I certainly hope this information will help me. I've been stuck at the weight I'm at since Mid May, or should I say I've been kind of bouncing 5-6 pounds back and forth, it's frustrating. I got sick around that time and could barely eat anything for about a week, lost 5 pounds fast because of it. Of course that 5 came back but that's okay, I didn't really expect to keep it off considering how fast I lost it. I figured May would be a bust and I was fine with that. However, now that June is all most over, I'm still stuck in the same rut. I did have a couple of cheat days in June because of my b-day and the b/f's b-day but you think I would have lost something considering the work I did the rest of the month.

Steve, if you could you help me figure out what I should be doing, I can't tell you how much I would appreciate it.

Female
age 41
5 '4 and 3/4 tall
204 pounds (down from 228)
Large frame
I excersise 6 days a week alternating between 1/2 of cario every other day and 10 minutes of cardio along with full body-light weight training on the other days.
Other than that and some cooking and light house work, I sit at a desk all day

I'm not sure how many calories I should be eating. Sometimes I think that my metabolism is shot because I have been trying to eat around 1500 calories a day and it's just not working. According the the calculator I should up that but the thought of that scares me.

I really want to lose this wieght but like I said, what I've been doing has just not been working for me these last several weeks.

__________________