The weight won't come off?? Help?!

The weight won't come off?? Help?

I'm losing a good 1 pound per week, and my goal is to be 150 pounds by September, ten pounds isn't bad for twelve weeks, but the weight isn't coming off as quickly as it used to. I've made a schedule, since it's summer and I don't want to get off track. However, I'd still like to lose 2 pounds a week, but I can settle for 1 pound a week.

Anyways, I am thinking about increasing my daily 30 minute workout to 45 minutes, and when I weigh myself next week, I'll see if I'm 2 pounds lighter than I am now.

Do you think it will work? And why is it so hard for me to drop the last 11 pounds?

This is called a plateau, and it happens to almost everybody during a diet, some people even stop losing completely for a week or two. It should pick up again.

The last ten pounds are always the hardest. The closer you get to your goal weight, the fewer calories it takes to support the weight you are carrying, so weight loss naturally slows down. Increasing your exercise may help and if your daily calorie intake isn't too low already, you could try cutting one or two hundred more out. Don't do that if it would take you too low though, since you'll just increase the chances of regaining the weight once you go "off" the diet. I hope you have plans for a maintenance diet once you get down to your goal weight and don't plan to go back to the way you were eating before.