I go to weight watchers and they say, if you exercise like walking or arobics as much as you do you need to eat a little more.Your body gets used to chasing after the kids, so you can't count that as exercise, because that is part of your daily routine. Excercise has to be somthing you do in addition your daily routine. You need to eat something like a muffin or fruit after your exercises. Just some information that I have read. Try it an see.

First off I want to say hello and welcome. 2nd, you are a step a head of me with the power walking. I don't really do any meaningful exercise yet. I started a weight reduction plan in september due to a new case of diabetes. I have lost 49 pounds by counting calories and carbs. My physician put me on it. It was hard the first couple of weeks but I've done really well. I hope you find the kind of support you need here. Welcome. vickie

Have you tried weight training? Like actual, planned out, lifting weights, maybe even in circuit?

I wish you lots of luck. That's a lot of work to do to not get results. Don't quit though. Even though you're not losing weight, I'm sure it's preserving your health in lots of other ways.

I had to buy a scale to weigh out my food and actually reolize the portions I was eating. Sometimes a portion seems like one to me and it's 3. Maybe this will help. I would'nt worry about weighing veggies unless they are the high calorie ones like potatoes. Marshmallow might have it right too about maybe eating too little or maybe you need to eat more often. It's good to have a small meal every 3 hours.

Thanking u kindly for ur help.
I do eat smaller portions, and I do not eat after 6pm.I don't eat the reg 3 meals though, i might have 2meals a day if that, and a snack is a piece of fruit or a rice cake.oh well, one must soldier on.

Personally, I'd suggest you start counting your own calories. You'd be surprised how many calories are in some foods that are thought of as healthy. When I started counting calories, I was horrified at how many I was putting into my body without knowing it.

I use the Benedict Formula to calculate how many calories my body uses and add in my exercise. I then create a calorie deficit of 1000 per day. This should allow for 2 pounds weight loss per week. If you'd like to know more about it, feel free to message me. I can also point you to some very useful online tools to help.

Did you say that you power walk 2 times a day every day? Wow! That is amazing

Marshmallow is right when she mentions that your body gets used to certain exersize that you do every day. For extra calorie burning you have to add something that you do of and on instead of everyday.

I am new to this whole website and it is nice to meet you.

Yoga. Stop eating by 7 pm. Check your heart rate to make sure you are hitting that target. You may be in sufficiently good enough shape that what you do may not be hard enough. So, its 220 - your age muliptlied by .7 and then once again by .8 to find that target range.

For me that looks like this:

220- 29 (my age) = maximum which is 191

191 times .7 is 133
191 tiems .8 is 152

I need to hit between 22 and 25 beats for a 10 second period.

It does seem to help.