"Jeannie Sanderson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Hi,
I am a 39 year old woman at 5'1" and 140 lbs. My doctor said I should
wegh under 100 lbs to be good size with my small stature. I begin to
eat under 1000 kkal a day Monday 6-13. I use a postal scale to verify
all quantities, and only water is not recorded. I used a elliptical
trainer 6 days a week and it reads 250 kkals when I stop. Every other
day I a;lso have a triner push me on universal machines until I am
exhaused. About 90 minutes. This seems liek a lot of work and little
food and I am 140 lbs still. I don't understand.Jeannie
Hi Jeannie,
I had pretty much the same experience. You have gotten some very good
replies, and all made good points. One of the reasons I attribute so
little loss was because if you diet very very stringently all of a sudden,
your body thinks it is starving and economizes. You then lower your
metabolism, and this encourages the "yo yo" syndrome of gaining and losing
weight over and over, usually escalating your weight over time.
I would suggest forgetting about the scale and work more on establishing a
pattern of eating and exercising that you can live with for the rest of your
life, and ultimately the loss will happen, though it may be more slowly than
for some others.
That is what I decided to do when I ran into the same problem. Another
issue is that I am on medications that weight gain and water retention are
two of the side effects listed.
Stick with it, don't get discouraged, and keep on going. It'll happen if
you stick with it.
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Best Regards,
Evelyn
(to reply to me personally, remove 'sox'😉