Ready to give up.

You can't quit. Your username alone made me LOL because my kids would LOVE it.

Can I ask about your running? When I started working with a trainer (and here I will put on my snobby hat and say "actual, certified, knows-his-shit-went-to-several-schools-for-this trainer"), he told me he gets tons of clients who up their mileage and gain all kinds of weight. Normally women (he said, as he put his hands over his face so I wouldn't smack him), and normally in their late 20s to mid-40s, working towards marathons. I do all my running based on heart-rate, because it's incredibly easy to run at a pace that feels good, but isn't going to do you any favours for weight loss. My body burns fat best (and so do most, but not all, people) when I do long, slow runs. For me, that means 6 minutes per kilometre, for at least 45 minutes, and up to almost 2 hours. I do one day a week of hills or speed drills, another day for a tempo (5k race pace) run, but mostly it's all about the long slow stuff. Because that torches fat. My diet still needs work, but you already know that the weighing and the measuring and examining your macros and counting all your calories and all that stuff is where it's at. But if you're doing all of that, take a look at your workouts.

Also, have a quick search for "plateau" breaking and think about giving some of the techniques might work. I wouldn't eat 1000 a day (I'm the same height as you, roughly the same weight, although it's been months since I actually got weighed), but to each her own. I do not think you will gain weight if you up your calories by a little each day, and that could be enough to change things up for you (our bodies are weird, okay, sometimes when I eat a big, sodium-enhanced meal, my pants get all loose. I don't understand it!) but you need to obviously do what you feel is best for you.

Is there a reason you're set on 135? I don't have a goal weight in mind, because I have other goals that mean more to me than that number on the scale. Body fat percentage, race goals, long-term goals of dragging my ass through an endurance event, etc. I don't want to set my heart on a number that may not be reasonable - for me - just so I can say "Hey, I weigh 135". I've been 135. I couldn't stay there. You might be able to! But I couldn't. And I'm way more fit now than I was then.

Lastly, it took me four months to lose 9.5 pounds. It's not always a fast process. It just isn't. But it sounds like you're doing the right things (even though I want you to be eating more than 1000 calories), and you need to stick with it.

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