Wife is having some issues losing weight... any tips?

Gska17

edetherington wrote: »

Thank you to everyone for the feedback and suggestions. I spoke with my wife and she has agreed to at least up her daily calories to 1400

Good! That's what I did. I was consistently eating right at 1,200 and it bit me in the butt. I got sick and dizzy. I suddenly realized I was going about weight loss the wrong way. I'm training for a 10K to boot which I was not fueling properly.

GL to her, I wish her the best! Tell her to drop me a friend request if she'd like.

misskarne

Eating less than 1200? No wonder she's dizzy.

I once saw a great quote on here, and I wish I could remember who posted it, but it went something like this: the winner of this race is the one who gets to eat the most food and still lose weight.

kbmnurse

See an MD ASAP. Dizziness not good.

Justygirl77

edetherington wrote: »

My wife and I started our new diet/workout routine on April 1st. Initially she lost 19 pounds in the first 3 weeks. We quit drinking pop (well we allow ourselves one a week as treat), quit all the junk food, and lately she's been staying under her goal of 1200 cals a day. Unfortunately she's having some issue right now with dizziness so she isn't able to workout for the time being.

The last two weeks she's barely lost anything and she's starting to get depressed and discouraged by it. Anything else she should be doing? She drinks plenty of water every day and this is what her daily meals normally consist of.

Breakfast - Green smoothie - 1 Banana, 1/2 cup strawberries, 1/2 cup blueberries, 1 tablespoon of PB2, 1 cup of Kale, 1/3 cup of 1% cottage cheese, and 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk.

Lunch - 100 cal yoplait greek yogurt, orange or banana, or any leftovers from previous day

Dinner - We normally have a main course of lean meat (chicken breast, lean hamburger, ground turkey, etc.) with some type of veggies (normally baked potatoes, corn, green beans, etc.)

Any tips or recommendations for her would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
E

From one woman to another (your wife) I can say that....her hormones are imbalanced!! It's a miserable experience, and it can happen at any age. Her dizziness, depression, and difficulty dropping weight are all symptoms. Did you forget to mention brain fog? The hormones can be corrected by eating in such a way as to rebalance their proportion to one-another, the interaction of the hormones with each other, and the proper firing of the endocrine glands.

You can google hormone imbalance quiz, there are plenty of them online, she can take a quiz and see how her particular set of symptoms are clusters of symptoms (and often overlapping symptoms!!) that indicate which hormones and how they are imbalanced (too low, too high, or dysregulated--not controlled).

For several weeks to several months she can eat in a targeted fashion, like as follows:
Remove sugar, fruit, grains and dairy, as well as conventional meats (they are laden with hormones, adding to the problem). Sounds difficult or restrictive, but actually it's not, I've been doing it for more than 6 weeks!
Instead, eat non-starchy veggies(lots of them), grass-fed beef, organic chicken and eggs, grain-free vegan protein powders (such as pea protein), and lots of healthy fats such as nuts and nut butters, avocado, ghee, refined and virgin coconut oil. Also increase the fiber to 35-45g/day (gradually, adding 5g/day) Her macros would be like 40-50% fat, 35% protein, and less than 50g Net Carbs per day (from the veggies and nuts and small serving of legumes or black beans). Net Carbs are Carbs - Fiber.

What this does is to target cortisol and blood sugar levels first and foremost. It allows these levels to normalize. Cortisol crashes the body's hormone party and causes all kinds of problems with all the other hormones.

So a sample day might look like this

Breakfast
Stir fry with seafood or scrambled eggs
Green protein smoothie (ice water, a few almonds, a scoop of vanilla pea protein, a wad of parsley or 2 de-stemmed kale leaves, 2T cacao powder, 2t Maca, stevia powder to sweeten---whip up in high powered blender)

Lunch
Lentil soup w/grassfed beef
salad
Some dark chocolate for dessert

Dinner
Salmon
Steamed veggies