Not yet!

I certainly am not a testimonial to losing weight. So far I haven't lost any. I tried the "Sleep Diet" and increased my sleep for a while. Unfortunately my body got used to going to bed earlier so I started waking up earlier. Apparently not everyone needs 7 1/2 - 8 hours of sleep per night. I'm not sure where the weight loss idea fits in if a person gets more sleep.

I then tried a diet that was supposed to be suited to my metabolism. I gained weight. Then I tried low-carb and gained more. Then I tried the Sonoma Diet and gained yet more pounds. SO now I weigh a few pounds more than where I started. I ventured on these quests and I gained! So I stopped dieting and I quit gaining but I haven't lost any weight. It's depressing because a year ago I had a lot of lovely clothes and this year I only have a few. I actually had to buy some in larger sizes and I swore I wouldn't do that. However I have to have clothes to wear!

I'm not sure what to do about all of this. My doctor has no advice. He said to log my calorie intake and I've done that. I seem to average about 1350 - 1400 calories a day and that seems to be what most of the commercial diet plans suggest for me. I've signed up for online diet plans through eDiets and most of the time that's what my average calories per day are. When I lost all the weight a couple of years ago my calories per day were between 1000 - 1200. I hate to go that low because I keep hearing that's dangerous but I'm not so sure it was.