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need advice please

LindaMee
LindaMee Posts: 30
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'd like support because I can't seem to lose a pound. I am now exercizing 5 to 6 days a week. where before I didnt exercize at all. I sometimes replace two meals a day with protein whey powder. I eat or drink (whey) five times a day and it is almost always healthy. For a regular meal, I will have skinless chicken breast, salad (with no dressing) made of mainly baby spinich, cucumbers and chicken as a typical dinner. I have either green tea, or decaf coffee (black). I never have sugared drinks. I either drink water or crystal light. I may treat myself to a 25 cal hot choc with a couple of tabespoons of fat free whipped cream. Maybe I'll have a 100 cal wheat english mufffin and sugar free polaner jam. I eat fiber one cereal and 1% milk or kelloggs weighjt reduction cereals for breakfast.

I also, at least four times a week, do the 3 mile walk found on exercise TV. AND YET, I have not lost a pound in three weeks. I am not overeating or undreating. I am exercizing. I eat virtually no fast food or processed foods. I homemake just about everything we eat from wheat breads to soups. We have no junk food in our house. We make fresh fruit smoothies for dessert on occasion. AND YET, I am not losing any weight.

I am 159 pounds and 47 years old. I am 5'8 inches tall. My ideal weight has always been around 135-140. This extra 20 pounds is tiring and bulgy. I want it off and can't seem to get it off.

I eat my daily suggested calories and I make each cal count. I eat healthily.

Please help with suggestions. I am frustrated and lately I walk into the YMCA wondering what's the point. I don't want to give up but it is getting hard to stay motivated.

Replies

  • abredbenner
    abredbenner Posts: 125 Member
    You don't seem to be getting any fat. Your body needs fat.
  • I think I do. I eat cheese and use light cream soemtimes and peanuts and peanut butter. I use olive oli for cooking and promise marg or unsalted butter. I don't use each of these products everyday, but some each day, whether it's on wheat bread or with a tablespoon of peanut butter or once a day I put cream in my decaf coffee for a treat. I believe I eat balanced. I just didnt list everything on my original post for the sake of not boring readers to death (lol).

    What do you think?
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    Hi LindaMae ,
    I must say I KNOW your frustration as the saying goes "Been There Done That"! Are you pre-menapausal? I and sooooo many others found where no matter what we ate or how we busted our butts it seemed to never come off! I have only lost 7#'s since I joined in January not saying that I have truly been a clean eater either! Those 7#'s have made me feel ten times better along with some natural HRT. I can only say hang in there and maybe once in awhile indulge and go over your calorie limit to wake it up a bit. Perservere it will come off!!!
    Best wishes,
    Verda
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