Hi. I’m almost 50F and been fat most of my adult life, and REALLY fat for the last ten years or so. My highest recorded weight was 278 a few years ago, and it was about 260 six months ago when I decided to actually start trying hard to change my life and habits.
Ive always had a decent diet - I love to cook and I’m a good cook and I cook for my family three times a day. I eat healthy food, just too much of it and with a layer of treats on top. So I didn’t change what I was eating much, except for cutting out the sweets. I just downloaded the Lose It app and followed its instructions, and started walking a lot.
For four and half months, this worked great. I had to cut calories much more than the app thought I should to lose weight (it thought I could a pound and a half a week on 1800 calories a day to start and in fact I had to cut to about 1600). Ive lost 48 pounds and am down to 212.
But in the last six weeks, zero weight loss. I haven’t changed anything - in fact Ive upped my exercise a lot and my calorie budget is now 1500. I’m doing yoga most mornings, getting 11K steps every day, and doing 20 minutes of HIIT three times a week. Most days I have a deficit (according to the app) of 200-300 BELOW my calories budget, which is already supposed to give me weight loss of 1.5 lbs/week. It’s like a switch flipped in my metabolism and all the weight loss just STOPPED. From one day to the next.
I know about plateaus obviously, and I’ve been through a few that were like a week long, but this is SIX WEEKS with ZERO scale movement. I don’t know how long I can keep this up without any weight loss. I’m fucking starving all the time. I can’t cut any more calories and be functional - not at this level of activity.
The worst part is nobody believes me. Everyone says I must be cheating or unconsciously eating more than I’m logging. But I’m WEIGHING everything I eat at home - I eat lunch out most days but I go for a deli salad and use the posted calorie numbers. I know I haven’t changed my intake. I don’t know what to do. Getting extremely discouraged.
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