John Doe124
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I am 29 years old and very angry at the time of this post. In my teen years I was 140 pounds at 5 foot 8, I was on some medication a couple of years ago (Lithium and others) and was very depressed and sedentary and got to over 200 pounds. I have been off meds-thank God- for a year and a half, and was at 180 around April of this year when I was not really exercising, but trying to limit my calories to below 2000 a day. Since May, I have been working out nearly every day, doing interval training on the elliptical for 35 minutes and some push ups and sit-ups, I was down about a week ago at 173. Just checked the scale and wonderful I'm back at 180. I can't believe it, it takes so much work mental and otherwise for me to work out like I do and it's doing nothing, I can't imagine what actually doing nothing would do. I feel amazingly depressed right now. My plan is not to rely on the elliptical calorie count at all anymore, work out like I do until my shirt is soaked through and there is a puddle on the floor, divide the calories it says I burn in half and eat half as much as I do now, literally fill my plate like I normally would and throw out half of it.
