Thank you all so much for the advice. I will stay at 1200 calories and just hope and pray that the pounds will soon start coming off.
This is what has me kinda worried... You can see in my weight loss that none of it seems right.. I mean... Let me try to explain to you what I mean and then maybe you can help me out with this.
December 23rd, 2007 - 227 pounds
This weight was gotten on my doctors scale.
December 31st, 2007 - 225 pounds
This weight was the weight I got on my new scale. So not sure if I really went from 227 lbs. to 225 lbs or if it was just differant weights due to differant scales. So that 2 lbs lost may not even have been 2 lbs lost.
January 1st, 2008 - 220 pounds
This right here seems beyond ODD to me. How on earth could I have lost 5 pounds of body fat OVER night when I had just been dieting for 3 days??? Was that just alot of fluid weight? So now I am wondering if any of that was real body fat.
January 5th, 2008 - 222 pounds
So by this date I should have lost my 2 lbs for the week. Instead I have managed to GAIN 2 pounds while sticking to my 1200 calories and exercising daily. Not sure what is up with this.
January 8th, 2008 - 220 pounds
So by this date I am wondering if this is just my "real" weight that I am back down to. The weight I am without all the fluid or whatever that first 5 lbs was that I lost.
January 9th, 2008 - 218 pounds
This I believe to be real weight loss. But has taken 11 days to lose.
January 12th, 2008 - 214 pounds
At this date I was SO excited that I was 214 lbs I got myself in a hurry and wanted to HURRY and see it get lower! So I start eating less calories.
January 16th, 2008 - 214/215 pounds
I'm still excited at this point. Wanting the weight to come off quicker so I lower my calories and fast for a day or so.
January 17th, 2008 - 217 pounds
I am now starting to worry and I can't believe that I am gaining weight after practically starving for so long.
January 18th, 2008 - 219 pounds
Very depressed at this point.
January 19th, 2008 - 220 pounds
This is when all of my worry and anxiety about whats going on kicks in. How am I back up to my "real" body weight (not counting the first 5 lbs that came off over night!" Had been dieting on 1200 and somedays LESS for 22 straight days by this date. I feel I am back where I started from.
January 20th, 2008 - 216 pounds
Feeling a tiny better that the weight is coming off. I started eating 1200 calories by this point.
January 21st, 2008 - 214 pounds
Excited that I am back down to 214 but worried that it will be back up tomorrow or next week.
January 23rd, 2008 - 214 pounds
At this point I am feeling worried that I will either gain the weight back over night as I did before or that the weight has came to a hault. I am now even wondering if ANY of the weight I lost was real body weight since I am the type of person that can loss alot of weight like 10 pounds fast and then get stuck. Starting to wonder if this diet will even work. '
Okay so now I am wondering what I should do. I have been stuck at 214 lbs for so long now. Makes it seem even longer since I doubt every pound that I have lost in the first place. Will I ever see past 214 by 1200 calories and exercise? thats what I keep asking myself.
Also before I started this diet I was getting around 1800 to 2000 calories a day. Somedays I would not eat anything, yet I managed to get my weight up to 227 lbs! If I were only eating 1800 before then will 1200 be low enough to actually lose?
I see all of your tickers and they are coming down each week while mine stay the same! I'm trying to be patient but I would like to at least see 1 tiny pound leave. I'd be happy to see myself (stay) at 213 for a week or so.
GatorAmanda: Your weight loss list is awesome!! You are doing SO great!! I wish I could lose like that! You asked what I was eating.. Well here is a list of what I had yesterday. I have to go s-l-o-w with some whole foods and healthy foods because they make me sick.. I have actually worked myself up to being able to FINALLY eat oatmeal with splenda! Okay here is what I had yesterday.
Breakfast
1/2 Oatmeal with 3 splenda packets
Snack
Blue Raspbery Jell-O
Lunch
1 small saled with lettuce, onion, celery, tomato, brocolli & carrot.
4 tbsp. italian dressing (fat free)
(sandwich) 2 peices bread (60 grams each) 4 slices thin sliced deli turkey. 1 tbsp. reduced fat mayo (20 calories per tbsp)
2/4 serving tuna saled (tuna-reduced fat mayo-onion)
Dinner
Healthy Choice Meal ~ Chicken & Pasta = 210 calories.
I also had 1 can diet pepsi. aprox. 65-70 ounces water.
This is pretty much what I have been eating everyday now. (I was only eating green beans! like 200 calories worth for each meal if that!) Oh I also forced myself to actually like tuna. (something I have never liked or veggies much and ofcoarse it took me about 2 weeks to eat the oatmeal but I like it now!
So there's my diet. Maybe I am doing something wrong with the foods I am eating.
Also I exercise 45 - 1 hour at the gym. But, when I am home i find myself just doing laundry, dishes, dinner, sweep teh floors and sit on the sofa, So not ALOT of calories being burned at home at all.
I would like to share that I can now walk 1 mile in 20 minutes!
When i first started out it took me nearly an HOUR to walk 1 mile!
Okay sorry for chatting everyone's ears off!
If you have made it this far THANK YOU!
Thank you again for reading,