I'm not daft, I hope, and I understand that to loose weight need to move more, eat less, eat the right stuff. So I'm in the 6th week of doing that in a controlled manner, and nothing is happening.
I'm 13st8lb at the start, and now I'm stuck fast at 13st3lb and that hasn't changed for the last 4 weeks (the 5lb came off in the first fortnight).
I've given up booze, did a completely dry January, and given that I drank most nights that's instantly cut a lot of empty calories. Pre-Jan I would have had two slices of toast, buttered, for breakfast. Sandwich crisps and and apple for lunch, and a carb based evening meal like pasta or veg chilli with rice. Downfalls were defiantely the amount of carbs, cheese, alcohol and portion sizes.
I now use MFP and I don't cheat. I have a veg nutribullet around midday, followed by a salad based lunch at about 2pm (yesterday it was rocket, tomato, reduced fat feta and grapes, the day before it was a quorn chicken chunks, rocket and cucumber in a sandwich thin. Fat free yogurt or a banana. Supper, at 6ish, last night it was basmati rice, chick pea and cauliflower home made curry, steamed green beans. If I have calories left over I have a little mini bar of green and blacks 80% dark choc.
Due to work patterns I'm inadvertently doing 18:6, which suits me fine as I absolutely detest breakfast eating. I don't snack, and I've cut out crisps, biscuits, full fat cheese and reduced my butter intake by about 90%.
At the weekend, I slacken things a bit and instead of the bullet I'll have something like scrambled egg or grilled mushrooms on wholemeal toast mid morning. That's my concession to bread and butter!
Everything is weighed, I'm told on MFP to aim for 1300 cals and I have about 1250 a day. I log absolutely everything, and portion sizes are checked and weighed where needed. I'm a vegetarian. I don't drink anything other than sugar free squash, water, soda water, tea with a splash of milk maybe 3 mugs a day.
I don't do an exercise regime, but I walk the school run there and back twice a day, and it's almost half an hour each way including up a huge steep hill which makes me breathless and has my heart pounding. At the weekends we get out and about. I'm also on my feet with work and I certainly don't feel sedentary.
Why aren't I loosing weight? I feel like I've made massive changes, my diet is completely different. Feeling very frustrated.
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alabasterangel · 05/02/2016 09:46
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