Stuck at a 30lb loss

tyheulon
tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Grrrr... I've been stuck at the 30 lb loss for two weeks. I'm already at an 1100 calorie diet. I've still got 60 lbs to lose. Preparing for spine surgery. Needless to say my workout has been limited to walking, only due to a back injury. Any advice would be so greatly appreciated.

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    edited May 2015
    1100 calories? Are you weighing, measuring and logging EVERYTHING?

    If you have 60 lbs to lose, and you're truly eating 1100 a day, you'd be losing weight.

    ETA: Also...two weeks is not "stuck". That's a normal fluctuation.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    2 weeks is not stuck. Could be water weight due to hormones/TOM, sodium, stress, etc. Give it time. Walking is great by the way, nothing wrong with it.
  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    StaciMarie1974 wrote: »
    2 weeks is not stuck. Could be water weight due to hormones/TOM, sodium, stress, etc. Give it time. Walking is great by the way, nothing wrong with it.

    This. Weight loss isn't linear, you won't lose every week.
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    Thank you StaciMarie. I didn't think of it that way. Thanks ceoverturf. I was consistently losing 2 to 3 lbs a week. This is the first time since changing my eating habits, nothing. The only thing I have not been doing is measuring myself. However, clearly 14 days without loss is not as unusual as I thought it was.
  • SnM4ever1111
    SnM4ever1111 Posts: 9 Member
    I've been "stuck" at 25 for a while & I understand your frustration, but I see that I have made progress & that keeps me motivated! Keep it up! You are doing awesome!!!
  • spzjlb
    spzjlb Posts: 602 Member
    Hi - Just wanted to let you know that I share your frustration! I have lost about 20 lbs quite easily at 1200 cals per day plus daily workouts (30-40 min of something every day). I am nearly at my target weight, but I am having such a hard time getting the weight down. I wish that I had measured, so that I had other metrics besides weight. I just have to believe that the last 10 lbs on a smaller person (and within a normal BMI) are hard to budge.
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,255 Member
    I was stuck for 4 weeks once. Sooooo frustrating. But I kept at it and finally the scale started moving (down) again.
  • subversive99
    subversive99 Posts: 273 Member
    StaciMarie1974 wrote: »
    2 weeks is not stuck. Could be water weight due to hormones/TOM, sodium, stress, etc. Give it time. Walking is great by the way, nothing wrong with it.

    This. I went through a 3 week stall in March, then things resumed normally. Be patient, keep doing what you're doing.

  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    Thank you spzjlb, SnM4ever, DemoraFairy. I'm just relieved to know this is normal. I'll keep going though. No one else can do what we can do for our selves. Thank you for the positive feedback.
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    Thank you subversive.
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    Thank you whmscll.
  • leooftheyear
    leooftheyear Posts: 429 Member
    have you lost any inches, pants feel looser, etc? Sometimes the scale just plain lies! If you you've been weighing/measuring accurately then you're fine. But why are you only eating 1100 calories??? seems quite low!
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    @ leooftheyear. I started at 1400 calories in the beginning. However, when I saw my spinal surgeon and neurosurgeon In March it was explained to me that I needed to lose a total of 90lbs by September for my spine surgery. I thought that if I lowered my calorie intake and ate clean it would help me lose the weight by September. I haven't measured myself since starting. But I do weigh myself every other week. I've gone from size 20 to a 16. It just seems like so much weight to lose by September. With a limited physical ability to exercise aggressively.
  • hutchy100
    hutchy100 Posts: 103 Member
    Maybe eat a bit more as that is very low calories , your body needs a certain amount a day to function , could you get Dumbbells and do lots of reps so does not put much strain on your spine
  • leooftheyear
    leooftheyear Posts: 429 Member
    tyheulon wrote: »
    @ leooftheyear. I started at 1400 calories in the beginning. However, when I saw my spinal surgeon and neurosurgeon In March it was explained to me that I needed to lose a total of 90lbs by September for my spine surgery. I thought that if I lowered my calorie intake and ate clean it would help me lose the weight by September. I haven't measured myself since starting. But I do weigh myself every other week. I've gone from size 20 to a 16. It just seems like so much weight to lose by September. With a limited physical ability to exercise aggressively.

    bump those calories back up! 60lbs by Sept is unrealistic, sorry to say, but if you want to do it the healthy way 1-2lbs PER WEEK! if that!
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    Do you weigh ALL your food and a food scale or measure?

    At one point your deficit gets smaller and smaller and you weight loss slows down more and more.

    You eat more than you think to maintenance level.
    Weighing your food and not going by serving sizes or cups and spoons solves most of the time the not losing weight problems

    Here a short video about the difference between weighing your food and measuring your food....hundreds of calories for only these two kinda of foods.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    @TheOwlhouseDesigns thank you so much.
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    @leooftheyear thank you.
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    edited May 2015
    @hutchy100 thank you. I'm restricted with this injury, at nothing over 6 lbs lifted.
  • hutchy100
    hutchy100 Posts: 103 Member
    If you can lift 6lbs you could use this to get a burn maybe ?
  • tyheulon
    tyheulon Posts: 10 Member
    @hutchy100 thank you
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