This year I’ve done nothing but change up what I’m doing to try to figure out what is going to work for me.  I’ve tried low calories, mixed calories, carbs on cardio days, carbs before cardio days.  I’ve tried several things but my weight has stayed exactly where it is now.  So now I”m going to try having a caloric deficit from my maintenance calories every day but two in the week AND I’m going to see if feeding my body more (because acc to several websites my maintenance calories are above 2,000) will force it to fuel from fat differently from a deficit.  There is so much out there on how to eat, when to eat, why you eat blah blah blah.  So confusing but ramping up and dumping carbs on heavy workout days hasn’t changed my weight one bit in 3 weeks.  eating between 1300 and 1900 calories has been to no avail and low calories every day has not worked either so now I’m going to try it this way.  I’ve read several things that say to feed your body which will force it to use energy stores more efficiently.  Maybe I need to work harder at the gym but seriously I just want to look better and stay healthy longer.  It’s like finding a cure for something with the amount of effort that it’s taking to figure this out. I don’t have the energy or time to do all the reading I probably need to do.  Just one experiment after another and this next week is going to hold more calories (not counting carbs really) and heavier weight and more effort.  We’ll see what that effort brings.