Not losing weight and out of ideas

[CheeseToasty]

No matter what diet I have tried each one follows the same pattern and really not sure what my next move is.

I am a very slow looser, I eventually plateau and then give up. The only time I have any reached goal was on weight watchers 16 years ago but I don’t want to do this again as I don’t want to calorie count for the rest of my life and even when I did eat on that diet there was no joy because at my height they were fairly restrictive meals.

When I found fasting it seemed like a way of life I could manage and it is and can do it easily but I am not losing weight. I have done 5:2 a few times and lost about a stone each time before hitting plateau.

I am currently doing omad and it is not difficult at all to fast. I was confident I could do this without strict calorie counting as I know my meal I eat at dinner will incur some deficits in my daily calories and was happy to lose slowly if it meant I did not have to calorie count. Despite this knowledge I reduced my portions to what I feel comfortable with, drank more water and had more salad/veg with dinner.

If the only way to get to a healthy weight is to create more of a deficit I don’t know what to do as less than around 800 (this is my usually daily calories) calories a day strips me from the joy of sharing meals with friends and family.

Have you thought about joining slimming world? I lost 50lb in 5 months very healthy. No weighing, you can have as much pasta, rice etc as you like.

The only way to lose weight is to be in calorific deficit no matter what diet you do. You need to track every morsel that enters your mouth for a true picture. You haven't mentioned exercise?

How long have you been doing OMAD and fasting?

Why is your calorie goal only 800? Are you very small to start with?

Been five weeks. I did lose for the first two weeks and then plateau. True I am not doing much in terms of exercise but I am definitely in deficit! I just feeling like a grumpy toddler at the moment as I see how others eat and exercise and feel like the only way to achieve a normal weight is to live a not so normal life.

Ok this is very unusual, to be eating eight hundred calories a day and not loosing weight. How much do you weigh v your height?

My calorie goal is so low as 5:2 wasn’t working so basically thought upping the fast days might work

5ft 1 and 11st 5lbs

Op have you seen a doctor? If you’re eating 800 calories a day that would be extreme weight loss. 1800 a day would maintain.

As such, either you’re vastly under estimating your calories over a week or you are a bit of a medical miracle.

Oh for gods sake

You need to eat less and exercise more consistently

Fad diets (SW,WW, 8:16 etc) do not work long term

Stop trying to DIET and just make future lifestyle changes

You're looking for an easy way out.
There isn't one.

And no, upping the fast days don't work as you change your body's metabolism rate

I am not looking for an easy way out! I am just looking for a way of life that isn’t a fad diet and where I don’t feel isolated from the rest of humanity because I can’t have a slice of cake when it’s someone’s birthday or eat out with friend... both things I don’t do often but feel like sins when I do because a simple meal out can undo 5 weeks of work. Thanks for that!

But you can't outrun a poor diet.

If you eat more one day, you have to eat less the next day or do more exercise.

A bad day of food does not undo weeks of worth. Your scales done go up just because you've had a takeaway or even ate an entire cake.

Eat less, regularly and exercise more. It really is that simple

Ok. Let’s break it down op.

Yes you can have a piece of cake occasionally or go out to dinner. It’s no issue, all diets allow for this. Although I can’t perceive that you’re isolated from humanity because you don’t eat cake. And for meals out you can make healthy choices

The bottom line is you need to go into a calorie deficit. On average right now you’re eating and drinking over 1800 calories a day to maintain. To loose weight you need to be on 1300 a day to loose a pound a week.

You need to take your full consumption over a week and divide it by seven. You are not eating 800 calories a day and maintaining at that weight, it is humanly impossible

The bottom line is yes you need to restrict youtself to loose weight. If you simoly don’t wish to, and don’t want to take exercise either, then you will continue at this weight or gain.

I am frustrated because I my diet is not poor and even a treat is not excessive.

@CheeseToasty

I am frustrated because I my diet is not poor and even a treat is not excessive.

I give up 🤦🏻‍♀️

I was the same o/p.

Turned out I was vastly overestimating calories. I thought I was eating max 1500 a day, and losing nothing.

Signed up to one of those meal delivery things where calories are calculated at 1200/day. Lost 10lbs the first month. 6 weeks in and down a stone.

I think for me I also need the 3 meals a day plus one snack. All this fasting and pissing around with carbs and protein just leave my hungry, and give me “permission” to eat more.

A slice of cake or one meal out won't make you fat. If you are good 90% of the time it will come off.

@CheeseToasty

I am frustrated because I my diet is not poor and even a treat is not excessive.

We haven’t seen you diet or treats but all we can say is you’re for sure eating and drinking way more than you think you are over a week.

I don’t know what advice you’re looking for. There is no one can tell you any different, there is no magic bullet, either you put yourself in calorie deficit over an average week or you choose to maintain or gain.

I don’t know what advice you’re looking for. There is no one can tell you any different, there is no magic bullet, either you put yourself in calorie deficit over an average week or you choose to maintain or gain.

This.

What do you eat per day o/p?

My 1200 calories (provided by the diet plan)

Cereal/porridge/muesli bar 200 cals
Soup/pot pasta/meal replacement bar 200 cals
Snack- oatcakes/chocolate raisins/seeds/corn chips 100-200 cals
Dinner- macaroni cheese/dhal/curry etc (300 cals) with veg or salad.

Plus 2 portions of milk, fruit, veg =1200 cals.

The portions are very small compared to what I’m used to.

Thanks I am gonna go now. Not really sure I have made myself clear as I am dishearten at the moment and probably made everyone over focus on the damn cake that I don’t even really care about or even is a factor ever.

While I appreciate that overeating is the obvious answer it isn’t the only reason and just needed tips from slow losers/shorter people like myself.

Read the book "Why we eat (too much)" by Dr Andrew Jenkinson. He explains why too many people struggle to lose weight (at all) and, if they do, why they usually fail to keep it off. Basically, the more you diet, the worse it gets. Your basal metabolic rate falls (so you need fewer calories per day, permanently) and your food cravings get progressively stronger.

A lot of the advice above, whilst well-meaning, is unhelpful. There'e too much information in the book to summarise but basically it is about eating different foods, rather than less food. So cut right down on sugar, wheat and processed foods and eat more natural foods. Obesity is associated with a modern western diet coupled with a genetic tendency to gain weight.

Strongly recommend you read the book. And possibly re-think your idea about what a healthy diet looks like.

Thank you

Would you consider trying the Joe wicks app? Food is lovely and filling and exercise not too long, two rest days, I have started 2 months ago and still enjoy treats and drinks over the weekend with seeing good results..worth to have a go, doesn't feel like a diet at all to me, recipes are quick to make and really tasty..