I know that seems like a lot, biking/swimming makes me hungry too!

I still have 200 more calories to eat today. If I had wine, I'd get there easily I'm at 1964, which is already 200 calories over my normal intake. I may just call it quits since I'm full.

i hear you on that. I was supposed to take in 1700 today and got to 1590 before calling it quits!

Wine sounds so yummmy and relaxing though! good job. I think it's wierd our bodies are telling us they are not hungry when we have obviously eaten way more than what we are trying to do today--in the past. That is how we gained the weight. It may be our calories are low, and our body just compensated by adjusting our hunger. I know 2000 seems like a crazy amount right now to me too!

Tomorrow I'm back to 1416--that is the normal amount for me too.

I was supposed to do 1700, I got to 1450. I had zumba tonight, so I ate light dinner and then wasn't hungry when i got home. should have eaten more at lunch maybe.

I'm going to work harder at getting more cals in, since I think these lower intakes might be what is causing my plateau.

ditto here. I got to 1500 today though. Made up for not making 1700 yesterday. I felt pretty darn good today.

If you see a scale flying out the window, do not be alarmed.

Day 21 of no scale downward movement.

I might cry at this point. If I barely exercise and eat whatever, I stay at one weight. Then when I work my butt off exercising, track my calories every day to be sure I'm in the right range - I lose what, 8 pounds? and then screech to a halt? Why fecking bother with all this work? Why count? Why not just eat what I feel like and keep up with my exercise because I like it and feck it all to heck.

I feel like I've been clearing out a basement of junk and trash and yet for every box I remove something else appears in its place.

It is very frustrating to do all this work and no results on the scale for so long. And no, my clothes aren't falling off me either. I'm tall so it takes more pounds off for it to really show. Not one person has even noticed my weight loss.



Pep talk needed, please.

Wow, I totally feel your pain. I have been on a plateau for 6 months! Its frustrating. A big part of is that you are close to your goal.

So here is what I recently did. I decided to get the GoWear Fit (can't post links so just google it) - it tracks your calories burned. Based on the info I've learned from it I've actually started eating a bit more. I am in the middle of my second week and I have gone down almost 3 lbs. I am cautiously optimistic as I am in the still range I've fluctuated in for months. Also I bought it from Amazon so if it doesn't work for me within a month I can send it back.

So, I'm not a big motivational type person but I thought I'd share with you what I've been going through and what I have done. I feel your pain!!!!!

Candice

Thanks! That device looks cool.

The scale is finally down 1.4 this morning. I think raising by avg. calorie intake by 200 per day, plus cycling them finally worked. I noticed from my Sparkpeople reports that when my calorie intake went lower and my exercise increased or stayed the same I stopped losing.

So, now I know and can try to eat towards the top of my range while keeping my exercise where it is.

Congrats seagirl!!

woohoo seagirl. work that magic!!! I'm going for 1700 again today.

what type of foods are you allowed to eat on calorie shifting?

There isn't anything specific. Its just like counting calories, you can anything as long as you count the calories.

I just started on mine and this is what I'm following:

Monday: 1280
Tuesday: 1280
Wednesday: 1536
Thursday: 1280
Friday: 1280
Saturday: 1408
Sunday: 1280

I got these numbers on one of those online calculators. I'm hoping for good results. So far so good

There have been studies done and by legitimate universities, too. You can find them in the book or website by Dr Johnson--put JUDDD in the google box. There is a recent video done by Horizon (for BBC, I believe) which you can watch on youtube. It is an hour long program which starts out about alternate day fasting, but continues on to discuss lower days and higher days. Includes bloodwork, experiments etc that show how the host lost weight, improved bloodwork as it relates to aging, cancer, diabetes etc.

I have tried calories cycling, carb cycling and JUDDD. It does work. Re: Samantha...biology, metabolism and weight loss are a lot more complicated than textbook theories might imply. There are more factors than just calories in, calories out. Insulin resistance, metabolism, thyroid, hormones, age and more are at part of the equation.

I don't really calorie cycle as much as I cycle macros? I'll eat low fat for two weeks or so, then have a really high fat meal and that seems to help.

I'm horribad with math, so when I did calorie cycle I would get tripped up.