april21401

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the feedback!

No, I haven't been referred to a dietician. We discussed what I was doing in terms of counting calories, etc. and she seemed fine with that. She didn't mention anything about eating "excersize calories" as everyone does here. She simply said not to go over 1200 calories and make sure I'm excersizing regularly. I will have…

Thanks everyone! These have been really helpful to read through! One thing I haven't done is measure myself to track progress that way. I've been solely relying on the scale... I will definitely read up on the best ways to incorporate weight training and I'll start measuring the inches too. Thanks again!

Okay, thanks -- sounds like I need to incoporate this into my routine. Thanks all!

Thanks everyone for the responses! No, I don't have any medical reason not to weight train. I originally just assumed it was because the scale can go up when you weight train and I'm trying to lose... I wanted to ask because I hear so many people say that they swear by weight training...

Thanks all!! I think I found the culprit. I went back through and examined my diary closely and over the past week my carbs were much higher than previous weeks, even though my calories were quite low. I normally eat a plain rice cake with one measured tbsp of peanut butter for breakfast and had replaced that with other…

Thanks for all of the feedback, everyone. It's much appreciated! I'll take a look at the carbs and keep at it!

Fair enough :-). Thanks. I guess I was kind of shocked that it went up. I've been going at it pretty hard and I have a LOT to lose so I figured the scale would keep moving at this stage...