Struggling with weight for 12 years ...:(

pubali90

Hey..hello beautiful people. ..I have started using this app recently..i started on my weightloss program on July 4th..since then have lost about 22 lbs..but now weightloss seems to have slowed down..I tried to add more cardio but still not pacing up...I have been struggling with my weightfor 12 years now..being a doctor myself it was carrying guilt along with excess weight..it kind of led me into utter misery, loneliness and friendlessness..I suffer from chronic migraine and pcos. ..I have tried several ways before but all ended in giving up...hoping to achieve my goal..4 stones to go

Lillymoo01

I spent most of my life struggling with being overweight. Over the last year and a bit I lost close to 40 kg and for the first time in my adult life am a healthy weight. If I can do it so can you. Just stick with foods that you enjoy, fill your nutritional requirements, keep you in a deficit and that you can continue consuming happily once you lose those remaining 4 stone. Weight-loss is much more of what you eat, rather than how much you exercise. You can't out exercise a bad diet.

Just remember that the initial weight loss would have been mainly water so it is normal to lose quickly to begin with and then slow down after that. The most important thing is to keep losing and the slower you lose the better in the long run. Using a trending app like Libra or Happy Scale can be great for motivation. These apps smoothe out the daily fluctuations and you see instead the trend, hopefully downhill.

timtam163

Congrats on the initial success! From what you posted it sounds like you only cardio? Lifting heavy might be worth trying.

Also maybe you've heard this already but weigh/measure everything you eat and log accurately; it's easy to eat back your deficit in logging error.

fiddletime

That's a great start- congratulations. Just stick with the program and aim to lose about a pound a week. It'll slow as you get closer to your goal weight. I'm 9 pounds from my GW and am only losing 2 pounds a month. I could lose it faster, but am really working on understanding maintenance, intellectually (pretty easy) and psychologically (much harder, for me).

kmbmoutswi

Hi good people, this is all inspiring to me, I am on my 21st day as a user of this app, i have been logging in daily my food intake and only twice it was horrible, the other days were deficits so I am happy with this. I have been eating right and swimming for an hour to an hour and thirty minutes in week days and ao I hope this will do something great a few months from now. I feel stronger now than when I started so its coming up well. I need some pals in this journey, so please keep up the posts and I hope to hear from some of you again soon. So any more tips? Oh i havent weighed in, the scale is dreadful but i will have to soon to see my progress.

dutchandkiwi

Initial weightless when starting the app is often very significant and inspring, then the hard parts starts. The weightless will slow down. All initial water weight is gone, often sodium levels in foods are dropped which helps that process and then the journey starts.
The difficulty is then despite the intel feeling of why is it slowing down to have faith in the proces To continue to weigh foods, log foods and being honest about food. Exercise yes, but for health reasons and resistance training add all to it but the reality is the main component is being honest about food and to continue to be.
Being honest about it also means that of you eat more than you had planned to log it and move on. From my 3,5 years of logging that would be the biggest most important lesson I learned; log and trust the process

pubali90

timtam163 wrote: »

Congrats on the initial success! From what you posted it sounds like you only cardio? Lifting heavy might be worth trying.

Also maybe you've heard this already but weigh/measure everything you eat and log accurately; it's easy to eat back your deficit in logging error.

Yes..only cardio
Biceps and triceps once in a while
What should I do for tummy

sijomial

Yep the first bit is the (relatively) easy bit, then you have to dig in and commit to the process and ride the wave of elation and disappointment.

BTW
No idea if it was coincidental or not but as I got lighter and fitter my chronic migraines that had plagued me for decades receded in frequency and severity.

pubali90

sijomial wrote: »

Yep the first bit is the (relatively) easy bit, then you have to dig in and commit to the process and ride the wave of elation and disappointment.

BTW
No idea if it was coincidental or not but as I got lighter and fitter my chronic migraines that had plagued me for decades receded in frequency and severity.

Hey
Thanks for ur motivation. .
Are u on any medication for migraine?

sijomial

pubali90 wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

Yep the first bit is the (relatively) easy bit, then you have to dig in and commit to the process and ride the wave of elation and disappointment.

BTW
No idea if it was coincidental or not but as I got lighter and fitter my chronic migraines that had plagued me for decades receded in frequency and severity.

Hey
Thanks for ur motivation. .
Are u on any medication for migraine?

When I was in a spell of almost back-to-back migraines I was put on Pizotifen as a prophylactic (was fairly effective at breaking the cycle but seemed to mess with my hunger signals - but then again I've always been greedy!) and Migril for the acute treatment. Migril worked far better for me than Sumatriptan which did virtually nothing for me.

These days I just take OTC meds on rare occasions I need them. Migraleve, just the pink one. Or Ibuprofen Lysine is effective for me if taken early when I sense a migraine might be developing.

Very liberating not to feel the need to carry meds with me all the time.
Best of luck.

misnomer1

sijomial wrote: »

Yep the first bit is the (relatively) easy bit, then you have to dig in and commit to the process and ride the wave of elation and disappointment.

BTW
No idea if it was coincidental or not but as I got lighter and fitter my chronic migraines that had plagued me for decades receded in frequency and severity.

More activity has reduced my migraines too. I used to have tight and stressed upper traps as well. Now gone because of lifting I presume.