Weight Loss Injections didn’t work for me

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I lost 6 pounds in 2 months and then nothing for 6 months. Felt nauseous all the time. Has this happened to anyone else? I was on WeGovy. Has anyone got any suggestions of other WLI I could try please?

I am 5ft 4 and I wouldn't have lost anything really on 1200 cals either once I got to a lower weight, i am just over 8 stone and that's probably maintenance for me now, well officially just over 1300 so that 100cals a day deficit wouldnt do a lot, esp if any error in calculating.

Depends on age and height. 1200 would be just under maintenance for me at 46, 52kg and 5ft 3.

Didn't stop my hunger /desire to eat either.
Gave up & started running and not eating. Just felt hungry all the time

If she's at the start of her weight loss journey then it's very unlikely she weighs anywhere near 52kg!

I don’t think she’s 52kg

But OP has started WLI to lose weight not to maintain at 52kg

I was BMI 28 when I started and to lose about 1.5lb a week I was on about 1300 cals, that was only for a short time, i had to reduce quite quickly

But if she is short even at 12 stone she wouldn't need much more than 1200 to lose a small amount. I didn't.

Yeah if you’re not very good at counting cals by eye you need to focus, if you didn’t lose weight you were eating to maintenance, it just didn’t feel like much maybe compared to what you were used to, but it was enough to maintain your existing weight.

id try mounjaro, but you need to go on a diet. The fat doesn’t melt off.

It depends very much on activity levels and muscle. I'm 11 stone, 5 foot 4 and my TDEE is 2000 calories. I could lose weight on a lot more than 1200.

I dont get the confusion here!

I meant to say 5ft4, if I was 75kg I would need aroubd 1600 cals for maintenance so 1350 for 1lb a week loss. If OP is shorter than me then she wouldn't really lose on 1200.

Again, depends on activity levels and muscle mass. And age!

Yes exactly, that is what I am saying, people are arguing that potentially 1200 cals is hardly anything and it cant be possible to not lose weight, when thats not the case for many people.

Your activity levels must be really high, I have a very sedentary office based job, I do exercise but weight training with a team sport each week. TDEEs generally over calculate exercise cals depending on type of activity I find

Not really. I'm 45, gym twice a week and walk a bit daily. I'm just naturally fairly well muscled. I know my TDEE is accurate because I track calories having lost 3.5 stone on mounjaro.

It definitely is trial and error for many with TDEE, i am a really small build and unless I do a lot of weight training I just dont need many calories. Its really disappointing 😂

I'm on wegovy and I've lost nothing either. I don't calorie count and I'm sedentary at work but it's also not really reduced my appetite.

That seems highly unusual. 1400 calories is the TDEE of an active 4 to 8 year old female child or a sedentary male 4 year old. For a grown woman do have that as a TDEE when she purports to be active I’d say your calculations are likely off Unless you’re absolutely tiny.

In fact @Mysticmaidenive plugged your stats into the Henry Equation for TDEE and it’s gives yours as 2,350 a day.

Depends what weight you are now?

That’s really really unusual. To have 38 percent muscle mass you’re approaching competitive female body builder levels, and will look it, and it takes a huge amount of cals to achieve that, I don’t know how you can be at this sort of muscle mass, just doing body toning and only have a tdee of 1450

normally for an active woman of your height and weight you’d be about 2500 but for this kind of very high muscle you’d need about 4000 cals a day just to build and maintain that,

So I weigh 11 stone. When I put my stats in a tdee calculator it says 1874! What am I doing wrong?

OP it’s totally different ball game for us with hypothyroidism. Calories are meaningless for us … try Mounjaro, it’s the only thing that worked for me.

If that is accurate then at 1200 cals you should be losing 2lb a week ish. The calculators really overestimate the additional calories for exercise i find, are you weighing and logging everything? Also do you track macros? I lose a lot more when I eat more protein and less carbs than the same calories but a higher carb diet.

If so then the WLIs are kind of irrelevant as on those calories you would be losing anyway, but it is reported that MJ is generally a better drug. However if everything is accurate and you are religiously calorie counting then I would definitely see the doctor before starting something different.