Moving in the right direction

I was recently told to up my calories after a slow loss last month and I was SCARED and skeptical about it. I did, although i'm not to the 800 cals that I want but, close enough. I don't know if I'm prematurely celebrating but i've lost 7lbs in the last two weeks. I was starting to have second thoughts yesterday as my face felt puffy and i just felt fat as it feels like i'm always eating and always full. To my surprise today when i stepped on the scale at the gym, i'd lost some weight. That was nice. Just wanted to thank you guys for the help and suggestions you gave me when i asked for help. You guys rock!!!

Congrats! It seems counter-intuitive to eat more to lose more, but it works! Keep your water intake up, that might help with the puffiness :) 

Thanks Katie, odd ha that it works that way. I've been drinking about 3.5 litres of water a day, anymore and i'll explode, lol

Congrats.  I find the more i eat the more i lose. But i eat the right food of course lol... Krista..

Ha ha, i think that's the secret, more healthy food.

I don't even look at calories I just look at my protein grams. After 95-100gm of healthy protein, I'm usually to full to eat anything else that day. since I have uped my protein I have continued a steady 3lb per week loss. Everyonce in a while, I will through a carb I wouldn't normally eat into the mix for example dinner last night was 1/2 ww English muffin with peanut butter. Every once in a while we got to shock the system and since my surgery toast, crackers & potatoes are the only carbs I tolerate (other than my fruit & veggies).

I started throwing in more complex carbs per some suggestions and extra protein and that seemed to be the trick and my muscles don't hurt as much. 

As we lose weight, our activity level goes up and vice versa. The extra calories get used up quite easily and our body needs them to keep burning that fat.

While looking at http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.ca/ , I took to heart her comment about eating some full fat items. Her reasoning was that the small amount we actually eat doesn't make much difference. I have upped my calories, without eating much more, by eating full fat cheese instead of low or no fat, for example.

Obviously, that doesn't mean everything can be full fat, but a little here and there is actually beneficial.

I read that as well. I've tried a few full fat things a couple of times. I've still got some low fat cheese that i need to finish and next time i go grocery shopping, i'll get the regular one.