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?!

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

Blood sugar diet is low carb, 800 cals per day for 8-12 weeks, an absolute doddle (even for a non-meat water like me).

I lost 2.5 stone in 8 weeks and kept it off. Even came back from a holiday in the US lighter than I was when I left without trying.

It's the future!

Yanbu
I've been on 1400 calories a day for the last three weeks.
I've been running 5k 3 times a week.
I'm doing fitstar exercise routines every day.
I make sure I'm doing at least 8000 steps everyday.
I've lost fuck all and look the same.
I blame quitting smoking. I was always thin when I smoked.

@morphene that's a great loss, well done!!

OP AND the poster above @Ijustlostthegame

I think (if you don't mind me saying,) that you are a little impatient.

all good things take time. And weight loss does not come overnight.

TO not lose any in 2 or 3 weeks is not a bad thing. Give it a chance.

@FreeSpiritJen I know, this is lighthearted! Got to laugh at myself or there's no way I'll get through the next 54lbs alive

Losing weight is only going to happen by a lifestyle change. Ie. Forever.

Change your mindset.

Find ways of changing your life to a healthy one for good. Two weeks is a drop in the ocean.

Have you done your measurements?. The scales are not always your friend but the tape measure doesn't lie

I know that. I cut out sugar and grains a few years back and lost 60lb - starred eating them again and gained it all back. I know that if I want to be healthy I need to cut it our for life. Completely sustainable when I don't really have a sweet tooth and grains make me poorly anyway (so why did I start eating them again I hear you ask - fuck knows!?!). I'm really enjoying the health changes I am making and experimenting with delicious low carb recipes.

I think some posters have misunderstood - I'm not moaning because I'm not losing weight. I've lost almost half a stone in less than a week. I'm merely poking some fun at the fact that it's going to take a long time yet before I'm slim, and I would much rather skip it and just be slim now

6lb in two weeks is bloody brilliant.
That's what 3lb a week.

12lb per month. Every 10lb is a dress size

Stop thinking about the weight loss and focus on how good you will feel when you are healthy. If you only focus on the weight loss you will get disheartened.

Totally with you on this. I started running earlier this year. I am most disappointed that my lean, toned runner's body has not arrived.

Thanks Aww the 6lbs is since last Friday! Didn't weigh myself before that. I reckon probably a 10lb loss in total but that's not uncommon when you're this heavy and start on low carb.

If I can average 2lb a week going forward I'll be happy, but others are right I'm also focused on how much better I feel for it!

Oh and this one...

purple it isn't really...coz I'm guilty of everything people are talking about here. It's totally unsustainable...a diet rather than a lifestyle change.

And I know it won't work because I lost 25 kilos 3 years ago, and put 2/3rds of it back on in between...exactly because I was dieting not changing my lifestyle.

The thing is that I basically have to go to bed hungry if I don't want to gain weight. I just don't know how to be hungry day in day out for the rest of my life. So I think weight gain then dieting is the least bad of the two choices I apparently have (the other one involving lifelong obesity).

Your post made me laugh out loud, I feel the same way. I'm always outraged at how long it is going to take!! Of course I know rationally that it's the wrong way to think!

I once got down to 100lbs by eating 1200 calories a day and going for long runs for about a year. But there is no way I would describe a low calorie diet like that as easy. It was truly, truly hard work. But I think back to how amazing I felt and it was worth it.

I'm trying to hold onto that feeling now, as I start dieting again! I gained the weight through illness, so there's a part of me that kind of feels resentful that I'm having to do the whole thing again - in a self-pitying way. I need to get beyond that and reach for the positivity around the goal, as I know that's what got me through first time!

Losing weight is the most boring thing ever. I've lost three stone and still have another three to go. Every time I do any exercise or say no to pizza I feel like my trousers should fall around my ankles as my body immediately shrinks to a toned size 10

Having started SW today, thank you for the entertainment you have all provided :)

My weight gain was kicked off by snapping my achilles tendon and losing any respect I had for my body....

Come over to the Blood Sugar Diet threads, the results are quite quick and will keep up our enthusiasm. If you can manage on 900 calories 800 is not much harder.

I think I need to join weightwatchers....or something where my vast over competitveness will force me to succeed...

This is why i breastfed both my children untl they were two. I could sit on the sofa eating and bfing and lose more calories than running

Watch sneaky calories: portico sizes, high calorie drinks and sauces.

@ExConstance can you post a link to the threads? I did look but couldn't find them!

800 cals sounds unbelievably low. Hats off to y'all for managing that.

Stamps feet complains also of not being skinny yet skint seems to no problem though

I have however over the last 9 months lost 2.5 stone and am now within the healthy range

One step at a time. I also allow myself an occasional treat

I think maybe swap the running for some more core/weights based workouts.

But what do I know, I have been eating healthily since January and am still 8kg above my target weight, having lost only 5kg. It's going sooo slowly.

I have now started to blame the contraceptive pill that I am on, I bet that's it.....