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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Of course, you're right. I'm aware that I'm fortunate and I'm grateful for it. But when you set your goal and it's takes ten times longer to reach it, it's really annoying. I'd just like to be able to stop exercising quite so much (an hour a day now) and start eating just a wee bit more. But I can't do that until I've reached my goal and now I'm wondering if I will ever do that.
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I have kind of hit a wall, too, with only about 5 lbs left to lose. The irony is that I lost the main part of the weight (25 lbs) without exercising since I was dealing with some health issues. Now that I'm briskly walking an hour or more every morning, I've hardly lost at all while maintaining the same diet. I've been tracking calories through "My Fitness Pal," however, and they strongly advocate that you eat BACK the calories you burn off through exercise since your original weight loss set-up already has you eating at a calorie deficit designed to make you lose weight. I'm toying with that, trying to track the calories I burn and then eating them extra throughout the day, and you know what? My weight has finally started to nudge downward again. Interesting, though, that I had a much easier time losing weight when I didn't have to take exercise into consideration and just counted calories. The body is a mysterious machine...