Can't beat the 220 lb curse

smw1023

As an undereater that was gaining weight on 800-900 cals a day I say eat more! I have slowly been upping cals over the last few months and continue to lose.
Also, 15 pounds is nothing to sneeze at, I can imagine your body is just leveling off a little, you can't have been stuck long. I have been stuck for a month before and only started losing again by eating more. You have been given lots of good advice allready and even tho I know the thought of eating more is scary, do the numbers and eat what you need instead of picking a random number that you think sounds right. As for how to eat all those cals pick calorie dense stuff like nuts, nut butters, avocado.

CoderGal

1. You lost 15lbs in the beginning of a month. That is concerning, and a ****ton of weight to lose in less then a month.
2. The weight you lost was on a highly restrictive diet. Initially that will get rid of allot glycogen and the like, not much muscle or fat. That's the kind of weight a healthy person wants to keep.
3. Weight loss is not linear, you shouldn't see a consistent drop of continuous weight loss, that would be a concerning health problem.
4. Way to go on the exercise, that is impressive! Keep up the great work. Be careful though, on a highly restrictive diet this can result in getting easily injured when you are not supplying yourself with enough food to repair. You can only get as much energy out of a system as you put into it.
5. You are a 35 year adult and eating less then a child, why?
6. Eating healthy food doesn't necessarily mean health when you're not eating enough. That's why my sister showed no signs of health problems until she started a diet that consisted of mostly vegetables and chicken. Sounds like a good idea right? Well both of your ideas of healthy is concerning. "Healthy food" doesn't consist of a particular thing, it's all the things together as a whole that makes it healthy. Eating the things you consider healthy are mostly low fat. You're not going to be absorbing the nutrients in those nutrient dense 'healthy foods' if you're not eating enough fat, as those nutrients are fat soluble.

Do not rely on trainers to know about nutrition. If someone tells you something, look it up. I know many trainers personally, and I while some are well meaning, I would trust them as far as I could throw a car. In fact doctors know little about nutrition as well, that can be observed just by looking at many of them. I know 2 friends who lost a lot of weight. Both were told to go on highly restrictive diets by their doctors. One did it and he admits the way he went about it was torturous and wasn't very effective compared to the other friend. The other friend cut down calories slightly and gave himself enough fuel to run triathlons. Both of them lost about 100 pounds, guess who looks better now and actually changed their view on how they look at themselves?

Eat more, there are many people who have been stuck in the same situation you are, take it from my friend Taso:

Not necessarily, as starvation mode is a overused/abused terms. But there is a high probability that it will hinder your long term success.

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And a favorite of mine:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/572503-why-you-should-eat-more-a-lion-s-tale