800 calores? really? i’m surprised you can walk; that’s really really not smart. 1200 calories a day is starving, literally. you’re probably not losing weight because once you deprive your body of calories, after a certain point, it (your body) hangs on to what it has left to cling to. eat; my goodness. just eat healthy. i just lost 20 pounds since jason left and i eat! for the first time in my life i’ve lost weight eating….healthy foods, organic natural foods. foods nontheless. egg whites with cheese and spinach for breakfast…..oranges, apples, bananas, kashi bars, salads. no pop, just water and crystal light. although i refuse to give up my coffee with flavored creamers. i now add half milk to my creamer to dilute the fat and calories and i wouldn’t have it any other way now. trust me steph, you’re not eating enough. eat girl and enjoy your fresh veggie garden i saw that you have! but 136 for someone your height i think is fabulous. i’m much shorter than you and weigh more and i’m so content right now. i finally decided to try and be content. i’ve consumed so much energy of my life trying to be like 110 lbs. NEVER gonna happen for me!! i’m not fat, i’m not a pencil. but i’m not a model or an actress so i don’t need to be stick thin. plus, my man likes a little meat on the bones. you look great now stop worrying about it :-))

Thank you Jenny. I didn’t realize the calories were too low until yesterday when I started reading up on it. I’ve felt just fine, a little hungry but not weak, so my body wasn’t telling me I was being ridiculous. Then I read that I was probably not losing weight because the calories were low enough that my metabolism is just shutting down completely to keep going, not performing like it should, and therefore not burning fat.

By the time we’re 32 and have a handful of kids, you would think we’d have the sense God gave us. Silly me. No worries though, I’ll make up for 3 weeks of lost calories during my buffet trip tomorrow!

Oh, and isn’t Crystal Light just plain addictive? I’ll never drink another diet soda again! I love Grape and Cherry– it’s like Coolaid!

i love reg. and pink lemonade!! the big kids won’t even drink kool-aid anymore as they love it too!

That’s Austin and Jeremy too. I guess artificial sweeteners are bad, but Koolaid isn’t exactly good for you either.

about a year ago i had a friend tell me, “1200 calories in, burn 2000, you’ll simply lose weight. it’s a simple math equation.”

maybe my math aint too good, but i really do have a hard time buying the equation. so many things effect our body’s ability or even desire to loose weight. emotions, stress, the types of food we eat, and even just the type of exercise we do effects it. did you know that even if you ran 10 miles every single day your body will eventually gain a resistance to the type of exercise you’re doing and stop shedding pounds?

even all the nutrionist’s and guru’s out there can’t come to a commonality on the easiest way to lose weight. they always just come back to the hardest way to do it: eat right and exercise daily.

it sucks. i hate feeling fat. i hate that my body has trimmed down everywhere but my belly. people still assume i’m pregnant 13 months after delivering harmony!!! but after taking a power yoga class once a week and trying to eat right, i lost 6 pounds in a month.

long of the short: you are beautiful. your husband believes your body is at a happy point, which says volumes about how much he loves you too. ;-D we can just keep encouraging one another to stick with the fruits and veggies.

(((hugs)))

ps have fun car shopping and buffeting it. i loves me some buffet food. haha

I love you, Jenica! You always melt my heart.