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What are your stats, and what are your goals?

Be sure to have real rest day (or two) if you aren't already. Magic happens on those days

You can hold on to that much water if you just started or had especially intense workouts (It happens to me on occasion, not for weeks). You can also think about if the totm may have anything to do with it, I can hold on to a lot of water for about a week around that time (e.g., about 1-2 pounds). Even on normal days I can…

New exercise regimes can make you hold on to a lot of water for muscle repair. Maybe that is masking some of the loss. Have you been taking measurements/progress pictures?

What I'm trying to say is that it is not your body that will try to get you back to an unhealthy weight. Our mind may try to get us back to that place though, because overweight is what we've known all our life, and has been our comfort zone. New things are scary. Getting used to the new you mentally takes a lot of time. I…

I was overweight all my life (except when I was two years old, all other ages was overweight, in my later years even obese). I've now been at a healthy weight for about two years of using mfp. It has not been difficult to keep it off. I know now I'm in control over my body. I also learnt that gaining weight (back) is not…

1 lb = 3500 cals 3500/7=500 cals a day to lose 1 lb a week That would be 1396 cals a day for you to lose 1 lb a week. This is below your BMR, so I suggest you pick a more realistic goal (you probably do not have that much weight to lose), like .5 pounds a week. Losing .5 pounds a week would put you at 1650 cals a day.

The "click" came in stages for me. I've been overweight all my life. The first click was finding out that I could actually lose a substantial amount of weight. Before then I figured I was just meant to be fat and feel horrible about it. I found out I could lose weight fast (and gain it back fast) at a parttime job lifting…

Most likely water retention in the muscles you started working out more

Do you actually want to gain muscle? If so, you'd need to start eating at a (small) surplus.

Note: people often eat ony half of the exercise calories back, because exercise calories (especially in the mfp database) tend to be overestimated. If you have a good hearrate monitor to count your exercise calories, you may want to eat a larger percentage of you exercise calories back.

Of course you can compensate with exercise, but then you need a good heart rate monitor to check the amount you've burnt. Some ideas: Switch one of the eggs by an eggwhite. Dump the grape juice or take half of it and dilute it with water. I'd also try to get rid of the starbucks thing or at least don't add the syrups. I…

Sounds like a plan.

You can try something like the kitchen safe, so you can't access the nuts all the time. Tak e a portion out in the morning before breakfast and then put a time lock on the rest.

Go to the gym in the weekend, and get some equipments, and some high intensity interval dvds to work out at home.

No, you should be fine! Jilllian Micheals herself advises to at least take one rest day a week btw - don't do it every day.

^This is your problem. Try to fix that behavior and I bet you will be more succesful on next attempts. This also hints to emotional eating, so figure out something to help you deal which is not food. Edited to add: You'll be surprised how much easier it is to accomplish things when you are not being a **** to yourself.…

I think you look good! You look healthy imho. If you are looking to gain some confidence in yourself and your body, maybe focus more on strength or fitness related goals (or if you really want to gain, gain some muscle perhaps)?

Don't worry about going over your protein. You may want to change your macros to suit yourself - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

Just try it for a month (weighing and logging your food, hitting your mfp calorie goals), and see what happens. If you don't lose, adjust your calorie goal. Don't want to go to the gym? Don't go to the gym. I don't. I still lost 19 kg (40 pounds), and am at a normal BMI now. I do 30 minute exercise dvds that I can do from…

Note that if you use the mfp database for your exercise calories (rather than a personal heart rate monitor or something like that), the number of calories burnt is usually OVERestimated. So you may want to eat only half of those calories back.

One more time then; Are you using a digital scale to weight everything you eat/drink?

Vanity, health - feeling blegh all the time was a good motivation- and feeling like I could control something in my life.This last one was a bit of a scary reason, certainly a red flag for developing eating disorders (luckily it has not been an issue).

I felt exactly like that after losing about 15 pounds. I have always been overweight (except when I was two years old, but other than that age I was overweight, even as a baby), so I also didn't know what to expect. Now I'm at a normal BMI, but still kind of chubby - but normal. And it is kind of awesome. Because I lost…

If you want help on the forums, it is best if you open up your diary so people can see what you are doing. Can you give soe further info? Height, weight, goal, what are your calories for the day, do you weigh everything you eat/drink, how do you estmate your exercise calories, and do you eat those calories back?

Don't have any specific advise for your exercise, but please use more positive words when you talk about/to yourself :) Being kind to yourself is much more likely help your goals in the end, denigrating yourself is more likely to derail you. Good luck!

Well, some of it will tighten up on its own after a while. However, what is left wil not disappear. Some people fill in some of the space by gaining muscle mass. And there is surgery.

It seem unlikely that you are losing fat (calory deficit needed) & building muscle (calory surplus needed) at the same time. If you bf is already that low (lower and you may find issues such as amenorrhea), maybe you can think about focusing on building abs first in a surplus, and after that cutting back your fat…

Do you have any idea of what your fat percentage is and how fast you are losing fat now? Maybe somebody here can give you some ballpark figure of fat percentage for your abs to be defined clearly. Then you can calculate how long it should take you approcimately? A realistic calculation of the time frame (Although it cannot…

What are your goals?