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F/35/SW:200/CW:170/GW:130
I started my weight loss journey on June 21, 2017 (I’ve had weight issues my whole life and have yo-yo’d a lot in weight, but this date is when I decided enough is enough).
I’m 5’3” and started at 200lbs. I was eating 1200 calories a day, and I lost 30lbs by November 2017. I was so happy! My goal weight is 130, so I felt pumped to be almost halfway there.
Then, the weight loss totally stopped. For months. And months. I tried to be patient, I read posts on this sub about weight plateaus, and just kept going with my eating and workouts. After about 3 months of plateauing, I upped my workouts. I would do weight training, and then I started walking uphill on the treadmill. My fit bit was telling me I was burning 500-800 calories during my cardio workouts, which I did 3-5 times a week. With these workouts, plus only 1200 calories (which my fit bit stated would be enough to lose 2lbs per week), I was still not losing any weight. On paper, I’m doing everything right.
Several months ago I went to the doctor, thinking maybe it’s something hormonal that is wrong. I live in Canada, and I am able to visit for free, but my family doctor is extremely old and narrow minded. When I told him about the food and exercise, he basically told me I must be lying about it, and also that diet and exercise have nothing to do with weight loss. He also said that the only way to lose weight is to self induce diarrhea, and that his own children will probably never be able to lose weight because they drank too much breast milk as babies. I realize this is all wrong and I would never self induce diarrhea, but this left me even more disappointed and upset with my situation.
I can go to a walk-in clinic and see a different doctor, but I don’t know what I would tell him/her, and what I would need to have tested. I’m also slightly traumatized by the way that doctor demeaned me so I feel like I’d want to have a game plan going in.
Now I’m at the point where it’s starting to affect my mental health. I feel like under normal circumstances, I could’ve met my weight loss goal by now. I feel like I want to give up, because everything I do seems useless. I DON’T want to give up because I am in the best athletic shape I’ve ever been in thanks to the uphill treadmill. And I DON’T want to quit because I’ve always given up within 4 months of starting an eating/exercise program, and it’s been 15 months and I’m still trying. But I find myself becoming depressed. My physical appearance does not match the work I’ve put in. I’ve worked so hard to lose weight, to wear clothes that fit properly, and to basically feel good about myself and my body when I haven’t really ever in my whole life.
And now I’m at a loss. What can I do? Has anyone else ever had an issue like this? If I go to the walk in clinic, what do I say is the reason I’m there? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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