Medical reasons for not losing weight
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Water retention. A relative of the brother in law died recently aged in her early 20s. She was 20 something stone but the post mortem found it was all fluid and she would have weighed 12 stone without it. I can't recall if it was heart failure or kidneys.
In terms of fat, some things can cause resistance to weight loss, including insulin resistance and elevated cortisol.
In terms of fat, some things can cause resistance to weight loss, including insulin resistance and elevated cortisol.
Breakfast 5 days a week 35g porridge made with water and sweetner, 2 days is eggs. Either scrambled (2 eggs, 2 egg whites and water) maybe 1 x slice White bread or two dry fried eggs and a slice of toast.
Lunch ham salad with just lettuce, cucumber a nd tomatoes. Teaspoon of Mayo. Or a mug shot (1% fat ones)
Dinner meat and veg, stew or casserole, jacket potatoe (never butter) 5%!fat beef mince spag Bol or chilli. Fish. Salad, stormy, no noodles. Basically slimming world meals. Everything cooked from scratch. No processed foods, no pastry, fried foods etc.
Drinks: lots of earl grey tea no sugar, 1 litre water, couple,pints of squash and a diet coke treat in evening.
No puddings, cakes, biscuits, don't have a sweet tooth.
Only ever drink alcohol on Friday and Saturday nights. But not to excess. Might have a pudding on a Sunday after a roast.
Exercise. Cycle to school and back x 2 a day (10 mins each way, slowly) one hour bootcamps 2/3 times a week.
Been doing this for 6 weeks. Before that did slimming world for 6 weeks.
Lunch ham salad with just lettuce, cucumber a nd tomatoes. Teaspoon of Mayo. Or a mug shot (1% fat ones)
Dinner meat and veg, stew or casserole, jacket potatoe (never butter) 5%!fat beef mince spag Bol or chilli. Fish. Salad, stormy, no noodles. Basically slimming world meals. Everything cooked from scratch. No processed foods, no pastry, fried foods etc.
Drinks: lots of earl grey tea no sugar, 1 litre water, couple,pints of squash and a diet coke treat in evening.
No puddings, cakes, biscuits, don't have a sweet tooth.
Only ever drink alcohol on Friday and Saturday nights. But not to excess. Might have a pudding on a Sunday after a roast.
Exercise. Cycle to school and back x 2 a day (10 mins each way, slowly) one hour bootcamps 2/3 times a week.
Been doing this for 6 weeks. Before that did slimming world for 6 weeks.
pushthebutton said:
Be brutally honest with yourself. It's a numbers game and the probability is that you're consuming more than you think.
+1I work in an office of around 200 people, and every day you get the same group of fat women (and I mean really quite fat) sat round a table in the kitchen eating salad out of a plastic tub and all complaining that they just can't lose weight.
You just know for a fact that they will be eating packets of crisps in the afternoon when they get peckish and then stuffing themselves at home.
Unless you have a medical problem causing you to be overweight, which is fairly rare, then it really is a case of making sure your intake is less than your expenditure.
You could get one of those calorie counting fitness bracelet/watches. My brother has the latest Fitbit one and it's really good, but also gives you a rude awakening about how hard it is to actually 'burn off' those 2000 calories a day you take in.
An indelicate question but, OP what do you weigh? You can realistically expect to only loose 10% of your body weight in 12 months when loosing weight in a sensible manner, so six weeks is a very short amount of time. IMHO I can see a few things in your regime you could tweek but youve got to do what works for you. I'd find it unlikely you have a medical condition because possible causes are unlikely and would give you other problems as well.
Do you mean you've lost 0 lbs in 6 weeks?
Try myfitnesspal or equivalent - a very good calorie tracker that gives you calorie limits for a target weight you set. It also knows the calorie content of supermarket foods so you just need to count/weigh what you eat.
For example, it might give you an 1800 calorie limit, so you can split this down into 3x500 calorie meals and a few other bits and bobs. It seems to know what Mrs S will weigh based on her diet and exercise, so I'd suggest that if you follow a calorie controlled diet in this manner and still don't lose weight there could be s medical problem.
Try myfitnesspal or equivalent - a very good calorie tracker that gives you calorie limits for a target weight you set. It also knows the calorie content of supermarket foods so you just need to count/weigh what you eat.
For example, it might give you an 1800 calorie limit, so you can split this down into 3x500 calorie meals and a few other bits and bobs. It seems to know what Mrs S will weigh based on her diet and exercise, so I'd suggest that if you follow a calorie controlled diet in this manner and still don't lose weight there could be s medical problem.
Edited by simoid on Sunday 29th March 23:53
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