Weightloss has stalled at the most frustrating point

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  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Getting under 200 is a big goal for everyone! Congrats on being close. Those last few pounds to get under 200 seem to take forever. Just keep working your plan!
  • Rusty740
    Rusty740 Posts: 749 Member
    Steady as she goes. It'll come off.
  • SammiLilyBug
    SammiLilyBug Posts: 11 Member
    This is literally me right now. Started at 255, now I'm weighing in anywhere from 200.4-202.5 the past two weeks. My body's just like nah you aren't gonna hit this milestone yet. Lol but it's super frustrating though I completely understand. This is my first "plateau" I guess.
  • gabriellejayde
    gabriellejayde Posts: 607 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    gabriellejayde wrote: »
    I am eating less that 1200 cals a day and I do log often, so the days that I don't, i ate either the same calories as the days that I do, or if they are over 1200, I don't care because .. well because it's a sprint, not a marathon. I've been losing 2-3 lbs a week so I wasn't on the cusp of maintenance calories the last 4 months. I appreciate your advice though. I'll log for the next few days and see what I get.

    Interesting that you view your weight loss as a sprint.

    This could explain why you're frustrated when the scale doesn't obey your wishes, or doesn't reflect your hard work.

    I wish you luck... and patience.

    *our personal experiences are bound to differ since I've chosen to try to lower the difficulty bar everywhere I can because I view all this as an extremely long ultra-marathon that will never end... while you've chosen to do the opposite...

    lol... I actually mistyped that... I meant to say the opposite. I'm not in a rush to lose. I know it will happen.
  • gabriellejayde
    gabriellejayde Posts: 607 Member
    40lbslighter wrote: »
    gabriellejayde wrote: »
    I had a physical last week and I'm off all meds. Bloodwork was good. I'm 50 btw.
    My doc knows my diet.

    Super cool! Glad to know a doctor is monitoring your VLCD. =)

    And to your original frustration:
    Watching the scale go up and down is frustrating enough as it is. I imagine hovering around such a milestone number would be ten times as intense!

    With such low dietary fiber intake, and if you are not taking supplemental fiber, maybe a good poop will throw you right into onederland! =D

    ha... you may be right (I do take fiber though)
    I think a lot of people have a misconception about how much "monitoring" happens when a person is under a doctor's care and on a low calorie diet. I see my doc every 3 months and he has actually never asked me what I eat. I've told him, and all he asked is if I'm taking vitamins (yes) and getting in enough protein (almost always). I have another doctor I see on occasion, who also knows I'm on a low calorie diet. She gave me a physical and checked my blood work, which was good, but again... didn't ask what I'm actually eating.

    I see a lot of people say that eating under 1200 calories is dangerous... unless you're under a doctor's care. Being under a doctor's care doesn't really mean as much as some people think though.
  • DamieBird
    DamieBird Posts: 651 Member
    The 'under a doctor's care' assumption means that the person who is doing a VLCD is doing so because their doctor has directed them to do so for health reasons such as preparation for weight loss surgery, or because a health risk is so imminent that the benefits of getting the excess fat off quickly outweigh the (very real and dangerous) risks. The person in question simply doesn't have the luxury of going about weight loss in a healthy strategy.

    It's interesting to see that your doctors have basically not weighed in (pun intended ;) ) on the particulars of your diet, but it's good to see that your one doctor went ahead with the blood work and all of that. I hope that they continue to do so in regular intervals for as long as you keep your calories so low.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    You didn't state you were under a medically-directed VLCD. No wonder people thought you were starving yourself.

    A medically-directed VLCD isn't supposed to last forever. My son's girlfriend was on one, and she was given "diet breaks".

    Also, have you asked the doctor what factors will mean you can end the diet?

    These are things that make onlookers glad a doctor is supervising you.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,295 Member
    gabriellejayde wrote: »
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    gabriellejayde wrote: »
    I am eating less that 1200 cals a day and I do log often, so the days that I don't, i ate either the same calories as the days that I do, or if they are over 1200, I don't care because .. well because it's a sprint, not a marathon. I've been losing 2-3 lbs a week so I wasn't on the cusp of maintenance calories the last 4 months. I appreciate your advice though. I'll log for the next few days and see what I get.

    Interesting that you view your weight loss as a sprint.

    This could explain why you're frustrated when the scale doesn't obey your wishes, or doesn't reflect your hard work.

    I wish you luck... and patience.

    *our personal experiences are bound to differ since I've chosen to try to lower the difficulty bar everywhere I can because I view all this as an extremely long ultra-marathon that will never end... while you've chosen to do the opposite...

    lol... I actually mistyped that... I meant to say the opposite. I'm not in a rush to lose. I know it will happen.

    Your food level choices indicate otherwise.

    Your medical supervision and reason for your VLCD AS EXPLAINED AND DESCRIBED to date... sound unconvincing.

    (It sounds like you told your GP' "I want to lose weight fast"...

    and they said: "good for you, go to town".

    That is a bit short of what I would expect from a medically supervised VLCD)
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,140 Member
    ldwatene wrote: »
    Don't weigh yourself so often. Once a week is plenty. You'll do your head in scale watching everyday

    Not true, for some people it may do their head in, for others it can be useful, if OP weighed once a week, she may not have seen the lower of the weights.
  • smh_cliff
    smh_cliff Posts: 146 Member
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    ldwatene wrote: »
    Don't weigh yourself so often. Once a week is plenty. You'll do your head in scale watching everyday

    Not true, for some people it may do their head in, for others it can be useful, if OP weighed once a week, she may not have seen the lower of the weights.

    Also, I don't weigh daily but I probably would if I was that close to a milestone!
  • 40lbslighter
    40lbslighter Posts: 479 Member
    gabriellejayde wrote: »
    Starvation mode?
    I'm not going into the mysterious and illusive  (and mythical) starvation mode because it doesn't exist

    This threw me for a loop for a second.  As a scientist, I could not understand how a basic cellular/molecular biology principle could be interpreted as a myth?! 

    After doing a Google search I saw the misunderstanding.  "Starvation mode" in diet/nutrition speak refers to some weird (and abusive!) human starvation study done 100 years ago that has been used to alternatively support and refute individual views on weight loss. 

    I was completely unaware of this definition and certainly never intended to perpetuate any myth!

    I had meant to refer to the "starvation reaction" of cells and associated metabolic/endocrine/neural/etc pathways affected by low energy intake which may temporarily stall or mask weightloss.

    Mistakenly, I had used the term "mode," which to me meant a system of functions, not goofball's 1917 "study." Oops!

    Thank you so much for pointing this out!  I love learning and I have enjoyed reading the abstracts of cited research in some of the articles debunking the "starvation mode" myth this week. 

    No need to discuss this topic further in this thread (there's plenty in MFP stickies.)  I only wish to acknowledge my error in terminology and thank @gabriellejayde and @kommodevaran for bringing it to my attention.

    P.S.  @gabriellejayde How has this week gone?  Hope you are blissfully in  Onederland!

    Best Regards!
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