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Yeah, you are... and honestly you seem to be bound and determined NOT to listen to anything we are suggesting and quite clearly demonstrate an unhealthy relationship with both food and an obsession over weight. You need to speak to a doctor, and specifically a psychiatrist based on your self-professed behavior. When it…
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This is true!!!! Shouty-guy I can hardly understand half of those words typed, it's like it's barely English. Oh, and I've stayed at 202-204lbs now for a month, so I'm going to go out back in the yard and put a few arrows into my digital scale (local ordinance won't allow me to fire bullets through it). That darn scale has…
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I'm surprised the moderators have allowed this to go on for 6 pages... there is nothing of value to anyone here, and the OP is clearly trolling the forum. If that's not the case, then the OP needs to see a psychiatrist and a medical doctor for help; a bunch of random strangers on the internet are not going to be able to…
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You did not gain all of this weight at the same rate that you want to lose it, it will take time. a week is NOT a plateau nor the end of the world. Not eating for a day will do nothing but set you up for failure. The issue here is your expectations and perhaps an unhealthy relationship with food. I'd talk to your primary…
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Then eat less than that. 500 cals less for a 1lb/wk loss on avg, or 1000cals less for about 2lbs/wk (max). Based on those numbers, I'd suggest you aim for about 1850cals/day and make sure you get your macros in, let everything else fall where it may and make sure to be lifting heavy 2-3 times per week on a proven program,…
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As long as your weekly avg still works out to being on target, how you get there matters not.
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This is why what we make at home with whole, real ingredients will almost always be better for our health and nutrition than restaurants.
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6-8oz of warmed prune juice daily will aid in regularity a considerable amount. HOWEVER, at this point, Kelly here needs to be seen by a doctor, probably a team of doctors. This has gone light years past annoyingly constipated, this is becoming a medical emergency.
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Worse than that, the leg muscles assist in pumping blood throughout the body- it's not all heart doing the work. The muscular contractions help push blood through the veins and arteries much in the same way they assist in moving food down the esophagus. Being so immobilized is never a good option, even when it's the only…
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I'm 1" taller than you, starting weight was where you are now-ish. 235lbs. 1500cals/day and one ... maybe 2 days per week of lifting heavy for just 15-20 mins got me to 200 in roughly 16-18 weeks. You'll be fine at 1500/day. Trust us, you, me, so many others have enough to lose that you can easily eat at that level and…
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Very welcome; glad those Biology/Biochem degrees finally came in handy!
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Protein is more significant than just getting "turned into energy". That's somewhat of a misleading phrase to state. Macros don't just get turned into pure universal energy that flows through the body like the force... Proteins are used either whole or partially broken down into amino acids, the body then uses those amino…
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Stop doing whatever it is you started doing in the past year, go back to previous workout and eating habits and over time, perhaps a year or so, you'll get back to where you were. Targeting any part of the body for fat loss, short of liposuction, is not possible on a human. You need to lose fat overall. Usually the first…
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At age 17, I'd recommend increasing your activity levels before I recommended cutting back on calories or foods in general. By being more active, you'll increase your total daily energy expenditure, which at the same eating levels will still result in an improvement in the calories in:out ratio.
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Don't make it painful for yourself- the bet option is to allow yourself to eat the meal, as others suggested. Even if you go over your daily cals, it's OK, just adjust throughout the rest of the week to compensate. I worry more about the high sodium in Mexican food than I do the calories. I just had a lunch with my 6yr old…
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Laura, there is nothing "wrong" with the way you look, and 30% is not dire straits leading directly into diabetes and pulmonary embolisms... not necessarily. Your "coach", and I use that term even looser than you do, is crying wolf and pulling the fire alarm on you when really what is happening is that you've got the heat…
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You can build muscle on a ketogenic diet... just ask Vince Gironda, the dude who made up the Steak and Eggs diet. If you're not sure who he is, he has a wikipedia page you can google for. You need to choose a diet (and by "diet" I mean the entire collection of what and how you eat, not the <insert name of fad way to eat…
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The next time you say to yourself that energy is not a real thing, and merely an abstract construct, I direct you to the next lightning storm outside... you can see energy. This is like what the definition of "is" is. Heck, words are meaningless constructs too, we invented them.. so they must not be real.
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The weight that's ideal in your mind and what is ideal for you physically and medically are apparently not the same.
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^ This, proof positive that you should talk to a medical doctor AND a psychiatrist. That is a not a normal way of thinking. You are essentially saying that you want to be unhealthy. This is no different than, just the opposite of the people who purposely try to be grotesquely obese. I recall an article recently where this…
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600 calories a day for a 6ft tall male of any weight, and especially at 174lbs, that is a slow form of suicide. If everyone in the house is a doctor (I presume you mean MEDICAL doctor, because a PhD in geology won't help here), then they are either unaware of your caloric restriction, or very poor practitioners and are a…
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What was the psuedo-science the leader was spouting? Do you remember by chance? I'm always a glutton to watch others get put in their place like that. (see what I did there? lol)
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All sorts of red flags here... Maybe things are different in France, but I'd expect that the medical team would be having you meet with a dietitian and setting you on a proper, and pre-determined meal plan or food list with specific instructions on portions and total calories to be consumed per day. At nearly 20 years old,…
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My wife's grandmother's doctor told her the same, watch the salt- so she pretty much cut it out completely. Put herself in the hospital a few weeks later hooked up to IV electrolytes... too little salt intake and she was confused, dazes, lethargic and cognitively impaired. As with all things, it is about balance and…
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Apparently you are. I think you need to see a psychiatrist for your clearly disphoria regarding your weight and why you think is acceptable behavior. "I know it's bad and dumb and will hurt me but I want to do it anyways" is a sign of someone who literally just admitted that they want to hurt themselves. You don't need to…
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I'm going to check out the Facebook group in a moment, but in case anyone comes across this, I've been on Saxenda for exactly 20 days. I started at 5'9" and 234lbs. I currently weight 220lbs. The first 10-12lbs came off in the first 10-12 days. Now I'm looking at about 2lbs per week. As everyone has said, the amount of…
