My first post - here goes: I'm getting desperate now and I'm wondering if anyone else has been in my position and can offer some insight.
Really struggling to lose any weight, I think I eat really well - meals consist mainly of chicken or fish with salad or vegetables, hardly ever eat potatoes or bread and very little pasta and no processed food. I drink about 2 litres of water each day and very little alcohol. I don't do loads of exercise but I walk for about 90 minutes each day and use my bicycle for going to the local shops. Started going to the gym a couple of times a week but started to gain even more weight - bonkers!
I'm about 2.5 stone overweight and no matter what I do the weight refuses to shift.
Health wise I have a slightly under active thyroid which I take medication for, and I'm on a low dosage steroid for fibromyalgia, other than that the blood work checks out and my doctor is at a loss to explain what's going on. Being in my late fifties I'm sure isn't helping.
In the past I lost about 2 stone on Herbalife and I've recently gone back to it again but even that is now failing me. I've tried the blood sugar diet as recommended on here and I've tried the 5:2 diet both which I find fairly easy to do as I don't have a huge appetite anyway so getting by on 500 or 800 calories per day is no problem. I lose a couple of pounds and then gain it back again over the next day or so. On a normal day I eat approximately 1200 calories.
Does anyone have some suggestions? I feel I'm running out of options (and clothes that fit).
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Bottleblonde99 · 15/09/2016 10:22
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