I (30 year old woman) have been struggling with my weight for many years. But my main frustration is trying to get back below my prepregnancy weight. My youngest is 3, and I feel like I should have been able to lose the weight 2 years ago. Right now I am 160, I was 159 before I got pregnant with my oldest who is 5. (I had lost about 15 before that pregnancy and ideally I would have lost more before getting pregnant) I have not been able to get below 160 the past 3 years. Realistically, it would be great if I could get to 150, but if I could get to 140 that would be amazing! I have tried calorie cutting so many times with no success. I have tried just not caring and trying to be happy with my body, and that doesn't work. I only gain weight. For the past four weeks I have been counting calories and carbs. My BMR is 1538. So I have been eating between 1000-1100 calories and about 100 carbs a day and exercise on treadmill or a bike to ensure a 500 calorie deficit. It has been 4 weeks. I started out at 163.8 and am at 160 today. Not even a full 4 pounds. I am incredibly frustrated.
I have looked around online and seen in many places that a woman is supposed to eat 2000 calories a day to maintain weight. WTF? If I ate that much I would gain so much weight, I would not maintain my 160 weight. Then I have also seen that you need to cut back to 1500 calories a day to lose weight. That seems wrong, since my BMR is 1538, I would then have to do some kind of exercise that burns 500 calories every day to have a deficit. I have also seen that eating less than 1200 calories a day is not healthy. I worry that if I do eat 1200 calories a day I will gain the weight back.
If I could break past 160 in my weight loss, I think I would feel better, like I am actually making progress. But I am so frustrated. I am tired of being hungry every day all day. (I can binge eat all day, I do not feel full. My brain and stomach do not have that connection). Healthy food is not filling. I am eating mostly vegetables and chicken and yogurt and only drink water. I have no energy for exercising. My body just feels tired. I am tired of this weight loss roller coaster of gaining and losing.
Weight loss is so hard. If I somehow manage to even get to 150, how do I maintain that? How little will I be able to eat then? How do you actually lose weight??
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