Am I doing something wrong?
Losing weight has never came naturally to me. I've worked extremely hard to lose 39 lbs, and yet can not seem to lose any more. I started on WW in July of 2008 and lost 30 lbs from then until January 2009. I stopped WW because my schedule, lack of funds, and wasn't impressed with my new meeting site. I managed to lose the other 9 lbs working at a prison where I literally walked my butt off all day long! from January 09- September 09. Since then I've stayed at around 240 lbs, I have about at 2 lb fluctuation since September at have maintained without exercising and dieting.
Now that I'm trying to manage my foods and exercise more, nothing. NOTHING! I do not want to be stuck at 240 forever, yet it seems that my body doesn't want to move past this hurdle! I'm apprehensive to start a diet because I don't know how (as crazy as that sounds). I've tried to count calories, yet haven't been able to because I get one meal a day where I do not know the calories of it. While one would think it would be simple to find the calories of it, no such luck. I've thought about WW points, but it's hard for me to read the labels here in Hungary as everything is measured by the whole package not portions and I've yet to see any protein numbers listed! I'm debating core, because then I know what to eat.....But I think I might be under eating. I know I had that problem in WW, because I barely ate my points in a day, so I'm apprehensive about the core program because I might not eat enough. I also wonder if this could be the reason I've yet to move past 240.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and because of this I'm frustrated but I don't want to give up! Has anyone had an experience like this before? or know of anything I can do to move past my current weight hurdle?
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