very low fat diet for 6 months and not lost any weight

[cappucinogirl4]

I am at my wits end.I have been following a very low fat diet since january and not lost a bean.My daily menu is

Breakfast - banana and apple

Lunch - pumpkin seed bread roll,apple

Dinner - roasted chicken breast and veg with gravy

1 cappucino

I have been using points with weightwatchers using the old 18 points a day rule and usually come under this at about 15 points so should surely I should be losing weight?
The only thing I can think of is that I take AD's mirtazepaine and risperedal and my GP said these do slow your metabolism down.Am wondering whether I need my thyroid function testing aswell.Any thoughts?

Thanks

Yes. Low fat doesn't work! You're also hardly eating anything, so you will be consuming very few calories, and your metabolism will have slowed right down.

Switch to high fat/low carbohydrate - which will also allow you to eat more.

Come and join us on Bootcamp Here's the latest thread

Thanks BIWIthebold,I had seen the bootcamp thread but am scared to try it as it looks like alot of food and I'm terrified of putting any weight on.I can't get my head around sloshing things in butter! Will have a look again though.

Go back to your gp.

I know it seems terribly counter-intuitive, but it really does work. And you can enjoy food, rather than it being something evil that makes you put weight on.

Sounds like your body has gone into famine mode due to you not eating enough.

You def need more protein.

I have lost over 30 pounds since January on the new weight watchers system. I'm finding that really good and easy to stick to. Most of the time anyway!

Cappucino, watch the documentary "fat-head" it eplains low carb/high fat very well along with explaining how your body works.

I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to lose weight, I can PM you a link to watch it online :)

Agree with biwi. I'd be ravenous on that diet. I've been calorie counting and exercising, using this as a rough guide. Aiming to loose about 1lb a week so slow and steady.

I'm doing a combination of low carb on weight watchers. I'm eating more than I have in years and I'm over one and a half stone down now in 10 weeks. I did kick start with BIWI'S low carb and it was great but food prep was overtaking my life ( three DC's) and I'm finding pro points but just one carb meal/ day easier to sustain.

I wondered where you'd gone, ANT! How's your DH doing? I seem to remember you were both doing really well.

OP I have been the same since dd2 16 months, I have stuck religiously to ww then sw and was too pussy to stick to bootcamp

I have started running whilst sticking to lower or complex carbs,a bit more good fats and plenty of veg. Its a bastard though isnt it? I only want to go down a dress size too so i can wear all my lovely clothes

ant share your secrets then that sounds as if it would be good for me.

Low fat doesn't necessarily mean weight loss. A 2kg bag of sugar is 100% fat free, would that make it a good lunch? Just because something is fat free doesn't mean it's healthy. Sorry.

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BIWI can you post a link to the original bootcamp thread with all the rules on please? i can't find it when i search.Thanks.

qo,i'd be grateful if you could post that link,thanks

The latest thread that I linked to has the rules on it - in some sort of vague attempt to keep everyone on track (think 'herding cats'!) I re-posted them. They're towards the beginning of the thread.

Can we have a new 'bootcamp' thread for beginners? The established threads seem scary. I have peeked!

You have mail cappucinogirl

Scary?! How so? I don't shout or wave my big stick often enough very much!

Do you want to join us? Please just jump in - people are really supportive, honest!

I'm eating a big breakfast usually a high meat/ low carb sausage - many are 50% carb so I'm reading packets!, a bit of bacon, an egg scrambled/ poached/ fried lots of cherry tomatoes and mushrooms fried in butter.

For lunch an omelet stuffed with cheese, spice and veg or a big salad with prawns, tuna, salmon, cheese, eggs or cold meats normally with lots of mayonnaise.

Evening meals are generally hearty family affairs pasta bolognese, currys, fish and chips, roasts, cottage pie (bulked up with loads of veg), lasagne etc. I make sure my plate is full but 40% of it is veg. I still use loads of the low carb guidelines like bulking mince meals with celeriac and squash.

I buy lots of fruit and really enjoy big fruit platters to snack on when the kids are tucking into biscuits, and pinching the fruit.

I do eat sin foods like crisps but I buy the Aldi 10 packs for 99p ounces which are 2 weight watchers points- not being slight of frame I'm allowed 31 points a day + 49 points over the week for treats. I like the occasional glass of wine and that's 3 points for one of my glasses but manageable particularly with my extra points i have at the weekend.

I did put on 5lb week one of weightwatchers after loosing lots more than that initially on low carb but then lost 6lb week 2 and 2lb or so each week since.

As with the low carb I don't feel hungry all the time and my energy levels are far more even. I do try to do three decent long walks a week and this was my main reason for introducing some carbs as I did find my muscles felt completely drained. I do Pilates once a week which is great for improving my posture.

I never thought weight watchers was for me but I find so many food based things crop up in life like my birthday and fathers day last weekend and DH is 40 next weekend I can save up points to indulge and enjoy these events whilst not being drastically effected on the scales over the week.

If you sign up to top cash back and use the voucher code on the site it works out at about £1 for three months online because you get around £30 discount and £30 cash back. I love a bargain!

There is a thing on the Harcombe diet website about why you can smother stuff in butter. Having avoided it for years I'm now indulging and loosing. I don't get it but the low fat diet rules just don't really seam to work.

Oh I'm also trying to minimise transfats but I don't know if that effects weight or is a personal fad.

Sorry for the essay. DH has been on and off a bit but is still over a stone down so pretty good for what is less than three months. I do think there is a lot in low carb and I'm very grateful for BIWI'S efforts, the thread came along at just the right timing to kick me into doing something. I can't understand how I can be eating and enjoying more food, finding it more satisfying and loosing.

That is brilliant, ANT

yes that sounds good,so you basically save carbs for your evening meal and bulk out with veg. How do you count ww points though if you are adding butter etc isnt that a million points straight off?

I hated celeriac on boot camp I also struggle to eat meat for brekkie as i leave for work at 8 after sorting out 2 dc I cant imagine having time to be gleely cooking a few sauages I like eggs though and have salad,meat or fish and avocado for lunch so im halfway there.

I must confess to scoffing a star bar whilst writing this but then I have been up with dd since 4am yes you did hear right grrrr.

Ill check out that website thanks.

Scrambled egg made in a cup in microwave = less than 2 mins. So add a cup of baked beans maybe at same time and you have instant low carb breakfast whilst you find spoons/ bowls etc

Not low carb if it's with baked beans!