Wouldn't call it a 'stall' but

#21

Not losing weight???
You have lost over 7 kg in 8 weeks!!
I wonder if your expectations are a little high.
For sure your calories are a bit low, but gee - be happy with an amazing result.

I have lost nothing at all in over 6 months.

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #22

I do have high expectations, I can’t help that.
Two years ago I lost 18kg in 15 weeks on a typical CICO method with no exercise.
I am relating back to that experience and hoping to match it but I for the life of me cannot replicate it, lol. Sheer dumb luck I guess.

I have fluctuated the same kg for almost 4 weeks, which is why I said “wouldn’t call it a stall but…”

But yes I know, patience is key.

(Ashley) #23

I had the same thing, best advice I can give is tweak and adjust

(Ron) #24

And your back on another diet to lose it again as it was not a sustainable weight loss process. Remember, this WOE is.:ok_hand::wink:

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #25

I put it all back on, then developed a drug addiction and lost even more, and here I am 2 years later, fat again, with still no idea on how to eat to live. But I quit the drugs cold turkey, and I’ve always told myself if I can do that, I can fu*king do ANYTHING! Which is why I have lasted 8 weeks, and not fell off the wagon after 3 days crying nothing is working for me.

Thanks for the reminder Ron :slight_smile:

(Ron) #26

Wow, quit the drugs cold turkey!:astonished: Not many can say that. Damn strait…if you can do that, you CAN do this. :exclamation::wink:

(Raj Seth) #27

I think that is because you are not eating enough. Your body is clinging to the doomsday fat stores it has and is clamoring for more. Listen to your body. 3 million years of evolution has made it smarter about its needs than your brain can calculate.
As for stuffing your face some more, if you stuff it with fatty foodstuffs, less physical quantity is needed. Fat is the ultimate “clean” energy your body can use efficiently. It’s high octane :fuelpump:. Feed your body. Feed it well. Once it’s happy, it will continue the process of healing itself and will become healthier

(Troy) #28

It appears you are not eating enough and scared/fear to over eat?
Perhaps from past eating habits, other habits or experiences
Either Good😄 or bad😓

Just a suggestion…
To change things up
Maybe expand the eating window?:thinking:
Either on omad or ur current 2mad

For me, on a omad
“Sometime” my feeding or grazing ( lol ) will be 1-1.5 hours
Other times, eat to satiety or done in 30 minutes

My last food is fat or BUTTER😍
Omad or Tmad

(Sarah Slancauskas) #29

Just wanted to say a heartfelt ‘well done’ on getting free from a drug addiction. That must’ve been so hard but you did it! It says a lot about your character to be able to get yourself away from that - it shows tenacity, determination and courage and a good sense of being worth the effort (which we all are, but many don’t act like they are) - all things you can use to optimise your health in terms of diet and finding optimum health.

#30

I had the problem of meeting my calories needs for the day too, especially eating OMAD. I remedied the issue by adding desserts based on pure cream (heavy cream) to complete my meals. Currently, I am obsessed with Carl’s Chocolate Mousse. If I haven’t had time to prepare a mousse or a panna cotta, I just whip up some pure cream (heavy cream) and throw a few raspberries on top and voila, 400 delicious additional calories.

(LeeAnn Brooks) #31

It’s sounds like you’re an all or nothing kind of girl. No offense intended. I get it. I can be pretty intense too when I have a goal.

But I wonder if some of your addictive tendencies may be transfering over to your weight loss goals? Again, no offense intended. Do you find yourself weighing yourself more than once a day for example? I worry that if you’re applying you’re addictive tendencies here, you may go to extremes with your diet.

I’ve said often that I’ve certainly been able to lose weight quicker on LF diets. And it’s been much more linear. The reason I’m here is because I’ve also gained it back quite quickly once it all goes to hell. Which it always does.

I realize that this maybe harder to do when you still have a lot of weight to lose, but it’s far better to go it slow on a WOE that can be maintained.

It’s certainly okay to reasses what you’re doing and try to tweek things, but try not to stress out about every detail and the number on the scale so much. And whatever you decide to do to change up your diet, you have to find a way to shed that LF CICO mentality. It’s causing you way too much stress.

Good luck!

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #32

Thank you Sarah, I appreciate that. It’s not hard when you really want it, well it is hard but having the drive to be better and healthy and here for my family was my true motivation and that made it easier, because they mean so much to me.

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #33

No offense taken at all, I appreciate your honest thoughts.

And no, I naturally have an addictive personality, and I am an all or nothing type of person. I can’t have one taste of something or else it’ll snowball, that includes drugs and food!

I don’t think it’s transferred over to my weight loss though, I am quite relaxed and not overly controlled unless it’s my carb intake. I only weigh once a day, at the same time every morning and don’t think about it again until the next day.

My weight loss has definitely been linear and I’m totally okay with that!

So last night instead of eating 1200 calories roughly, I bumped it up to 1700, and I was 0.7kg (1.54lbs) lighter this morning. I don’t know if that’s merely a coincidence but I’ll take it as a sign that I had not been eating enough!!!

I still can’t get my blood ketones above 0.3mmol. It’s really annoying me lol.

(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja ) #34

Funny you say that, I have been eating roughly 200-300ml of cream every night with sugar free drinking chocolate mixed in, tastes exactly like chocolate mousse from pizza hut!!

#35

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“And no, I naturally have an addictive personality, and I am an all or nothing type of person. I can’t have one taste”

You sound like me - the personality type that Gretchen Rubin calls Abstainers. Unlike Moderators, we cant have ‘just one bite’ of anything cos we end up eating the whole lot!!
I have found the same with chocolate, nuts and alcohol.
I have none in the house because then I cant binge.

I might go for weeks knowing there is a bottle of wine there and not touching it, but once I open it I cant stop at one glass.

We live and learn.
Pity it has taken me over 60 years to figure this out!!!

(Alec) #36

Oh, yes, can I relate to that!! :scream::scream::see_no_evil: