Help??? Not losing weight???

playhardkf2017

OP, you are at your ideal body weight which is for a female: 100 lbs for the first five ft and 5 lbs for every inch afterwards. If you want to change the way your body looks, I’d follow the recomposition suggestion in a previous post. I highly recommend working with a registered dietitian who has been trained in this area. They have all sorts of ways to help you reach your goals and the ability to work with your doctor to order some labs to make sure everything is working the way it should in your body. (Also make sure it’s a registered dietitian not just a nutritionist... RDs are credentialed and have gone through years of schooling and an almost year long internship.)

janejellyroll

OP, there are plenty of people here who want to be on the lower end of their BMI, including me. There's nothing inherently wrong with that.

The issue is that it is going to require patience and consistency. And, to be healthy, you'll need to to be reasonable with your food choices and calorie goals. None of that is in evidence from your posts.

If you're at the point where your cycle is getting messed up, that's a major wake-up call. You need to set a *reasonable* calorie goal with a *moderate* deficit. You'll want to accurately log to hit that goal consistently. And you'll be measuring your progress over weeks and weeks (even months and months), not jumping around from punishing fad to punishing fad.

JK1542020

Hey OP. I was you 15 years ago. Slim but wanted to be skinny. Worked put exessively, ate very little because I thought it was healthy, my periods stopped.

Now I'm 35, my periods never did come back so I couldnt have children. I'm obese (because eventually no matter what you think now you WILL eat and your body will make you play catch up on all those lost calories by way of bingeing) and a size 20. I've been trying my whole life to get it under control and I wish I could go back in time and never go down that road.

Eat food. Work put in moderation. Your periods are a huge sign you are doing something wrong. Your number 1 priority right now is to restore your menstrual cycle. End of. Forget weight loss until you've done that.

harper16

JK1542020 wrote: »

Hey OP. I was you 15 years ago. Slim but wanted to be skinny. Worked put exessively, ate very little because I thought it was healthy, my periods stopped.

Now I'm 35, my periods never did come back so I couldnt have children. I'm obese (because eventually no matter what you think now you WILL eat and your body will make you play catch up on all those lost calories by way of bingeing) and a size 20. I've been trying my whole life to get it under control and I wish I could go back in time and never go down that road.

Eat food. Work put in moderation. Your periods are a huge sign you are doing something wrong. Your number 1 priority right now is to restore your menstrual cycle. End of. Forget weight loss until you've done that.

I developed an eating disorder in my early 20's, and also stopped having my periods. It took spending thousands in fertility treatments to get pregnant.

OP you've gotten lots of great insightful advice. Please care about your health, and not just reaching a number on the scale as quickly as possible.

Strudders67

OP, you've been given a lot of good advise in this post and also in response to your question a few days ago about whether you should fast / starve yourself for a few days. Please read them and then look into recomp rather than further weight loss.

And make sure you really are eating enough. Like others, I think it's alarming that your periods have stopped.

madagirl81

5'4" and 125 pounds is skinny, you don't need to worry about losing weight

nooshi713

There is a good chance that you were way more active in high school and less active now. I agree with others who suggested you start counting calories again. Also, you don’t need to lose weight.