UK cats's Journal, 07 February 2012

I agree with Patricia Don't bother weighing yourself every day or so.. Try to do it maybe every week or every other week. Im doing Calorie count as well trying to stay under 1200-1300 calories and its been working for me. I kinda took a look through your food diary and You have done a great job staying under or hitting your calorie goal. Since Im doing a diet similar here has what has been helping me, making sure you eat six meals a day.. Not six big meals but for example. Breakfast snack lunch snack dinner snack. That was the key thing my weight loss doctor stressed. Making sure at no point throughout the day your body gets hungry. Its also crucial to eat breakfast it will speed your metabolism up. Decrease your carb intake compared to your protein.Cutting Red Meat out of your diet will help and stick only to chicken,seafood,and turkey. Drinking alot of water, for the first month of my diet I drank nothing but water and took a water pill once a week. If you really want to see improvement on the scale take a water pill the day before you decide to weigh yourself in. Also make sure your monitoring how you use the bathroom as far as #2 goes. The fiber plus stuff you take is great but I would suggest eating something with it. EAT ALOT OF VEGGIES !!It seems like you got the exercise down pact. Good Luck to You I know you can Do IT ! 

If there are no medical reasons, than it is something you are doing or not doing. You may need to keep changing things up till you find what works. Are you tracking every bite, lick and taste honestly? (Sometimes we get slack and start taking in more than we think). Are you getting enough lean protein, lean dairy, fruits and veggies (all calories are not equal, WHAT you eat can be as important as HOW MUCH). Lean protein and high fiber foods will help you lose weight and protein will help build muscle. Your metabolism might be slow, so getting enough protein at each meal becomes important. Get in 6-8 cups of liquids/water a day. It helps flush out sodium. You don't have a lot to lose, so you may need to kick up that exercise program. Get Jillian Michaels 30 day shred and do it a few times a week (or something that will make you sweat and get your body moving, unless you are not physically able). Combine the workout video with cardio a few times a week and you will start seeing a change in your body composition. Limit your processed food consumption. They contain a lot of sodium. Since you don't have a lot to lose, its harder to get off. You have to work harder and be more stringent. It may also take more time. Consistency is key. Good luck! 

Thank you. I am drinking a lot of water and meticulously keeping track of everything I put in my mouth. I have been riding an exercis bike 35 minutes 4-5 times a week. I will keep on doing what I'm doing and it's gotta show up on the scale sooner or later. I'll also work on patience :)  

Havinglooked at your food intake for the last week there seems to be a lot of processed food in your diet. Those foods contain non natural ingredients. Your liver has to deal with those as well as burn fat. If the liver is doing something else or is overloaded you won't be burning the fat efficiently. Also if you look at the percentage of calories by Fat, Carbs and Protein, most days you are very high on fats; 45% on the 5th and quite a few in in the mid thirties, I believe this number should be about 25%. Your carbs are reasonable as a number but they seem to be all wheat based, no vegetables. when you eat that kind of food the liver has to deal with the sugar and releases insulin to deal with that, insulin creates a desire for food so you feel hungry and so the cycle develops. So the carbs need to be low on the Glycemic Index. If you Google that it will give you a list of low GI foods. I hope that helps but I am a real amateur in these things but you might take those comments for your own research. The bottom line is that it isn't necessarily the amount of calories you eat but the quality of them as well. Good Luck! 

The other comment I would make is that if you are doing so much exercise, you are probably building muscle which is replacing the some of the fat. In which case measurements (waist hips, calves, arm etc.) are more of a sign than weight is.