What is wrong with me?

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Angielou

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Hi

I’m desperate to lose weight, I have tried everything in the book one of which is Weight Watchers, but nothing seems to work. I don’t cheat, I don’t see the point as I’m only cheating myself, but my weight gain has changed me so much I don’t go out anymore as I just don’t like the way I look, I disgust myself. I’ve gone from a slim size 10 to a size 18 and I just can’t take any more. I am so careful with the food I eat, I drink loads of mineral water every day, I don’t drink tea or coffee, the only ‘treat’ I have is a can of Coke Zero. I do drink alcohol but one bottle of wine will last me a fortnight. I do go walking but only at weekends as I work full time as a secretary and I’m far too tired when I get home. I have now been consuming just 600 calories a day for over 6 weeks now and nothing has come off at all, maybe I should reduce it even more? I’m so fed up, it’s having such an effect on my life, I won’t go on holiday either, I went last year and it was the worse time of my life, non of the clothes I took with me would fit and they had done only 4 months previously. I have never eaten much, in fact people would always say I ate like a bird so don’t understand the weight gain. I do have hypothyroidism but that is being treated and is under control, I have had this for over 25 years so I can’t blame the weight gain on this. I eat far less now than I’ve ever done as now I’m older I thought it best to, yet the weight just keeps adding up week after week. I’ve heard all the advice of eating more to lose weight but how come people with gastric bypass etc only eat tiny amounts and lose weight, how come anorexics hardly eat and lose weight. Besides I tried that with Weight Watchers and nothing happened then either. I’m so fed up, depressed and always upset and miserable now; I feel I no longer have a life. What is wrong with me?
Sorry I know, sound a right misery don't I?

Angielou
 
I'm sorry, but something doesn't sound right..

I have now been consuming just 600 calories a day for over 6 weeks now
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I am not saying you are lying..but are you sure on that? Unless you are 3 feet tall and 25 pounds, you are going to lose weight that low cause of the amount of calories you burn just being alive. I need to ask you if you have ever done a food diary? Try writing down every thing you eat and drink for a week. You have to be 100% honest cause I just can't believe that 600 a day for 6 weeks is causing you to gain weight. It doesn't add up with the science.
 
Yes I know that, I know it doesn't add up or make sense, I do know what I consume and I add it up every day, for instance up to now today, I've had a low calorie cup of soup = 53 calories and a go ahead biscuit = 156 calories and one can of Coke Zero, tonight I will have a bowl of soup = 200 calories and two slices of wholemeal bread with low fat spread on which I give 100 calories for each slice so it includes the low fat spread = 609 calories all in. I don't eat breakfast I really don't want anything in a morning and I'm not hungry any way. The cup of soup and go ahead bar I have for my lunch & Coke Zero, the soup and bread is for dinner tonight, that is it!!! Like I said, I don't cheat, I know if I consume too many calories my weight will increase, but I weighed myself yesterday and absolutely nothing has changed. It's driving me mad with frustration.
 
So you're eating only 2 meals, in an entire day? I eat 5-6 times a day and I'm continuing to lose weight, if you eat only once or twice a day it slows down your metabolism, your body goes into fasting overnight while you sleep to use less energy, this fasting is broken by eating, if you don't eat until 12 or 1pm you're still fasting that whole time.
 
But regardless even if you were storing every single calorie as fat (which you're not cuz you need to use some of those calories for daily bodily function) 600 calories in 6 weeks would not, under NO circumstances, cuz you to gain weight. You will lose weight--that is anorexia.

I would suggest, eat at least 1000 calories of more nutritious things than soup, but exercise at least 3-4 days a week. I know you're tired after work, i work 9-5 as well as an intern (doing primarily filing and other secretarial work) Monday through Friday, but you have to find the strength to do so. Just do it. I'm doing it too, cuz i'm just getting my workout regimen down. Starting yesterday I will be working out every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday I work out for anywhere from 1-2 hours (depending on if machines are available). Try that for a week and if absolutely NO weight comes off, I would suggest you go see a doctor. B/c if your weight continues to increase out of your control, that could lead to other problems.

No offense, I hope you understand.
 
i found your first problem.. "i dont eat breakfast"
i never used to eat breakfast EVER!
and i didn always eat much ... but i never lost weight...
in just over a week ive lost between 3-6 pounds.. everyday of which i have eaten breaky!(usually 30 gms cereal and 125ml lowfat milk) i dont always enjoy eatin in the morn..and im never hungry but it does 2 things for me..

1. speeds up my metabolism
2. prevents me from becoming starved throughout the day, thus causing me not to binge on anything
basically ur metabolism is prob fuckd,slow and groggy!which will cause a lack of weightloss..

when i had bulimia/ednos i wudn eat in the morn, causing my binge l8r and wud throw up all i ate in the day.. rarely lost weight and when i did it piled on again(ny metabolism slowed way down).. anorexic loss weight very slowly actually especially in the begining ( starvation mode and cos of metabolism) and they tend to be obsessed with exercise

my advice to you is to calculate your BMR (make sure ya do the step where u multiply it by ur acticity level) and duduct 500 cals a day per pound ya wanna lose... deduct no more than 1000 and dont go under eating 1100-1200.. its very simple...is you eat way under that u go into starvation mode where your body reserves energy... oo and plan your meals the nyt b4 aswell so u dont get peckish..

i remember reading about things to speed up metabolism ages ago (i dont no how acurate this is so pls feel free to research this ok )..
drink hot water with lemon within the first hour of the morning
green tae throughout the day
and pepermint tae for the digestive system!
 
oo also...eat regular.. cliche i no.. but this diet is the first to work for me and it involves me dividing my meals evenly throughout the day to prevent hunger and wud ya believe is speed up metabolism :p
good luck with ur weight loss! :)
 
I think you should try upping your calories for at least a day. You're probably not getting enough protein and even if you may be losing fat/muscle you may be holding on to too much water. Go and eat say 1800-2000 calories for a day and see if you get a 'woosh' effect. It's not 'cheating' it's giving your body some food so it has a chance to recover from the stress it's under.

You probably should also be eating more than 600 calories, and you should be eating more of them as protein. If you really really want to be on an extreme diet then you may want to check out Lyle McDonald's Rapid Fat Loss Handbook which details how to eat very low calories healthily. If you're seriously only eating 600 calories a day and you're not careful you can actually lose heart tissue which is Very Bad(tm).

Hope this helps, but first thing you should try is eating a normal amount for a day!
 
Hmm well thanks to all for your responses, it will be difficult to eat normally now I've not done so for so long now. I really don't fancy anything at all, but I will make the effort and see where it gets me. I did bring some fruit into work for lunch today and yesterday, not much I know but it's more than I normally have. I guess I just keep thinking about people who have had a gastric bypass or gatric band and they can only eat very small meals so are only taking in a very few calories and they always seem to lose so much weight so I thought I'd do the same. I stood on the scales this morning and it's gone down by one pound, but no doubt it will still be the same next week too. I drink plenty of water every day I don't drink tea of any kind or coffee I don't like it. I'm quite fed up to be honest. Anyway, I'll give it a try and hopefully something will happen postively, and thanks very much for your comments, they are much appreciated. :)
 
Believe me, I think we understand! There's nothing more frustrating than depriving yourself week after week only to see no results!

The first time I hit a plateau I'd been on the Atkins diet for a couple months. Kept carbs low, missed the foods I used to eat... no change on the scale. Then my birthday rolled around and one of my friends baked me a cake and we ordered pizza. I actually lost weight that week and was trying to figure out wth was going on. But I figured... if it works, it works!
 
Angielou said:
Hi

I have now been consuming just 600 calories a day for over 6 weeks now and nothing has come off at all, maybe I should reduce it even more?

New to this forum thought I would give as much input as possible and gain some as well. Like someone said earlier your destroying your metabolism and your body will hold on to everything it gets on top of tha you are stressing organs and causing future health issues. 1200 calories a day is the bare minimum for a very small woman. The body does better gradually brining them down and upping the exercises. Of course you won't have energy when you don't eat. Eat more and instead of walking do some short intense workouts. I have tons in mind if you ever need encouragment or ideas on anything.
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I just keep thinking about people who have had a gastric bypass or gatric band and they can only eat very small meals so are only taking in a very few calories and they always seem to lose so much weight
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And they take a whole slew of special supplements to make sure they get the proper nutrients.

People go into doctors to get lipo, too, but that doens't mean you should take a knife and a vacuum and suction out your own fat.

If you're going to do something extreme, you should at least do it under the care of a doctor before you make yourself ill.
 
Angielou said:
Hmm well thanks to all for your responses, it will be difficult to eat normally now I've not done so for so long now. I really don't fancy anything at all, but I will make the effort and see where it gets me. I did bring some fruit into work for lunch today and yesterday, not much I know but it's more than I normally have. I guess I just keep thinking about people who have had a gastric bypass or gatric band and they can only eat very small meals so are only taking in a very few calories and they always seem to lose so much weight so I thought I'd do the same. I stood on the scales this morning and it's gone down by one pound, but no doubt it will still be the same next week too. I drink plenty of water every day I don't drink tea of any kind or coffee I don't like it. I'm quite fed up to be honest. Anyway, I'll give it a try and hopefully something will happen postively, and thanks very much for your comments, they are much appreciated. :)
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kind of natural response to the body being in starvation mode. ramp up your eating, start with an easy breakfast and such and take a week or two to get your calorie intake up, your appetite should start to come back with a vengence.
 
If you've been honestly consuming only 600 calories/day for 6 weeks...and have gained weight, you should go see a doctor. That can't be right. The whole "your body is going into starvation mode and is holding onto calories" doesn't apply here. 600 calories is an unhealthy level...but you won't gain weight eating that.
 
When I started my healthy regimine, I was eating maybe 1,000 to 1,200 calories per day. At the same time I took on a personal trainer and did weight training twice a week and cardio three times a week. I didn't lose any weight for three weeks. I wrote down every morsel of food I put into my mouth. My trainer looked it over, and said you're starving yourself - you need more protein, some more good carbs - needless to say, I took his advice, although skeptical, and upped my caloric intake to 1,500 per day, on most days anyways. Happy to say that I am down 31 pounds in 3 1/2 months and now do weight training 3 times a week and cardio the other 3-4 times a week. The pounds now are seeming to drop off, a couple each week. Hang in there, eat more nutritious food and get in some exercise. Eating only 600 calories doesn't even give you enough energy to workout.
 
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