Laurie, you are an inch and a half taller than I am, and, starting at 184, the place I'd gotten after 3 years of SAD type "dieting", I'm now, nearly 3 more years later, just below 155.
One of the things that this WOE teaches us, I think, no matter how much we have to lose, is patience. Stupid patience! Who likes patience! We want to see constant progress, and when we don't, we want to tweak things to speed them up.
But maybe the slowing down in your weight loss, and the other issues, are your body yelling at you to knock it off. As both Janet and teaser say, we just don't know what's going on inside. But the symptoms you are noting, if they are resolved by eating, seem to point to maybe too much fasting, don't they?
One of the good things about that whole patience deal is that, if we learn to practice it, the weight loss will happen while we're not, necessarily, looking.
If I celebrate the smallest sized pants I've ever worn, and stop moaning about the continuing pooch of my belly, I will lose a pound over the course of a month, and not really notice it, even though I'm weighing daily. It feels so glacially slow that it's nearly imperceptible. But it happens, nevertheless.
Give your body and your metabolism enough to work with, and you can keep feeling wonderful as you continue to lose.
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