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Originally Posted by icemanjs4
OK, time for a whine now.
I spent the last two weeks eating flawlessly. The last week in particular, I went to the gym 5 times, getting very extensive workouts in. I weighed in Saturday morning and I was back up to 214 lbs. I had been at 211 the previous week.
Why can't I lose weight? This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I know I eat out for lunches, but I've been eating out at those same restaurants for the last year when I lost 70 lbs.
This is not weight loss slowing down - this is non-existant weight loss. If it had slowed down to half a pound to a pound a week, I'd understand that weight loss slows down as you get closer to goal. But I'm still 30-35 lbs from my real goal. And I've been at this weight forever now I was at 215lbs in May. I'm not ready to give up. I'm working my F~#$in ass off at the gym and eating as healthy as I can. I logged my food in my journal. What is going on here?
I'm not drinking, I'm not eating fried foods, I eat tons of fish and vegetables. My fruit/grain intake is fairly minimal (maybe blueberries in the morning and either oatmeal or buckwheat pancakes in the early evening). There's no reason for a stall this long.
Please somebody help me figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong- this is killing me.
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OK...this has been bothering since yesterday and I think that I've got a much better answer for you now that I've given this thought.
The last pounds are the hardest to get rid of....what we lost at first was easy...getting it off now separates those who succeed from those who give up....kinda like separating the men from the boys, if you get my drift.
I recall that when I got to 180, I kinda stumbled a bit thinking that I'd be stuck there as it was always the wieght my body settled at before. But I weighed daily (still do) and respond to what I see on the scale by chosing what I will eat that day depending on what the scale says. If I need to make the scale move back down, I cut back on the nuts, cheeses and starches that I eat.
I did this as I was losing the last pounds too....I highly recommend that you go to my first journal, which you can get to by going to page 1 of my current journal and using the link there....then go to page 116, is that will take you to the last 5 months of my weight loss.
Keep in mind also, that it took me 15 months to lose 100 lbs...then it took my body 5 more months to lose 15 lbs...thats less than a pound a week. But what I did do and I think you should too, is weigh daily so that you can begin to see what eating certain types of food does to your weight...rather than weighin once a week and then getting all upset and whiny!!
Think of this as a science experiment...your body being the vessel....log your food, weigh daily and you will start to see patterns in how what you eat effects not only your losing but how long it takes for certain foods to get out of your body( too much salt) and how long it takes to see loss again.
I realized that too much sodium not only made me retain water, but I would not be able to see loss for 3 days!! Then if I eat clean for those 3 days...then my body would begin to show loss again, even if it was only -.2 or -.4 of a lb. That is a good reason to use a scale that measures in the tenths....I've got a basic Tanita. Great scale!!
Heres another thought for you.....on the starch front....You can have 2-3 starches a day....looks like for your body, it needs to be 2 starches to see weight loss. One starch can be from a grain and the other choice really should be from a starchy veggie......I suggest that you use the grain in the form of oatmeal for breakfast with blueberries....if you feel hunger, have a HB egg after. I would put that buckwheat flour away for now. Don't eat flour daily but maybe once or twice a week...flour does gum up the works...think of it like this...flour + water makes a nice paste!!
euuuwww!! not good for weight loss!!
OK Jeremy...thats all I've got for now.....my dogs await their walk!!
So happy for you Donna!! 
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