To think I should be losing more weight?!

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I’ve been on a significant lifestyle/diet overhaul since Jan, ive given up smoking, joined a gym with a personal trainer, and currently aim for around 1500 kcal per day.

I go to the gym 4 x per week, sometimes more. Of this two sessions are high intensity spin, one is body pump (weights), one hiit work out and one hour per week with the personal trainer.

I eat 1500 kcals most days. Occasionally on a weekend I have 1800. I track it all on MFP.

I started at 19stone. I’ve lost 1 stone.

I have had 2 children and since I hit 30 I cannot lose it. This is the most I’ve ever lost, usually it’s around 5lb and no more.

I would suggest you stop calorie counting and try weight watchers instead. I couldnt loseca single lb calorie counting. Ww, though, the weight dropped off.

I rarely go by the scales op.
I do check every now and then maybe once a fortnight but I go by my clothes and how they fit.
To drop two dress sizes is brilliant.
They used to say 10lb in weight is a dress size however your doing a lot of excercise so your body is building muscle at the same time as losing weight.
I tend to do a week or so of no excercise initially and then build it up.

You are doing amazingly.

Are you both not on medication to make your thyroids perform normally?

Yes but here’s the thing. Thyroxine replacement therapy helps with the symptoms, like lethargy and dry skin and thinning hair and feeling the cold - but it does not make the thyroid behave normally, any more than HRT makes you start ovulating again. It’s a treatment, not a cure that’s why you must take medication for life.

It’s actually just over a stone - 1 stone 4 lb.
it’s since I had my gallbladder out that it’s been such a struggle - I did initially lose 3 stone after it came out in 6 weeks, but then i gained it all back and since then it’s been SO hard. This was 4 years ago now

Could it be that you worked yourself on household scales. I'm sure that at 20 stone they are much less reliable... so perhaps you actually weighed 22? Or something. And so you've lost more than you think!

No, i weighed at slimming world and stared at 19st 1 and now 17 st 12

neah, I'm not buying it, I don't believe for a moment that bread is a magic food that automatically makes special folk fat. Enough of almost anything, including bread, can make anybody fat.

I have IRL 1 friend who I know has PCOS. Very fit (I'm sure her innate fitness potential is vastly better than mine, anyway). Had an emotional shock & dropped 2+ stone coz she stopped eating for weeks. Just like anyone else would have. I can't see that calories any different for her than they are for me. If we go out, she eats bigger portions, says that her office is a minefield of temptations, too.

15 years ago, (aged 30 or so) I lost 3 stone on WW in about 10 months with no exercise.

I put that back on, and 10 years ago (aged 35) I lost 2 stone in 6 months by calorie counting, no exercise.

Put that back on too, and 5 years ago (aged 40) I lost 2 stone in six months again with calorie counting at a pretty stiff deficit and regular exercise.

That's gone back on, so now I'm 45 and recently had my gallbladder out, most likely courtesy of all the years of losing and regaining weight. I am trying to lose weight again now, and after 5 weeks of intermittent fasting, calorie counting at a deficit of nearly 700 cals a day and doing some strength training, I had lost just 2 lbs in 4 weeks!!

I don't know WTF is going on, I'm back on WW this week and praying I'll see a shift. I'm very experienced at the science of losing weight, not sure what's happening.

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I just googled it and it seems like difficulty losing weight without a gallbladder is a thing?!

Oh crap is it really? Bollocks.

Hmm I've just had a google and can't see any reliable sources - I'm not a doctor but I can't really see why having no gallbladder could affect it. Unless cortisol and insulin are indeed raised, as one article claims.

Please write us a typical daily menu.

Are you maybe looking for excuses op? I had a google and uou can lose weight with the right diet.

I do think you're eating and drinking more than you think,I'm sorry,

The sources I read and threads seems to suggest that it is insulin related. I do eat a lot of carbohydrates (vegetarian) so I am going to reduce to see if that helps.
Typical day:
Weetabix, 175ml skimmed milk, teaspoon honey.

Homemade vegetable and lentil soup with whole meal thin/ omelette with 2 medium eggs, fried in fry light, half a cup of mushrooms, half cup tomatoes, spinach

Banana with 150gr Greek yoghurt tsp honey for snack

Linda McCartney rosemary and red onion sausages, large sweet potato, roasted Mediterranean veg for dinner

Further 175ml skimmed milk for tea throughout the day.

If it’s an exercise day will have a curly Wurly in the evening with a cup of tea.

I try to broadly follow Slimming world but calorie count it and weigh and measure, if that makes sense.

How tall are you, OP?

How active are you in general (outside of gym visits)?

Plug your details into the following calculator:-

www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/calculators/calories-required/

This will tell you how many calories you need to lose X weight in X number of weeks (depends on what you enter). Your height matters. Your age matters. Your general level of movement matters. Notice how the calories you can eat get lower as you get closer to your goal For me, it gave me fewer calories than I would have liked

Take the information on calories and apply it to a diet or devise your own of delicious and filling foods. MEASURE/WEIGH EVERYTHING + DON'T GUESS.

At least you are losing, OP, so pat yourself on the back for that. I have lost a fair bit of weight over the past couple of years but it's been a sloooow process. I used to have a crazily fast metabolism, but this has long gone. Age/illness/medication you name it and I am working with a different body altogether. I have had to be so patient - not easy for me.

Keep at it, OP. You can do this!

FYI Rosemary Conley had her gallbladder out years ago.

I found Slimming World allowed too much food for me. I work better with calorie counting now I am in this different situation with my health.

But definitely do what works for you everyone!

It's difficult to say without precise measurement of food. Even that curly wurly could be inadvertently be sabotaging you. (But you don't have to give up treats completely)

Your diet sounds great, I'd just cut the weetabix and have an omelette, ham/cheese, yog, fruit, and have FF milk instead of skimmed (unless you hate ff milk).

You could be a bit low on fat, if anything.. Add more fat maybe?

Koko, you're doing great.

Are you having a blow out at weekends?

I am older than you and after having a full body check over, I now know that 1400 calories are all I need to maintain a day.

Therefore, if i eat 1200 and aim for 4-500 exercise in a day I start to lose weight. Burning that amount is hard and I have to do a hours exercise and walk, walk walk.

Not majorly, I still count and log it all, we often have fajitas at the weekend, but I have quorn peices with fajita mix and peppers etc and rice instead of sauces wraps cheese etc.
I don’t drink, so none of that.

I hate full fat milk! That’s why I have skimmed.

sofa what’s your height and weight though?
I’m 6ft and 17.12.
I do have a sedentary job (call centre) and I’m not very active outside of the gym - other Han running around after the children.

My BmI calculations with what calorie intake should be

Honestly OP, you should be losing more. Yes, you've lost, which is fab, but at your height on 1500 per day I'd say you should have lost a couple of stones by now.

Maybe see the doc? Thyroid check?

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https://tdeecalculator.net/result.php?s=imperial&g=female&age=30&lbs=250&in=72&act=1.55&f=2

You are definitely not eating enough. You're 6' and 250lbs eating only 1500 cals.

I'm 5'10", 160lbs and eat 1800-2300 and I lose weight. You really are unnecessarily starving yourself, and at that sort of deficit you will be burning a significant amount of muscle as well as fat.

There's a group on MFP called "eat more to weigh less". Worth having a look for tips.