A good kick in the pants! PLEASE!

I hear you! I have done the same thing. I am stuck. I manage to do well for a week, and weigh myself and don't see amazing results, and get discouraged.
I know better, and so do you.
There is no quick fix.
I have also wondered if maybe I should just accept myself for the way I am. But I have issues with food, that if I give up on this battle, I won't stay the way I am, but get bigger.
I have all the excuses too. I am 48, and my hormones are not my friends right now. But what is .. is. We have to deal with it. You take medication that may hinder your weight loss? Well, you must need it, so that is just something you have to factor in.
Keep doing the right thing. It takes time, patience, and consistency.
You can do this. I can do this.

What are you doing for excersize? Maybe you need to up the intensity or change up your program.

Have you been to your dr? My scale did the same thing. Checked my bloodwork and my sugar was "slightly" high. Apparently, your blood sugar being only slightly out of whack can confuse your metabolism. So.. I'm doing low carb and she's got me on a medication to regulate my blood sugar. Scale is now moving. (I also had a hysterectomy in March, and apparently your body just goes WHACK after that). Maybe worth a visit to eliminate other issues? And.. maybe mixing up your workout!

I hear you on this. Did you measure yourself before you started your new program? I haven't lost many pounds BUT I've lost three inches off my waist and a few inches here and there elsewhere. The scale should not be the only thing you're gauging progress by. Also, do you feel better? Two months isn't a very long time, when you consider your whole life that lead up to that. Keep working. Keep going. Like Nemo. Just keep swimming. : )

Ok....you asked for a kick in the pants. Here goes. How in the heck can you propose that you were meant to be heavy when you admit you are an emotional eater and just started exercising? Move more, increase the variety and intensity of your exercise as your body grows stronger. Eat better. Get a handle on your emotional eating - be aware of what triggers it, avoid triggers and most importantly find behaviors to replace the emotional eating - like exercise....instead of eating go for a walk.

You were not meant to be heavy...that is a total cop out.

It takes time, especially when you are older. Try to walk everyday at 3.5 for 30 or 40 min. Log everything you eat & that helps.

Okay, gave you a kick on the news feed on the food side, so here's your exercise kick: you just started exercising consistently, I'm going to take a leap and say that you've been scattered about with your exercise between way back when and now, so you may be on a shelf (not a plateau, those tend to last a while) and on this shelf, your body went: "AAAAAAAHHHHH she's exercising...must convert, must convert.... fat cells must shrink, muscle must form!!!!" Like one of the other posters said here, you may be in inch loss phase instead of pound loss phase (I've had this happen to me and one time almost had a clothing malfunction-thank God I tried on my bellydance hip belt the day before the performance and adjusted it tighter, otherwise, one shimmy too many and it would have been on the floor!) I hated my scale during this time (I also was not measuring, so I didn't know that I was having non scale victories until I suddenly had to buy belts for my pants because I was beginning to look like those kids walking around with their pants hanging down and their drawers showing.

Now, take a breath, buy a measuring tape, take a little peeky at the measurments give yourself a little time, if it doesn't clear up, you're on an exercise plateau (just learned recently there is such a thing) and it's time to mix up your exersize a little.

You're doing good girly, don't give up the fight!:flowerforyou:

As Einstein said, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

You don't need a kick in the pants. You need to try something different. Really different.