the pill and lack of weight loss?

Amiba

Amiba

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or weight gain!
I am trapped in the 150's
it is crazy, but I've been on the pill for about a year now. it helps me with my skin and it makes me not only a regular but it prevents painful periods so I am in heaven but..

the thing is around the time I started taking it I haven't been able to lose a single pound, no matter what I do.
I ate right and exercised 2/3 hours a day and didn't lose any.

I got depressed and started eating whatever I wanted and I didn't gain much weight, if any a couple of pounds.

now I am on a different approach, exercising 5 times a week for an hour and eating balanced with some red tea and artichoke help

of course still no loss at all.

do you think there's a connection and what should I do?
 
It could be a factor, although not the entire story. Are you tracking your calories and how many of them come from protein, fat etc? Eating 'right' can be pretty vague - there's someone on the forum who weight over 300 lbs and was only eating healthy foods.

It's too hard to say what's going on without more information from you about your diet!

Also - exercising during the week is good, but spending hours standing rather than sitting can also make a difference. I was in a situation like you where I wasn't really losing anything, and just started trying to stand up while watching TV and spend less time in 'sit down' activities and it made a bigger difference than working out did. Although obviously doing both is ideal :)
 
thanks Jeanette!

first I used a --no carb approach-- which was silly. now that I am exercising I added whole grain cereal in the morning. all my dairy is non fat, I am taking probably 115% of the required protein intake (only lean, tuna and chicken mostly) so I guess half my calories come from protein and half come from complex carbs. I also have salads, zucchini, some fruits. but I didn't stop eating or anything crazy like that

and I think moving more is a great idea, but I already kind of do that. I don't have a car so I have to walk everywhere, take the bus, walk to my spinning class, clean up my house etc. I always take the stairs, take longer doing my grocery shopping, use my stationary bike while watching tv..

I am running out of ideas! lol
 
As the above poster said 'eating right' doesnt cut it. You probably need to log everything you eat and drink exactly down to the calorie.
If the pill made people gain weight or maintain weight on low calorie diets then they would market it to starving people in 3rd world countries :)
Sign up at fitday.com and log things :)
 
hey wishes!

I use the daily plate and log every single thing I eat. sometimes I am a bit shorter from the 1500 cal. but then again I don't even really know if that is how much I should be eating, I've read that less calories can be harmful.

maybe I need to make diet changes? what would you recommend?
 
Read the nutrition section and work out what proportion you want of things like fibre, protein, calcium.

I would shoot for something like
minimum of:
25g fibre
75g protein
1000mg calcium
no more than 2400mg sodium
drink plenty water
make sure you get 5-a-day - assorted colours.
 
Are you measuring exactly all of your servings, and I mean by weight on a scale. A 1/2 cup serving of cottage cheese (113 grams) is a lot smaller on my scale then it is in my 1/2 cup measuring cup. You could be sabataging your own efforts if you don't measure...I mean, really, why bother trying to count if its a guess-timation. I've weighed my slices of bread before and they have come out to more then a "serving" according to the nutrition facts.

My favorite example is with peanut butter, measure out two tablespoons in your measuring spoons, then put it on a scale and see how accurate that was for you. Chances are, you could be eating hundreds of more calories a day/week than you think you are.
 
thank you guys!

to be honest I don´t really measure everything I eat, I use my fist and cups for my carbs but I could be eating more like you say, it is a possibility

but I think I might not be eating enough now because I don't get hungry only thristy I drink more than 2 lts of water a day I drink water all the time! it is so hot in here.

I really want a juice extractor to have all the colors and vitamins I need!
 
1500 calories doesn't sound too low given your current weight. You could potentially have gone higher, but you're not in the realm of very low calories. Are you weighing your food? If you're on the border, a few simple mis-measurements can add up to something like 200+ calories a day.

If you read the 'simplest nutrition guidelines' ever, you could start from there!

What I do personally is first to set my protein - my 'lean body mass' is around 100 lbs, so I target 100 to 125g of protein a day. I'm also trying to keep my cholesterol under control so I go for < 20g saturated fat and > 25g of fiber. The general recommendation is around 30% fat, but I don't do that much planning. Instead I try to prioritize 'good fats' like avocado and fish, and to make sure every meal has at least one protein source and at least one fruit or vegetable.

I don't measure my food exactly any more - but the first several months I actually got a food scale so I could be sure. It's amazing when you realize that when the package says "1 cup (31g)" that 1 cup could be a lot more or less than than the weight they gave.
 
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