Help! I cant lose weight! TTC girl

[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.