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fadedneon

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Hi everyone! I have been on and off diets for quite sometime now. I finally got completely real when my birthday came around. I have had two kids and after the first one, I did get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. That may be in part since I was a young'n. After my second child, I managed to get back to what I started at again. To make a long story short, I lost weight, than gained it, lost it, than gained it again. I most recently got up to just near 180 pounds and my jaw dropped to the floor when I saw what the scale said.:eek2: It should have read "go run now". My weight got out of hand, so I took over the food leash and put a constraint on my mouth. I am now down to 165. My goal weight is to be 115. So thats 50 more pounds. Well for the past week I have been eating the same amount of food (around 1,200) calories, exercising for one hour (brisk walking, turbojam, power90), and I AM STUCK at 165. As a matter of fact I got down to 162, then GAINED 3 pounds!!! I am completely MORTIFIED, MAD, kind of like this :eek:. What is my problem? Also, does anyone know roughly how long it will take to get down to 115? I am "guesstimating" about 8 months, but I am pushing before next spring! Help? Thanks for reading
 
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Welcome!

Welcome to the forum!

I would agree with Steve. Also, weight plateaus are to be expected - there were weeks/months that I stayed at a particular weight until my body decided to "let go" and lose some more.

Don't go by the scale...go instead by inches lost. Visit your friendly dollar store and invest in a tape measure, and use that to judge your progress. It's generally much more encouraging.

Best wishes,

Barbara
 
spend some time reading the stickied threads around the forum - you'll get lots of valuable information that will help you get to yor goals...
 
You could call it that.

Assuming you've been eating this amount on a consistent basis since you started this diet.... I'd suggest upping your intake next week up to 10 calories per pound than 12 the next.

After that, start dieting using a sane amount, something like 9-10 calories per pound.
 
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