My name is Hannah, I work a sedentary job from 8-4 5 days a week and I am new here in hopes someone can help me out. It’s been a long emotional journey and honestly now I feel like it’s worse.
I've been on my weight loss journey for two years, I feel as though I have plateaued or I am doing something wrong and I thought I can ask you for some help. I am 23 years old, 5 ft 2 and I weigh 165 in hopes of going down to 130. Honestly my focus is more losing fat than the number on the scale.
Firstly, I went to the doctor's office and got my thyroid, hormones, cortisol and insulin checked. Everything is normal except my insulin is high, the doctor thinks I may be insulin resistant (I don't have diabetes or any problems with my blood sugar) because in the past I used to eat a lot of high sugar and processed foods. Anyways, last month, I did my yearly checkup and the doctor found a cyst on my right ovary 7.5 cm big. Due to the Cyst on my right ovary I am required to take Aless 21, a birth control pill to help shrink the size because the ovarian cyst is 7.5 cm big. I started them 2 days ago.
Secondly, in terms of working out I used to strength train 3 times a week for 30 mins (squats, lunges, plank, jumping jacks, one arm dumbbell row, these are just a few). Then I added 2 days of Cardio (HITT for 20 mins). I personally do not feel that my workouts are effective, I have tried Fitness Blender, Youtube videos, Body-building.com, a few pop sugar workouts made by celebrity trainers. Nothing has worked. I like to workout at home personally, I have some dumbbells, a treadmill (I'd rather do cardio using youtube), resistance bands, etc.. I noticed that I didn't lose any weight/ decrease in measurements, however some places of fat are now hard muscle. Now I’m not sure how to Exercise due to the cyst. The doctor told me I need to be careful because it could rupture, didn’t really advise me on what type of exercise I can and cannot do. She said not to lift heavy items.
Thirdly, in terms of food, I usually have 2 pieces of gluten free toast with peanut butter, then a nut bar from Costco as a snack, for lunch i sometimes have a protein shake or some rice with meat or something with both carbs and protein, I sometimes have snack in between lunch and dinner which is usually a piece of fruit and for dinner I usually have something similar to lunch. I have been calorie counting and trying to eat between 100 to 150 grams of carbs. I never used to weigh my food (I did used to eat A LOT of Carbs), now I started to, I use MyFitnessPal on the setting: lose 1 pound per week with a calorie intake of 1300. I am still struggling with this, I am not sure why but I find myself always wanting to eat more when I count calories. Not going to lie, I have a sweet tooth and I have cut a tremendous amount of sugar out of my diet. Also, I tend to gain a lot of water weight which ends up in me eating more junk food and sugar, changing out of this mindset has been a challenge.
I have no idea what I am doing right or wrong and what I should do more to see results, I don't even know how long into the journey one should start seeing. The number one place I accumulate far (this is just for ur info) is on the arms, inner thighs and abdomen. Please if you can advise me to get on the right track that would be great.
To sum up, I am an emotional mess that really needs help and I have no idea what to do now especially due to this cyst and I’m worried that on birth control I’m going to gain even more weight because I’m already having so much trouble now losing it., especially because I can’t exercise the way I used to as well. On top of it, my body type in general always retains water it’s just like that idk why. Please, please advise me.
Thank you,
Hannah
I've been on my weight loss journey for two years, I feel as though I have plateaued or I am doing something wrong and I thought I can ask you for some help. I am 23 years old, 5 ft 2 and I weigh 165 in hopes of going down to 130. Honestly my focus is more losing fat than the number on the scale.
Firstly, I went to the doctor's office and got my thyroid, hormones, cortisol and insulin checked. Everything is normal except my insulin is high, the doctor thinks I may be insulin resistant (I don't have diabetes or any problems with my blood sugar) because in the past I used to eat a lot of high sugar and processed foods. Anyways, last month, I did my yearly checkup and the doctor found a cyst on my right ovary 7.5 cm big. Due to the Cyst on my right ovary I am required to take Aless 21, a birth control pill to help shrink the size because the ovarian cyst is 7.5 cm big. I started them 2 days ago.
Secondly, in terms of working out I used to strength train 3 times a week for 30 mins (squats, lunges, plank, jumping jacks, one arm dumbbell row, these are just a few). Then I added 2 days of Cardio (HITT for 20 mins). I personally do not feel that my workouts are effective, I have tried Fitness Blender, Youtube videos, Body-building.com, a few pop sugar workouts made by celebrity trainers. Nothing has worked. I like to workout at home personally, I have some dumbbells, a treadmill (I'd rather do cardio using youtube), resistance bands, etc.. I noticed that I didn't lose any weight/ decrease in measurements, however some places of fat are now hard muscle. Now I’m not sure how to Exercise due to the cyst. The doctor told me I need to be careful because it could rupture, didn’t really advise me on what type of exercise I can and cannot do. She said not to lift heavy items.
Thirdly, in terms of food, I usually have 2 pieces of gluten free toast with peanut butter, then a nut bar from Costco as a snack, for lunch i sometimes have a protein shake or some rice with meat or something with both carbs and protein, I sometimes have snack in between lunch and dinner which is usually a piece of fruit and for dinner I usually have something similar to lunch. I have been calorie counting and trying to eat between 100 to 150 grams of carbs. I never used to weigh my food (I did used to eat A LOT of Carbs), now I started to, I use MyFitnessPal on the setting: lose 1 pound per week with a calorie intake of 1300. I am still struggling with this, I am not sure why but I find myself always wanting to eat more when I count calories. Not going to lie, I have a sweet tooth and I have cut a tremendous amount of sugar out of my diet. Also, I tend to gain a lot of water weight which ends up in me eating more junk food and sugar, changing out of this mindset has been a challenge.
I have no idea what I am doing right or wrong and what I should do more to see results, I don't even know how long into the journey one should start seeing. The number one place I accumulate far (this is just for ur info) is on the arms, inner thighs and abdomen. Please if you can advise me to get on the right track that would be great.
To sum up, I am an emotional mess that really needs help and I have no idea what to do now especially due to this cyst and I’m worried that on birth control I’m going to gain even more weight because I’m already having so much trouble now losing it., especially because I can’t exercise the way I used to as well. On top of it, my body type in general always retains water it’s just like that idk why. Please, please advise me.
Thank you,
Hannah
