Why am I not loosing weight?

MsGinny72
MsGinny72 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi All, Im wondering if anyone could help shed some light. Ive been following the recommended calorie intake ( Im 126kg recommended 1400 calorie diet. Ive insulin resistance and pos). Ive been doing this since late november mostly vegetarian 50% raw plus an hr of walking per day, sometimes 2. I haven't lost anything for 3 weeks infact according to the scales I've gained 1kg. Measurments haven't changed. Is this normal? Should I switch things up? How can I get things moving? Has anyone else experienced this?

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  • sgbarnett16
    sgbarnett16 Posts: 156 Member
    Oh wow
  • soniaf
    soniaf Posts: 106 Member
    That sounds really annoying, commiserations!! I guess obvious thing is, are you sure you are keeping to the 1400? Weighing/measuring food rather than guesstimating?
    I hope you are headed for a loss next week
  • MsGinny72
    MsGinny72 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks :) Yes Im keeping it all simple. If I exercise I dont eat those calories or at the most only half of them. The weight loss has been slow since the beginning.
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    Do you weigh all your food?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    How much have you lost over what time period, ave loss per week

    How much have you left to lose.

    What are your stats

    Are you weighing food? How are you estimating calorie burn

    It's probably a stall but you can open your diary to public for specific advice
  • lodro
    lodro Posts: 982 Member
    if you're insulin resistant, what are your macros like?
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    How much have you lost over what time period, ave loss per week

    How much have you left to lose.

    What are your stats

    Are you weighing food? How are you estimating calorie burn

    It's probably a stall but you can open your diary to public for specific advice

    These and have you begun a new workout routine recently? Is it close to TOM?
  • Fuzzipeg
    Fuzzipeg Posts: 2,305 Member
    If I remember correctly, insulin resistance and pcos(?) can have an autoimmune aspect to them. I believe this adds another dimension to life, weight gain/loss,pain, which defy the standard understanding. Would there were the proper scientific tests generally available to identify our personal underlying issues so we could address them appropriately to ourselves. Many people develop disparate health issues following antibiotic, or other medication use not always repeated, regular, or with dependency, which disrupt the balance of our bodies and the digestive tract particularly. Good advice to repair this disruption is not readily given by our regular medical advisers who tend to see our bodies functioning as this system or that, not that they interact with each other sometimes putting another out of balance.

    Be prepared to read and think outside the accepted norms which try to provide a pill for every ill, not to relieve the underlying issue but to replace the symptom/cause of the consequential outcome which is increasingly being shown to be from digestive problems. Something becoming apparent in functional/alternative medicine is sugar added to foods can drive the overgrowth of yeasts which in turn can drive the need for sugary yeasty foods to feed the overgrowth.

    We are all different with our own levels of tolerance to things, there can never be a one size fits all answer to health and weight gain/loss, so always apply what you read or hear to what you know of yourself.
  • mbarmuta
    mbarmuta Posts: 165 Member
    It is possible that you have lost fat and gained muscle which is a good thing. Go by your clothes and how they fit. Muscle weighs more but takes up less room, also having more muscle means more fat burnt. So although it is frustrating for now you may lose weight on the scales soon. If you are noticing that your clothes are looser than before that is a sure sign that you are succeeding in losing fat. Good luck to you!
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,750 Member
    mbarmuta wrote: »
    It is possible that you have lost fat and gained muscle which is a good thing. Go by your clothes and how they fit. Muscle weighs more but takes up less room, also having more muscle means more fat burnt. So although it is frustrating for now you may lose weight on the scales soon. If you are noticing that your clothes are looser than before that is a sure sign that you are succeeding in losing fat. Good luck to you!

    Eating in a deficit and walking will in no way equal muscle mass gain - OP also says her measurements haven't changed, which generally isn't what happens if you lose fat and gain muscle
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited January 2016
    mbarmuta wrote: »
    It is possible that you have lost fat and gained muscle which is a good thing. Go by your clothes and how they fit. Muscle weighs more but takes up less room, also having more muscle means more fat burnt. So although it is frustrating for now you may lose weight on the scales soon. If you are noticing that your clothes are looser than before that is a sure sign that you are succeeding in losing fat. Good luck to you!

    In order to do this one must be following a good progressive resistance programme and focusing carefully on macro nutrients, being new to lifting, a teenage boy, or morbidly obese can help in these circumstances.

    But in general no I'm sorry, if you are eating at a defecit your weight loss will far outstrip any minimal muscle gain even if you are doing everything right.

    Muscle is indeed more dense than fat but not as much as people seem to believe. Also I think the extra calorie burn is something like 6 calories per lb per day at rest, and as fat burns around 2 calories per day that's an incremental calorie burn of approx 4 calories per day ...see it's kind of an overblown media hype

    What does happen though is that water weight can increase and mask any scale weight loss...sodium, ovulation, me saturation, change of exercise programme and also weight loss is not a linear function of calorie intake. Lots of people will stall for 2-3 weeks then whoosh, me included when I was losing.
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    If you have PCOS, you have to cut carbs. Period.
  • kgb6days
    kgb6days Posts: 880 Member
    edited January 2016
    I will give you my experience and let you go from there. I was on a plateau, running 10 miles/week and doing Zumba. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Then a MD I work with talked about intermittent fasting for health - especially in those with insulin resistance - and I decided to give it a whirl. I was very surprised when the weight started moving. I lost 20 more lbs rather easily I might add. Went to my MD for yearly appt, and rather hesitantly told her I lost my weight with IF. I though she'd not be pleased with that but NO - she told me that the Endocrinologist in their practice places her insulin resistant patients on IF and is having excellent results. Come to find out the Endocrinologist in the hospital I work at also uses IF with excellent results. Blood sugars are stabilized, weight is lost along with patients feeling much better. There are several groups on here that do IF. It's very simple and has changed me and my weight loss for the better. Feel free to PM me if you are interested in hearing more.
  • Dreysander
    Dreysander Posts: 294 Member
    Intermittant fasting was what helped me break through plateaus as well. I don't do it now but it worked when I was heavier and losing.
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