Weight lose is to slow. Feels hopeless.

[Rainydays26]

I know this isn't logic. And probably sounds stupid . This is about my personal self not aimed at others.

It took me 3 months to loose 3 stone.
But now everything has just kind of stopped its taken me from 16th February to 21 of April to loose a stone. I know things slow down but it feels hopeless. I can't go any lower with calories

Im not on injections.

I’ve now lost 30kgs and at know time did I lose more than 450 gms (about a pound) a week on Mounjaro. I didn’t go any higher than a dose of 7.5 and I stayed on a dose for a months at a time before increasing it. I worked out my TDEE and made sure I was in a 400/500 calorie deficit everyday. I still log what I eat despite now lowering my dose (for the last 3 months) with a view to being off Mounjaro by August, 2 years after I first started. My weight has stayed stable these last 3 months and that’s what I wanted to happen.

Perhaps log what you eat, work out a TDEE then calculate a deficit. You need to know so much about yourself, and the basics of weight loss even if it’s just to help you understand your progress till now.

I get what your saying . But my intake/calories can't go any lower.

Then perhaps read up a bit on weight loss and see why it has probably slowed down but quite honestly I think it’s not going to be long before you regain the weight. There’s something coming across in your posts that I can’t put my finger on but I don’t think you had the information you needed to start the process properly in the first place let alone anything else.

@Rainydays26 sorry, I left it too late to edit after thinking a bit more about your posts and I should also have said above that I think there’s a lot you haven’t said that would be relevant to your reaction to your weight loss.

I don't see why I'm likely to gain back the weight. No more than anyone else anyway. I'm not really sure what you mean about my replies . I'm not always the best at explaining things . Could be that i guess.

@Rainydays26 Im sorry but for me there’s something coming across in your posts that make your reaction to your weight loss journey alarming.

I hadn’t heard about Mysimba until your post so since I last posted I’ve read about it and the expected weight loss is between 5 and 10 percent of your body weight, with an average of 8 percent of your body weight at 56 weeks.

It’s also considered a drug that delivers a slow and steady weight loss and shouldn’t be confused with other drugs offering quicker weight loss. A recent study also showed that week 16 is when users get a good idea of how it’s working for them, and if they haven’t lost 5 percent of their weight by then they should consider other methods. Yet you lost so much more than that - 4 stone in 5 months/20 weeks. I’m sorry but none of this is adding up and I think you need to speak to someone about it.

ETA I am on WLI.
I lost 3 stone in 3 months and the next stone over 2 months and the following 3 stone over about 10 months so it slowed right down - to be expected. I started at 16st though and it melted away pretty quickly to begin with, and then understandably as I had less to lose it came off slower. I’ve been maintaining the same weight now for the last 3-4 months.
The less you weigh the slower the weight will come off generally.
It’s quite normal.

Oh I think i understand and maybe I should have put it in my op. I just didn't think about it.

Anyway mysimba had a really strong effect on me. And I did loose alot in a short period of time. As you probably read over 4 weeks you go from 1 tablet to 4. I just stayed at 1 because of how it effected me. There were times I litterly forgot food exist food noise was completely blocked. So yeah I did loose faster. But I have stuck to just the one tablet it doesn't feel strong like before as before but I don't want to raise the does incase it hits hard agsin si I hhve kept it low. As much as I'm moaning about it now being slow i know its not a good idea for it to be how it was.

Im not under weight or anything and im keeping dosage low.

Oh sounds kind of simlar. I think its probably loke a could of other people said probably a bit bored in a way..

Well done on your lose 👍

After around 4 months would expect weight loss to slow to 0.5kg a week so a stone would take around 2 months. Long slow and boring.

There are other posters all over the weight lose threads saying they have lost a few stone over a few months .

And the getting weak thjbg is probably because I haven't been doing any weights

That’s crazy. A BMI of 22 is fine. I’m on Mounjaro and have lost 16 lbs in 11 weeks and am fine with that. Very fast weight loss is not healthy especially if you haven’t got a v high BMI.

@Rainydays26I don't do weights, I’ve lost a lot of weight and I don’t feel weak at all. I run and walk a lot, which helps with leg strength. If you feel so weak that you’ve got a noticeable lack of strength to do things that you could do before that sounds like it could be a serious problem. Maybe you could see your GP and talk through your symptoms, or speak to whoever prescribes the MySimba and ask them about it?

Could you also think about staying the same weight and working on strength and fitness?

My bmi wasn't 22 at the time of loosing fast I was bigger at that point it was 30 or 31 I forget now.

Yeah thats why i said about weighs to build up my strength again. Maybe its just I need to vlne from a different angle rather than weight lose. Maybe toning up regaining strength might guve me a focus. And still add some changes without losing more

I did speak to the people who gave mysimba they didn't seem overly concerned about the lose.people can lose fast at the start and i think thats more common depending on the start weight They did advice not to up the dose though.

It’s not the weight loss speed itself that’s a worry it’s the resulting weakness that’s an issue, did they say anything about that?

To be honest I haven't told them. This probably sounds stupid now. But I thought it was just part of the loosing fast where the mysimba was strong in mycase . And I made the assumption they would know. And I thought it would correct itself but also I haven't made any effort with strength what so ever if I had maybe my bmi would be a bit higher or at least I wouldn't have felt weak . Probably teach me not to be last.

Also on the day I was moaning about feeling weak I had been pulling /lifting/laying vinyl flooring that were in rolls that were 4 meters by 5.5 meters so in a roll it was heavy and I was doing it on my own. So it was probably to much. Plus menopause.

I mean I could talk to them see what they suggest.

You have lost a stone a month, that’s incredibly fast and I’d suggest over 4 lbs a week is way more than most people lose. I’ve taken 3 months to lose one stone. I’d be counting myself lucky if I were you.

Everyone is different people loose faster /slower than others . Theres a mix of people who have lost different amounts.. I get what you're saying about counting myself lucky. But I think everyone has moments of it feeling a bit shit during weight lose.

Rainy days, I’m sorry. But no. This has nothing to do with you not doing any weight training, if it was everyone on WLM who’s not strength training would be so weak that like you they'd feel awful and wouldn’t be able to pick things the previously could

The getting weak is down to your very rapid weight loss and the fact you’re existing on a very low calorie intake, and you being so terrified of the stall you’re having or regaining the weight you’ve lost that you’re a danger to your own health.

You need to see someone for profession advice and I say that without any malice at all.

sorry eta - 5 months into your weight loss journey you’re already having such a restricted amount of calories you’ve said you just can’t go any lower. It shouldn’t be like this. And yesterday when I mentioned calculating your TDEE your first instinct was to say I can’t go any lower on calories - but my point was - may be you need to increase your calories. Maybe your body is telling you I’m starving and you need to rethink this.

Hold on I'm confused . Si you was suggesting to up calories now lower? I'm now woundering if I have misread or misunderstood.

But when I said i cant go any lower thats me being safe. If I wasn't then I would just carry on getting lower and lower.

And I feek like maybe your misunderstanding or have just decided that your right no matter what I say. There are people on this tgresf sating they have lost 3 stone in 3 months. There are simlar posts all over the weight lose threads.

But I agree I have messed up with the muscle thing. I should have been making sure I was using weights even small ones and exercise.

I did explain several posts up that when I spoke about feeling weak and crap. That was on a day that I was picking up. Pulling dragging rolls of vinyl flooring that were really heavy and I was doing it on my own. Plus laying it in the room. So I was probably trying to do to much on my own. Which I blamed on weakness but in reality it probably wasn't.

Theres not anything more I can say I have tried to explain best I can.

I was suggesting you worked out your TDEE and ate at a deficit but you automatically ruled it out as ‘your calorie intake couldn’t go any lower’. It could also have gone higher but that just didn’t seem to occur to you. You’re panicking because your weight loss (as you see it) has slowed down but you’re not asking why and trying to remedy it - I suspect you’re needing to eat more but because you’re terrified to regain weight you can’t see the wood for the trees.

Im going to leave your thread now. I really can’t cope with how you’re going about things and I’m very concerned for you. All the best going forward.

I have a BMI of 23 with a six pack. I’d suggest that any one with a BMI of 23 who feels they are overweight likely is under muscled needs to do a body recomp (gradually gain muscle and loss fat) rather than cut calories further .