Help, really need advice on what to do!

I'm having the same problem, but without the medication. I'd be happy to see this too, as I'm the same height and around the same weight.

FIRST... do not beat yourself up.

Next... the formula is simple. Stay at a caloric deficit to lose weight. No fad diet, pill, book or 'As Seen On TV Gadget' is going to get the job done the right way. You must eat healthy, exercise and stay with it.

It takes Knowledge + Commitment + TIME!

Time is the biggest thing people forget. You did not get heavy overnight and you will not get fit overnight. Your body is an amazing machine, but sometimes it likes to stall out. You just have to keep going and push through it.

I'd also recommend adding strength training. Resistance bands work wonders and will let you train alone until you gain more confidence.

There is no quick fix. There is not a single success story where the person lost massive weight (and kept it off) in a short period of time.

STICK WITH IT!

Awe honey, I know your struggle. I have been stuck at a plateau up a lb, down a lb, up two lbs, down two lbs. I have not been able to get under 210 for over 2 months now. It is very frustrating, especially when yesterday the scale said 213.8. I have thought about giving up, but I have some health issues and feel like I can't afford give up. It would be giving up on myself.

However, my husband and I had some pictures taken last week and I almost didn't recognize myself. I looked so much thinner than I did less than a year ago. Its only a 25lb difference but wow, what a difference. I know I feel better and I look better. If I never lose another pound I know I am in a better place than a year ago.

My goal is to keep going and lose more, but I know I will be lucky if I lose 10 lbs by the end of the summer. I am a slow loser, but I will not give up. This is my life, and my slow journey. I imagine if I was more strict on my food intake and my exercise i would lose more faster. But with my health issues, I run the risk of doing too much and ending up in serious trouble. Slow losing and increasing my walking is the best I can do. So, I keep going. At my own pace, not others. I will tell you, I get frustrated but I find Non scale victories where I can.

Good Luck to you... it will happen you will lose weight. Just might be slow and steady, which is better than losing and gaining it back.

You can totally do this! Loads of people lose weight without orlistat and in fact I think it's probably not very good for you.

If I recall correctly, all orlistat does is stop you from absorbing some calories in fat, which is the food highest in calorie density. So all it's really doing is giving you a calorie deficit, which you can do all by yourself. The problem is if you go off orlistat and eat the same as before, you are absorbing more calories without eating more food.


This is really why diet pills don't work. Once you go off them you haven't learnt anything about how to feed your body for weightloss or maintenance.

It's still going to take a long time though and you should consider breaking it down into smaller goals. Don't think about your goal weight but think of your loss in increments, 5lbs at a time is usually a good one. The goal is to lose, don't worry about how long it takes to do it. Once you start nearing a weight that feels right for you then focus on goal weights and such.

If you are getting a lot of different advice form every direction it's really hard to keep focus and keep doing what you're doing. I know I've been guilty of this. I start doing my thing for a week then people tell me I should be doing something else, like eating 5 times a day, so I adjust and do that, then after a week someone tells me I shouldn't eat X product anymore so I have to keep that in balance too and it's all too much at once.

Here is a secret, most people don't know what they are talking about and they 100% don't know what is going tow ork for you. Only you can do that.

I know this sounds stupid because i just gave you a bunch of advice but these are just suggestions that worked for me. If you read some advice or a suggestion that you don't think is going to work for you, or is waaaay too far off your current plan don't just trash everything and assume someone else knows better, because they don't.

But if you find advice that kind of makes sense to you, and especially if it's from someone in an similar position to you, slowly adjust your diet towards that change.

I'll use my own experience as an example.

When I started a couple of months ago I was hearing a lot about low carb and keto (if you don't know what keto is, it's where you lower carbs down to about 20g a day. Which isn't much at all. 1 slice of bread and you'd be done). Doing full keto just seemed impossible but lowering carbs made sense to me, so everyday I would change up my diet just a tiny bit to lower my carbs, such as cut rice portions in half, only have 1 slice of toast with breakfast instead of two. Now I hardly eat any at all (compared to what I was used to), and if I really wanted to go full keto, it would just be a very small adjustment now. But If i had tried to jump straight in I would have failed miserably, because it was too big a change.

Basically I'm saying to believe and trust yourself. You have to because no one can do this but you. When you make changes, make them in small stages. Think of your goal as lots of small goals instead of one big daunting one. Slow down and figure out what you need, because no one else knows you better than you.

Also do a bit of research! Learning more about diet and fitness can really help arm you to do this.

This website http://www.coachcalorie.com/ is full of really good articles, ideas and facts about weightloss, nutrition, fitness and how the body works

Working out as you do... are you taking your measurements? Usually - as long as you are being honest with yourself in logging and staying on track with your nutrition / calories your body may be adjusting. You may be surprised that your waistline, thighs, etc have all dropped - but the scales won't show it. Then again on a weigh in day you will see it drop again. Don't be depressed over this. The body is a wonderful machine and at your age, I'm guessing that's what is happening. Hang in there - it will happen for you!!! :flowerforyou: