To think it’s impossible for me to lose weight

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Feeling annoyed as I am trying to lose 1.5 stone ahead of my wedding next yr, and having tried for 2 weeks to eat significantly healthier / consciously and joined a gym with quite intense classes, and attended 4x per week, I expected to lose at least something. Instead, I’ve put on 1kg so feeling disappointed.

Ive tried half heartedly in the past to lose weight but with no luck so gave up, and the only time this was successful was when I ate significantly less (I would purposely leave 1/2 a plate of food uneaten if out for dinner, just eat a bag of crisps for dinner, etc so wasn’t maintainable or mentally healthy).

Any stories of successful weight loss please help me as I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong

Also, how would I know if I have an insulin issue? Sorry probably a stupid question but there’s history of diabetes in my family so just want to check whether that’s what you mean?

OP, are you sure you are in calorie deficit?

but also, as you said, you are doing very intense exercises so that can result of muscle tissue damage and with that muscle can get swollen a bit so thats why the scale wont move.

Check your sugars, it could be the insulin resistance which slow thing.

I'm currently low carbing and I started at the end of April. I was 17.4 when I started and now I'm 15.2 so two stone and two lb down. I want to lose another 2 stone to take me to 13. I find low carbing is brilliant for me . My chronic heart burn has gone, my chicken skin on my arms and thighs has cleared up and I feel so much better .

Eating healthy does not automatically mean to a weightloss... I eat healthy😂
Healthy stuff is often very calorofic and having bigger portions of it can be a problem. Eg, olive oil in dressing is healthy.. Calorific as fuck. Stir fry is healthy usually, can be calorific as fuck. So qhile you nourish your body with good stuff, it does not mean it's good for weightloss.

Alao 1kg can esaily be water

Honestly life is too short to stress yourself about being a size 10.

Make sure you're eating nutritious food and are getting some exercise and spend all this head space enjoying your life. Rather than stressing you're not a size 8.

I cut out meat and fisb, white carbs and junk by crowding them out with veg fruit and other healthy choices. I walked fast for 45 mins 5 days a week. In ten months I lost 2 stone and am now 8 stone 7 which I've maintained for ten months so far. For the first 3 weeks i didn't lose anything then lost a pound or so, then stuck again, then it would fall off. Very inconsistent. It didn't bother me as my goal was better health, the weight loss was just a bonus really so I didn't get disheartened. I'm also 52 and post menopause so not the easiest of material to be working with.

At a size 10 unless you are extremely short I think you’re being very hard on yourself… eating better and working our regularly is worth doing for the physical and mental health benefits but when you don’t have a lot to loose, it does take longer for the effects to show up.

I also agree with PP that I would drop the scales for 1-2 months and focus on how your clothes fit you, and how you feel. Female hormones cause weight fluctuations throughout the month which are normal and healthy but completely disheartening when you’re solely focussed on loosing weight

You’ve already identified that you can lose weight by cutting calories.
You just did it in a mad way before.
Halving your portion size - possibly OK, depending on the food. Swapping dinner for a packet of crisps - just no.

Not my quote but, “you can’t out run a bad diet”.

1. A lot of exercise doesn’t burn that many calories
2. If you’re a size 10 now then you’re likely a healthy BMI so you’ll be burning less in those exercise classes than many (and less in daily activity too)
3. It’s all too easy to simple eat more (even if healthy food) when exercising. Which is normally the right thing to do!

Yes, what you eat matters, and when, and how often, and hormonal issues like insulin resistance, and medication. It's nit aa simple as "eat less, move more."

But for the vast majority of people, you need to reduce your calories and - at least at first - you need to track them strictly.

And 2 weeks is nothing. You might even have lose weight until day 13. I can put 3lb on the day before my period is due.