Posts by mnjohnie

If you are lifting weights it not uncommon to gain weight at 1st since muscle ads mass thus weight. Basically given your stats I would not be so fixed on weight as how you look in a mirror naked. Best motivator in the world is too really really look at yourself naked in a mirror. You probably don't need to lose weight so much as tighten and tone the weight you have. It can be really discouraging at 1st to do the "look at yourself in the mirror" but as you see improvement, you gain additonal motivation.

As far as scales go, your weight will wander around at different times of the day, at differnt times of the month and how dehydrated you are. Judging progress by weight is really not a good way to go about it. However, if you DO decide to track weight, I strongly suggest you ONLY weight yourself 1 time a month. I do it only on the 1st day of every month.

Finally, I had really great sucess by using the food log, calorie tracker here. I would measure my activies and my intake and try to keep my calorie intake down around 750-1000 under my activity calories while keeping it above 1500 which is the recomended "healthy" calorie intake for a male. Then I got lazy and put the weight right back on!!!!

Good luck to you! Intresting screen name btw, I am a Military Historian by background and so was surpried to see an 18 year old using that name!

Hi,

EVERYONE falls off the wagon. The thing to do is not obsess about it but get back ON the wagon.  

 I have found that you can get a sudden perk in your weight loss if you eliminate soda, even diet soda, from your diet. That and any other caffine drink. Not real sure of the science behind it but caffine seems to stagnate my weight loss. Cutting it way way way down (1 12 oz can every 3rd day) or eliminating it seems to help both with craving and with weight lose. Instead of soda, I drink water. After about the 1st week, I don't even miss soda. Then I fall off the wagon start drinking soda again and put the weight back on.

Good Luck!