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Sorry to see this, Carleneruns. How much have you lost all up? Sometimes your body just needs to get used to being that new weight before you can lose any more weight. Oh, I just saw your profile, where it says you have lost 12.47 kg. That's about what I've lost and I'm also on a plateau, and have been since about February. I don't see anything else for it but to continue the 2 days a week fasting and see what happens. If I stopped fasting, I'd put the weight I've lost back on. I won't diet. So there's nothing else to do, but to carry on. love to you.
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm sitting at 27 pounds lost. But I still have tons to go. I just wish I could start making some measurable progress again. I'm so tired of being stuck. I know that if I stop fasting I'll look up in January having regained tons of weight. So I am trying to stick with it. But it is tough.
I too am on a plateau, several weeks now. I've had to adjust my attitude to being about 5:2 as a "Way of Life," not a DIET, and thus not about the "numbers." (See my blog for more about that.) Try to think about the results other than weight loss so far; for me, it's less knee pain, and that I can wear shoes other than my Birks (hey, I love my Birks, but sometimes I want to wear something else without being crippled!). And those of us who've "been there, done that" MANY times, we know going back to our old ways will mean going back to our old weight.
If you WANT to look for reasons--like eating too much on normal days--I won't discourage you. But as I've said elsewhere, I'm not interested in losing weight I can't keep off (been there, done that, got the *&%$! T-shirt), and I KNOW I'm not going to restrict myself other than on light (fast) days. (I don't mean pigging out, I mean having a beer without feeling guilty...) That's the path to falling off the "wagon"....
If you WANT to look for reasons--like eating too much on normal days--I won't discourage you. But as I've said elsewhere, I'm not interested in losing weight I can't keep off (been there, done that, got the *&%$! T-shirt), and I KNOW I'm not going to restrict myself other than on light (fast) days. (I don't mean pigging out, I mean having a beer without feeling guilty...) That's the path to falling off the "wagon"....
Thanks ferretgal. Your post has lots of great ideas to ponder. I am working on readjusting my attitude but obviously it is harder than it seems.
Sorry to read you are feeling discouraged. I put on 6kg when I moved to the US in January and have not been able to shift it despite 5:2, low carb and everything else I have thrown at it. But I was overeating my TDEE and don't have much room for slippage at 1300 TDEE cals. I have just taken a complete break from fasting, ate 'clean' and was very kind to myself. I might have gained weight but I don't care, I feel well enough to start again.
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Discouraged
by Carleneruns on 17 Nov 2014, 20:39