yea jean - i think thats what my body is trying to tell me. i am 5'9, and i am comfortable weighing 150 (although i would prefer to be 140), i am just uncomfortable with the excess flab in some areas. which is why i am thinking that diet alone is not going to take these last 10 lbs off. i am going to try some plateu breakers just to see if that helps.. and maybe decrease my caloric intake a little and see what happens. i have just tried so many variations that i am really thinking my body just doesnt want to budge anymore. we'll see! to answer the earlier questions asked by people, i am on blue currently - and a typical menu for me looks like this:
breakfast - oatmeal or cereal or fruit/yogurt/kashi waffle (mostly oatmeal though)
snack - fruit or bar
lunch - grilled chicken sandwich, subway, some kind of sandwich typically (if eating out ill eat half the bread, making sure its high fiber, at home i have 50 calorie high fiber bread i use)
snack - veggies and dip or fruit or bar
dinner - salad, a lean protein (fish or chicken), a veggie and a starch such as a sweet potato, sometimes a rice or pasta or bread
snack - bar
feel free to offer any suggestions of what you think i should fiddle with!
take off has never worked for me, but i think the next few days i may try my own version and just stick to lean proteins and high fiber starches and i will use the juice instead of eating fruit. i tried that once or twice before and didnt really have any big results but it cant hurt to try once more. i typically walk 3x per week outside but as someone pointed out, a 3 mile walk really isnt going to do much for me.. i think i will substitute walking with going to the gym and trying some resistance training, or a pilates class, or switching up the cardio machines.