frustrated with the last 10 pounds!! :(

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nitabonita

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hey guys!


I just signed up for this forum...my intentions is to lose 10 pounds in the next month and a half... I would really appreciate if anyone is out there who is willing to do this with me!! :)



Although ten pounds might not seem like alot of weith i foundi t EXETREMLY difficult to get rid off... :( I watch what I eat and do cardio to burn about 370 calories per day.. but it's still not coming off... please help me if you are on the same boat... it is really frustrating.. :(
 
Hi, i'm in the same boat as you, its taken 2 years for me to loose 2 stone and now to get to my correct bmi i've just got 10lb to go, which isn't going and to be honest, i'm really struggling with it and when I see little or no change for all my hard work I find the diet and exercise very hard to stick to.

I keep a food and exercise log with food focus which is fantastic, I managed to get down to 8 stone 7 last year but i'm back up to 9 stone 1lb now and really want to shift it, would be great to have a diet partner who has the same amount of weight to go...
 
hi Squitten,


I totally agree! I lost 30 pounds within the last couple of years but gained 10 pounds back within the last year... :( I gained this 10 pounds really quickly, but now you are right the scale IS NOT moving!!! and very frustrating at times... :(


What are your strategies? I really do watch what I eat and try to keep my calorie intake to 1200 since I work in an office and other than yoga I do not do other excersises...


Also I am at 160 and want to get back to 150 pounds. I am 5'8.5 tall.


Please help!!! :(
 
AI'm eating about the same, 1200 calories but i'm so hungry at night and in the morning, I tend to do 30 mins exercise every day, usually pilates (found a dvd that really worked for me, but i've been doing it for years now) but I guess I should be doing a lot more exercise (I need a lot more than 24 hours in a day!) I'm only 5'1 so any extra weight really shows, on adverage it takes me a month to loose a pound, which is so not fair! I would love to shift the extra 10 pounds by my birthday in november, It must be possable, other people loose a couple of pounds a week.
 
hey,


your birthday is in november???? MINE IS TOO :D what day?? mine is on 15th. Let's have our birthdays our goal days!!! AND YES you can lose more than that. I'm on the same boat as you the weight is not comming off. Anyone else has any recommendations? :(
 
AOh wow! how cool, mines the 20th!
(i'll have to find out how to get a countdown ticker thingie for my sig now!)
I just got a new exercise dvd, its got 3 diffrent workouts on it, hopefully it shouldn't get too boring as I can change it every day so i'm going to try out that next week and see if I can get on the thigh stepper for at least 30 mins a day as well, I admit, I have messed up this week, about 600 cals over, but I was just so hungry the other day you could hear my belly at the other side of the room! I need to find more low cal, but very filling food.
 
hey


I had a crapy week too. well my period is right around the corner which makes me gain like 6 pounds on the spot.. :(. I joined weight watchers this morning ONLINE. It looks easy to follow.


ALSO, I think in regards to not starving ur self you should eat more veggies... I personally LOVE vegtables.... and HAVE to have them with my meals. This adds fiber to your diet and it also makes your metabolism faster. This is how I lost 30 pounds initally...


So when you are hungry, eat a healthy salad with GREENS and limit the amount of dressing or carbs that you might use on your food. THIS will hellp you over come your hunger because when you starve your self you are actually SLOWING down your metabolism..........:)


HOPE this helps :)
 
AHiya, will try that, think my main problem the other day is that the fridge was empty so couldn't find anything low cal or filling, am shopping this thursday so will make a extra effort to get in some salad stuff, i grow a lot of my own food and have been waiting for it to ripen (had no summer to speak off here in the uk) so have been avoiding buying food i'm growing. I love potatos but they really make me bloat out for hours after, usually have to change into diffrent clothes my belly bloats so much! Have just ordered a personal trainer game for my wii, i do have a wii fit game but i find it takes 2 hours to do 1 hours exercise so find it hard to find, and justfiy the time, hopefully this new one might be better. I have tried following the weightwatchers points system a few years back, it really worked for someone I know (she went from a uk size 22 to a 12!! Fantastic!) but i was using up over half my daily points on cups of coffee! I spent about 5 years dieting like crazy and not loosing any weight to speak of, then I started weighing my food, still amazes me that "recomended serving" sizes are so small!!!
 
Hello! I am currently in a 12 week program to lose fat and build some muscle! The diet part of the program is being quite challenging for me. Any advice on how to stop the anxiety and be able to follow a super strict diet?
 
Ayay! I've lost 2lb!! not much I know but i'm very pleased, first time the scales have moved downward this year, I'm gonna have to work extra hard over the next week or so to make sure it dosen't come back!
 
I would definitely recommend going on a detox diet to shift the last few pounds. You see your body stores toxin in the fat cells to protect your nervous system and you need to get rid of these toxins before your body will get rid of the remaining fat. You need to look at cutting out

Alcohol, Wheat, Dairy, processed foods, sugar, sweeteners, caffeine and drink plenty of mineral water (not tap water)


You should also maybe look at taking a greens supplement and some fish oils
 
ADo detox diets really work though? I though they were a fad thing, like the cabbage soup diet and similar, not sure it would work for for me, 5 hours without a coffee and I get a splitting headache, I've already given up most of the other things plus quit smoking.
 
Originally Posted by northwestpt


I would definitely recommend going on a detox diet to shift the last few pounds. You see your body stores toxin in the fat cells to protect your nervous system and you need to get rid of these toxins before your body will get rid of the remaining fat. You need to look at cutting out

Alcohol, Wheat, Dairy, processed foods, sugar, sweeteners, caffeine and drink plenty of mineral water (not tap water)



You should also maybe look at taking a greens supplement and some fish oils
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yeah...no. that's complete and proven bunk. The last few pounds isn't because of mystery toxins, tap water or such. Please don't listen to this guy. Detox diets have been shown to be hype in and out and all about. It's marketing. You want to get me fired up here, get me attacking these wastes of money and health.


Sometimes, when we get down to the last few pounds, we forget to readjust our diets and exercise programs for the different caloric needs of our body. We tend to overestimate how much we actually eat or overestimate how much our body is burning. My true advice? Treat it like you just started. Do a food diary for the week and be honest on it. Let's see if you have been overestimating what you eat. After that, I'd say, be patient. If you are losing weight slowly, then that is good. At your current weight, it will take quite a bit of time. It just will. Be patient, focus on healthy eating and exercise and it will get there. Don't be discouraged (and don't listen to things like detox diets)
 
AExcellent, I don't think its my coffee habit thats keeping my weight up, I've cut out nearly everything on that list out of my diet years ago and I won't pay good money for man made vitimins and suchlike, I've kept a food diary for the last 4-5 years on food focus.com and weigh everything I eat, I presume if there was a quick fit to loosing weight then no body on this planet would be overweight...
 
Originally Posted by Jericho





yeah...no. that's complete and proven bunk. The last few pounds isn't because of mystery toxins, tap water or such. Please don't listen to this guy. Detox diets have been shown to be hype in and out and all about. It's marketing. You want to get me fired up here, get me attacking these wastes of money and health.



Sometimes, when we get down to the last few pounds, we forget to readjust our diets and exercise programs for the different caloric needs of our body. We tend to overestimate how much we actually eat or overestimate how much our body is burning. My true advice? Treat it like you just started. Do a food diary for the week and be honest on it. Let's see if you have been overestimating what you eat. After that, I'd say, be patient. If you are losing weight slowly, then that is good. At your current weight, it will take quite a bit of time. It just will. Be patient, focus on healthy eating and exercise and it will get there. Don't be discouraged (and don't listen to things like detox diets)
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I definitely agree with Jericho here.... So many people forget to adjust their daily caloric intake as they lose weight, then get stuck eating at a maintenance level and wonder why they don't lose any more weight. Drop your daily intake by about 10-15% for a couple of weeks and see what happens then.
 
AI'm currently on 1180 cals a day, should I drop that to 1000 cals instead? (my god thats gonna hurt, 1180 cals is low enough!)
 
no..doesn't have to be that low..every bit helps but remember that the last bit always seem to take the longest. The counter is also up your exercise. instead of cutting an additional 180 calories, see if you can burn them off with some extra walking or such.
 
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