Thread: Why am I not loosing weight?

Stella,

Everyone has given you good advice, but also wanted to add what we tell lots of people and what has really been helping me lately. You need to write everything down you eat. Keep track of every cup of popcorn, handful of pretzels, whatever. All of that stuff adds up and honestly it's really easy when you're busy to forget what all you've had that day. Be sure to put milk and sugar down too. A teaspoon of sugar has 16 calories so if you use a few of those a day, you're easily up to a few hundred calories by weekend

Then, like SP said, I'd try to trim off a few hundred calories a day. Normally I'd say shoot for about 500 but honestly when you start measuring out what you eat and drinking more water, etc. You should notice a difference pretty quickly.

Keep one other thing in mind... I have red a few articles lately about those "fat burn" zones. Really you probably want to push yourself a bit harder than that. And you really should try to mix up your workout when you can. Maybe do the elliptical one day and walk/jog the next day, and I love doing intervals. They really are a good way to work yourself hard without feeling like you're going to pass out You can do like 2 minutes on a high interval on the ellipitcal then lower for 2 minutes and repeat for about 30-45 minutes.

Weight loss can be SOOO frustrating sometimes! BUT Eventually, if you keep trying and start watching what you're eating and workout...It works!

GOOD LUCK TO YOU!

I was in the same problem about a month ago. I to work night shift so I know the problems with not being regular. Specially if you have stuff going on in the day, never know when you will get the sleep and wake up etc. I ended up haveing to dedicate myself to a schedule. The smoking thing congrats. Thats hard to do. I just hit my 3 month mark yesterday. I was very discouraged back in July because I was working out (cardio weights) 4 days a week and walking a mile at work up and down the hall (I work in an aparment building for retired elders) and I wasn't looseing anything. Everyone kept telling me to just be happy I wasn't gaining. It was annoying cause the scale was my real problem. I have now lost almost 10 lbs in the last 3 weeks (4 lbs in the last week) which is increasing my motivation alot. My fiance was trying to gain weight for a year and never could. Doctors had him on all kinds of diets that wouldn't help him gain. He stoped smokeing 2 years ago and put on 30 lbs in just 2 months after no smokeing lol. So just keep at it and it may take little while but eventually your body will level out again and you will start seeing the scale go down.