To ask why I'm not skinny yet?

[Purplemac]

I've been eating healthily for TWO WHOLE WEEKS. I mean I know I have about 60lb to lose, but two WHOLE weeks. How bloody long is this going to take?!

How much have you lost? :)

I have been eating healthily AND excercusing for three months and I'm not skinny yet either. I want my money bank!

Haha I expect results after I deny myself a chocolate bar.

Impatience is not a virtue but chocolate is

How much have you lost? Any at all yet?

What do you eat in a day?

How much exercise do you get?

Height? Weight now?

I was too scared to weigh myself the first week so didn't weigh myself until last Friday. I have lost 6lbs since then. I know it's a good start (even though it's all water) but I'd love to just be skinny now please!!

Oh I start dieting after breakfast at 9am sharpish and expect some sort of result by the time I stop for well deserved elevenses

You know you're going to be grilled now re calorific intake, current weight etc?
You've to eat a hell of a lot less than you think to lose weight, others will be along with the science I'm sure but that's it in a nutshell.
Plus carbs are not your friend.

I'm 5'7", the wrong side of 200lbs.

I eat low carb - usually a coffee or tea for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch, and some form of protein and lots of veg for dinner. No snacking and I run about 10 miles a week.

Are you noticing any change? Because two weeks is when the feedback should start. You feel a little better, you see the point of all of it... DO NOT think about 60lbs. Think about one dress size or a small milestone (going from 180-179lbs for example).

I want to know why I've been running three times a week for a year and don't look like the front of Women's Health yet.

Not to cause a row but if you weigh over 200lbs there's no way that's your daily diet. What's your weakness? Crisps? Wine etc?

My colleague used to ask if we could see the skin sticking to her bones two hours after starting a diet 😀.

I'm eating around 900 calories a day. Which doesn't sound much but I'm not hungry and I'm not going to eat for the sake of it. If I do get hungry then I'll allow myself up to 1200 calories.

I feel like slimness is something you should be able to kind of borrow and pay back -like you would money from a bank. So you decide you want to be thin, you get the thin body instantly, and then you pay for it over the next few months -or years- by eating sensibly.

Ok
My Fitness Pal to work out basal metabolic rate and then subsequent diet plan.

I'm eating around 900 calories a day. Woah Dude. Unsustainable much? And running on that? I'd have eaten my arm.

Good going - you'll be skinny in no time. I can't run anywhere - let alone 10 miles!

@Dontlaugh, maybe that is what the OP is eating now.

(Since she started 'eating healthy.)

Have you not lost any OP?

What did you used to eat before. I mean how much have you cut down? And what have you cut out.

May I join in the general dissatisfaction with the slowness of weight loss too?

I've lost about 5 kilos over the last month...but I'm still fat! How can this be allowed to happen?

😂 @dontlaugh immediately assuming that you're doing it all wrong.

Not to cause a row but if you weigh over 200lbs there's no way that's your daily diet. What's your weakness? Crisps? Wine etc?

Not causing a row at all - that has only been my daily diet for the past two weeks! Before then was full of crappy carbs. And I've not been running 10 miles a week for a year, only for the past 2 months - and it's really not enough to effect weight loss when you are eating as poorly as I was.

dontlaugh I think purplemac is talking about what she's been eating in the last two weeks, not the last ten years!!

Yeah 900 calories is low. Maybe OK for a week to get you kick started, but not long term.

I feel like slimness is something you should be able to kind of borrow and pay back -like you would money from a bank. So you decide you want to be thin, you get the thin body instantly, and then you pay for it over the next few months -or years- by eating sensibly.

@Collidscope that is GENIUS and so very civilised. Who do we need to vote for? 😄

(BTW @dontlaugh, there's no point NCing if you're going to make yourself so recognisable )

Yeah I know 900 cals is low but when you get low carb you tens to lose your appetite for a while. I'm not making a conscious decision to go under 900 that's just what it's working out as. As I said if I'm hungry I'll go up to 1200.

And the running 10 miles a week is four 2.5mile runs, so not particularly gruelling!

Don't get me wrong I'm very happy with a 6lb loss so far (probably more given that I didn't weigh myself for the first week). But I would quite like to skip ahead to being a size 10 again

On the plus side my jeans are baggy...