Can't get past 155lbs

[Crimblecrumblelover]

for the past 3 years I have tried to lose the remaining 15lbs of my baby weight. I did it before with my first child after 18 months with calorie counting and exercise but haven't had the same success after my 2nd. I have tried everything. my average step count is 10k a day, I do a job where I'm on feet all day. I exercise, I don't snack, I don't drink. it is becoming so frustrating. what frustrates me the most is that I'm overweight but not overweight enough for injections. before I got to 155 I was 175 and lost this through diet and exercise, so am I plateauing at this point. any ideas or should I just accept I can't get past?

How many calories are you eating per day? I lost a lot of weight last year and worked out I only lose weight if I keep my calories to 1000 or fewer, even though my tracker app thing says I can eat 1350 a day, I’d not lose anything on that much.

Yeah it's going to be food in. Always hard to out-exercise food.

There’s a TDEE calculator that can help you figure out what your calorie needs are. I found it quite eye opening.

I've just done the calculator and despite running for an hour four times a week and walking at least five miles every day in addition to that I only need just over 2000 calories a day to maintain my weight. Depressing how little we actually need!

So my calorie intake is 1400 _ 1500 calories. I have looked at that website which tells you about your TDEE. if I ate less than a 1000 calories, my blood sugars would drop. I don't have diabetes but suffer from hypoglycemia (it's in my family).

Unfortunately that sounds like your maintenance amount. I think you'd need to get closer to 1100 and even then weightloss would be slow. Do slow release carbs help with your sugar levels? Or not eating meals but multiple snacks meals spread throughout the day?

I find eating snacks makes me more hungry. I try not to eat surgery things so have seeded bread instead of white bread etc. This is my details in the TDEE website. I had my thyroid checked two years and was told that my levels were absolutely fine.

Can you try to do 1200 4 days a week, and 1500 three days a week but on those days do really intense exercise. A full hour of bootcamp can burn 500 cals easily.

Are you still weighing and measuring food? I found portions crept up if I wasn't careful (eg a dessertspoon of muesli topping (10g) on breakfast skyr became a heaped spoonful (20g) or instead of three walnut halves (which are about 40 cals) it would be three plus a few broken bits which probably added up to another 40 cals. Two or three cups of tea with milk every day become six or eight if you are feeling a bit hungry or have an energy dip - that's 160 cals. Bit by bit, here and there, it's easy to end up eating an extra 300 cals per day without even noticing or recording them.

thank you for all the replies. I could try and do 1200 calories 4 days and then the rest 1500 and see if that works.

I’m stuck at 159lbs as well op, I’m a bit taller than you though @Crimblecrumblelover. I painstakingly lost 9lbs earlier this year, got down to 149lbs then got a really nasty sinus infection and went on antibiotics and watched my weight rise by 1lb a day for a week 🤦‍♀️ and I haven’t managed to shift it since July. Basically regardless of what any tdee calculator says, I do not need 1600 calories, I only lose weight if I cut down to 1200 and that’s just not sustainable. I exercise 3-4 days a week, plus walk the dog 3 miles a day, I cook from scratch, I’ve done a whole month no alcohol or gluten this month- yeah, nothing. It’s really depressing isn’t it?

my goal for October is just to weigh every single morsel and track every gram of food I eat. I clearly am consuming vast amounts more than I realise somewhere 🤷‍♀️

@thenewaveragebear1983 its really depressing. I wasn't expecting to snap back into my pre pregnancy body without effort but after 4 years I thought i would have been closer. I am embarrassed to say but I have thought that if I gained lots of weight I could get injections.

I am not going to gain weight deliberately to get injections but I read that people who are on injections have a BMI of 22 and I don't think I will ever get there.

@Crimblecrumbleloverit does feel unfair doesn’t it. My slow loss got significantly slower when I was put on HRT and I’ve also had lots of health things over the last few years, my iron levels are low and I feel tired and “heavy” all the time. All the advice online about eating more protein and doing strength training don’t seem to work for me. I think my metabolism is screwed. My plan for the next few months is to really focus on nutrition and whole foods, cut out sugar and alcohol, keep up my running and walking, and do some strength training and yoga. Self care basically. Get the foundations right and build myself up. I am going to track my calories but hopefully by improving my overall well being it might be more effective. I don’t know really. There are a lot of us in this position though where we don’t meet the criteria for jabs but we still have all the emotional turmoil from a lifetime of “failed” diets, I don’t know about you but my self esteem is rubbish and my relationship with food is dreadful. I would love something to switch off the “food noise”.

jus thought I would update. I have been trying really hard with my diet and decided to make some changes. I don't eat anything after 6pm and have upped my protein. I'm now having an omelette with very low carbs for my dinner. I use chat gpt to estimate my calories in the day (I hate Fitbit and my fitness) and I'm now down to 152lbs! so I'm hoping things are moving in the right direction.