Hi! I've read this sub a lot over the past year or so but this is my first post. I'm F, 5'7" and 46 years old, 183lbs, lightly active.
Two years ago I weighed 145 and had never had a weight problem, very active, good amount of muscle. I went through a rough patch with stress and also my thyroid and female hormones seemed to go haywire around fall 2022 and I gained 40 pounds in just over a year despite not changing anything really. I'm still working on getting my thyroid meds sorted out (I went from severely overmedicated to severely undermedicated and now finding the middle ground but it's taken two years).
As of Fall 2023 I realized the weight gain wasn't going to stop on its own, so I did the things that always worked for me in the past after pregnancy or whatever, like cutting desserts, increasing veggies, increasing step counts, adding a strength workout or two a week, focusing on getting good sleep, etc. This enabled me to maintain at 183-185 Jan-May of this year. I decided to start counting calories June 1, and have kept to ~1700-1800/day since then, which is a decrease of ~400 calories from what I was eating before.
I have not lost a single pound in the two months of tracking calories. I feel very helpless and I am not sure what else to try. I've had bloodwork done (looks good and doctor doesn't seem to care that I gained so much weight so quickly), am tracking carefully (yes, I measure and record EVERYTHING, including cooking oil and condiments), have done all the TDEE calculators and 1700-1800 should be enough of a deficit for slow loss at my weight. What else can I try??
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