Quit drinking alcohol, not losing weight

Beautiful__Ending wrote: »

vespiquenn wrote: »

suzannesimmons3 wrote: »

Buy a scale and use it....then after a few weeks you can see about slowly cutting calories if loss isn't forthcoming. Your body is still healing itself so be kind.

This is one of the best pieces of advice you can receive during a stall (but a week or even two or three isn't considered a stall). Buy a food scale. Weigh everything you eat and use only measuring cups for liquids. Weigh even prepackaged food.

Not drinking alcohol will only help if it brings you into a calorie deficit.

I lost over 50 pounds from 2015-last summer, after the birth of my third child.. but when I got into the alcohol trap last year, I gained most of the weight back. I had a food scale that I used for meats, and measuring cups I used for just about everything else, I didn't weight pre-packaged foods either, honestly I just think that's a little over the top. I just need to get back to measuring, at least close enough, instead of eyeballing everything like I've been doing lately.

Thanks everyone for your advice, I was just thinking of going to 1200 calories because that's how I lost weight previously, but I will try to just work my way down slowly, and exercise 4x a week.

If you are not going to be making changes to your diet that will last the rest of your life, you'll gain back the weight. Cutting down to a drasticly low calorie limit (if you should be losing at 2000, 1200 is drastic) just to lose the weight is going to be a yoyo diet. That is likely why you gained it back in the first place. Try finding a lifestyle that you won't abandon after you hit your target weight (i.e. running in the mornings, making nutritionally dense meals that you enjoy eating, remain aware of portions and nutrition information in every single thing you eat while aiming for a modest deficit, find your ideal macro balance that leaves you feeling good and full more easily, learn to view food as fuel and not as a treat or emotionally satisfying activity)

First of all, congrats on quitting and changing your life. I quit several years ago and it was the hardest, but best, thing I ever did for myself.

I echo what some of the other commenters have said. Give it time. Your organs need to detox and adjust to the new normal. They are still acting like they did when you were drinking. Once they adjust, your body will start to function like it should, and you will lose weight.

Be gentle with yourself!

NigelNi35 wrote: »

Beautiful__Ending wrote: »

I was drinking about everyday for a year. About 8-9 beers plus a bunch of junk food while intoxicated. I gained 40 pounds. It's been a week since I quit drinking. I've been counting calories but staying about 2000 just because I've just felt really hungry. I haven't lost any weight and I'm a little ticked off. I'm thinking of cutting down to 1200 calories starting tomorrow, having one maintenance days week, and working out 4x a week. Does this seem like a good plan?

I've lost eleven pounds this year. In January 2017, I was 247 lbs and now I am 236 lbs. This is mainly from exercising in the park. I still drink beer regularly, though not everyday, and eat fast food occasionally. You're unfairly blaming the alcohol for the forty pound weight gain. If you don't exercise regularly no amount of counting calories and eliminating beer is going to change your weight.

Umm...no, not true. Losing weight is an effect of burning more calories than you consume. Exercise can help with that, but certainly isn't required.

Alcohol has a lot of sugar calories (you were probably consuming at least 1350 calories in just alcohol); your body needs time to reset itself. Also, try to log / weigh what you are currently eating, just to give yourself some data points (in terms of when you are hungry and what you are gravitating toward food wise). Sugar / alcohol is really hard to come down off of. Be gentle as you make the transition to a healthier lifestyle.

3bambi3 wrote: »

Umm....Yes, it's true. Any nutritionist is going tell you that you need to exercise to burn calories. Saying, "losing weight is an effect of burning more calories than you consume" and exercise "isn't required" makes you look like a damn fool.

You are 100% incorrect. If I burn 2000 calories a day just living life and I eat 1500 calories a day, I will lose weight. I don't need to exercise. Exercise just helps me create a deficit.

If I go on the threadmill, I burn calories. If I walk around the park, I burn calories. It's good you're watching what you eat but it's best to exercise. It would be a surprise if any nutritionist would tell you exercising isn't required to lose weight.

NigelNi35 wrote: »

3bambi3 wrote: »

Umm....Yes, it's true. Any nutritionist is going tell you that you need to exercise to burn calories. Saying, "losing weight is an effect of burning more calories than you consume" and exercise "isn't required" makes you look like a damn fool.

You are 100% incorrect. If I burn 2000 calories a day just living life and I eat 1500 calories a day, I will lose weight. I don't need to exercise. Exercise just helps me create a deficit.

If I go on the threadmill, I burn calories. If I walk around the park, I burn calories. It's good you're watching what you eat but it's best to exercise. It would be a surprise if any nutritionist would tell you exercising isn't required to lose weight.

I've lost weight without exercise. It's not required. It's preferable for most people who are able to for their general health, but it's not required for weight loss.

NigelNi35 wrote: »

3bambi3 wrote: »

Umm....Yes, it's true. Any nutritionist is going tell you that you need to exercise to burn calories. Saying, "losing weight is an effect of burning more calories than you consume" and exercise "isn't required" makes you look like a damn fool.

You are 100% incorrect. If I burn 2000 calories a day just living life and I eat 1500 calories a day, I will lose weight. I don't need to exercise. Exercise just helps me create a deficit.

If I go on the threadmill, I burn calories. If I walk around the park, I burn calories. It's good you're watching what you eat but it's best to exercise. It would be a surprise if any nutritionist would tell you exercising isn't required to lose weight.

I lost weight sitting on my butt due to an injury and lost weight with no exercise and lost weight watching my calories. losing weight is really 100% about calorie intake and output, but exercise helps your body in many other ways

NigelNi35 wrote: »

Losing weight is an effect of burning more calories than you consume. Exercise can help with that, but certainly isn't required.

Umm....Yes, it's true. Any nutritionist is going tell you that you need to exercise to burn calories. Saying, "losing weight is an effect of burning more calories than you consume" and exercise "isn't required" makes you look like a damn fool. [/quote]


Wow, some strong language from someone who is completely incorrect. Seeing that your body burns calories while sleeping, it is fairly obvious that exercise is not necessary to burn calories. Weight loss is about taking in less calories than you consume. Exercise helps burn additional calories but it isn't necessary at all to create a deficit. Before you go around calling other people foolish maybe you should attempt to educate yourself.

NigelNi35 wrote: »

suzannesimmons3 wrote: »

Nutritionists. ....I can pay 29.99 and spend 3 hours on an online course to become one.....I. wouldn't trust ANYTHING they said. Excersise is beneficial....is it mandatory for weigh loss....no and if you believe otherwise you need to study science.

Edit to add. ..
How do bedbound unable to move patients lose weight if excersise isn't he only way you can.

You misspelled exercise and weight. Any person can read whatever scientific studies which will tell them what they want to hear. The consensus is eating right and dieting is good for you, but exercise is beneficial.

so scientific studies are wrong but a nutritionist who probably has no degree or any real qualifications is correct? anyone these days can become a nutritionist. and most states they dont need a degree or license to practice either and most arent backed by the AMA like dietitians are.