Buffalo, I just read through your entire thread and you need to have patience, firstly. You need to try to look at the big picture. Weight loss is not an exact science and every one's bodies are different. What works for most people may not work for you.
Everyone that has posted here has had some very valid suggestions. My advice is basically the same, but I would like to add "mix it up a little".
If you are used to having your big meal at night, have it at lunch, or vise verse. If you are used to walking for exercise, try running or try swimming. If you do body sculpting exercises, try not doing those on the day of and day before your weigh in, as well. Exercise makes the muscles heat up and they expand with heat, have you ever heard of the phrase "bulk up"?
Also, watch your sodium intake, try to limit high sodium meals to the day of your weigh in, afterwards, and then limit sodium for the rest of the week.
I'm not giving up, but for the last two weeks I have lost .2 at each weigh in and the week before that was a gain. I'm more weight now than I was the week of April 21st. I was really happy that week and feeling so good that getting to my 10% goal might finally happen, then I gained and I've not been able to take off those extra couple of pounds.
The road to success is paved with very high peaks and valleys, you are in a valley and so am I. I get really upset, at times, when someone comes to WW meetings and steadily loses and gets up in front of people and gets to their 10% in a short time and I am STILL (since last JUNE) trying to get that silly 16 pounds off my body. It will come, I know it. I'm just slower at it than others. I forgive myself. This is not a race.

Just want to clarify that my 10% is from June when I re-joined WW. If you read my tracker it says I have lost 17 pounds, which is true, but the 16 pound 10% goal I mentioned is 10% since I re-joined, 17 pounds is from my all-time high that existed here on this web site. Hope that makes sense!

Hello everyone. Wow! Thanks for ALL of the wonderful suggestions. I am doing ok mentally now. This is crazy but I may have even come to terms with the fact that I may be about as small as I am ever gonna get. That would be ok. I am healthy. I am going to keep up with my boot camp, cardio, and personal trainer. I am also going to keep on following the WW program and going to my meetings. I am just not going to worry about it. Nor am I going to get on the scale every morning. Weigh in only will be my scale time. Just this week I have noticed that my tummy is smoothing out. I had the "flap" of skin caused by being 233 pounds. It no longer hangs over. It is more like a bump now. This gives me hope that it may smoothe out even more. I will post on this thread Tuedsay and let you all know what happens at that weight in. Thanks again!! --Amy

hey Buffalosister1! Just wondering if you are going to meetings. If I remember correctly they do have a plateau busting menu that worked. I haven't hit that point yet as I just started -- I had a mini plateau but read through the great ideas on the sticky above. I do know that your body adjusts at certain weights and you have to kick start it. Maybe change the balance of the type of foods -- add in more milks and cut down on the empty carbs etc... Good luck and keep us posted because I for one will be hitting that point one day!

Oh, thanks! I'll have to read it. Sounds interesting.

Hi guys. Well, after a few days of not eating on plan, I am up even more. I plan on switching to core for a few weeks to see what that does for me. I will let you know for sure. Thanks!

The BMI is bunk. It does not account for many factors such as body fat percentage, muscle mass, bone density or other factors that make up body composition. I hate the BMI and so does my doctor.

The BMI is not realistic for every body. I know many athletes who are "obese" by those standards and have less than 15% body fat.

We are not "cookie cutter" people, made from the same mold. The national standards are based on averages, not individual people with unique physiques.

You have accomplished so much. Please don't let a ridiculous thing like a number on a scale (when you are healthy, active and fit) get you down

Elan, were you saying that WW has a specific plateua busting menu or just suggestions? Tell me more!
Linda

Thanks! I read it and it seems interesting. I think I would be afraid to eat SO MANY points one day... though... ?

buffalosister.....you have proved that it pays to hang in there , even when it seems discouraging.

Tracy, is there a link you can post?

Hiya Linda, sorry I missed your post. Yes -- the plateau busting menu. I know from last year they had a sheet that had a whole week's worth of menu's. It works! You have to ask for it.

You know all about my plateau at 189.2 (POINT TWO!!!!!) arghhhhh! One thing that I did was details details details. I wrote EVERYTHING down, including times I ate, drank all my water, weighed all my food (I bought that new WW food scale...wow! I'm impressed) and I really pushed the water before 5 p.m. (otherwise I'd be up all night -- I still have to get up at least once! Heaven help my 48 year old bladder! ha ha!).

I think sometimes for me -- the plateaus is because I slip doing what I should be doing. Oh sure I'll tell people I weighed stuff (but really I eye-balled it), I told them I journalled (but it would be the next day when I remembered to pull my book out), oh yes and I drank all my water (but I didn't tell them that the WATER was part of my coffee, or soft drinks, but I would mark it down as water).

I have been weighing every day. It is what keeps me reminded. Today I am up so that means I really have to push the water and get way more veggies in and stay away from those empty carbs! and BALANCE -- more veggies than breads.

oh yes....and Support from my fellow WW members! thanks all!

I may ask for that special menu today. I wonder why I've never heard of it before? Wonder why it's "secret" in a way?
Well, it's off I go to start my day. I hope I have a loss at today's weigh in, but in actuality I don't feel I deserve it if I have one.