Darkryft

A little bit of an update...I've made notes and some changes. Plateau Broken! I decided that since I couldn't exactly pinpoint what might have been causing my weight loss to stall, I reverted my routine back to what it was like when I first started getting serious about my fitness. I removed 3 things from my routine: Daily exercise, fiber supplement, and carbs. I suspect the exercise is not the cause of the stall, that just at least sounds unlikely. I'm thinking I was eating too many carbs or the fiber supplement was causing the trouble. Whatever it was, I went from basically losing no weight to losing 3lbs in 5 days. That's more weight lost for me than in the last 25 days combined. Again, I don't know specifically what it is yet, I'm going to add the pieces back one thing at a time and see what affects me negatively. I just know whatever was stopping me on Monday isn't stopping me now. Monday I was 272.4. This morning I was 269.4 Thank you again for all your support and advice.

Thanks again for the support and input. I'm going to keep going at something. I-Jo I know you and others have suggested more food, but what if I don't have an inclination to eat more? Last night when I got home, acting on support I got here, I immediately worked at upping calories. Going into dinner time last night I was sitting at probably, erroring on the high side, 550 calories. I ate 3oz of macadamia nuts, 15oz. of grilled turkey and I tried to double my green bean portion from 6oz to 12oz, but I couldn't finish. After about 8 oz I was full...full like "eat more and vomit" full. Based on the insight offered here, is this perhaps a conclusion that I am not active near enough? In my fatboy past I ate because I was bored, not because I felt the "need" to eat. The 2nd weekend I was trying to break myself of eating carbs...yeah...I felt something I'd call hunger. I wanted to eat really bad and I forced myself not to do so because I wanted junk. I wasn't going to eat junk. Most of the time when I eat now it's more of "Yeah, I guess I should eat now". I never have the thought or feeling that goes "Dammit I need FOOD!!!" Is that indicative that something else might be wrong with me, or is that really all in my head?

Good morning! Alecto: All the meat that I eat for dinner is boneless, skinless, and grilled. Usually I'll put some salt and pepper on that. Last night I had 15 ounces of turkey, grilled...I threw some honey mustard on those pieces of meat to try something different. Wasn't the best taste in the world...wasn't terrible either. I'm also not against throwing out the 4MPH walks...I do enjoy them but if they likely aren't helping...well, so be it. After soaking up all the input from everyone here, which I really do appreciate - please keep it coming, I don't mind the feeback at all: I feel like at a minimum I need to re-assess exactly what I need to do. I don't have any trouble doing it...it's not a motivation or willpower issue. I want this success to happen. I just feel like I'm cloudy on where to go from here. The only thing immediately available in my mind to try is to go back to the last point in which I was dropping weight. That's pretty much me just eating smarter and not really working out at all. I was working out maybe once every 7 days then as opposed to all 7 days of the week. Something about that doesn't sit well with me now, but, maybe it is necessary to understand what exactly affects me in what ways? Am I on the wrong thought process with this dead weight that's on my body? I mean, I want it to go away because it's unsightly of course...that's a long term thing...but I also feel like it's being a major roadblock to further progress.

My trainer has me work on the TRX and I really like it. I'm going to see if I can figure out somewhere to put it in my house.

Thanks so much again for the information. I think I can easily ramp up the calories by 30-40%, if not 50% without too much effort. I'll see what happens this week.

I appreciate the feedback very much. I'm not feeling a drive to eat more, but if that's better, I'll certainly do it. Any thoughts on where I should do that? I'm not exactly wanting to take on more carbohydrates, although maybe I need to? I haven't done intervals on the treadmill yet but I'll certainly look into it. Again, I appreciate the education from everyone here. I'll take it to practice for sure.

Thanks for the information Renegade. I do weigh at the same time every day, right after the constitutional, and about 6-7 times out of 10, it's the same number, sometimes it's a pound higher, sometimes .75lbs higher...on the average I really look at it as not changing. Calorie counts per my last totaling are somewhere in the 1000-1300 range per day. I'm certainly not worried about discouragement at this moment...what I do every day now isn't diet and exercise in my mind, it's routine. I'd feel strange to NOT do that stuff. I'm not really living in fear for the fact that I haven't dropped weight...I'll certainly keep pushing. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything egregiously wrong.

I may give this a shot. I've been wanting to get back to using my slow cooker - I fear my electric grill is going to die a death far too soon due to the abuse I'm giving it.

Hello NF community, I know several people make similar posts in regards to plateaus and other stoppages in weight loss, but I am not sure if that's what I am dealing with here, so I'm hoping perhaps I could get a little analysis on my diet and exercise routines with some suggestions on what may need to change. Where I am most concerned is my morning mile on the treadmill. Currently I'm doing them at 4MPH, and at 270-272 with a considerable amount of body fat still, they are pretty difficult because of all that weight sloshing around (sorry for the ugly visual, but trying to make point). I can do them, but I feel like my overall routine should have made them easier by now. Currently, a typical eating day looks like this: Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 slices of low-sodium bacon, 1 cup of coffee w/Splenda and two teaspoons of fitness fiber powder (10 g of fiber), multivitamin supplement Lunch: 6 oz fresh raspberries, 2 sticks of string cheese, multivitamin supplement Dinner: 10-18 oz pork, beef, chicken, turkey, or fish (depends on what I thawed out), 12-16 oz of whole green beans, multivitamin supplement Drinks (daily): 2-3 cups of coffee, 3-5 diet sodas, water. I'm trying to continually work down the diet soda intake. I'm still going to drink some to keep my caffeine high, but I know I can get by with less. Snacks: A couple handfuls of macadamia nuts. That's rare, but I do eat them occasionally. Workouts: 7 days a week: 1 mile walking on treadmill at 4MPH. 40 pushups immediately following. Monday/Friday: Kettlebell exercises that increase in the number of reps and complexes. This week I will be starting 10 reps per exercise, 3 exercises per complex, 10 complexes. Wednesdays: Extreme conditioning session w/trainer (45 minutes of kettlebell, dips, TRX, and going to start boxing soon) I have followed this diet without breaking for about 40 days or so. It easily took 25 pounds off me in 2 weeks or so. When I started building up the exercise side and throwing in the supplements, weight loss stopped. I've been 270 pounds for about 23 days now, floating up a pound or two and coming back. I've never seen 269.9 on the scale. I have noticed that my body's shape is changing though, so I feel like maybe I'm almost purely doing fat-to-muscle conversion, and I need not be concerned. And I'm not overly concerned to the point that I want to entertain drastic changes. I'd just like some of the dead weight to go away. I didn't expect that I'd be 240 or anything by now, but I would have thought perhaps I'd be down to 260 now. Still, I know I can't be doing anything all that bad considering I've been the same weight for the better part of a month and I've noticed clothes fit better; my arms, shoulders, and neck are starting to show signs of definition. I usually don't feel tired, or have bouts of hunger...if I really think eating a little something would help, that's when I go to the macadamia nuts. Is there anything in the way of small changes that I should consider? Am I getting concerned and don't need to be? My ultimate goal is a certain look, and I don't really care what weight that look arrives at especially given I feel like I've engineered my regiment to getting strong (I changed things after re-reading Staci's story on the NF front page). I just want to know if there's anything else that's really a "you need to be doing this if that's your routine" kind of thing. Appreciate any suggestions and comments.

If my boss ever made a comment like that I'd ask him if he'd like to get a first-hand account of how much muscle mass I've added to my arms. Good job on staying strong and tossing the junk.

Congratulations!

Building on this success, I've now done a 15:00 mile 3 times. Saturday I was feeling a little under the weather so I walked a little slower, but longer. I'm going to keep doing 15:00 miles until they are easy. Right now they are pretty difficult.

Awesome story. Truly an inspiration.

Keep it going. Feel like a boss every day!

Good job on your awards!