Doing the right things, no weight loss after 4 weeks.   Suggestions, encouragement?
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it might just be a plateau\n\nlook at your diet . . \n\nwhole grains\nfruits and vegetables\nmilk products\nmeat and beans\nsome oils
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Hmm, you haven't seen any results in the fit of your clothes?  I'm not sure what weight you started at, but I have been on a similar regimen since May and I have definitely seen results.  My starting weight was 201 lbs, and I am now at 175; I have lost about 2.5" from my waist/abs, and most definitely I have had to buy new clothes (or tailor pants that I own).  However, the last 10 pounds is the toughest - I am at this point myself.  But  it sounds like you're doing the right things with alternating between strength training and running/cardio, keeping calorie count low, and watching what you eat.  All I can say is to keep it up.  Maybe for your body type, 4 months is not enough to see significant results, but you should come to a point where you will overcome this plateau.  Anyways, good luck.
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Girl I know the feeling. I have been exercising and trying to eat right. You should start to see results in 3 to 5 weeks. You are already starting to see a little don't get discourage keep it up girl.
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ACK!! dont!  That speed of weight loss could cause all sorts of problems, from stretch marks to blood pressure to pre-diabetes!  Talk to a doctor if consistant portion control, calorie reduction, and/or increased exercise really hasn't worked.  I mean, we've all tried dieting for a week or even a month, but for it to work, you have to stick with it longer.
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Two years ago I weighed 200 lbs at age 44. With grown daughters now facing weigh problems I once again tackled this issue.  I lost 70 lbs in 13 months using two methods. I first asked at a local pharmacy for a good multivitamin to perhaps give me some energy to get moving.  They recommended One A Day WeightSmart for Women-always taken with food.  I did nothing different than adding one pill daily and within 2 weeks I began to feel more rested and energized.  Over the next 31/2 months I lost 20 lbs!  These events encouraged one of my daughters to give weigh loss a try.  \nShe began a program called "Provida Six Week Body Makeover" by Michael Thurmond.  She lost 50 lbs in just under 5 months! Another daughter lost 40 lbs.  I lost the remaining 50 lbs using this program.  As with anything productive, this involves time and effort, but IT WILL WORK.  Mainly a balance of proteins and carbs 6 times a day with water at each meal.  You prepare all your food with easily found ingredients made from hundreds of recipes and a very supportive forum!  I did none of the exercises so I have some toning to do and sometimes I start to gain weight.  But I just return to the plan and loss what I need.  The first step is to go to the website and do a body profile www.provida.com and find the Six Week Body Makeover by Michael Thurmond.\nGood Luck!
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Find a place to do it supervised. It is a lot of weight in a short time. I would see a doctor first and check what you need to look at, and get checked while loosing weight.\nYou want to stay healthy, don't you?
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Do you eat sugar?   If so, stop........the pounds will drop.  Are you active?  If not.......get active.  \n\nIf you do not see a difference in one week or even 2 days.  I'll eat my words.
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hi there, i was in the SAME boat as you. Losing weight after having a baby is even harder than before you had her! I got the book body for life by bill phillips i have dropped 20 lbs and never feel deprived, and feel better than i have since, EVER! I PROMISE if you follow it, you will lose the weight!!!!!!!
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I lost 143 lbs over 7 years ago and have kept it off-and I did it all naturally-no medical intervention! Since I was so overweight all I could do was walk. Forget about hardcore exercise! You need to take a 30min walk every night. Walk as fast as you can handle and move those arms! As far as food, all I did was cut out all fast food, junk food (snacks), soda and juice. Drink only water and unsweetened tea but mainly water!ALOT OF IT! Eat 5-6 times per day but very small meals. For instance here is a typical day back then for me: 6am-1 pack oatmeal and cup hot green tea. 9am- fat free cottage cheese and diced apple 12pm-chicken breast with salsa on top and piece whole grain bread 3pm-very small handful of almonds and raisins 6pm-chicken breast and small side salad with only lettuce tomatoes carrots and a fat free italian dressing. DRINK WATER THRU OUT THE DAY. If your anything like me I used to HATE water but as I made myself drink it- my body craved it! Still does! I am very proud of you for wanting to do this! As you begin to lose weight and fell better you will naturally start to change up your exercise routine as well-you will want the challenge as you begin to feel healthy and strong! At 31 years old now I feel healthier, sexier, and happier than I have ever felt in my whole life and let me tell you... I LOOK GREAT! GOOD LUCK- YOU CAN DO IT!
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I am in the same predicament you are in. My doctor is telling me stuff I already know and i have no will power. like tonight i ate 3 bags of m&ms and a king sized twix but i will start tomorrow a new and try not to eat that crap.  what I do is excersice with a friend always because if I didnt i would do it. Its motivation. and I use a smaller plate so it can look full for the eyes and when I cook I only cook enough for 1 serving so when I want some more its none so I have to drink water to get full. Yeah, sometimes I dont always follow my rules but I wake up everyday and try again and harder. I havent weighed myself in a while because when i do and see that I have lost weight, my mind goes " what are you doing? lets eat more" and i gain it back but the best thing is to Wake up everyday and start brand new each day. if you break a day, its ok, try again. What I have learned is to not stop eating what you eat(as long if its not too much junk)just eat less of it. and excercise like crazy. oh, I also have been eating alot of fruits. I really dont like all the fruit thats available to me locally but i eat what i like apples, oranges, grapes, watermelon, strawberries, i just eat a different one a day.its called food rotating. Lucky with my job, one of my clients love to walk so 2 days out the week i have a good walk and my other client has to excercise more, so i motivate her by excercising with her and get strength training incorparated into those days. oh, i try to eat at least 6 times a day. breakfast lunch and dinner and 3 snacks but i dont always succeed, but i am losing weight, something i am doing is right because i can feel it in my feet and legs and sides where my bra is. hey, if you want a person to talk to about your days to give you motivation to keep trying im here for you sweety. so good luck. if you want to eat fast foods, try nuggets instead of burgers. and eat tacos. the whole point is to burn more calories than  you eat. good luck.
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Everyone reaches a plateau when dieting. It sounds as if you are doing the right thing for your body to lose weight, so I would keep that up & maybe throw a little more intensity and challenge in with it. The weight will probably not drop off like it has been for the past two months, but it will continue to come off. Trust me.
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Don't despair, you've done GREAT so far and stalling like this is perfectly normal.  It sounds like you've made all the dietary changes you can make, so I suggest you focus on keeping up your activity level and/or boosting your metabolism.  \n1) Keep up the exercise, and look for ways to incorporate more movement into your daily activities.  Every little bit helps.\n2) Green tea or green tea extract is believed to help the body burn more fat and carbs.  It's worth a try.\n3) Try not to stress out too much -- I suspect stress helps to keep us fat.  \n4) CONGRATULATE YOURSELF.  You've already added years to your life and vastly improved your quality of life.  Way to go!
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You didn't put all the weight on in two weeks, it's not going to come off in two weeks. Diets rarely ever work for the long haul.  You need to incorporate healthy lifestyle changes into your life.  I speak from experience.  It took me 34 years to reach 250 pounds, and it is coming off slowly but surely because I made some of the following changes:\n\nDrink LOTS of water- it's natural, it feels you up, gives you energy, helps your skin, and helps you lose weight.\n\nAdd walking every day- walk to the store, take a before work walk and watch the sun come up, or an after dinner walk and enjoy the sights and sound, take the stairs instead of the elevator for one or two flights, etc.  Little changes do make a difference\n\nKeep a food journal- log everything you eat for a week, even if it's something as small as a tic tac.  You will be surprised at what all it is and it will help you see where your problem areas lie, then work to change it.  Make small changes at first- No seconds on dessert, one scoop of icecream instead of two, add some veggies with your meat dish, nix the mayo on the burger, then add more changes the following week, then more the next, etc. start slow so it doesn't seem like you are depriving yourself, and make changes that you know you can stick with.  And if you slip up and have a bad day, don't stress, just get back on the wagon and keep going. Don't fall for the fad diets either.  They hurt in the long run, more than they help.
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Well you left it a bit late! 2 weeks is not enough time to lose more than 5lb the sensible way. Just try to eat healthily, go mad at the gym for a couple of weeks and when you are on your cruise, make sure you take advantage of the exercise equipment and swimming pool! Good luck and have a good trip : )
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Hmm...sounds like you aren't ready for a huge change.  That's OK.  It's scary to start something dramatic, especially if you know that you're going to have to maintain a new lifestyle if you want to change forever, which essentially means the first day of your diet is the first day of the rest of your life.  That's daunting.  And you probably figure you can't do it, so you might as well not do anything.  Pretty typical response, I've even suffered with it myself.  Sometimes I basically feel like, "oh, I've cheated once, I've ruined everything, I might as well go eat a cheeseburger."  hehe. :)  \n\nAnyways, for you, I'd recommend starting small.  Just start making an effort to do something so easy, that you know you'll be able to do it.  This could be as easy as making and effort to work out for 30 mins or an hour just one day a week, and making an effort to eat just a couple healthy meals per week, and not sweating the rest of the meals.  Once you've done that for awhile and you've accepted it as a part of your routine, add another exercise day, more healthy meals, etc.  Keep transitioning slowly until you've gotten to at least 4 days of exercise and mostly healthy meals every week. \n\nDoing it like this is NOT going to cause a dramatic change in your body very quickly.  It's going to be slow and you should not expect a lot of weight or inches to be lost like this.  But, several studies have proven that weight that is lost more slowly has a better chance of being kept off for the rest of your life.\n\nMake sure that whatever life change you want, that you can live with it.  A diet is useless if you hate every minute of it.
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Sign up for weight watchers.   Of all weight loss programs, they are the ones that have the most success in losing the weight and keeping it off. \n\nOf all the people who do it, they average losing 2 pounds a week.   Some people can do that or more, some will lose a pound or less, but do the math over 52 weeks.   What's more there's people there going thru the same exact thing you are and they all give each other support when there's bad days as well as pats on the back when there's good ones.\n\nI've lost about 40 pounds so far and want to lose about 70 - 80 more.   I know it's doable (all 80 pounds is, is 40 twice, right - I've done 40, so I can do 2 more 40s).  I hope that was motivating for you....   It motivated me.. tomorrow is my weekly weigh-in and I'm feeling psyched!!.
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OMG - Congrats!! Keep in mind that your body is still healing & hormones are still outta wack. I didn't start to feel my normal self (w/ all the implied regular energy) until after my son was close to a year. Maintain a healthy diet & food portions. Just doing all the regular housework that a new mom does (plus the irregular schedule) will help burn some calories. Once the baby gets on a somewhat regular sleeping pattern & you can get some sleep then try to incorporate some light weights. Alittle weight-conditioning & some daily walks with your new bundle in the stroller will help shed some pounds. Take it slow & don't get discouraged if you don't fit into your pre-preggers jeans immediately.