How long if you're being consistent with minimal results?

[kimodified]

How long is "long enough" to hang on to being consistent ... if you're really not seeing results?

I've been VERY consistent since 3/15/12 - so two months now. I've been taking 2 days a week off due to my schedule, and doing BWO+ or half of TWO (one half or the other) MOST of those days. Occasionally I will have a day that I can only do PBS/OIP/HF.

I am doing my best to go to my max. I am quivering and shaking and sweating through the workouts. I am doing my best to keep good form, staying focused on checking my form as I go.

I was having some success (read: inch loss) when I was also eating very carefully. I accidentally abandoned that when the challenge started, but NOT the consistency. But my inch loss has slowed to a crawl and this week crawled backwards. Which leads me to believe it was really the eating, not the work outs, providing my earlier inch loss.

I am so discouraged today. I am NOT giving up ... yet ... but I am wondering ... at what point SHOULD I really be seeing wonderful results like others? Even if it's slow, when should it really turn the corner and start an unmistakable progress?

No, I haven't lost any sizes ... or even seen anything fit much differently ... to indicate I'm building muscle. At least nothing very obvious.

I guess I'm frustrated knowing that if I had JUST watched what I ate for the last 6 weeks I could've been down 5 or 10 lbs and seen inch loss from that. Maybe I will be one of those people who needs to really really eat carefully to realize any true losses. But how do I know T-Tapp is really part of the progress when 2 months of consistency hasn't seemed to do much?

[BlessedMama]

{{{Kim}}}

Remind me how much you want to lose?

And I know you've shared before, but for the benefit of any other trainers just now seeing this, do you have any thyroid or adrenal issues? Any chronic fatigue or illness?

Depending on where you are at metabolically, you could be doing some internal healing. When you say you were careful about what you ate, do you mean balancing food groups (protein, good fats and good carbs) or restricting caloric intake?

Thanks for answering those questions again!

HUGS to you!

[kimodified]

I'm 5' and weigh between 155-160 these days. So weight wise (yes, still stuck in that mentality) I'd like to lose 20-30 lbs. I know from past experience that at 125 I still look pretty plump.

My current jeans are a maxed out size 12 (I should probably be wearing 14 or more, but am squeezing in to these) ... I have some size 4 from a few years ago (when I was down to weighing ~120 and running) that I'd love to get back in to.

I'm a short torso long leg (although the long leg is a joke, being only 5' LOL)

As far as I know I do not have any thyroid / adrenal / chronic fatigue / etc. that I am dealing with. I AM tired a lot, but I think it is more related to being a relatively undisciplined night owl in a morning person's world - I do not think I am *abnormally* tired (although Polly might disagree ;-))

I do struggle with depression.

I don't FEEL like I've got much "from the inside out" healing to do. :shrug:

When I say "eating well" I mean following a plan similar to what Lani advocates - plant strong, whole foods, 'good' starch based. I hesitated to spell out what I meant before because I know more people here are in the higher protein, good oil camp. I can follow a plan similar to Lani's recommendations and feel good, lose weight, and enjoy it ... but I am tripped up by the junk food in the house 'for the kids' and end up just trying to 'not overeat' which never works for me. I am not one to count calories.

I hope that helps.

I am waffling right now, trying so hard to cling to the hope that in the long run "being consistent" will win out and I will have a record of slow (and perhaps not steady, but cumulative) inch loss, but having many days where discouragement threatens my hopes.

[joyfulmom26]

Yep, I disagree. I love you Kim! LOL!

[kimodified]

hahaha
at least you cheered me up, disagreeing with me, Polly. I love you, too.

[seibert7kids]

Kim,
I don't have any advice to offer, but can completely empathize with you. I have been super consistent for almost 6 months now and really have not seen much (if any) external changes. Weight has gone down just a few pounds, but I honestly don't care about that, as I want my clothes to fit better, not necessarily weigh less. However, hubby won't let me quit (lol), as he has noticed changes in me-----more energy, better attitude, and my hips (which I've had lots of problems with for the last 8 years) are virtually pain-free. So for now I'm "stuck" (ha ha) doing TTapp, everything just in a holding pattern it seems.....hoping for SOME inch loss eventually!

[BlessedMama]

LOL! Always nice to have friends to cheer you up!

Well, we might have different eating plans but I would tend to wonder if you are battling some adrenal and/or thyroid issues. Adrenal fatigue doesn't have to be a totally debilitating "tired all the time" feeling. But it can show up in slowing or stalling inch loss. Eating differently CAN make you smaller. It cannot, however, build muscle all on its own. I lost another 20 lbs. last summer after cutting grains and lots of carbs out of my diet (we did GAPS for 2 of my dds' leaky gut issues). But that did not tone me up. It took T-Tapp to do that.

btw, you probably know my story, but I'll state here---a year ago, before GAPS, I was eating fairly balanced (quasi Schwarzbein), enjoying treats, and in 4 years of T-Tapp had lost 8 sizes....but only 30 lbs. I quit weighing because the scales were totally NOT a good measurement for me. I weighed 20 lbs. more at a size 8 than I ever did when I was younger!

Even losing the other 20 lbs., I know as we are adding grains and things back into our diet, the weight will go up and down. I hardly even weigh--I weighed for the 60 Day Challenge and that was the first time in I don't know how long!

I'm of the mindset that you need good fats to heal the adrenals, but I'm not as well-versed in Lani's way of eating, so I defer to her to help you on that end. I noticed when we did GAPS I had to up the fats to stay satiated, and that's when I noticed my adrenals really healing by leaps and bounds. Got sloppy with it last fall and paid for it. So for me, that's what I need to do.

Okay, enough about eating!

When you say you are doing one half or the other of TWO--is that every day? I seriously would consider cutting back a bit. I personally divide TWO into thirds and don't do them on consecutive days. I honestly do NOT work out daily nor did I for the past 3 years since my adrenal crash. A 4 day bootcamp is the closest I have come to "daily"! I crashed doing too much and the slowing/stalling inch loss was a big red flag I ignored. So forgive me if I seem a bit passionate about this, but in every case that I personally deal with, when someone is not seeing results or inch loss is majorly slowing, and it's not due to any drastic changes in eating, I find they are adrenal fatigued to some degree and usually are doing too much. My df who introduced me to T-Tapp nearly died last summer from a septic infection. I gave her a schedule of 2 MORE moves EOD. She tried doing the MORE Instructional and nearly killed herself again! That's what it took for her to "hear" me on the fact that she needed to give her body time to heal.

Now I'm going to address a totally different angle---for my df I mentioned, as well as myself, I have found that when we dealt with some emotional issues, things started moving again. I believe we are three dimensional and you can't just deal with the physical without also dealing with other aspects. Many times we are not consciously focused on it--for mine I wasn't. My df had a very tough issue in her home, so of course she had more of a focus on it. Once that issue started resolving, her problems with consistency were gone, but more importantly, her tummy started melting off!

Interestingly, my issue was something from 22 years ago, totally buried and not thought about often at all. But when I dealt with it, my tummy started melting off more!

I'm not advocating everyone with weight/health issues has emotional issues but if things are stalling, it is worth being open to the possibility that stress, even a buried one, may be contributing.

Just some thoughts for you! Hopefully one of the other trainers can weigh in and give you more advice!

HUGS!

[BlessedMama]

{{{Carrie}}} Good for your hubby! Noticing the changes "you just can't measure" is a HUGE thing!

[carrieayers]

Kim,

I am definitely one of those people who has to watch what they eat, in addition to T-tapping. BUT, I will say, that if I'm doing both, I lose MORE inches than I would if I was just watching what I eat (not to mention all the other great side benefits, like never getting sick). Also, like you, I was in the 120's once (I'm 4'10", so pretty close to your height) and at that point my weight loss stalled because I was so close to "goal", but my inch loss kicked into high gear! Before T-tapp (but doing other exercise), at 130ish lbs, I would be a size 12. With T-tapp, I was in single digit sized clothing! Major difference. So I totally encourage you to keep on Tapping! It really does help!

Carrie

[just7]

I was going to say what Carrie said! I just saw her a few weeks ago and she has definitely slimmed down from when I saw her last year!

A month ago, dh and I were out for our anniversary and we did a bit of shopping. I was really looking for something new to wear to church. I had the most horrifying experience in the dressing room!!!! I couldn't find a thing in the size I "thought" was and anything else in the bigger sizes looked atrocious and they didn't even have any skirts in the larger size anyway! But the few tops I tried on looked horrid! I had been doing real well by the end of last year and had T-Tapped a bit since but had just started being more consistent again when dh and I went out.

I left there fighting the tears. I didn't talk the whole way home...an hour as I was trying not to sob. I was so discouraged that every time I've gotten serious with T-Tapp and lost sizes, I ended up with severe adrenal fatigue and sabotaguing myself. I just couldn't take it anymore. I know that I need to address my eating and I know I need to move but being depressed all the time, adrenal issues, etc, etc....I just can't seem to move forward.

Well---my mindset now is that if I never lose another size, I don't care!!! (Well---maybe a little! lol) But really....T-Tapp IS reshaping and does heal from the inside out. Done mindfully and in such a way that I keep moving forward (NOT burning myself out) it WILL keep me more flexible, with less pain, more endurance, with more energy as I now move forward into my 50s. What is my other option? If I don't do anything (even if I was able to address my eating), I would become more and more crippled! Not a good thing when your youngest is 10 and there are 2 little grandbabies (for now). I want to be active and enjoy doing things with the kids.

When I came in the house the other day, my little grandson--19 months ran up to me and I picked him and lifted him up over my head and talked into his face and then lowered him and hugged him. I felt STRONG!! I could FEEL what T-Tapp is doing (AGAIN!) to my body and I was so thankful.

Soooo---just some thoughts. I hope they encourage you to keep on.