How to stay motivated when your brain gets in the way!

Thank you Kat W., I needed to hear this today(16 months out, 20 more pounds to go)!!!

Are you eating more because you started exercise? If so - you need to do doing that.

A bit lot of people get extra food - snacks before working out. That often is more calories and carbs than the calories burned during exercises. This would cause stalls.

When I lost too much weight - I started moderate exercise to increase my appetite to gain weight. And it worked for me.

I have been in this weight loss world for a long time. In 1973, when I joined Weigh****chers, we were told not to exercise. We just followed the food plan and the weight came off.

When you added the exercise, you changed the game for your body. You will get more hungry and you will eat more at a time when you need to be decreasing calories.

The less you weigh, the less you get to eat.

The only real way to lose weight is to eat less than you burn. Every pound that you lose means you can have 10 less calories a day. Eating an extra 100 calories a day will result in an extra pound every month or 12 pounds in a year.

You still have a lot to lose and need to concentrate on calories, not exercise.

The exercise is wonderful, but only reducing calories will make the scale go down. Low calorie with high protein and low carb gives you the fastest weight loss.

When the scale doesn't move I always try to make a list of NSVs. They help a lot.

I think this is where tracking is comforting. If I am tracking all my food and everything is right, then it isn't anything I am actively doing that is slowing my weight loss. It is just my body chilling out.

Also I think you would be happier tracking loses based on the month rather than the week. Yeah early on you lose each week, but that stops and you have more stalls that are longer, but monthly it looks okay.

IT does get harder the further out you are. these are the times I had to hunker down and get the rest of the weight off. I paid extra attention to portion size, weighed everything, TRACKED everything!!

My numbers are below- I considered myself slow loser.