Motivation

Well I have been on the right track for over 2 months.I lost like 25 pounds!.....First just watching carefully what I ate and than over a month ago I started to exercise between 3-5 days a week.I did not lose anything for 3 weeks now!It makes me soooooooooooooo sad.Its like all my hard work is in vain.I upped my cals. because I move more,I introduced nuts.It feels like my body just rejects it all.I feel so sad.I am sorry to be negative but if any of you could share some wisdom and  your stories of how did you get out of this and still made it to your goals!Would really help.

I went through something like this in June. After losing 40 lbs, I stood still and started to feel like there was something wrong with me..

I realized that the exercise I had started doing the month before was actually putting muscle on me which caused me to go up a couple of pounds and then right back to where I was for almost a month.

After reading what others did, I tried breaking up my hour long treadmill sessions into 2 30 min sessions with a rest of 20 min in between them.. I also increased my water even more then what I was drinking, and I ate at almost a maintenance level.. Did this for about a week, and boom, I started dropping again, in fact it got me past that dreaded 200 mark which I thought I would never see again.

Good luck, and don't give up.. So long as you are doing what you should be doing, eventually it will start coming off again

Original Post by laurie51560:

I went through something like this in June. After losing 40 lbs, I stood still and started to feel like there was something wrong with me..

I realized that the exercise I had started doing the month before was actually putting muscle on me which caused me to go up a couple of pounds and then right back to where I was for almost a month.

After reading what others did, I tried breaking up my hour long treadmill sessions into 2 30 min sessions with a rest of 20 min in between them.. I also increased my water even more then what I was drinking, and I ate at almost a maintenance level.. Did this for about a week, and boom, I started dropping again, in fact it got me past that dreaded 200 mark which I thought I would never see again.

Good luck, and don't give up.. So long as you are doing what you should be doing, eventually it will start coming off again

Im happy for your progress and understanding.It is such a hard time and all I can do is hope that I am doing the right thing.I wanted to be slim my whole life and after a lot of yoyo and bingeing I thought I will choose the long and hard road that I have been dreading.And now when it is not working I feel like a fool.

I so understand where you are coming from. I have been a yoyo my whole life.. Never got to the slim mark since I was about 16 and that lasted only a few short months..

When my Dr told me in January I had to lose weight or be facing possible chemo within the next 5-10 yrs because my liver is starting to take the toll from so many years of eating wrong and my non-alcoholic fatty liver diease could turn in to liver cancer, I decided for once in my life I needed to do it and face the long hard road of losing 109 lbs..

As of today I have lost 48 of them, and under 200 for the first time since before my son was born 19 yrs ago..

I too have doubts, but every day I lose I see myself 1 step closer to the finish line.. You just have to try to learn not to beat yourself up the days or sometimes even weeks the scale doesn't move.. Those are the times to focus on the positive of where you are heading and if you are really sticking with it, it will happen.

 

Aww beate4 it sounds like you've hit a plateau, it's a pretty common occurrence, and it sounds like laurie51560 gave you some sound advice on how to break it, from what I've seen around the forums that sounds like what you've gotta do to get through that plateau and keep going down, switch your cals around for a week or so and keep it up with the exercise :) Good luck, I hope your frustrations end soon.

laurie is right on the mark.  You are gaining muscle, which weighs more.  But, muscle also burns more calories than blubber, so at some point you'll start seeing the scale move downward again and with less effort than before.  :) 

ahhh thank you all for the advice and care:) I am so happy to have a place to turn to:)It sounds desperate but I think  I am  finally doing the right thing.It is fare from my body though to reject it as I treated it badly for so many years.I heard a lot of people complaining about this but did not think it will come this fast and I certainly did not think there is a way out.I will NOT step on the scale for the next one or two weeks it makes me incredibly disapointed(I left it at my boyfriends house for safety haha and we see each other only in the weekends)Thank you all for the replies I will go on strong.I feel it is not time to give up yet!Any advice is always welcome!

Don't give up!!! Your exercise is working...the weight WILL start coming off again and you will look so much better with your muscle tone. I yo-yo'd for a while and in all those "fad" diets and crazy weight loss tricks I tried I actually had my body consuming my muscle. So it became harder and harder to keep the weight off..I was always a thin person...never had to watch. After i had my kids life as I knew it changed. I became so frustrated I basically just stopped trying..after failing at weight loss so many times I was defeated. Just this spring I was at my full-term pregnancy weight and I caught a glimpse of myself at a wedding reception and knew I had to do something for good..no more quick weight loss schemes..they just don't work. As a person that needs that instant gratification that was terribly difficult for me.When I started CC I had again begun to lose weight...I was told I had to start strength training to build my muscle back if I wanted to get off the "rollar coaster" and stop yo-yoing once and for all. Well I did just that and my weight loss came to a hault...I did though see a difference in the way my clothes fit..I took my measurements and I did see the inches moving..so although the scale is not moving for you....you could be losing inches. Have you taken your measurements?That really is the best way to gauge your loss since weight flucuates so much due to water retention. Everyone here is here to help and I just love this site it keeps me going strong..I love hearing all the great stories of success and being able to maybe help someone along the way as well. Laurie- Congratulations to you on your weight loss , you are proof that staying in it for the long haul is well worth it!!! We will all be healthier if nothing else. Keep up the great work!!!

Thank you all for the replies.I calmed down a little and left my scale at my boyfriends house haha...I will weight every weekend or every second weekend.The less I know the better:)I am keeping up really strong,it will show one day!:)