S L O W losers come here! Please!

oh i am supposed to be losing.... i feel that is my body. i have been as of today 255 days. everyone says I look great and thinks i lost a lot of weight. um no 12 lbs. i have gone from 2x to xl tops and 22-24-18-20, with some 16s fitting..


I really want to see lbs though.

Someone on MFP posted a link to this a while back and it helped me: http://fitnesswithnatalie.blogspot.com/2011/05/most-dreaded-word-in-weight-loss.html

Good luck. You have to keep tweaking things until you figure out what works for me. I had to up my calories by about 150 a day and decrease my cardio to get the scale moving again after a 6 month plateau.

Thank you for this link. I've been suspecting that I needed to increase cardio to get the scale moving again and that blog post pretty much confirmed my suspicions. I've been wanting to start the C25K program, so now will be a good time to do just that!

What I recently learned that there is a heart rate range that will help lose weight which is lower than heart rate for cardio building. I was told to work at the lower rate then every 5 minutes to speed up and do 5 minutes at the cardio rate, then back down to weight loss weight ... and keep repeating

When I was young I could easily lose 5# a week (yo-yo all my life) ... now that I am in my 60s I am happy with a pound a week. I am finally not yo-yo with unreasonable cuts in calories, not doing drastic diets (have been on them all even the 1970s liquid protein) ... my exercise is Pilates (to stave off knee replacement surgery), recumbant bicycle and if knees are good I do Wi Fit.

I'm slow too. I started here in Feb. I couldn't exercise much since I had surgery in December. By march I was doing a little exercise and now am up to a decent amount of exercise and feeling better. I know I only had a few pounds to lose but it's not moving at all. I lost 4 pounds in around Feb/March and 2 more around April and then stopped. I have about 9 lbs left.

I think a lot of the weight I lost was probably water. I had a hysterectomy in Dec and still had surgical swelling until about April or May. I know I have built some muscle and I have lost some inches. It is just discouraging. I'm currently trying to eat more, especially since I'm taking a new drug that messes me up if I don't eat enough. I am T2 diabetic on metformin and amaryl. The dr. is still trying to figure out my thyroid, I was diagnosed as a kid with hypo but this endo is wondering if its not graves so I'm currently on no meds.

Due to my diabetes and before the new med, I was very low carb which helped me lose some water but that was it. I was netting 1200 but plateaued, then 1260 but didn't lose, then 1600 total and still no loss, now dr. put me at 1800.

I should probably measure because I haven't done that recently but that hadn't really changed for a month or more. I do think I'm getting more muscular but nothing is getting smaller. Frustrating.

Some bodies just will not lose weight fast. My body is one of those slow losing bodies according to a registered nutritionist who told me that after I had spent a year going to her every week. She said it depends on each body's set point. I only lost 1/2 pound a week. Some weeks I did not lose anything and some weeks I gained weight. You have to remember that muscle weighs more than fat. As you gain muscle, which is what you want since muscle stays active longer and helps to burn off fat, your weight "loss" will fluctuate up and down. You can't get upset about that. Lasting weight loss happens really slowly for most people. The nutritionist also said not to eat low fat/fat free and no artificial sweeteners (unless you are diabetic). Low fat/no fat takes out or reduces the fat and replaces it with sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners actually make your body crave sugar and they do not know how artificial sweeteners are metabolized in the body. My nutritionist told me you should go by how your clothes fit, how many inches you lose, and how you feel and not be too concerned about the number on the scale.

Im a slow loser too.... My first month I lost 7 lbs. In the last 3.5 weeks I have lost NOTHING. I guess I should be happy I gained nothing as well.

Welcome to my world.. I cut my calories in 1/2 last year.. increased workouts by 150%.. and the scale went up & up & up.. and my size got larger larger larger .. my back went out in Feb of this year.. I was stranded & for the first time in 20 years of back pain HAD to take my meds.. no control over what I ate, when I ate or water... LOST 10 lbs!! no sense to me ... I ate horrible, didn't drink enough water & barely moved.. ANYWAYS.. I need energy & strength.. so here I am again.. watching everything I eat..making better choices, no meds, very little wine compared to the last 3 months.. exercise... and .. scale went up a 1lb already!! still my energy is better & I am setting a great example for my family.. so I will continue.. and reach my goal of either weight loss or running a 5k.. or BOTH

that might have been an indication that you were eating too little and exercising too much. When you cut your calories, what were you netting?

I didn't lose a single pound for the first 9 months I was on MFP.

After upping my calorie intake to 1520, exercising 6 days a week, and eating more homemade food, I am losing half a pound a week. Still slow, but better than before.