Why is my weight loss so slow?

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I’m heavily obese, out of desperation I paid for WLI myself as didn’t want to go through GP. I was as motivated by threads on here and posts on social media. It’s been 6 months now but I have lost only 14 lb so one stone. No one has noticed at all and when I’ve told family they said themselves it’s not noticeable yet but to carry on.

Thing is I’ve not always been big, I’ve been slim most of my life then suddenly after kids I’ve blown up. It took me only a month to lose a stone previously so now when it should be easier as I’m fatter so more weight to lose plus WLI then why is it so slow? I feel like not buying another pen. I don’t need to go up a dose as I have suppression but I don’t know why I’m not losing. I’m still wearing same size clothes so not just weighing scale issue.

I don’t know why it’s so slow but it’s fantastic you have lost a stone! I think as we get older it’s harder to shift weight.

Like you I gained massively after kids. I’ve just started calorie counting yet again but this time I’m sticking to about 1800 a day and have started seeing some movement. Trying to eat proper home cooked meals too which is making me feel fuller.

Might be high cortisol (stress hormone) gets stored around the body.

Try and Reduce Cortisol (quercetin supplement blocks the hormone)
use vibration plate for reducing water weight and improve lymph flow
try fasting 👌🏽

And cbd

If you want the truth you’re eating too much. I think you likely know this deep down,

you’re losing about half a pound a week, which means you’re eating a defecit of 250 cals a day on average.

If you have suppression but you’re still not eating in a sufficient calorie deficit then maybe you do need to move up a dose?

The crucial information missing is how much are you eating compared to your maintenance/deficit calories?

What does your typical food day with portions sizes look like?

To be honest I don’t calorie count - I know I should. Okay so truthfully this is what I ate:

at work 8am-3pm:
2 coffees with no sugar but whole milk
apple
grapes - about 10
activia yoghurt - 120 calories

4pm at home snack:
half a tortilla wrap with 2 dairylea cheese slices and a few jalepenos. A coffee with semi skimmed milk . forgot to include: monkey nuts about a small handful

6pm dinner:
fish fillet (240 calories) oven baked
salad leaves no dressing

7pm snack:
small bowl of Bombay mix which I did weigh and it was 150 calories

Hi, I've bèen on Mounjaro since Jan 2025 and have lost 7 stone are you...

• drinking enough water
• exercising
• calorie counting and weighing food
• hitting your protein goals
• have you calculated what your daily deficit should be for weight loss
• sometimes you do need to go up doses to trigger weight loss

@Flower1989999 im not drinking as much water as I should as my job is one which I can’t just go toilet so I limit water but do take a few sips when I know break times are coming

I do exercise every evening when kids sleeping, I don’t think I am hitting my protein goals

I think the main thing might be caloroe intake do you track?

That’s not true actually and it might have been the or

The reason weight loss Plateaus is because whatever your diet is eventually your body learns
to sustain its self on whatever calories you give it.

So eating well may make you lose a good amount in the beginning then you’ll have no energy because it lowers your energy output to sustain your weight.

Eating A fruit or Vegetable before anything else goes into stomach is the best way to reduce sugar :/ glucose spikes.

Bitter greens like Rocket before a meal signals your body’s own GLP receptors to work

Lympahatoc Drainage

Lower inflammation

Regular Movemt

Saunas etc

Its a whole lifestyle change

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You have to count the calories to see what you're actually eating, you can track protein, carbs etc. Use a TDEE calculator to calculate your calories and remove at least 500, 1000 if you can safely.

You need to weigh absolutely everything to log calories, there also isnt a lot of amazing nutrition there. I used to go to weight watchers and one lady who was very large wasnt losing, it turns out she wasnt weighing anything and counting 'points' for a standard portion but waa having over 4 times as much.

I had 3 stone to lose to go from BMI 28 to BMI 21 and did this in about 4 months. I tracked everything, ensured 80-100g of protein a day, low-ish carbs and loads of water. I had clear whey protein which helped with water intake also, plus 20g of protein. I didnt really exercise much.

What dose are you on?

Cmon now, the body doesn’t fuel itself with air. You surely understand our biology better than to believe this.

surely everyone knows you expend energy by simply being. Thay energy comes in the form of cals consumed, be it food or drink.

if we don’t consume enough to fuel ourselves our body burns its fat or muscle stores to make up the defecit.

this in turn makes us weigh less.

i think you’ve got confused possibly in the old starvation mode myth, or thinking our metabolism slows right down to only survive on cals consumed.

let me explain, the starvation mode myth is something that exploded and is erroneous, it was taken from a trial done on humans, I think in Switzerland, can’t recall,

people were starved. As in properly starved, zero food.
their metabolism slowed right down due to it.
their bodies continued to lose weight at the expected rapid loss.

because, and go back to the start, our bodies cannot fuel itself with air. It is either what we consume, or it is fat or muscle.

think logically, have you ever seen a fat anorexic?

I am reading this and think that your going far to long without food then taking the bulk of your calories from 4pm to 7pm which means your body is not using the calories as effectively. First of all breakfast literally means break the fast. Your body needs energy in the morning so have something earlier in the day. Eat your larger meal earlier in the day, drink 2 litres of water and do some HIIT classes. I can follow all the rules, Eat lower calories and not lose a pound if I dont do HIIT classes.

In the main, fat loss depends on a calorie deficit. If you aren’t tracking, you aren’t in as much of a deficit as you believe. On average, your daily deficit would be 500c a day to lose one pound a week.
You can make a deficit easier to cope with by making sure your diet is high in protein and fibre because you’ll feel fuller for longer.
Use a TDEE calculator to get your daily maintenance calorie requirement figure then deduct from that depending on how much of a deficit you feel you can cope with (bearing in mind that this will affect the speed you lose at).
Use an app like Nutracheck to track everything you eat and drink (weigh everything, don’t guess) to make sure you’re consistently in the deficit.
With a few more complex variables that don’t necessarily apply to everyone , this is the basis of fat loss.

Whilst there obviously could be other factors, the extremely likely one is you’re still consuming more calories on the average day than you believe. The obvious thing would be to try going up a dose.

Op, gently taken over an average week there will be days you eat more than this, and drink more than this.

your daily cals have to be averaged, take a full week, then divide by 7. You are not maintaining your body weight eating this each day,

and your diet is lacking in protein, you need to eat a minimum of 1g per kg of body weight.

Cut out carbs and processed food op.
no dairy lea 🔺
no bombay mix
You definitely need to drink more water to lose weight- google why and try to do it after work.
Download my fitness pal and log everything
eat your protein goals
eat in a calorie deficit of 500cals
don’t drink alcohol

You are eating way too much.

I’m going to be gentle when I say I think you’re telling porkies with this. If that’s it, you’d be shedding weight.

Count calories

A friend of mine who is 6 stone overweight has decided not to use the jabs and to follow the Michael Moseley blood sugar diet.

In the first 4 weeks (800 calories a day, following his recipes) she's lost 20 lbs.

Shes obviously calorie counting and when she finishes the first 8 weeks she'll go onto the next stage which I think is the 5/2 diet

My understanding is that even with the jabs, you still have to calorie count to make sure you're not eating too much

If this was a normal day the op would be dropping weight fast. Very fast. So there is obvs days she eats a lot more.

I don’t know about the WLI aspect as I haven’t used them, but I know plenty about traditional loss. You must use an app such as myfitnesspal to track your food and nutrition, as well as scales for all your meals. The type of food is as important as the amount, and I do think a high protein diet is better for loss. If you don’t already have a fitness watch then that’s a good investment too as it will offset your daily steps against your calories for you. At the end of each day you want yo be in a defecit.

I would speak to your WLI provider as you may need to go up, but it’s worth doing the above first to make sure you are maximising the benefit of the injections.

You can't rely on the medication to reduce your food intake and if you're losing that slowly then clearly it's not reducing your appetite enough. Therefore you need to do the following;
a) track and stick to a greater calorie deficit
b) drink more water
c) plan what you eat better so you eat plenty of protein
d) consider increasing your dose assuming you're still on 2.5?