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Make sure you take them from a *bunch* of places! Some weeks only certain body parts will lose and others it will be others and that's really discouraging if you only took measurements of say your waist which isn't shrinking while your hips and thighs are, for example!

Yeah, I think you might be looking at a case of undereating. When I was 209 (I'm 5'2), I would naturally burn something like 2100 calories a day, and if you add 500+ calories to that you get to 2600+, so if you only eat 1200-1500, you're in a deficit of near-to-over 1000 calories. From what I've read, the sweet spot for…

But how much are you burning in your workouts?

Depending on how much "way below" is, that could be your problem! If you're going too far with your calorie deficit, your body will prevent any weight loss. How much are you eating and burning?

Just don't make it a Timex, I learned the hard way that they're wildly inaccurate :S

MASSIVE thanks to everyone for their suggestions and data! I got a Polar FT60 (my bday is coming up and my mother is awesome so I didn't have to buy a second right after the first ;) ) and I'm finally getting results that make sense compared to what you guys are getting. Looking through the other threads about HRMs, it…

On the one hand, holy high school! That's such a great idea, so few people have any clue how important heart rates are to fitness and your school had some for the students! Pretty awesome. On the other hand...yeah, that's pretty gross :P Very exciting that you're getting your own now!! I'm so happy with mine! :D

So seeing as how I clearly bought the wrong product, can I ask you guys which Polar HRM you ended up buying?

Oh I did not perform well in this workout at all :P That 520 is not reflective of success, I assure you. My 5 second breaks (and there were quite a few) were more like 10-15 second breaks which included glaring-at-the-tv time ;) It seems like the Polar people are all pretty consistent and I just bought the wrong product...…

Lool!! That just means you're in killer shape ;) That's something to be proud of!

That would be great, please do! And thank you for your stats!

Wow! First of all, thanks to all of you for posting so quickly! This is informative but disappointing! I was so hoping it could be true :P I guess I'll try to see if I did something wrong on my HRM when I was inputting my numbers. I just hope it's not defective, it was supposed to be good quality...

Thanks everyone! I took your advice and just invested in a HRM, I can't wait till it gets here! I'll just put Circuit Training in the meantime. (Also got the FitBit Ultra for the non-workout parts of my life...I am LOVING these fitness gadgets!!)

Hi there :) I find that what trips people up the most when they're trying to lose weight and doing everything right is that they aren't sticking to the right calorie deficits and I took a peak at your diary and I think that might be the problem, or at least contributing to it. First off, any woman anywhere at any weight…

That is AMAZING!! Congratulations, and well done!