our bodies just dont like to cooperate!

in the beginning losing weight is so simple - your body seems to just burn those cals when u reduce but then bam plateau- then it all becomes realistic again

every five pounds i lose i hit a plateau- usually it lasts for 2-3 weeks- its so frustrating. i actually went back up a pound all of a sudden :(

i started in january at 185 and literally every 5 lbs i just stopped- i hit 165  but then went up a pound a week ago and low and behold stuck again

it becomes so easy to lose and then my body fights back- its so sad- i have lost almost 20 lbs since jan 11 and am happy about that i just wish our bodies cooperated with us more.

i just upped my cals for a couple days and now im back to counting and excersizing - cross my fingers - body will snap out of the tude its in again here soon!

Shauna,

I know what you mean!!! I was at my goal weight, then went up 3 lbs. during TTOM. It has never gone away, and it's been over a month! I've tried staggering my calories, eating fewer, eating more, and exercising more. I've tried more cardio, less cardio, more weights, less weights. I've been drinking so much water that I spend half of every day in the bathroom. Nothing is working.

Hang in there - hopefully both of our bodies will decide to cooperate soon.

  Sometimes these things take patience i know- i just get so jealous of friends who just drop the pounds consistently but i get stuck- ugh!  Im ready to be healthy and excersize and have the security that i can do anything!

one day at a time- maybe one day my plateaus will stop- lol- good luck to that!!

Plateaus are just your body going "whoa nelly" and double-checking that you aren't starving. Once your body has convinced itself that there is, in fact, a steady intake of food and it is safe to burn up its precious fat stores like it's been doing, then it resumes its normal work.

You wouldn't plateau if you hadn't been doing so well at losing, look at it that way. :)

It can be frustrating, but remember, it's the daily lifestyle that is the big challenge, not the pounds coming off. The weight is the dependent variable, the lifestyle is the independent variable - i.e. the thing you can control.

I know.  It seems so simple in theory - well by simple I mean LOTS of hard work = payoff.  But my body doesn't work that way, and I don't know what it's problem is.  My weight just goes up and down erratically within 4-5 pounds (water probably) no matter how much exercise or what kind of deficit I have.  Then, about once a month I will lose 5 pounds in a week - but not February  - so I have lost 15 pounds since I started calorie count in January. 

I'm trying to just stick with it, and not get jealous of anybody else, but it's so hard and discouraging.