I have made it to the other side of my first plateau! Since 5/22, I have been 213 lbs. I have counted calories, and exercised constantly and faithfully since. It has been a mental battle. I made it through with hubby telling me to keep going and reading all the threads on 3fatchicks that have plateau as a keyword. I tried everything increasing calories, decreasing calories, increasing intensity, decreasing intensity, changing foods, changing exercise routine. Nothing worked. Finally, I just decided (with hubby's help) that my body may just be catching up and adjusting. I felt and looked smaller - but no loss. So, hubby said that I just need to concentrate on being fit and this might be a test of my new healthy eating habits. I love him for trying to help keep me focused!
This morning . . . WhewHoo . . . . 211 lbs! I was rushing to try to get to 199. This two month break in loss will probably extend my time as a loser. But, I am so thankful that I didn't go back to gorging on Oreos, brownies, mozzarella sticks, pancakes, grilled cheese sandwiches and wings from Pizza Hut. These things usually would accompany any kind of hitch in the plan. So, here I am on the other side of this experience with the same hope and commitment as before. There were many days when I would start whining about how it wasn't fair that I WANTED to be healthy and was DOING my best and NOTHING was happening.
So, I said all of this to say . . . If you have gotten stuck and feel like it is unfair and your weight will never change again . . . KEEP ON GOING!!!!!! There were many days that I summoned Dorrie (from Nemo) "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming.") I just plugged in whatever activity that I didn't want to do for the "swimming". Just keep going! ! !