Thanks Kate! I think I will mix it up a bit!

Dianne, Where at in FL are you? We have the same stats, 5'5" 138 If you're close by maybe we can be workout buddies!

I am in Orlando! where are you?

I'm in the Ft.Lauderdale area. Let me know when you start losing again what worked for you, I'm at a plateau

Dianne, I don't lose early on, unlike it seems the majority of people on here. I have started working out a lot lately (but haven't cut my calories much) and have gained weight. Not sure if its muscle building or what, but every time I start putting effort into weight loss, my body kind of backfires on me. I never get a "woosh" either, it just eventually starts dribbling off me.

You are at a healthy BMI and probably close to your goal weight -- I'm told this can be the hardest time to lose. There's actually a TV program called "The Last 10 Lbs" that I watched once and they had a drill instructor pretty much pushing people super hard. The key to the success of the people on the show was interval training, weights, and whole foods diet--no processed stuff.

Not sure what you do for working out but changing it up each day and doing interval sprints seems to be really beneficial. Some people on the list do calorie cycling where they eat 1800 one day, 1300 the next, then 1500... always switching it up so their body doesn't get used to a certain amount of food.

Dianne- there's really no need to cut more calories- you're doing fine. When people talk about losing a lot in the first week, it's usually partly a flushing out of waste (which you have much less of, being as small as you are).

However, most people actually gain or don't lose when they start a heavy-duty cardio regiment. This is perfectly normal. Try measuring yourself and look at the changes in the number of inches. Your body is going to build muscle at the same time it's losing fat, so you may not see weight loss for a little while (maybe up to a month)- but you'll certainly see changes in inches. The weight will come off once your body is adjusted to the exercise.

My mom always used to tell me if anything, you'd gain a little in the beginning. Ive mever lost a lot first few weeks.