Medical reasons for not losing weight

[Lemmonie]

So, apart from a thyroid condition, are there any other reasons for not losing weight despite diet and exercise!

[Lemmonie]

An extensive list! Thank you.

I think I can cross most off. Back to the docs I go......

[Lemmonie]

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.

[Lemmonie]

Couple glasses of wine. Couple of shorts and diet coke. I suffer with migraines and hangovers are a big trigger so I'm rarely drunk. Also I have Bootcamp Sunday's spat ten am so need to be alert and have eaten to be able to do that so sensible on Saturday nights.

[Lemmonie]

It's been 12 weeks. 6 weeks of slimming world alone. Would lose a pound, gain a pound, lose 2 pounds, gain 1.5 repeat etc.

Then another 6 weeks of bootcamps, weight is maintained. I'm not expecting g fast loses. Just a loss.

I can maintain well.

Pasta is always brown, haven't really had any rice. Bread is only two slices a week. And the first 6 weeks on slimming world I had none!

No fruit really, not a fan. Loads of veg.

[Lemmonie]

Female, 12 stone, size 12-14

[Lemmonie]

I'm 5ft 2.

The cycling isn't really for exercise, I have to get kids to school and choose not to drive them, so there and back, twice a day = 4x10 min rides.

I can't make that any longer!

[Lemmonie]

Ok, food.

Porridge 120k
Water 0k
Sweetner 0k

Ham salad
Ham 150k
Cucumber 16c
Toms 12k

Or

Mugshot 100k

Based on my weight, height, etc I should have between 1200 and 1400 to lose weight.

So above leaves 877 k to have at dinner. There is no way I eat more than that at dinner. I have meat and veg, carbs like pasata or potato are very small ( fist size)

Even if I had a pint of semi skimmed milk for my tea ( I have no where near that) it's another190k.

Doesn't add up!

[Lemmonie]

Ok, roast dinner

Roast chicken breast 142k
Gravy 15k
Potato (dry roasted) 100k
Veg, no more than 100k

Total 342k hardly an over the top meal!

Pudding, let's say a 300k pudding

Wine: 1 bottle Pinot 620k

Vodka: 55k per measure. Let's say I have 8 vodkas 440
Diet coke free.

That is 8400 per week.
Minus. Alcohol for week = 7340
Minus 300k for a pudding = 7040

Divide by 7 = 1005k per day which I'm well within.

[Lemmonie]

That's not taking into account any exercise which should/would??? Allow me extra calories?


Urgh, this is hard!

[Lemmonie]

Foliage said:

You just pulling figures out of the air? Because most of that looks wrong to me. Veg for a start will be circa 0cals. Potatoes double it, gravy double it, chicken is right depending on how much you have 140 is half a breast (86g) so id guess it needs to be higher as that's quite a small portion so double it, a roast dinner is easily gonna be circa 700calories.

Slice of fudge cake is 230cals, but add ice cream or custard and its more. So 300cal might be about right but it depends what you have, id say more like 400cals.

Most meals are around 500-700.

Alcohol looks right. But if your serious about losing weight that's the easiest thing to cut back on if not cut out completely, if you cant cut it out you need to see your doctor.

TBH im starting to see you make excuses, you either want our advice or you don't. If you were looking for an easy answer their isn't one, no magic pill, no special trick, just hard work, the hardest part being mentally.

If you want to exercise id suggest couch to 5k, 30minutes 3 times a week on your own, if you cant find 90minutes in the 10000+ minutes in a week you need to readdress your priorities a tad. Also with the latest revelations about child obesity getting your kids into good eating habits now would do them wonders. I could link 100s of articles but im not sure you'd read them.

First read this http://markmanson.net/weight-loss

Edited by Foliage on Tuesday 31st March 10:06

Edited by Foliage on Tuesday 31st March 10:08

Wow.

So, from my diet of no processed food, no fried food, no fast food, no pastry, etc you have concluded my kids need to get into healthy eating?! fk you. Thanks.



Appreciate other advise from those that don't appear such complete tts though.

[Lemmonie]

eztiger said:

You have 'a' potato singular with your roast? What about the beers? Yorkshire puddings?

The overwhelming advice you've received here is that you're grossly underestimating your calorie intake. The above would continue to suggest that.

300 on a pudding may also be very optimistic given you're guessing at it.


Do more exercise. .

Ok, yes a single medium potato! I'm dieting! Lol. No yorkies, rest of the family have them, again I'm dieting so I dont. No beers I'm afraid. I don't have a small plate granted, but I do love veg so I tend to go large there. Obviously it's all cooked no butter, oil etc. I'm not having portions of cauliflower cheese either! Lol

Pudding: to be fair I did guess that. I googled calories on everything else. But maybe 2/3 a month I have one. It's ealisy avoided though as I don't have a sweet tooth. When and if I do its use
Ly a very small portion. But often I pass.

Exercise, I currently do 2/3 times a week 1 hour of HITT training. Non stop for an hour. Not ponying around on a treadmill.

What would you suggest is more acceptable?

[Lemmonie]

Antonia said:

Sometimes people who have had success loosing weight can become very evangelical about it. OP don't loose heart. For healthy weight loss you should only be looking to loose 14lb in a year, so that's a little over 1lb a month. Stop weekly weigh ins and keep going as you are (as a GP I should insert something here about alcohol etc etc). Like some one else said aim for 2lb in 6 weeks. The exercise will be doing your heart the world of good. It doesn't sound to me like you have any reason to think you have a medical condition preventing weight loss. Good luck!

Thank you". Actually I spose I have got swept away with the whole calories in and out part of this topic.

The reason I actually asked the original question was because I am under investigation for a couple of issues one of which was a thyroid condition. However bloods show that I'm "normal" im having others investigations for conditions which are included in someone's reply earlier.

I perhaps should have stopped there but it's been an interesting exercise anyway looking at detail at my diet which I guess I had left to a slimming world consultant and my trainer. Both of whom consider my diet good and conducive to weight loss even if slow.

My trainer would suggest though I'm not eating regularly enough, preferring me to eat smaller meals but more of them.

All interesting but will go back to gp/consultants and report my weight issue with them. It may or may not help.