So I think I figured out that for me personally, I need more calories and carbs if I want my body to lose weight.  Last week I moved my carbs up to 50 from 25 and my calories up from 1200 to 2000 and have gone from 175 to 170 in just a week.  Now I KNOW that weight is all relative to water retention, time of the month, etc, however, I don’t think it’s a coincidence.  My newest endeavor in figuring out what works is intermittent fasting which I started today.  I go 16 hours without eating which means no 6am breakfast but it was fine today.  I was hungry for sure by 9:30 when I could break the fast (except for am coffee I eat nothing until I break my fast).  The welcomed hunger pangs before the fast break, mean that my body is in need of food and because I’ve not given it any, it will start using my fat to fill its need.  THAT is exactly what I want and exactly what I’m training my body to do so that I become what Leanne Vogel calls “Fat Adapted”.  The funky part of this new process which I want to try to do every day is that I don’t lower my calories for the day, I just eat more frequently and stop after dinner until the next day.  I feel like this is a good path for me and I’m excited to try it out for a week.  I’ll still work out every day but I’m not upset at easier workouts like I have been.  I would beat myself up mentally for not going hard every day or not lifting weights 3 times a week.  I feel like I have hurdled a major stumbling block and now I’ll pick up steam on getting those last 20 pounds off to my goal weight of 150.  It’s been frustrating for the last 7 months going up and down the scale without what I would consider progress.  I measured and weighed myself today to have a real starting place to work from.  Now the work begins on getting good at tweaking what I’m doing to get to where I want to be!