Feeling very disheartened. What's going on?

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  • SusanMFindlay
    SusanMFindlay Posts: 1,804 Member
    FauxBoho wrote: »
    Yes I'm still breastfeeding her 3 times in 24 hours. I also think breastfeeding makes it hard to lose weight. My body seems to want to hold onto as much weight as possible. Not sure if that's a thing, it's just my experience. I'm also on antidepressants & have a pretty bad history with food so my metabolism is probably working against me.

    Not making excuses just something that may be a consideration.

    Breastfeeding "burns" calories (by giving them to baby) so usually helps weight loss. Antidepressants, on the other hand, are known to make weight loss difficult. So, they are likely causing the problem.

  • kprimaverab
    kprimaverab Posts: 32 Member
    Try weighing daily. Sometimes your weight spikes at random times (especially for us women). I started weighing daily and tracking my daily weightloss trend. Some days it says i lost 16 some days its 14.. I imagine the same type of thing might be happening to you. As well... Your body holds on to water weight and fat storage to produce breast milk. Tough through it and I'm sure the pounds will show on the scale. Do you feel at all different in your clothes?
  • Shan_Lindsay
    Shan_Lindsay Posts: 60 Member
    If you are breastfeeding and only eating about 1400 calories, then you are probably not eating enough. As a previous poster said, it burns calories. I would log everything in MFP and I believe it has a breast feeding option, and you will probably see that you need to eat more calories.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    You didn't weigh yourself in 7 weeks. You could have lost more but just happen to retain water today (which is pretty common when you start exercising again by the way)... weigh more often.

    And make sure you're using the right entries as well - weighing food is fantastic but if you're using the wrong entries (raw instead of cooked etc) you could be way off.

  • sutt0117
    sutt0117 Posts: 10 Member
    It's all essentially calories in vs. calories out. If you are taking more calories in than you are expending out, then you are likely going to gain. In order to lose fat, you need to put your body in a deficit. @erindimondfitness on Instagram is a great resource
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    FauxBoho wrote: »
    SusanMFindlay wrote: »
    First of all, I'm going to disagree with the advice to stop working out.

    But I am going to suggest that that advice may have come from a place of "you just had a baby; you have so much on your plate right now; don't stress yourself out too much".

    I don't know how old your baby is now, but it's pretty common for new mums to get very little sleep - and not getting enough sleep tends to work against weight loss.

    So, my advice would be to keep eating healthy and working out (especially since you enjoy it), but try to stop stressing about it.

    Also, are you breastfeeding? If so, 1400 calories is likely too low and could potentially affect supply.

    Yes I'm still breastfeeding her 3 times in 24 hours. I also think breastfeeding makes it hard to lose weight. My body seems to want to hold onto as much weight as possible. Not sure if that's a thing, it's just my experience. I'm also on antidepressants & have a pretty bad history with food so my metabolism is probably working against me.

    Not making excuses just something that may be a consideration.

    Breastfeeding actually increases your metabolic rate but can also increase fluid retention (so milk can be made on demand). Also, you might be storing more weight in your breasts to feed baby. Throw in your menstrual cycle and this could be some temporary water weight masking real progress. I would start monitoring your weight more consistently from where you are. I can drop 5 lbs in from one day to the next with little rhyme or reason.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    edited August 2016
    Antidepressants in and of themselves do not cause weight gain, they can cause appetite increase which in turn causes weight gain.

    Were you tracking religiously on Whole 30? There could be an issue there.

    I'll offer my own anecdote though. I often go 2-5 weeks with no loss, I just have a lot of natural fluctuations. This week I am hovering 2-3lbs above my lowest weight because of a little more exercise than usual, wine which i don't often have, bacon which is salty and just other normal stuff. Is it frustrating? Sure. But i trust the process, it will sort itself out as long as i stay consistent. And in the last three months I have dropped nearly a dress size whilst taking a diet break and only being 1lb lower than my prior low weight before that. So it's happening, the scale just doesn't tell the whole story. I need a good 8 weeks to get a real picture of what I'm doing.

    Edit: And I know all this because I weigh daily and track the trend with Happy Scale. I'd have missed a bunch of new low weights if I only weighed once a week.

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