Need Advice - following plan, not losing
 

I'm not sure what I should be doing differently. I'm hoping someone can give me some advice.

I've been following the plan since 9/1. The beginning was a little rocky because I was getting used to the plan and we had a lot of social engagements. I was still walking 5 days a week for at least 30 min. I also ate all my activity pionts plus almost all my flex points (except maybe 5 points). So, by eating all my points, I didn't lose.

For October, I decided to slow down on my flex points. I usually eat all of my activity and eat some flex points on the weekend only. Usually 10 or 15 total for the weekend. Still not losing.

This week, I had 19 activity points and 20 points leftover of my flex. I still didn't lose this week.

I eat mostly whole foods. Very little processed foods. I never eat meat more than once a day. I used to be vegetarian, so I eat a lot of non-meat foods. I'm not a big salad person, but I've been making myself eat a few a week, with only vinegar as dressing. I'm weighing and measuring my foods and being as accurate as possible.

I don't know why my body won't let it go. I've lost maybe 3 lbs total. maybe I'm eating too many of my points in the evening? I eat about half my points before dinner and eat half my points in the evening. Has anyone else had this happen? Any advice?

when you say you eat all your flex points are you talking about your 35 extra for the week? i'm not real sure what to try to advise you with. i know for me i don't eat my activity or extra points unless i absolutely have to. i try to stick solely to my daily points. having said that i'm not sure how well i will do with that once i start losing points (cause right now i get a bunch!). it might be because of when you are eating. maybe try switching that up a bit? i wish i could be more helpful b/c i know it can be frustrating to try so hard and to not see results! just don't give up!!

yes, I mean the 35 extra points, when I say flex points. I eat all my daily, all my activity, and some of the 35 extra. I get 29 points, but I probably average 32-34 points a day.

Are you going to meetings? This would be a good topic to discuss there.

Are you doing mega exercise other than walking 30 minutes of walking 5 days a week? Because that amount of walking would only account for about 7 activity points for the week (plus or minus, depending on how much you weigh now, and how slow/average/brisk a walk you were doing.)

But to have 19 activity points left over at the end of the week is equivalent to a good 6 hours of medium intensity exercise.

That aside, personally, I don't calculate in the activity points. I just use the std daily point and indugle in the flex points when I have to have something more that day.

good luck!

I don't always make it to 19 points. That was just this week. I walked every day and did hilly hiking.

I usually go to meetings on Thursdays, but had to miss today because I have a little bit of a fever. I'll try to go on Saturday and see what my leader says.

Just from past experiance and hearing it from sooo many people you should definitely try to eat your daily pts and all of your flex per week as well, activity pts are optional.. alot of people think they are gonna lose faster if they don't eat those 35 flex or go under their daily pts but it will backfire eventually. And when you go lower and lower on your pts as you lose weight you'll find you have to eat less if you start eating less or you won't lose. So take advantage of those daily and flex pts and enjoy them :) your body will respond in the end and when you go into maintenance you'll be able to maintain on a much higher pts allowance. :)

Hey. That happened to me, I joined in July, lost 11 pounds consistently, then as of September 1, I hadn't lost anything in 5 weeks maybe even 6, and I was told my fellow "post"ers to try the wendy plan, you can search it on here
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=99187 and I tried that and lost 5 pounds in 2 weeks...so maybe give it a shot. good luck!!

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Also, make sure that you are measuring and weighing everything correctly - whe I have a no loss week it's usually becauce I'm not measuring! :hug: hang in there! It may just take your body longer to catch up to the changes happening inside!

You may want to try and eat most of your points earlier and save 5-7 for dinner and be done. Also try and drink 1/2 your body weight in ounces. That always kick starts me going again. (Example, a person weighing 200 lbs would drink 100 oz of water). I can't seem to do it every day, but at least on weekends.
They say you need to eat protein after exercising to feed your muscles, do you do that?

It sounds like your doing everything else right. Best of luck with this. I know how frustrating it can be when your trying so hard!

Thanks for the help. I think I may have been retaining water from my cycle. The scale is starting to go down. That's nice to see.

I have a few words of advice:

~It is very common to lose for a few weeks, and then have a couple of weeks where you show none, or very little losses. For instance, I lost about 15 pounds in a one month time span, and then for the next 3 weeks, I didn't lose anything. However, if you average it out...I lost about 15 pounds in 7 weeks-an average of 2 pounds a week-but instead of it being in regular incremements, it was a couple weeks of large drops, and a couple weeks of nothing. :) Not everyone loses weight at a steady even pace at every single weigh in. :)

~Something that I have found that makes me lose weight slower, is food that has "fake fiber" added to it. One of the things that I can think of here is WW yogurts, Fiber One yogurts, etc. I eat Yoplait Light Yogurt for 2 Points a cup (100 calories) but because of the fake fiber added to them, a similar caloried serving of WW yogurt is 1 Point...so yogurts with added fiber to them I do not eat-because it makes my calories higher...even though my Points stays the same. (Does that make sense? :dizzy: )

A food with fiber in it naturally (oatmeal, fruit, vegetables, etc.) is different than a food with fiber added to it artificially.