Hi all,
Longtime lurker, first time poster here. I need some advice and/or words of encouragement. 5'5F, 42yo, 135lbs.
I've been restricting my calories for about three months, and have lost roughly 14lbs. I have another 10-15lbs until I'm satisfied with how my body looks. This last week the scale hasn't budged at all. I started at 1800 calories, then went down to 1600, now 1500. I'm really active. I walk 7 days a week, averaging 12000 steps/day. I do strength yoga and pilates 7 days a week. I jog (really lightly) 3 days a week. I was weightlifting, but had to stop when I started cutting calories because I simply don't have the energy. I just couldn't lift the dumbbells any more. I can feel my body getting weaker every day, but it's still fat. I'm really depressed (and I already struggle with severe, extreme depression), and had only just recently started lifting out of an extended depressive episode.
I've never struggled with my weight before. My whole adult life I've been around 125lbs +/- 5lbs. I had a brain aneurysm in the spring of last year, and 3 mini strokes, and was in the hospital for two months. I gained weight after that because I couldn't exercise like I had been previously (was running 50 miles/week before my aneurysm, and was slim because of it). Now I feel completely stuck. In the past, when I've tried to lose weight, it just came off with no effort. Now I'm stuck in a body that I hate, that feels completely, desperately out of my control. I was ecstatic when the weight was coming off in the beginning. I thought my body was awakening from what's felt like a long nightmare. Now it's back to the nightmare. What should I do? I'm not sure I can eat less than 1500 calories a day, I'm already losing most of my hair and I'm so weak I struggle to climb stairs. What should I do? Should I eat less? The standard advice is that if the weight isn't coming off, you are eating too many calories, but 1500 isn't very much, I am extremely disciplined (I never deviate from what I plan to eat), and it's about half of what I used to eat when I was very active and much slimmer. I'm also wondering if the increasing depression is from the restriction. Does anyone else experience that? I'm so desperate and I don't know what to do.
Any advice or kind words would be really appreciated. Feeling sad and confused and very alone over here. :(
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