Never losing

id get a check up if i were you..


i have a pretty hard time losing weight, too... but not loosing for 3 years seems really strange.

First step is to get yourself checked out by your doctor. Tell them about your weight battle and what you have tried. If the tests come back blank, here's what has worked for me so far.

1. Set goals to lose 1lb a week set at sedentary.
2. Log and eat back exercise calories, but be honest with yourself - are you really walking 4mph or are you just tired and sweaty from walking 2.5mph because you are out of shape? If you are not sure then get yourself a HRM OR go by MFP calories BUT select the lowest level of the activity (for example low impact aerobics instead of aerobics, general)
3. Weigh and log food - all food, every square of chocolate, every "spare" potato left in the dish, everything.

After 4 months of this MFP reset my calories to 1210, so I upped them to 1400 because I found it just too low. I have continued to lose weight at that level, still set a t sedentary but eating back calories. I still enjoy cheese, wine, chocolate - just not so much of them.

You can do this!

I do Jillian Michaels ripped in 30 twice a week. I log everything! I bike more than 6 miles twice a week. I snowboard in the winter every weekend. I surf and go to the beach every weekend in the summer. I teach little kids and jump and dance all day long. If the fit bit says I burn 3000 cal a day. I could eat just about anything and lose weight couldn`t I?

Unfortunately, I live in Japan. Visiting a doctor would be problematic. There will be a pretty difficult language barrier, and could it really be that? I am 20 lbs overweight. I am in good shape under the layer of fat. When I push on it the underneath is hard. People are very practical here, let`s be real I want to lose vanity weight, or fat. I look fine for my age, just very squishy.

I did lose 50 lbs in 2 months by eating 500 cal a day three years ago. I gained back 30 in 6 months after. I looked like a piece of beef jerky. I worked on getting my muscle back since then. I won`t starve myself again. Especially since it doesn`t work this time. Even starving I lose very little.

I should be so thin. But 3 years later. I am not, I am still 20 lbs overweight.

To be real.....when would you be able to see a doctor?

I found $70 to get my RMR tested to be money well spent. You breathe into a machine for 10 minutes. Sometimes when you have this much problem it's best to have a real number to work with. The nutritionist dietician whatever he was guy gave me basic calorie ranges for weight loss, maintenance, and gain. Very useful.

My advice, since you can not see a doctor is this.
Eat 1500 calories, and do Insanity, instead of JM.
Start to run and not bike.
Try to figure out how to burn 1000 calories though the entire day. (morning, afternoon, night)
See if that helps... It wont help over night, but after a week or two

You didn't mention whether or not you are lifting weights. Weight-lifting heavy weights does an incredible amount of calorie burning. (It isn't so much the lifting itself as the calorie used in repairing and strengthening your muscles). I don't lift heavy yet (I have arthritis and I am being very cautious). But even the body weight workouts (which are pretty safe) I do and my lifting of 7 pound dumbbells has done a LOT to help correct some of the flab and to burn more calories. Have been on this routine for about four months now, and even though I've only lost 8 pounds during that time, my body fat has continued to drop--my tummy bulge continues to shrink. It has obviously boosted my metabolism. I actually get hungry now--on more calories than I was eating when I was just maintaining before. Oh--and I am hypothyroid, but that has been improving since I started lifting weights. I have had a reduction in my thyroid medication and I may be able to eliminate it entirely one day.

Another thing you might want to look at is the amount of carbohydrates you are eating. As you get older, your body becomes less efficient at burning carbohydrates for energy and more efficient at storing them as fat. :frown: Carbohydrates that are high on the glycemic index (like white flour, sugar and white rice) boost blood sugar higher and faster than other carbohydrates (like vegetables and fruits). High blood sugar promotes fat gain (among other undesirable effects). I don't eat very low carb but I do eat lower carb. Most days, I eat around 100 grams of carb--sometimes less, sometimes a bit more (on my cardio days). I never eat more than 120 grams of carb in a day. I find that if I eat 150 grams or more, I will gain body fat, no matter how few calories I eat (it makes some sense bio-chemically but too long to go into here).

I only do two days of cardio a week. It can be self-defeating to do too much cardio (again, too long to go into here but you can look up "body composition" and it will give you some answers). I hope I will eventually lift three days a week with 25-pound dumbbells, but since I am 65 (and arthritic), I have to be careful about pushing the weight-lifting too fast. The older you are, the more recovery time you need. Some experts say that no one should lift more than three days a week and that if you are older, you may not even be able to get to lifting three times a week (many older people need more than 48 hours of recovery time.) Hope this has been helpful. Good luck.