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How much more than a pound per week? It's all a matter of how much you eat and how much you burn. Cut calories and increase your exercise routine until you're losing what you want, just remember even going to the extreme will still result in weeks where you won't lose what you want.

That inner voice that wants to sabotage your efforts is so difficult to ignore. I think we can be more cruel to ourselves than other people can be cruel to us, except children. When I think about some of the things kids in school said to me and called me, it makes me wonder if kids are pure evil walking on the Earth.…

If there isn't a medical reason, then I think you're eating enough calories to maintain your current weight. Perhaps you might want to try dropping your daily calories by 100 to 200 for a week or two and see if that starts you losing weight.

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Okay, I can see why you would make that change. Maybe this is just something that's going to take time to get used to until you're back up to peak performance.

If you had plenty of energy while consuming the carbs and you weren't having any adverse reactions to their consumption, why not try going back to your previous carb intake and see how your energy level responds.

Try both ways over the course of a week or two and figure out which works best for you. I personally cannot eat before a workout because I get sick to my stomach and have, on a few occasions, thrown up while running.

I stopped drinking, beer in my case as well, the end of January. Amazingly I don't miss it at all. What I found was I would sit and watch a movie, drink beer after beer and chow down on Pizza, Puffed Cheese Doodles, Doritos, Potato Chips, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oreo Cookies, and basically everything that has lots of empty…

You don't look sick or weird to me, but if these comments are coming from people who knew you before your weight loss they're comparing the now you to the then you. If you feel better about yourself, ignore them. I would go with what other people here have recommended, start lifting to gain muscle mass. You don't have to…

Drop you calories a little bit and/or increase your exercising.

Stick with the program that you find works for you. Don't allow anything to discourage you from your goal, especially when you don't lose any weight for a week or longer. When you eat something you've been trying to cut back on, or over eat, don't beat yourself up over the slip, accept that you enjoyed it while you were…

1200 calories per day is doable, if you're motivated and have the willpower to stick with it, and as others have posted, watch what you eat. Mixing in cardio and resistance training will speed the process up and if you stick to your plan dropping 20 pounds by November will be no problem.

After I dropped around 20 pounds people at work noticed.

I'm giving you a fuzzy pawed head smack. You know what you're doing, and you know how your body works, so suck it up and keep moving. Think about how good you'll feel when you step on the scale and it's dropped a pound, or more.

My average is 3.6 pounds per week, but there were some weeks where I would loose less than a pound or a little over a pound, and other weeks where I lost a little over 6 pounds. I can run into the same issue as BurlzGettingFit where I'll stay at the same weight, or it might even go up slightly, for a week to 10 days, and…

The guy who bullied me in high school died of a heart attack at the ripe old age of 39, alone, on the side of a highway in South Florida. To this day I have no idea what I did what caused him to target me, but I would be lying if I said I didn't smile when I heard the news of his death.

Ah, the darkness, I have dwelled in that realm, and know well its allure and horrors.

I don't weigh anything, except myself, but that's my choice. If you're stuck at the same weight for 6 weeks it probably means you're eating as much as you're consuming, so to break that you could try cutting your calories a little bit and/or increasing your exercising. The key thing is to not get so discouraged you give up.

Zero, I'm off grid.

Have you discussed your lack of appetite with you doctor?

When I was 30 I weighed 178 with less than 7% body fat and I could literally eat anything I wanted, but I was also working out an insane amount of time, two to three hours per day with a mix of cardio and lifting. As long as you're burning the calories you're consuming you shouldn't gain weight, the problem is when you…

Since you're feeling better you're seeing some positive results. I know I go through periods where for a solid week my weight won't change, or it'll go up, and I'm on a calorie restricted diet, which is frustrating. I can only imagine how I would feel if I went an entire month without seeing a change. I've found what…

When I eat something I've been working at avoiding, or I eat too much, I simply accept what I did and get back on my path. I don't allow one, or even several, hiccups in my diet or exercise to become a reason for me to abandon my entire routine and give up. That's not to say I haven't given up in the past, but now I just…

I would think the hunger pangs would have subsided some after a month. Have you tried eating more salads, greens, carrots, cukes, etc.? I'm thinking something filling but with low calories. Are you noticing you're getting stronger from the workouts? Are your clothes getting a little loose? Do you see a difference in how…

How long have you been at 1,200 calories?

I tried the "Warrior Diet" which is essentially eating one meal between 4 pm and no later than 7 pm, but you can eat all that you want until you are full. Although I didn't have all that much difficulty eating one meal per day, what I found was I would seriously overeat at night, so it didn't work for me. The car analogy…

I'm a yoyo exerciser. I'll get in excellent shape and then I'll just stop and get heavy. Eventually I get so sick and tired of being overweight that I get back into exercising and eating healthy again, get in great shape, and the cycle repeats. This time I'm focusing on getting in shape and then sticking with it so I stop…

Do you have enough room under the desk to do leg extensions? I'm assuming you get two 15 minute breaks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, plus a lunch break. Is there a quiet place you can go to do squats, lunges, pushups, or other bodyweight exercises on your breaks?

drawaimfire is right, new gluten free products are coming out all the time, so I'm sure there will be some good bread out there, but then I also wonder if I just need to give it more time to get used to the taste/consistency before giving up on it completely.

I don't eat anything prior to a workout because my stomach gets upset while I'm working out. If I'm going to run after work I make sure that I haven't eaten anything for at least an hour or two before my run.