I am doing really well/why no lbs lost?

how long has it been since you have lost any weight?? try eating over your caloires for one day, that will boost your matabolism. also, if you have been doing the same exercises for a while, change it up. surprise your muscles, you get a better calorie burn.

I, too, was diagnosed with PCOS and IR this year. I lost quite a bit of weight 2 1/2 years ago and was at a loss why nothing was working anymore. I was eating less and less and working out more and more and still managed to gain 20+ pounds over the last 2years. Now, I have a diagnosis but I still don't have answers or a solution. I will be going back to my endocrinologist for a 2 month check-up later this month and will ask more... but for now, it seems I have to work my butt of to maintain and not blow up. I hope you get some advice that helps you reach your health and weight loss goals!!
Cindy

hey!!


Just a thought maybe your doing too well?! - Your body might have adjusted to what your doing already and stopped for a while. How often are you weighing yourself - I wouldn't do it more than once a week as otherwise it can be a bit unrealistic as our body changes day to day.

How long have you stayed the same for? Sometimes it takes a while for changes to reflect in our bodies....

Maybe jiggle things round a little - are you eating back your exercise calories? If not then your body might be going in starvation mode, or, maybe leave off some of the exercise for a week.....

Loosing weight is a balancing act that is different for everyone, some people have to eat back their exercise calories and some don't. I know I have to eat back about 3/4s of my cals to loose weight otherwise i'll stop or even gain.

Just remember that even though your the same, your not gaining and your still lighter than when you started the journey!

Good luck xx

Weight loss is a pretty simple calculation, you KNOW why you are not losing weight, it's because you are eating more than you are burning, a weight gain due to exercise is temporary (1 week or so) muscle gain will at most slow you down a week or two, you simply cant gain a pound of muscle every week. Therefore you are eating more than you are burning. It's hard, it's tough, you'll be hungry, but you cannot lose weight unless you burn the calories. I would simply try for one week to not put anything in your mouth without weighing and counting it. You may be surprised that some of your guesstimates about calories are way off base.

Whenever I get fed up about not losing, I always go back to this journalling and i always find it's the hidden bites here and there that are enough to stop it. Every time I do it, I realise how easy it is to eat 1500 calories a day, i could do it before 11am most days!

You look at pictures of people in the concentration camps. there were NO fat people. obviously that is an extreme example, but if you give your body less food than it needs, it will shed fat, under any circumstances eventually.

Good luck, I hope you find the way that works for you.

I have been in your shoes. In my case it was definitely commitment to strict calorie counting and exercise intensity.

Have you always been active physically? You may need to step up the intensity. How many days per week are you working out? The way your message read, you seem to do classes at the gym, 2-3 times per week? You may need to increase that or find some high intensity work outs that you can supplement at home.

I don't lose weight or change my body unless I combine a 5-6 day per week, high intensity, work out regimen which is combined with a low fat, low sodium, low sugar, diet between 1300-1500 calories.

You have to find the combination that works best for your body. (Mine is stubborn) But I would take a serious look at your diet. Low carb tends to bring about a more high fat, high sodium diet which can be equally damaging.

Otherwise, if all those things are in check, I agree with the other poster, to give it time. I haven't lost a pound for over a month. But I am losing inches and reshaping my body. I am gaining a lot of muscle. (My body tends to do that too) I don't mind what the scale says when I put on a bathing suit that I haven't been able to wear in 6 years, and it looks better than it did then. :happy:

you joined in april and lost 6 pounds.
Even if you joined April 1st that is STILL an average of 1.5 lbs a week which is REALLY good. Most people should aim for 1 lb a week and 2 id s the max for healthy loss, so you are doing great.
The only thing I can think of is that you are probably not eating ENOUGH. MOST people try to go to fast and eat too little and scare their bodies into thinking there is a famine, so they hold onto the fat thinking they might need it to survive.
If I could see your diary I could tell you, but most likely you have it set at 1200 and try to stay under that, and that is wrong. With all you do, you should probably be aiming to NET 1500 a day at least. Eat more and it will come off. As long as you eat the right foods.

Please don't let anyone tell you to eat more in order to lose weight unless it is a doctor or well qualified nutricionalist - most of these ideas are utter tosh!

Best regards, David

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please don't let people tell you it is ok to starve yourself as they are just trying to kill you slowly. If you are netting below 1200 a day you DO need to eat more.
But again, we can't see your diary so we do not know.

To David:
Since you can't see her diary you have no idea. What if she is only eating less than 1000 cals a day? What then? With all the exercise she is doing, eating that little can be wreaking havoc on her body, and she could end up seriously screwing up everything. Would you STILL not tell her to eat more? If not, you need to do a little more reading of the sticky threads.

(not that she IS eating that low, but since we cannot see it, we have no idea, she COULD be)