Hit a Plateau

Well for the last couple of months it seems I have plateaued. I hover around the 200# mark. I found out at last week's Canton Ohio Weight Loss Surgery Support Group that's not unusual.

I started after last week's TOPS meeting with writing down what I am eating and the amount of exercise that I am getting (or at least the number of calories that I think I am burning up). It seems to help. Plan on doing that for at least a week or two.

One of the theme's I heard at the Ohio SRD Meeting we attended a couple of weekends ago was "Cut and Burn" Cut the calories that you consume, and burn up more through exercise.

I am reminded that to lose a pound, you need to either cut, burn or a combination of them that will use up 3,500 calories. To lose a pound a week, cut out 500 calories per day for seven days, or burn up 500 more calories per day for seven days. Do them both and you should lose 2 pounds, or at least that is the theory.