Any Suggestions?

I know some of you may see this post as a waste of space and unimportant,but I'm posting it anyway LOL. So, I've been dieting and exercising for a while now. With the Lord's help, I've lost quite a bit of weight especially since the summer. Well, I've started setting different goals for myself, I've reached my first goal, but I'm 23 lbs away from my second and I've been stuck for a few months. It's quite discouraging to be honest. I don't know if I need to step up my game on the workouts or try something else. Any of you have suggestions?

The diet that I'm on seems to be the best one that works for me, although I am open to trying something else along with it. Thank you!

A true diet is one that you go on for the rest of your life.. You need a diet to sustain your weight after you end the diet you adopted to lose weight..

The process of going on an diet and then off a diet only leads to a lower metabolism and swings from losing weight to gaining weight.. People need to transfer from a weight loss diet to a permanent weight maintaining diet.. Otherwise they end up being as they where before the started the weight loss diet..

That's my plan, to make it a permanent diet. I honestly don't think it's the diet part of it, I think maybe I just need to find another workout or at least add to the one I have. Maybe push myself a little harder perhaps.

I had someone tell me that they didn't like the word "diet" because it has the word "die" in it LOL Anyway, this is a pretty simple diet. I don't if you've heard of the "S" or "Grandma diet", it's been called both. It's pretty simple, just getting through the first week is a little difficult, but it gets easier afterwards. I just want to get down to a certain size honestly. I'm also doing this for my health, not just to lose weight.

Without a excessive expenditure of calories preferably by exercise a diet just makes your body think that you are starving so you exactly the opposite results,it stores every last calorie that you consume in body fat,you know what bears do for the winter? Yeah that's what your body does with only a diet or a diet with a weak exercise program.

Do you remember before Oprah got older and FINALLY kept weight off BECAUSE she got older?she would come out on stage and say "I lost 5 lbs this month" then she'd put it right back on,that was because she was dieting without a serious exercise program.

The only way to ensure that you are expending excessive calories is by lifting weights,or starting with bodyweight exercises is good body weight squats are good and easy for most,I mean you know barring some physical preexisting injury or just being old but even the elderly can lift weights they just have to get cleared by a doctor.

If you love to eat than lifting weights is perfect because you NEED to eat a lot when lifting correctly,a good gauge of how effective your routine is be it just cardio or resistance is if you aren't absolutely famished pretty much all of the time then you aren't doing it correctly and probably wasting your time.

Green tea is great drink a half gallon a day with diet +routine.

You can have ten people tell you ten different things and all of them may have some level of success immediately but then cause more harm than good in the long run. Weight loss is directly connected to your hormones. So many things effect your hormones. That's why you need to have a lot of info to assess the best plan for you. It may be you aren't eating enough, your digestion sucks, or you have food sensitivities.

I'm honestly not a big sugar person. Now I do love gummy candy, butterfingers, and red velvet cake, but I hardly ever have them lol. I can live without sugar I don't have to have it. I really don't struggle with excessive eating or whatever. I kind of wonder if it's my body's way of reacting to stress or like I said if I need to step up my game on the workouts to reach that goal.

How about bread and pasta? Those react the same way as eating straight sugar. You might be right about the stress if that is a factor. What happens is cortisol causes your body to pull sugar out of your muscles into your blood. During this process the sugar can't be stored in the muscles. It can't stay in the blood so it gets stored as fat.

TTT - Things take time

I don't know neither what you eat / don't eat or how much exercise you do, but it all boils down to balance
- The more you eat the more you have to move to burn it off.

Try adding plenty of little things, maybe they will add up to make a difference.
i.e If you go up a few floors to get somewhere, use stairs rather than the elevator and If you are going somewhere that isn't far away (and you don't have to carry heavy stuff) walk, don't use a car/ bus etc.

try switching your workouts around

don't do the same thing every day

you want to combine cardio with weights and if you use weights, don't do your reps fast

slow actually will work your muscles much better

the body plateaus after a certain amount of time and you have to 'reset' it

makes sense?

not to bring down the wrath of Lynn, but counting calories is BORING

if you like to eat, and I certainly do, starving yourself is about the worst thing you can do

you just cannot cut out every single thing you enjoy

muscle weighs more than blubber, so go by how your clothes fit

I see you're 29. You should be able to get the goals you want and good on yah for all you have done so far!

Lady4Him : Not a waste of space and not unimportant I am going to send you a PM. I hope you don't mind!

What hormones are you referring to exactly? Specifically thyroid hormones have a huge impact on metabolism. In order to make it you have to ingest, digest and process iodine. Most people think there is enough in salt but we decrease the amount of salt as we age. As well it dissipates from the salt quite quickly. Everything in your body is regulated by hormones. If they all flew the coup you would be dead. Like I stated before there are multiple reasons for fat gain. You have to isolate your reasons for proper plan.

You need to eat a healthy and balanced diet so that you maintain proper weight.