[flippychick]

Hi! I'm posting this in the featherweights because my weight is within the "healthy" range (whatever the heck that means!), but nothing about me feels like a featherweight. I would love some feedback if anyone has any ideas about what could be going on with my body's refusal to lose weight....

I'm 41 and have a desk job. At my heaviest (18 years old) I was somewhere around 170 pounds. My lightest was around 119 (eating disordered). My body had been settled around 135 for several years (in my 30s) and begun creeping up in the last 4 or so. I go to the gym once or twice a week to do an hour of cardio (usually running 3-3.5 miles and doing another 3 or 4 miles/30 min on the elliptical). I try to do yoga at least once a week and on the weekends I hike one day (7-12 miles up hill to a mountain summit carrying a 20-25lb pack). My blood pressure was 110/59 this morning, resting pulse is 60 or lower. Most people would say that I am FIT. But I cannot seem to drop even 5 pounds.

I have tried tracking calories with a phone app, sticking to 1400/day. (In six weeks, no change.)
I tried intuitive eating. (Four weeks, no change.)
I tried cutting carbs.
I tried going to the gym 3-4 times a week.
I tried weekday vegetarian.
I tried WW points and gained 6 pounds. (Then I tried not eating back exercise points and still didn't lose anything.)

I have been told I'm not eating enough - I upped my calories and gained.
I have been told I'm exercising too much. I slowed up but no drop in #s.

Please feel free to tell me I'm out of my mind. Am I just not sticking with a plan long enough? No aspirations to be rail thin - I just want to lose a few "discomfort" pounds that make my clothes fit so poorly.

Any ideas? Thanks for any thoughts you might have!

[krampus]

No clue, but if you started a weightlifting regimen you could probably fix the clothes thing (with or without scale weight loss). Is this the metabolism slowdown that happens with aging (exacerbated by having a history of being overweight/dieting/ED)?

[TripSwitch]

Have you looked into maybe a short term PSMF to try and jumpstart you towards your goal? I put a plan together for myself with some of the guidelines from the Rapid Fat Loss Handbook that I got results with... Although it was a bit difficult at first... it was doable, since I decided to do it for only 2 weeks... which worked for me to get the scale moving in the right direction...