Not losing weight like i used to, please HELP!!

SKAVY7178
SKAVY7178 Posts: 165 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
Hi everyone,
I've been using MFP since 2013, went down from 170lbs to 150lbs only by dieting and mild workouts like walking. Later i did a high protein diet and followed Fitness Blender and boy did i do well.
Unfortunately I was hospitalized for gall bladder stones, removed the gall bladder but accidentally the Drs damaged my small intestines and pancreas, so i ended up having Severe Acute Pancreatitis, was rushed to the resuscitation, there i was almost gone but miracally survived and after a month i was taken to the surgical ward where i had to undergo another major surgery since there was infected liquids forming which was affecting all the other organs.
Anyway after 6 months in hospital came home in January 2018. I had lost 14kgs that's 30lbs!! and i was at my ideal weight range. But, sadly i put on gradually after starting eating normally.
I've put on 15lbs in 7 months. I started to follow a portion control and meet the calories given by MFP which is 1200 daily + I eat a bit of the exercise (not always though), I exercise "walk at home" for about 30/45 mins + swimming these days, since it's summer here!
Its been over a month that am stuck at 61/63 kgs ( 133/137 lbs) What am i doing wrong? I do eat Nutella, ice cream or eat out but very rarely and always under the calories allowed. I am the at the same weight eating clean for a week or even after eating at McDonald's (just to make you understand) always below calories given and i track everything and i don't leave out anything!
Its a bit frustrating not seeing the scale move and fluctuate.
Btw, am on Creon enzymes medication for life, and I've heard that it makes in put on weight. Its been then that I have cutting carbs and trying to follow MFP so that i don't put on more weight.
Am stuck at this weight for more than a month and not putting on thanks for cutting down carbs i guess.

I would appreciate all your advices please, i would like to lose some pounds to be motivated...

Thank you and have a blessed day

PS: sorry for the long post

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  • williamwj2017
    williamwj2017 Posts: 79 Member
    Readjust your calories you might be eating more than you actually need to lose weight. The more fat you lose, the more you have to adjust your intake.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I'm very sorry to hear about the dramatic things that happened to you.

    Some points:

    Staying in hospital made you lose weight because your meals were administered to you. That didn't teach you how to administer your own meals yourself. You have to learn that. MFP can be a good tool for it, if you use it for that purpose.

    A diet you can only stick to for a short while, is useless, no matter how fast you can lose in that short time.

    1200 calorie is the minimum MFP will give a woman. You get this if you're short, light, sedentary and elderly, or if you pick a too aggressive weekly weightloss rate. A good weekly weightloss goal is 1% of your bodyweight, or less.

    Your weight naturally fluctuates from day to day. As you lose weight, the amount you can lose per week, slows down. To continue losing, you need to make sure you're in a calorie deficit, an the easiest method is accurate food logging, for which a food scale is a necessity. If you eat back exercise calories, eat back 50%.

    Do not get hung up in individual food choices. No foods make you lose or gaing weight, and MFP is not the food police.

    Medication doesn't make you gain weight (fat). You gain weight when you eat too much (more than you burn). Medications can mess with your appetite. To eat or not eat is still your choice.
  • SKAVY7178
    SKAVY7178 Posts: 165 Member
    williamwj2017 wrote: »
    Readjust your calories you might be eating more than you actually need to lose weight. The more fat you lose, the more you have to adjust your intake.

    Thank you!
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    I'm very sorry to hear about the dramatic things that happened to you.

    Some points:

    Staying in hospital made you lose weight because your meals were administered to you. That didn't teach you how to administer your own meals yourself. You have to learn that. MFP can be a good tool for it, if you use it for that purpose.

    A diet you can only stick to for a short while, is useless, no matter how fast you can lose in that short time.

    1200 calorie is the minimum MFP will give a woman. You get this if you're short, light, sedentary and elderly, or if you pick a too aggressive weekly weightloss rate. A good weekly weightloss goal is 1% of your bodyweight, or less.

    Your weight naturally fluctuates from day to day. As you lose weight, the amount you can lose per week, slows down. To continue losing, you need to make sure you're in a calorie deficit, an the easiest method is accurate food logging, for which a food scale is a necessity. If you eat back exercise calories, eat back 50%.

    Do not get hung up in individual food choices. No foods make you lose or gaing weight, and MFP is not the food police.

    Medication doesn't make you gain weight (fat). You gain weight when you eat too much (more than you burn). Medications can mess with your appetite. To eat or not eat is still your choice.

    Thank you so much for the points.
    Yes, I don't follow a fad diet since I've done it in the past and U don't want to do the same mistake, so I opted to eat the usual day to day food but controlling them to my calorie intake so that it's a life changing thing.

    yes am short but lightly active (SAHM) and workout 5/6 times a day and i selected to lose 1lb a week. Which gave me a 1200 Calorie

    Will try to eat back 50% exercise calories hereafter.

    I do have a scale and i do measure my food. You're correct about it

    Thanks again
  • noodlesno
    noodlesno Posts: 113 Member
    Sorry about what happened to you. Sounds like a really stressful situation.

    In terms of the plateau, I had one not that long ago, similarly, I posted on the community about it. The advice was to up the calories (I was aiming for 1200 as well) since then I have upped to 1470 and the weight is dropping off. It may not be the same for you but worth a go. I am a bit of a serial starter but I always seem to forget that trail and error is ok.

    Hope that it all works out. No matter what taking your health into your own hands is a great thing and you should be proud to stick to the healthy eating, weight loss or not.
  • SKAVY7178
    SKAVY7178 Posts: 165 Member
    noodlesno wrote: »
    Sorry about what happened to you. Sounds like a really stressful situation.

    In terms of the plateau, I had one not that long ago, similarly, I posted on the community about it. The advice was to up the calories (I was aiming for 1200 as well) since then I have upped to 1470 and the weight is dropping off. It may not be the same for you but worth a go. I am a bit of a serial starter but I always seem to forget that trail and error is ok.

    Hope that it all works out. No matter what taking your health into your own hands is a great thing and you should be proud to stick to the healthy eating, weight loss or not.

    Thank you so much, I too think that am eating very less. Will eat 50% if my calories and see for a week.

    You're right health is wealth as they say...
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