfully, but now I seem to be yo-yo-ing back and forth between 2 close points on the scales. I have really been trying hard, but it is not happening. Can I run things by you please. I did well for my team in the last challenge...but this time it's not working out.

I was on 1200 calories a day adn all seemed to be going well - I lost 26lb. Things had slowed/stopped. I started exercising just last week. I was not eating back my exercise calories so there was a big gap between my 1200 daily allowance and my daily allowance with exercise points added. I decided yesterday that it might be the time to raise my calorie allowance and adjust my weekly loss target to 0.5lb a week. This has now given me 1330 (or something near that) calories a day. i have decided to reduce the amount of exercise (I had started off at about 400 - 800 cals burn a day. I now intend to control it and burn about 350 cals a day. Do you think that if I eat calories so that my net figure is about 1200 that I will manage to lose weight again, or should I be eating higher calories ....today doing this I am going to have 132 calories left over which is really the amount that I gained by changing my target from 1lb a week to 0.5lb a week. Sorry that this is so long winded, but I am really at a full stop here....trying so hard, but feels like a brick wall. I am doing good with regard to motivation....morale could do with a bit of a boost - even a very slow loss! Heeeeeeelp!:frown:

Sorry, I really am a team player and am doing the work but it is mounting to nothing. Thanks if you can advise. p.s. If anyone wants to look at my diary I can add you as a friend

babbgirl - I hit 140lb at the very beginning of March and since then have yo-yo'd between maybe 141 and 138ish (lowest log was 137.8) I just cannot get it to keep going down. I am neither gaining nor losing outside of that range really. I do nit mind slow progress, but to keep going back 3lbs when I really feel I am working at this is really doing my head in. I have altered my diary setting to 1330 calories a day and trying to make the nett figure come out at that....trying to use exercise and food to balance each other out so I get the nett to 1330ish....I think that is the right thing to do? My BMR here is 1266 or something like that but I was advised to look on ohter sites and the two I looked at set it at about 1350 so I decided to change to that. I so hope it works. i am disappointed as I have put in so much effort and really do want to lose at least another 12lbs. Thanks for the encouragement