Help!! The scales wont budge!!

  • Hi ladies & gents!!!

    Please help!

    Quick intro: I had my baby daughter about a year ago and put on about 3 stone!!! Ive lost 2 stone from Cambridge diet and then generally trying to eat better, becoming a vegeterian and generally chasing after my little one. After a couple of months of not loosing any more weight i realised my excersise regime needed to begin!!!

    Im now in my third week with a personal trainer who i see 2-3 times a week. It kills me but i love it!!! But after all my hard work my weight is staying the same!!!! I havent lost anything!!! I know its only been 3 weeks, but surely i must be seeing some change on the scales???

    Any tips for this last stone??? Any miracle foods that will melt away my jelly belly??? Any advice gratefully received!!!

    Bevos
  • have you been measuring yourself with a tape measure? If you are doing a lot of resistence training, you might be building muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat. If you are losing inches, that's what really matters. I dunno about any miracle foods- just fruits and veggies and whole grains and lean protiens. I wish you the best of luck. I know how frustrating it is to work so hard and see no change on the scale.
  • I lost 3 st, then the last 10lb simply wouldn't come off. I have PCOS, which makes it very hard to lose weight at all - and I was doing 10,000 steps a day PLUS one hour's vigorous exercise, 6 or 7 days a week. But that last 10lb didn't want to shift. In the end, I lost half of it with Paul McKenna's book and CD *I Can Make You Thin* - and went back to using Fitday and weighing my portions (and yes they had crept up!)

    But I never lost the whole of the last 10lb - leaving me technically slightly 'overweight' despite being 5' 6" and a size 12! In the end I gave up weighing and chucked the scales for good as my fitness levels, dress size and the mirror told me I was fine - but the scales refused to.