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Author: Dawn 174/157.5/135
Date: 08-15-03 08:58
Need some advice/suggestions on this one please. I've been keeping my calorie intake per day right at 1,200 for the last several weeks with a very "clean" diet. I lift weights 3 days a week and do cardio the other 3 days and take one day off. During these weeks, I've only "cheated" once and that was with 7 spicy chicken fingers last Sunday (yummy)! Based on all of the online calculators and things I've read here, I should be losing 2 pounds per week but I've lost nothing for the last 2 weeks. Prior to that, I was losing 1/2 pound to 1 pound each week.
Last night on the elliptical machine, it said I burned 300 calories for about 33 minutes of work. If that's true, then I only took in about 950 calories in food. Is it possible that I'm not eating enough calories and I've done something funky to my metabolism? Could eating more protein than I need be contributing to this? I also switched to some new medication 2 weeks ago (b.c. pills) and wonder how much of an effect that might be having? Geeezzz, I'm about to make myself nuts over this today...I think I'm becoming obsessive! LOL
Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom or kicks in the butt you guys can give me!!
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Author: BFL Michelle 139/126/105
Date: 08-15-03 09:07
Here are my thoughts - forgive me, I'm just going to talk out loud:
Pills making you retain water?
Eating more calories than you think?
Not pushing yourself hard enough on the cardio?
I doubt increasing protein intake is putting on fat.
Have you been lifting weights long enough to possibly put on a pound of muscle?
Are you retaining water for other reasons? Too much salt, soda, beer?
Are you drinking lots of water?
I know BC's can make you retain and it is very easy to eat more than you think you are. Hope this helps you. I would be obsessing too.
BFL Michelle
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Author: BFL Michelle 139/126/105
Date: 08-15-03 09:09
Another thought:
Maybe you are not cheating ENOUGH. Sometimes more is better. I remember Gym suggesting once that someone increase their cals for a day or two and then go back down. I have done this before...after no cheats for a long while and no weight loss, just said the heck with it and ate alot of fattening stuff and then lost a pound.
This could actually be it.
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Author: Dawn 174/157.5/135
Date: 08-15-03 09:20
Hey BFL Michelle! Thanks for responding. I'm not sure on the pill thing, their web site claims it (Yasmin) acts as a diuretic so I doubt that the pill is to blame. I'm pretty sure I'm keeping my calories between 1,200-1,300 as I'm brutally honest with my food journal. I think I push myself hard on the cardio since I don't have a dry thread on me when I finish! ;) I've been lifting weights consistently for about 7 weeks...is that enough time to actually put on a pound of muscle? I've virtually quit drinking any alcohol and was never a big beer drinker and I drink about 3 or 4 liter bottle of water every day.
I sincerely think I just need to keep my bootie off the scale for a few weeks and focus more on how my clothes fit and my measurements but it's soooo hard to not step on the darn thing. I have a doctor's appointment in October and her only method of measurement IS the scale...oh well, as Scarlet O'Hara would say, tomorrow is another day!!
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Author: Donna 180~146~130
Date: 08-15-03 09:33
I posted this below, but i'll post it here too, hope it helps.
I find that when my scale is stuck I lose inches, but when the scale starts moving again I stay the same until it gets stuck again. You could be going down in inches, do you have a way to check?
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Author: Dawn 174/157.5/135
Date: 08-15-03 09:37
Oh yes, own a tape measure and there's one at the gym. I am losing inches and I can tell it in my clothes. I just know when I go back to the doctor in October, what she sees on the scale is going to be her focus. When I went to her in May at 174 pounds, she told me she wanted me to get down to 135 but also to do strength training. Granted, she didn't say she wanted me at 135 by October BUT I'd like to be alot closer to that than I am currently.
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Author: Donna 180~146~130
Date: 08-15-03 09:45
I've heard that strength training (weights) will build muscle and that muscle weighs more than fat so that might be a possibility as well why the scale hasn't moved.
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Author: miranda 230/150/145
Date: 08-15-03 09:48
Not eating enough will never cause you to plateau or gain weight. The chances of your having screwed up your metabolism on this diet are nil. At most, you might--might--see a very slight decline (10-15%) in your metabolism on a reduced calorie diet. As I posted below, sometimes the scale sticks for a couple weeks, and then, if you've been following your plan, you lose all the weight at once.
I've had a lot of medication issues recently, and I've found that often, when I start a new one, I automatically gain weight for no apparent reason, or have more problems losing, even when that's not listed as a side effect. I wouldn't be surprised if starting the new med was the source of the problem. If so, though, after a few weeks you should start losing again if you keep at it.
It's frustrating, but it's too early to panic. Stick with the plan and hang in there.
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Author: BFL Michelle 139/126/105
Date: 08-15-03 10:04
7 weeks, hmmm. I really don't know. I'd like to think it's possible, but I doubt it. Especially for a woman. I think you should still be seeing the scale go down, even with the weight lifting. When I was strictly on BFL, I know I was losing fat, but I don't think I gained muscle since the scale kept going down. I was on it for several months. Can't remeber just how long.
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Author: Jen Fad 145/143
Date: 08-15-03 10:17
Dawn,
I think you are fine in the exercise and diet department, but BC Pills are very notorious for resistance to weight loss, because they slow down the metabolism. I understand that you have to take them, but 3 of the sides effects that you may need to consider are water retention, weight gain, and increase hunger. You may want to talk to your physician to make sure you are on the correct dosing for your weight loss goals.
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Author: Dawn 174/157.5/135
Date: 08-15-03 11:19
I was paid a VERY nice compliment by a co-worker at lunch. She said I looked like I was going to "dry up and blow away!!" I really needed to hear that today and it made me feel better about my lifestyle changes even if that stupid piece of equipment at home in my bathroom closet makes me think otherwise at times ;)
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Author: Doug 272/158/170
Date: 08-15-03 15:50
Water is denser than fat too. If you have been losing fat at a constant rate and your new medication is causing you to retain more water your clothes would become looser even though your weight remained the same.
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Author: Kim 170/151.6/125
Date: 08-16-03 10:45
Hey Dawn!!!!!!!
Try weighing yourself at the gym. It might not be you that isn't losing weight. Your scale might be wrong.
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