Caitie's Journal, 07 May 2011

Don't give up Caitie! Remember that muscle weighs more than fat. You are exercising more and just because the the scale may not show it, you are doing so much more for your body! The scale used to drive me CRAZY and sometimes it still does. Now instead of jumping on the scale all the time, I compare my weight loss to how my jeans fit! 31 lbs thats awesome! Keep it up!!  

Thanks!!! 

You also need to make sure you are eating enough calories to support exercising. Otherwise, your body will hold onto everything. Minimum 1500 a day, shoot for 1700-1800 if you're doing a lot. Or even more. I know a lot of people who are over 2000 a day and still losing weight. Track your inches so you can see what's really going on. 

Amethyst is right...I sure hope your diet calendar is incomplete. At your weight I was well over 2000 calories a day & consistently losing. If you go too low you're not giving yourself any room to drop the calories if you want to get things moving. There are lots of people on this site who seem to lose quickly & think that the faster it comes off, the better. Personally I disagree. I shoot for 1-2 lbs lost per week. Sure, if I ate less & exercised more, maybe I could lose faster. But I'd likely be hungry &/or sore all the time, & I can't live like that. This way I eat enough, have a level of exercise I can sustain, & consistent losses (with the exception of the 2 "breaks" I took last month, lol). Each time it slows down too much, I can either drop my calories a bit or add a session of cardio, whichever I feel like doing. It was worth it for me to take the time to find the levels of intake & exercise that would produce consistent losses since I'm in this for the long haul. I asked myself why I don't feel frustrated in situations like yours, & it's because I have that plan in place for when the losses slow. Face it sister, it's going to happen. Maybe it's time to come up with your own plan? 

Well on a very simplistic thought, if you're sore from exercising, you could be swollen too... which means holding onto water not fat... once your body gets used to the extra exercise, you'll see the drop. The other thing that drives me nuts about my body is that when I do something bad (i.e. a couple 3,000 calorie days) it takes about 2 weeks to show up as a low weight loss week on the scale. You are doing amazing... and remember how much better you feel! 

Wow - I was just guessing about the calories. I couldn't see the diet calendar earlier. But now it's showing up. Your calories are dangerously low. You are starving. Eat something. 

My diet calender is not really accurate. I keep one at home written down but most of the time do not put it on here. But those are good ideas from all of you and I will take them into consideration!!!! :) I was thinkin of raising my calories also!!! 

I kept a "written" journal the last time I lost weight. While it was helpful to have all the foods listed, I didn't keep track of calories, carbs, protein, fats etc. Even though it does take time to list everything into your diet calendar, it is so worthwhile! If I can't put my meal into the program immediately, I jot it down and input it later. To me, one of the most important things about FS is the ability to see just what is in all the foods you eat. It's right there in front of you when you enter your foods into the diet calendar.....Really helpful! Try to enter everything for a couple of days just to see where you are. Also as Amethyst said, please eat more! Good luck!