I’m a newbie to 3FC. I am unfortunately one of those people that has been overweight from birth on up.
I got really serious about weightloss and decided to do it the “right” way after failing at the fad diets, by counting calories and exercising, back on Feb 23. From then until about the end of May I managed to lose 24lbs. I was so excited, felt like this was gonna continue and I’d be at my goal weight in no time. Ta-huh! Was I fooled. I understand the usually the initial 10lbs is most likely water weight and I’ve researched and researched about losing weight and found counting calories to be the easiest to stick with.
Well now, I’m at a stall and my weight fluctuates weekly, up 2lbs this week, down 1 lb the next week, but I can’t seem to continue to lose steadily! I am sooooo confused about the amount of calories I need. Nearly every other site I go to, book I read, they all give me different numbers for my required calories. I get different multipliers and different equations. I embarrassingly started out at 272lbs, the lowest I got to was 248lbs, now I’m back up to 255lbs, which I am dissappointed about . Well when I was losing, I was eating between 1900-2300 calories. After hitting a stall, I was told I may be eating too little for my weight/activity level and my body needs more calories to adjust and continue losing. I went up to 2500 (still power walking daily for 30-40 min/step aerobics 20 min) and dropped an addtn’l 4 lbs. Now that the scale is not budging and goes up instead of down, I’m wondering if I am eating too much and need to recalulate my calories? I really feel like I wouldn’t win eating fewer than 1800 a day, I’m barely fullfulling my hunger eating the 2100 I eat now.
I just don’t get it, why is it I can read success stories of people who exercise, cut calories and manage to lose 60lbs in 9 months or so with no problems and I just have to be that one that can’t lose even 25lbs and keep if off after 6 months?!
I have become VERY frustrated and at the verge of saying forget it, I must be meant to be FAT!
Has anyone else been soooo confused about their needed calories and could not seem to lose weight eating those required calories?
I really want to lose weight, I really feel like I’m just too young and have missed out a lot on my youth because my weight bears a burden on my self-confidence.
Suggestions, PLEASE?!!!!!!!