Unable to lose weight. what am I doing wrong?

mallisa · Newbie Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 1

Hello, this is my first time posting on this site so hello..Now my problem here is pretty obvious in the title but let me take the time to explain it alittle better... I am a 17 year old female I hold a full time job school and martial arts. I am about 5'5 and weight 154 pounds.My day consist of walking 2 miles working 9 hours and then biking another two miles and two days out of a week thats topped off with biking a third mile and working out at martial arts for at least a half an hour. I also work at a fast food restraunt and i am the crew leader that meaning i dont lean or any thing i literally run! seriously....I watch everything I eat I have had to watch it almost all my life ever since I was little I have had to watch everything that entered my mouth.when ever I stopped watching my every intake in calorie i went up pounds like crazy I'm talkin I've been up two two hundered pounds..
I've tried almost every diet pill I've tried almost anything..
I'm inbetween the weght of slightly over weight which isnt that bad no but it is pathetic for everything i do and all the healthy food I eat.
I live off of salads slim fast bars cherios and yogurt...
I'm giving up....
please if there is any advice or sugestions any diet pills that actually work or anything.. please help.. thank you

Heather_2 · Silver Member Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 279

I suppose you are building a lot of muscles too with all the activities and they count as weight too, so you shouldn't be obsessing about it much.

I know what you mean by having every bite seen. It is the same for me. I go from good looking to overweight in no time. I had a period of 6 months when I ate sweets only once a week, avoided dinner and exercises 5 times a week and during these 6 months I have never lost a pound. My weight stayed as it was for whole 6 months and I thought I would definitely lose some.

I don't buy that diet pills crap...what works for me is eliminating oil, fried and eating only cooked and raw along with exercise. It's hard and I can't do it all the time but it is the only time i manage to lose weight.

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I have so much weight on me but I am one of those you can't see it all as I am well proportioned. But I am 5ft5 and weight around 14 stone!. I've cut out all of the chocolate and crisps etc and just eat as much raw stuff and drink lots of water. Eating this healthy is hard to manage and because food
is the only thing I have to look forward to sometimes.

But now, I want to meet a man on line but all the women look so thin and so model like and so the competition feels huge to look your best. I also look huge on pictures and all my features look so much bigger than what they really are. I am extremely attractive with beautiful large eyes and high cheek bones, but the weight around my face does not make the best of my natural beauty and seems to disguise it. I really think that some women are naturally on the bigger side but that the media makes too much fuss on rake thin women and why bigger normal women feel so ugly.

There is so much beauty in having some weight on you but not where you know and feel it to be wrong. Drinking water all day and eating raw is the very best way to lose a lot if you really want to and that doesn't matter how much exercise you have because it is only sugar, fat and salt that keeps the weight on anyway. Don't let anything not whole, past your lips and only ever eat stuff like pizza, microwave foods etc etc once every month and no more.

GJPJC · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 15

I mentioned this in another post, but I was really helped by reading an article on the "How Stuff Works" website called "How Dieting Works." It really made me understand how the body uses food.

I used what I learned there and lost about 30-35 pounds.

Here's the URL:

health.howstuffworks.com/diet.htm

Also, I think there is a lot to be said for being fit and healthy and not focusing so much on the scales.

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Also....this is true about muscles weighing more than fat...and also I blame the fact that I'm bordering the line between slightly overweight and ...having a fine weight is that I've got lots of boobs. There's some fat for you. Most people I know don't really want to lose that "fat" either.

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I've been counting calories for 35 years. And while many people who can't lose weight are morons who don't count calories, I think people who are actively searching for answers on the Internet aren't in that category.

I have repeatably reduced calories and increased exercise, trying to lose weight until I was eating less than 1000 calories and exercising for 1.5 hours. And the result was that I was so tired I would fall asleep every time I sat down, and if I was lucky I would lose 1 pound at the end of a month. A pitifully small amount for a woman who weights 200 lbs.

What have I learned:

Get your thyroid checked. Drink fish oil to improve your metabolism and thyroid function. Make sure you are getting at least 70 grams of protein a day. If you are a woman of childbearing age, make sure you take supplemental iron and high lignan flaxseed oil.

The only reason to eat carbs, is if you want to put on fat. High carb foods are a very poor source of nutrition and contribute not only to obesity, but also heart disease, diabetes, cancer, wrinkly skin, and about 80 other diseases.

Eat broccoli and cauliflower to control the effects of estrogen. Uncontrolled estrogen not only makes you fat, it can also cause cancer and uterine fibroids.

Exercise should help you lose weight and feel better. If you aren't getting these benefits from exercising, switch to weight lifting and make sure you are getting at least 70 grams of protein. If that still doesn't work, your body needs help making human growth hormone. Start taking l-dopa or supplements that contain l-dopa, such as Mucuna prurien.

Glutimine is your friend. Why do you crave snacks or feel weak? Because you're body is out of glutimine. Why do your muscles start to hurt during exercise? Because they are out of glutimine. Improve your work outs by taking glutimine beforehand. Resist snacking by taking glutimine when you haven't eaten for 4 or more hours. I am sure heard recommendations to eat small frequent meals. The reason for that, is that 4 hours after eating, your body starts to run out of glutamine, and it has to make some more. If you haven't eaten recently, the only thing that the body can make glutamine out of is your own muscles. And it does that by first pumping your body full of hormones that slow you metabolism. The best way to avoid your body running out of glutamine is by taking glutamine supplements, not by eating problematic mini meals.

Get sleep. If you aren't getting enough sleep take GABA. GABA has a number of health benefits besides helping you sleep that will contribute to weight loss. For instance, it will reduce stress reactions, and it will help your body make Human Growth Hormone. Other clear indications that you should be taking GABA are, if you feel stressed out or startle easily.

If you are following these suggestions, and you are only losing 3 lbs a month or if you want to live forever, get a blood sugar meter ($25 at Walmart). It is a much better tool than the scale for finding out what is going on in your body. By hook or crook you need to get your fasting/morning blood sugar down to 70-80, and you post meal blood sugar down to 90. That is the gold standard of health and longevity. Get down to that level, and you will feel as good as a 10 year old, and shed weight as easily as a 10 year old.

You need to use the meter in order to detect food allergies and other foods that make your blood sugar go up more than 10 points, and eliminate them from your diet. Stress also makes blood sugar go up. If your exercise program causes you blood sugar to go up more than 15 points, switch to a less stressful form of exercise like yoga, weight lifting, or pilates. Other stressors to look for are include caffeine, heat, and rush hour traffic.

Supplements can also help lower blood sugar. Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) should be taken by everybody, especially if they have less than perfect blood sugar. Other supplements that are worth a trying include Cinnamon Extract, Green Coffee Extract or Coffeeberry, Banaba, Fish oil, Fenugreek, Acetylcarnitine, Multivitamins and Minerals (especially Magnesium), Vitamin C with bioflavonoids, Chromium, Vanadium, and Bitter Melon.

The drug Metformin should also be considered. Metformin is excellent for lowering blood sugar and usually causes a 10 pound drop in weight without changes in the diet.

If nothing else succeeds, experiment with fasting. Find out how many hours you have to fast before you blood sugar level goes down 10 points. Always remember that during a fast your body needs extra minerals. Veggie juice is also allowed on mosts fasts. And if you want to feel good, and preserve your muscle mass during a fast, you need to take glutamine and other amino acids. And most importantly, if you start to feel lousy, EAT!

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