Help! I cant lose weight! TTC girl

[Nessa84]

Ive been on the diet for about 2 weeks now and my weight has only maintained. It has not gone down at all. Perhaps I should do something extra in my sway? Like eat dinner earlier? Or watch my carbs? maybe my metabolism is a bit messed up after skipping breakfast since Ive never done that before.... I'm not sure. OR is this normal? and i have nothing to worry about? I do have a good 20 pounds to lose. my bmi is 24.

Thanks

[Frilly Lady]

Maybe you need to do the alternative diet that atomic recommends for pcos. I wouldn't loose weight on the normal carb filled diet so I have to incorporate whole grains and plenty of free veg.
I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will chime in and help.

[Throwaway_panther]

The less amount of weight to lose, the harder/longer it will take. Being a healthy BMI places you in this category.

Are you also weighing and measuring your food with a food scale? It's really easy to overestimate caloric intake without doing this.

Even still, 2 weeks isn't a lot of time to see big changes.

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[Erin514]

Two weeks is not much time to see weight loss. Honestly, I would be worried that if you were losing weight really fast it's a sign your diet is too extreme and you'd have trouble maintaining it for the whole time you're ttc and you'd be more likely to either cheat or go so far you lose O. Since you're just starting a big change in diet and still getting the hang of it I personally think it's better to wait and make incremental adjustments as needed so you can see how your body reacts.

Are you exercising too or doing couch potato method? I'm guessing Atomic will ask you for your totals so maybe just post them now so that she'll be able to tell you if you should change something.

[atomic sagebrush]

I'd try making some of the changes outlined in this thread - up protein to 50-60 g, fat to 50-60 g, and get your carbs mostly from whole grains and fruit and veg.

It's not skipping breakfast. The idea that not eating breakfast prevents weight loss has been debunked.

[Nessa84]

I aim for around 1500 calories
45g of fat and 45g of protein.

My calories come from vegetables and grains and very very little dairy. I sometimes add tomato paste for flavour or a pepper spread. Otherwise that all Im eating just different combinations with each meal.

Maybe its too soon to notice and change.

[atomic sagebrush]

Give it another week and see how it goes.

You are not supposed to count cals on low carb veg, only high carb (potatoes, corn). So if you're eating a lot of low carb veg your body may feel like it's starvating LOL and be hanging on to everything. Low carb veg are free and unlimited - do not count protein, fat, or cals. High carb veg and fruit, you only count cals and not protein and fat.

So that may be something you can adjust to actually find you need to eat MORE to lose!! Crazy huh??

[maidentomother]

I think you might need more cals. Too few can slow your metabolism (unlike skipping breakfast, which doesn't). OR you may need to switch yo the PCOS version. Do you have any PCOS or indulin resistance tendencies at all? Long or erratic cycles, late O, difficulty losing weight in general?

[Nessa84]

To be honest I don't understand what PCOS stands for and means?
My cycle is the exact same every month... 26 days right on the dot. I don't usually have a difficult tome losing weight.. no more than the average person I wold assume. At least I never noticed.
Insulin resistant? I don't know how I would tell if I have this.

[maidentomother]

Sounds like you probably just need more cals then. I'd try 1700-1800. It doesn't sound like you have PCOS or IR. Google can eelaborate.

[Nessa84]

Actually... What about the LE diet causes weight loss? Because to be 1500-1800 cals is still a good healthy amount. I'm eating carbs and dairy and vegetables. In fact I'm not eating candy. How are we supposed to lose weight exactly? Or is it not through duet but through cardio that the weight comes off?

[Throwaway_panther]

Actually... What about the LE diet causes weight loss? Because to be 1500-1800 cals is still a good healthy amount. I'm eating carbs and dairy and vegetables. In fact I'm not eating candy. How are we supposed to lose weight exactly? Or is it not through duet but through cardio that the weight comes off?
Depending on age and height, 1500-1800 is a healthy amount... to lose weight. That's generally only maitenance calories for an inactive person.

You don't want to go so low/drop weight so fast that fertility period is hindered, so a slower rate of loss is good -- especially since LE is recommended for a minimum of 12 weeks.

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[atomic sagebrush]

I aim for around 1500 calories
45g of fat and 45g of protein.

My calories come from vegetables and grains and very very little dairy. I sometimes add tomato paste for flavour or a pepper spread. Otherwise that all Im eating just different combinations with each meal.

Maybe its too soon to notice and change.

Just having come from one of your other threads, Nessa, I must stress to you that for a woman nursing an 8 month old, I STRONGLY urge you to increase cals to 1800 NOW. You're gonna lose your milk supply doing that low a cal intake. In fact I suspect that is the core reason why you have not lost weight - my body tends to hold onto weight till my kids are past 1 year mark and cutting back more is only going to make your milk go away.

[atomic sagebrush]

Actually... What about the LE diet causes weight loss? Because to be 1500-1800 cals is still a good healthy amount. I'm eating carbs and dairy and vegetables. In fact I'm not eating candy. How are we supposed to lose weight exactly? Or is it not through duet but through cardio that the weight comes off?

You can lose weight eating nothing but candy (but don't LOL). It's calories in, calories out. 1500-1800 cals a day is an amount that makes 90% of women lose weight, in many cases almost TOO quickly. Most women in childbearing age, need 2200-2500 cals a day to hold steady on weight. So cutting back on cals makes you lose weight because you're burning more than you take in. Since you are breastfeeding you're likely burning more than you think you are from breastfeeding too so we need to be careful that you're getting enough to maintain your milk supply and ovulation both.

1500-1800 cals is the amount recommended by reproductive endocrinologists as a safe weight loss diet for women who are actively TTC and going high tech (IVF). Additionally it's the amount recommended as the lower safe foood intake for women of childbearing age, by the World Health Organization. So yeah while technically we could eat 800 cals a day, that is not safe and healthy when TTC and would make most of us stop ovulating. It may even sway BLUE to get that strict because your body would then go into PANIC mode and start hanging on to every nutrient you take in and might make tons of testosterone with it (that may sway blue) if you were able to get pregnant at all. This diet isn't about losing massive tons of weight and it isn't about being in really bad condition or starving. It's a way of gently sending a message to your body that a girl has a better chance of surviving to adulthood to pass down genes to future generations while still staying healthy enough to get and stay pregnant.

[atomic sagebrush]

To be honest I don't understand what PCOS stands for and means?
My cycle is the exact same every month... 26 days right on the dot. I don't usually have a difficult tome losing weight.. no more than the average person I wold assume. At least I never noticed.
Insulin resistant? I don't know how I would tell if I have this.

PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome.

I do not think that's what is going on with you. NOw that I realize you're ony 8 mos. postpartum and nursing I think this is 110% not eating enough and your body is hanging onto every scrap to help you recover (since you're still recovering from the birth, even this far out) and nursing. Up to 1800 if not beyond that and I"d do max. fat intake 50-60 g since O is seemingly delayed.

[atomic sagebrush]

I also want to make absolutely sure you're not counting the protein and fat in your vegetables and fruit. You need to be getting 1800 cals, 40-50 g protein, and 50-60 g fat WITHOUT counting the protein and fat in fruits and vegetables. They don't count. And low carb veg are FREE - you don't even count CALS in them. So if you're counting those, you need to be eating that much more than you are already to compensate for that.

[Nessa84]

Thank you atomic. This also could be why AF was so late. I ended up getting it on day 32 so I have a 31 day cycle. I have changed my numbers to 1800 calories, 45g protein and 55g of fat. Other than wine I'm going to try to eat more nutrition instead of candy empty calories.