Weight loss has stalled

This!

Plus as you loose weight your calorie requirement drops and you need to recalculate your TDEE. Usually that’s after a stone.

im 5 foot 5, very active and need to eat 1500 for fat loss. If you’re struggling with being hungry have a look at volume eating to help keep you fuller.

End of the day tho don’t drop your calories too low if you’re struggling. Your far better to stay in a small deficit but be consistent then you are to drop cals too low and end up regularly overeating.

Same height as you. On Mounjaro I had to eat between 1200-1400 kcals a day to lose weight - I am very active but older and in peri.

I do think the drug's mechanism of stabilising my blood sugar also played a huge role in my weight loss, not just the calorie deficit.

Protein shakes are full of shite, I’d honestly drop them and have some pieces of chicken or cheese instead.
Other than that just keep calorie counting, work out your TDEE and eat a little less than that. I’m your height and need to eat a lot less than 1800 calories.

No, so many people thrive without them. The body makes all the glucose it needs from fat via gluconeogenesis. Think about an egg that literally gives rise to a new life - all fat and protein. Anyone telling you that carbs are essential is lying or ignorant. Equally, the so called ‘good carbs’ rocket blood sugar. It’s been well demonstrated that wholewheat bread raises blood sugar as much as a mars bar or more. Oats, disaster for blood sugar.

Regarding your blood sugar medication, it is designed on the assumption that you’re too stupid or lazy to make the changes your body needs. It assumes you will carry on eating plenty of carbs. Docs trained that T2 diabetes is permanent - wrong! That lie only benefits big pharma.

If you do proceed with a low / no carb diet, please monitor your blood sugar levels thoroughly. You may be surprised how quickly you can come off metformin. But if you stay on it at the same dose and with low carbs, there is the risk of hypoglycaemia.Talk to your doctor but don’t be surprised if they know nothing about a low carb diet or even try to discourage you.

Why the protein shakes?

@downloadtoad , insulin resistance is weight loss public enemy no 1!
Try aiming for a diet that minimises insulin spikes, take a look at the Glucose Goddess.
Psyllium husk is very good if you have it an hour before eating at blunting the insulin spike from meals and it swells in your stomach to help you to feel satiated more easily. You could also try intermittent fasting, I don’t ever eat breakfast so as to prolong my overnight fast.
Unfortunately most of us have surprisingly modest calorie requirements and at 1800 a day you’re probably eating at your maintenance calories, you need to try and get that down to about 1400. Cut out processed food, eat plenty of protein and fibre with lots of vegetables and a modest amount of fruit preferably only berries. The weight should shift then.

I would also lose the protein shakes

Hi, I have started similar recently due to health issue not for weight loss…but I am losing weight fast tbh. I am coeliac and I have pretty much eliminated most carbs…BUT you need to understand carbs vs net carbs. A lot of foods have carbs. Blueberries were a good choice but raspberries are lower carbs. If you’re eating something with carbs, it has to have a high fibre content to carry it, otherwise I wouldn’t be eating toast in the morning. (Presuming it was white toast?!)
What I do is I tried to eat as much protein and fibre as possible. I do a 16:8 IF also. I eat two large enough meals a day. If I get hungry at any point though between 10-6 I will eat so I’m not depriving myself a snacks (but to be honest in the last two weeks I have only had a snack 3 days. And that snack was a slice of turkey or a few pecans etc.

Intermittent fasting only worked for me for 6 weeks. I get hungry.

I am post menopausal and nothing works.

I do eat carbs though. Maybe this is the culprit. I cannot afford lots of protein.

Catch 22.

Scrap the protein shakes. Try and aim for 1500 max and do a bit of cardio 💓

I wouldn’t lose weight with that calorie intake. Two protein shakes a day is probably quite a lot of extra calories. I’m older than you and it’s just depressing how much harder it is to lose weight than it was ten years ago!

I agree you need high protein and very little carbs. I do find intermittent fasting helps but I don’t always find it sustainable.

How active are you? Have you calculated how many calories you need to maintain vs lose weight? Are you carefully weighing and tracking your food so you know exactly how many calories you're consuming?

Unless you're very active, I would expect you're probably eating too many calories to be in a deficit, given your height and your expectation that you're consuming 1800 a day. Also, I would guess that unless you're weighing food carefully you're likely eating more than 1800 a day.

Getting certain on these numbers and confirming you're actually in a deficit is probably a good place to start discovering weight your weight loss has stalled. It takes a bit of time, some scales and a food tracking app, but it's relatively easy to do if you're serious about losing weight.

Counting calories is a sure fire way to misery and failure. Certainly in the long term.

You’re highly insulin resistant hence the pcos & use of metformin. So your body is being told to store fat.

I would highly recommend you look to slowly, over the next 2-3 months, transition to as close to a zero carb diet as possible. There are no essential carbs. Be careful to take extra salt and electrolytes. You may also want to consider becoming fully carnivore.

Experiment with intermittent fasting and you’ll be surprised how good it can make you feel and help.

Good luck.

I don’t know how old you are, but while I would have lost weight on that when younger since menopause I need to be under 1200 calories and I’m reasonably active.