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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Yeah I lost 70 pounds but I've sorta plateaued. I think my more-hardcore strength training may have caused me to gain weight (I've gained a lot of muscle in the past 6 months) so my BMI may actually be lower even though I gained weight. My geneti-gut remains though.
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Lasereth, I really appreciate the effort that it took to stay with a program that was not helping you meet your goals, that is perseverance. However, statements like this lead me to believe that you would greatly benefit from more education. No one's BMI will decrease when they gain weight. It is a simple mathematical formula. Unless you grow in height, you cannot gain weight (muscle or fat) and decrease your BMI. As Ustwo has said, if you were not losing weight, even though you were on a strict regemin, you must not have been doing something right. I would suggest that you see a professional to get the most out of the obvious effort that your are expending.
Now that that is aside, back to the topic. Like many people, I view the vast, vast majority of overweight, and obese people as making poor lifestyle choices, rather than having poor genetics. I realize that there are fuckers out there who can eat a whole cow and look like a Kenyan marathoner, however, nearly everyone can be relatively healthy, and reduce comorbid conditions, such as diabetes and heart problems by eating well and getting moderate exercise. The human body is pretty much a machine in this respect, garbage in-garbage out. People make lots of mistakes--working out at too high or a heart rate thinking that higher is better for losing weight, eating too little, thinking that that is good, when in reality it is sending the body into "starvation mode" etc. If anyone is having difficulty losing weight, there are resources out there to help you, most everything else is just an excuse.