Frustrated at slow weight loss!!!!!!

straysilverfox

When I initially started my diet, I did small things like not drink so much soda, or maybe not order pizza that week, and even those small things caused me to lose weight rapidly. Eventually, of course, I hit a point where the weight loss slowed down, but that's kind of what I expected. All the excess water weight and excess food that I couldn't process fast enough got purged from my system, and suddenly I'm down to the same rate of 1-2 pounds a week. Wonderful!

If this keeps up, I'll be at a clinically healthy BMI by March. Time flies. Don't lose your way.

ndj1979

brdnw wrote: »

she goes "Im desperate to lose weight however, i drink a 200 calorie drink a day as a cheat meal" get rid of that cheat meal and she loses 1500 calories a week, or .5lb of fat a week she can lose, just by drinking a glass of water instead and that same drink, the cost of it can easily pay a monthly gym membership.

Just because it fits in your macros, if it's not required nutritionally, and you're desperate to lose weight, why would you slow yourself down?

I lost 90lb so i feel like i pretty good context how to adjust a lifestyle change. Telling someone "oh 1lb a week is great" is silly, there's no point in coddling people that's how they get so out of shape. It's so easy to lose weight if you really try and the best part, is the bigger you are, the faster it comes off.

First - your weight loss does not make you a nutritional expert.

second - one pound per week loss is pretty damn good.

Third - if she drinks a 200 calorie drink and is in a calorie deficit, for that day, then she is going to lose weight. Food type is not going to slow or speed up weight loss.

fourth - you do not get 'extra credit' for exceeding nutritional requirements. If she hits her calorie/macro/micro goal then it does not matter how she gets there.

finally - macro adherence is not important when ones goal is strictly fat loss.

Food = food there is nothing good, bad, or magical about it.

TimothyFish

Doctors recommend that obese people lose 5% to 10% of their body weight in 6 months.

PeachyCarol

1-2 pounds a week is doing very well! Keep logging, drink plenty of water, plan to incorporate more activity (I would not count standing as exercise and log it, nor would I eat back those calories), and the weight will continue to come off. That rate of loss is, as has been noted, 50-100 pounds a year and is terrific.

Bearbo27

I think everything was covered but I would also like to point out that standing is NOT exercise. If you are counting that as such on mfp and eating those calories back then that will slow your weight loss for sure.

Bearbo27

To the previous poster ranting about cutting out all "junk". I lost 30lbs in 4 months a little over a year ago while eating anything I wanted as long as it fit in my calorie goal for the day. The only reason it was gained back is because of being very ill and in the hospital for a week. When I got out I completely stopped logging and throughout the past year gained it back. Point being, you don't have to live on celery sticks and water to lose weight.

NoelFigart1

TimothyFish wrote: »

Doctors recommend that obese people lose 5% to 10% of their body weight in 6 months.

I wanna give some figures here to put that in perspective. (I am not saying @Timothyfish is wrong. I just want to point out what a very modest goal that's being recommended IS)

I started my diet on 9/28/14 at 260lbs. So, that would mean that by a doctor's recommendation, I should lose 26 lbs by 3/28/15. (Let's just say that I'm in no danger whatsoever of failing to reach that goal)

So for me, we would have been talking about losing a milliscrunch over a pound a week to reach the most ambitious goal that a doctor would recommend.

Fast weight loss isn't necessarily all that amazing, is it?

itsMcKay

ndj1979: I won't quote your whole post but: hear, hear! Well said.

brdnw

Bearbo27 wrote: »

To the previous poster ranting about cutting out all "junk". I lost 30lbs in 4 months a little over a year ago while eating anything I wanted as long as it fit in my calorie goal for the day. The only reason it was gained back is because of being very ill and in the hospital for a week. When I got out I completely stopped logging and throughout the past year gained it back. Point being, you don't have to live on celery sticks and water to lose weight.

So you're saying you didn't develop a new lifestyle and your temporary diet failed you.

You just reiterated all of my points. You kept eating crappy and now you're back at stage one. Being sick in a hospital for a week doesn't cause you to gain weight eating crap does.

brdnw

ndj1979 wrote: »

brdnw wrote: »

she goes "Im desperate to lose weight however, i drink a 200 calorie drink a day as a cheat meal" get rid of that cheat meal and she loses 1500 calories a week, or .5lb of fat a week she can lose, just by drinking a glass of water instead and that same drink, the cost of it can easily pay a monthly gym membership.

Just because it fits in your macros, if it's not required nutritionally, and you're desperate to lose weight, why would you slow yourself down?

I lost 90lb so i feel like i pretty good context how to adjust a lifestyle change. Telling someone "oh 1lb a week is great" is silly, there's no point in coddling people that's how they get so out of shape. It's so easy to lose weight if you really try and the best part, is the bigger you are, the faster it comes off.

First - your weight loss does not make you a nutritional expert.

second - one pound per week loss is pretty damn good.

Third - if she drinks a 200 calorie drink and is in a calorie deficit, for that day, then she is going to lose weight. Food type is not going to slow or speed up weight loss.

fourth - you do not get 'extra credit' for exceeding nutritional requirements. If she hits her calorie/macro/micro goal then it does not matter how she gets there.

finally - macro adherence is not important when ones goal is strictly fat loss.

Food = food there is nothing good, bad, or magical about it.

"First" but you're an expert then? I'm leaner than you despite certainly weighing more and most likely lost more weight than you have, so i've got results backing my statements.

"Second" and one pound loss per weak is terrible. I don't understand people saying "take 3 years to lose all your weight". Get it now.

"third" Why bother? She said she's desperate, why drink garbage that hinders you. If she replaces those drinks with water will she not get a boost by dropping that 200 calories a day? You don't see people on biggest loser eating dominos bc it fits in their macros, they want results.

and "food DOES NOT = food". There are good food choices (one's that fill you up, provide nutrition with less calories) vs crappy choices that will lead you snacking more or still feeling hungry. I'd rather be in a deficit than saying "well it fits in my macros and i'm weak, so i might as well eat these candybars"