frustrated..losing motivation

xojetteblu
xojetteblu Posts: 3 Member
in Motivation and Support
I lost sixty lbs about a year and a half ago...and then I moved to Seattle. Since moving here I have gained 38 lbs back...and experienced an incredibly stressful job, bad car accident, and ovarian cysts/cervical cancer scare. I also have an autoimmune dosease. in spite of this...I signed up for a gym and trainer in june and have been going rrgularly and seeing a trainer. I go to the gym 3 times a week and am on my feet prerry consistently for my job walking around and moving. I am eating a fairly high protein diet and measuring everything...weighing...tracking calories...trying to lose weight in alot of the same ways I lost it before...and nothing is working. every time I step on the scale I either havent lost or I have gained 1-lbs.

HELP!

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  • skymningen
    skymningen Posts: 532 Member
    What does your trainer say about this? Did they take your measurements, measure body fat %, calculate out if your muscle mass increased through the training or not?
    Did you get your bloodwork done in that time? Thyroid hormones, vitamin levels and so on?
  • xojetteblu
    xojetteblu Posts: 3 Member
    the nurtitionist i go to and my trainer calculater my body fat percentage. my trainer says If i put on ten lbs of muscle...i will loose weight way easier. my thyroid levels almost never test poorly.
  • 88olds
    88olds Posts: 4,526 Member
    How long? If it's been several weeks,
    redo all your numbers. No assumptions. Only you know this, is every bite and sip accounted for? How much time do you spend in gray areas, eating out, parties, cookouts? Look at how you count that stuff.

    If all your numbers are tight, you have your intake set too high. Doesn't matter what the calculators say your number should be, the scale says different. Try an experiment with a modest cut and see if you get a move downward.

  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    xojetteblu wrote: »
    the nurtitionist i go to and my trainer calculater my body fat percentage. my trainer says If i put on ten lbs of muscle...i will loose weight way easier. my thyroid levels almost never test poorly.

    As a woman, it will take you considerable time to put on 10 lbs of muscle. Even in a bulk a woman will usually only gain a lb or so of muscle per month. Did you get your calorie goal from your nutritionist and trainer, or from MFP or some other standardized TDEE calculator?
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited October 2017
    How many calories are you eating a day?

    Are you eating back exercise calories? All or them or a percentage?

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