Stuck on Weight Loss

You need to eat more.

strength training will make you gauin muscle mass. If you want to keep cardio and strength routine try mearsuring yourself. Stepping on the scale will make you think no results. I didnt lose weight went I did a "booty camp" but measuring one month my measrements decresed 6" everywhere. try that maybe it will help the mental aspect of being stuck. As for eating Im glad to decide to eat more. Load up on veggies. Veggies are fuel and fruit is hydration. If you eat a meal with fruit eat the fruit first. Fruit digest faster so you dont want it sitting on top of protien like meat meat is harder and longer to digest. (saw on dr oz) . And it makes sense. Dont give up.

Unfortunately our bodies seem to react poorly to a very large defict and lot's of activity.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/why-big-caloric-deficits-and-lots-of-activity-can-hurt-fat-loss.html

Whilst you have done well and increased quite a lot, you are probably still not getting enough nutrition on 1000.

Work out your actual TDEE, take a defict from there, then increasing gradually towards it, just 100 extra a week, and see how that goes.

Good Luck.

I get stuck alot... and every time if I finally stop overanalyzing and up my cals, I drop weight. It sounds like you work out alot, I can't see how 1000 cals would possibly be enough. All of my MFP friends who are in amazing shape would say the same thing, because they've said it to me. Don't give up, just keep changing it up until something works!

Something to consider is that once your body loses alot of weight...it needs time to adjust. My daughter was an inspiration to me when she lost 40 lbs to enter into the Air Force. I "know" what I am supposed to do to lose weight... just am not as diciplined as I need to be. Evidently, I did well as a "coach" as she lost that weight between November, 2011 thru May, 2012 when she went into the military.

What I really learned from watching her is that there are a lot of changes that are occuring WITHIN your body that may not translate to the outside immediately. She seemed reach "plateaus"...however, it was just her body changing and adjusting to the new weight.....at those points, I just reminded her that you can't eat 1200 calories and workout every day and not lose weight. Just keep going... keep going. Eventually, the weight began to come down again everytime (eventually, at one point she had a two month stall). Although this doesn't always happen on our time schedule, it does happen. She has continued to lose weight while in basic training... which she completes in two weeks!! I can't wait to see her...

Also, I am going to school to become a school psychologist... in one of my classes, I had to use behavior modification to create a new behavior... I decided to teach my dog to roll over. As I worked through the process of rewarding for behavior, I did not see any changes....for the ENTIRE TIME. As a matter of fact, I was preparing to let my instructor know that I had not been successful at this task. Perhaps it was too big of an undertaking in the time frame we had to complete this in (two weeks). It looked to me like she would need a year to get this new behavior. However, the NEXT DAY, she began to roll over!! What did I learn from this... perhaps the most significant thing I got from that class.....

IT MAY NOT LOOK LIKE IT'S WORKING...BUT IT IS... AND WE MAY ALWAYS QUIT BEFORE IT ACTUALLY SHOWS ON THE OUTSIDE. Had I quit working with Pheobe on that day, thinking that she was not learning it because there was no outward appearance of change... I would have had to start completely over in order to get back where I was whenever I decided to try again. However, persistence paid off, ONE DAY LATER. She WAS changing inside, just as you are. If you are being honest with yourself about what you are eating and your exercising...then it WILL work.

I understand your feelings of failure... weight loss is sooo frustrating. My daughter expressed many of those same emotions while trying to reach her goals of weight loss. While helping her, I was able to see how I self sabatoge myself with those same defeating attitudes. Of course, she is my daughter, and my job was to assist her in getting past those moments... I reminded her to stop looking at it like she was failing when she didn't see that scale move down... each work out, each day of eating the right number of calories, and the weight loss she had achieved already were her successes and that is where one must focus when undertaking difficult challenges.

Again, it's when we give up... decide this doesn't work.. fall off the wagon...then have to start over....
Had we just encouraged ourselves and given it just one more day.... perhaps that was THE day that scale was going to begin to move down....and we gave up on ourselves just before the pay off.

In my humble opinion: Make conscious decisions each day.... give yourself a reward for reaching your daily eating goals and your daily exercise goals.... perhaps when they add up for the week you get a pedicure, message, or something fab that will excite you. Stop focusing on external weight loss so that you stop being mean to yourself with the words you say... (words we would never say to someone else). Trust your body and trust the process. (I know it's hard because this is probably not your first try to lose weight)... however, you have done so well through May... let your body catch up to the hard work you have done. Eat every four hours to keep your blood sugar level and fuel your body with food that will create health for your cells, skin and organs. Most importantly... LOVE yourself... your body is not failing you because of the size it is...consider all that it allows you to experience each day. In my case, the ability to get up everyday, spend time with my family and friends, laugh, exercise because I choose to (even though I may have chosen to fuel it in correctly....it still goes!)... whatever, you DO in life that makes it FUN that is what your BODY is allowing you to do.. no matter if it fits into a size 2 or a size 22, it is loving you, you must love it back and thank it every day for all that it allows you to experience on this earth.

Weight loss is a journey... a cumulation of choices we make everyday.... but it is not the end all... DAILY HAPPINESS is what the real goal is... what can you do TODAY...RIGHT NOW... that will make you smile?

Love your body, soul and spirit... these things allow us to live and experience this amazing, abundant world.


Please just disregard if none of this helps you... but I want to thank you for helping me. You have made me put into words things that I needed to remind myself of as I move forward on my own weight loss journey... so thank you for being an inspiration to me. Have a beautiful day full of joy!

Open your diary plz.

I just made it public. I'll keep it like that for today.

Up protein to 30% of your caloric goal.
Up Fats to 30% of your caloric goal.
Carbs will set to 40%.

Eat 1600 daily.
Dont eat back cals from working out just get 1600 daily.

Wait!

Are you 5'3" or taller?

I tripled my caloric intake 3X (300-->1000) and that hasn't helped in the past 3 weeks.

I'm sorry but if you were eating only 300 cals per day then your nutritionist (who knows this stuff) is absolutely right about being in starvation mode. Sure you lost some weight at first but you probably lost muscle too and your metabolism has slowed down to protect your body. You need to fuel your body properly. The 40/30/30 plan is a good idea and you shouldn't go below 1200 cals per day. You might gain while your body rights it's systems from being starved but will be better in the long run.