Trying...but can't seem to lose it.

[sascas24]

I am not a heavy girl, but have always had self-esteem problems and was always made fun of when I was growing up. I am 24 and 168 lbs and want to get down. I am a member at Anytime Fitness and work out 2-3 times a week and am always on my feet walking around at work.

What can I do to lose the weight? I have been watching what I eat, stopped going to fast food places as much or even stopped all together, been drinking lots of water and can't seem to lose anything. I need help 😞

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@techman001 wrote:

Hi Inga,

Far easier than I ever suspected!

My family rarely had fresh fruit when I was a child, so I grew up as mainly a meat and dairy eater, then graduated to junk food early on, so to go fresh fruit at age 59 is a bit strange for me.

I started on this in September 2013, and It has taken me until January 2014 to get my diet sorted out fairly well.

Today I'm a little annoyed with myself,  as I ate out for lunch yesterday. I had a 'chicken stack' at a eatery along with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. The 'chicken stack' was vegetables with about 6 six very thin slices ( I estimated 150grams) of grilled chicken breast, no skin and it was delicious.

However my weight today is the same as yesterday, I guess the reason the 'chicken stack' was delicious was that it contained oil or something  I couldn't see ?

I also didn't have my normal breakfast of fresh fruit, I went straight to lunch, and had some fruit in the afternoon, this probably was also responsible for my lack of weight loss.

Before anyone says 'but ones weight normally goes up and down', because I'm obese with 32kg yet to lose, and on reduced calories, my weight has been less every day since January (except for two day) as you can see on my graph"-

http://www.portertech.org/test/tp-weight/tp-weight-2014.jpg

The two days where my weight was flat were where I ate out ..... it looks like eating out is 'off the menu' until I reach my correct weight, which should be around April 23 this year.

Ah well, there is always tomorrow!

No more eating out for me!

Cheers

Terry

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Most restaurants put way too much salt -- delicious, delicious salt -- on everything.  Sometimes I gain as much as two pounds just from fluid retention when I eat at restaurants of any kind.

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@sascas24 wrote:
I am 5'9. I have been told by my doctor that I am healthy...so thanks for making me feel like a terrible person.

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Don't let someone on the internet -- whose credentials you cannot know -- give you grief.  Seems to me that you're trying to do something that is hard for a lot of people, not just you.  I tried every diet in the world originally, and they ALL worked.  For a little while.  But usually within a year, I gained all of the weight back, and more.  Discouraging isn't even the word for it.  I was exercising, too, and I have always loved healthy foods -- I grew up on an organic diet before anyone called it that -- and while I do sometimes eat fast food (still do) I always made good choices, even there.  What I wasn't doing, and what ultimately worked best for me was measuring everything and logging it.  Logging on Fitbit is as big a part of my regimen as any exercise, maybe the most important.  Now, what worked for me, might or might not work for you.  But logging and measuring isn't something that is difficult to do, and it's something you can do easily for the rest of your life, to help make weight loss long term.  It doesn't require buying a book, joining a club, or investing anything more than your time and energy.  Did I mention it's easy? 🙂  Good luck, and keep working at it. 

I'm 5'3" and now weigh 130 pounds -- perfect? no, but a LOT better than the 200 pounds I used to weigh 14 years ago.  I'm still working on it every day.  My goal is to look and feel great.  Especially the feeling great part.

[kpa1b2]

How is it going Sascas24?

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@kpa1b2 wrote:

How is it going Sascas24?

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I wonder, too.  It's been my experience on other forums that people can wind up being chased off by people who are confront them.  If they leave, they don't get a lot of benefit.....