I can't seem to lose weight!!

butterfrog82 · Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:54 pm

Hi I haven't started the South Beach Diet yet. I wanted to get feed back from others before I spent money on it. I have been on the slim fast diet for two months. I go to the gym every night for an hour. I even ordered weight loss pills off the internet and I haven't lost a pound. I do not feel it in my clothes or anything. I am afraid to start another diet and still have the same results. My slim fast diet went as follows: drink slim fast for breakfast, ate couple pieces of fruit or vegetables for brunch or about 10:00, eat half turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread and drink slim fast for lunch, eat slim fast snack bar for snack at about 3:00 p.m. and then I would eat a balanced meal for dinner. :? With everything I have done for the last two months I should have lost some weight!! :(

Someone please tell me what I am doing wrong and how to lose weight!!

trapper124 · Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:24 pm

How many calories a day were you having?

DebbyC · Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:11 pm

#1, you don't have to "spend" anything to be on SBD except buying the food that is healthier than what you have been eating. If you'll go to the library and check out the book and read it, you may have a better understanding of why those particular attempts may not have worked for you. Read the book, read the faq's on this site [NOT the links on the right side of the screen] so you understand what eating healthy is all about.

I'm sure someone will come along who can succinctly put the plan into a thread or at least point you to the place where it has already been explained! Personally, I would start with the thread in teh phase 1 discussion titled please read before posting. It has the most comprehensive discription of what SBD is all about and may help you figure out if this is what you need to do. Good luck!

RedRox · Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:00 am

stop "dieting" and eat real healthy food. going on diets doesn't work. changing your diet on a permanent basis is your best option. exercise helps too.

butterfrog82 · Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:54 pm

Thank you for your help. I did read the phase 1 and so on about SBD. I also have a friend that is letting me borrow the book. I just don't want to feel as if I am depriving myself of things I like and then get on the scale in two weeks and not see any difference. Like I stated before I exercise for an hour every night. I work in a five story building and I work on level 4. I take the stairs instead of the elevator to help keep my heart rate up during the day as well hoping to help with my metabolism. I started eating 5 small meals aday instead of skipping meals.

I will give the SBD a chance and let you know if it works for me.

butterfrog82 · Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:57 pm

I was eating about 960 calories a day.

DebbyC · Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:29 pm

that's not a lot of good calories....you probably need more than that to lose.

RedRox · Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:20 pm

you know I never really have felt very deprived of anything on this program. I have had to make some sacrifices perhaps (more in the amout of time it takes than anything else), in order to become healthy and achieve my goals, but I have always eaten very well and enjoyed what I was eating but I like vegetables and beans and pretty much all the foods on the P1 and P2 foods lists. I also approached it more because of health reasons than weight loss. There are no guarantees in the first two weeks of P1 either. Give it 2-3 months (2 weeks of P1 and 8-10 weeks of P2) and see what you think then would be my advice. You're going to have to eat something for the next 2-3 months anyway! ;)

ETA: And yes probably too few calories to allow your body to lose weight comfortably. It's not so much about cutting calories to a bare minimum as it is about feeding your body properly with an optimum number of calories (500-1000 calories less per day between what you take in and what you burn up in total) and nutritionally balanced foods to allow it to burn fat slowly over time. You need to eat regular meals and snacks of real foods to keep your metabolism up and convince your body that it will continue to get enough good nutrition every day to allow it to get rid of its fat stores nature has provided for the "lean times" in our ancestral history. If you "starve" it then it thinks the "lean times" have arrived and it won't give up the fat for all the tea in china.

BTW, have you ever had your thyroid checked or had a physical to rule out any medical conditions for your lack of weight loss? Or is it more likely that you have just yo-yo'ed and done a lot of fad diets, pills and shakes and likely screwed up your metabolism over time? (and I'm not saying that to be mean. It's just the reality of what people "do" to themselves in their often misguided quest for weight loss at all costs.)

butterfrog82 · Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:22 pm

Again Thanks for the advice. Yes I have ,just recently, seen a doctor and had blood work drawn. We looked through my past chart records and saw that through the past year I have stayed at 175lbs. not a pound over or under. I haven't been on a diet or even diet pills for the past year just the past two months. That tells me that my metabolism isn't working right or the diet might have worked. When I wasn't exercising or eating right at all, going to fast food restaurants on a daily basis for lunch and sometimes breakfast, I still stayed at 175 lbs. then in January like everyone does I decided to eat healthier. I didn't go on any diets so to say but I started eating five small meals a day and watching what I was eating. At the end of April I saw no change in my weight again I was still staying at 175 lbs. so I went on the slim fast diet. I wieghed Tuesday at the doctor's office and again I was only 175 lbs. :x It was frustrating and upsetting to see this.

I hope it isn't my metabolism that is causing this. If it is, is there a way to resolve the problem and kick in gear?

RedRox · Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:37 am

exercise, eating right and patience would get my vote. But since you are working with your Doc already, I'd get his opinion. Sometimes our bodies seem to get very comfortable at a certain weight and it's difficult to move it past that point. Perhaps P1 of SB might be a different enough eating pattern to break through that? I don't really know. Just hoping it might! :)

hellosusanc · Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:17 pm

I recently started drinking something I call James Ray's Breakfast Shake. (I read about it in “Harmonic Wealth” by James Ray) There is actually a whole section on the physical body and he offers up some great ideas that have worked for me.

One of those is starting off the day with a glass of water with lemon and then making my first meal a green shake. Yep, veggies for breakfast. Still doesn’t hit the spot like a pile of pancakes, but I’ve lost seven pounds in the last month and a half and my skin is looking a lot brighter and clearer. Good luck and God bless!
a James Ray Fan

DebbyC · Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:19 pm

hellosusanc wrote: I recently started drinking something I call James Ray's Breakfast Shake. (I read about it in “Harmonic Wealth” by James Ray) There is actually a whole section on the physical body and he offers up some great ideas that have worked for me.

One of those is starting off the day with a glass of water with lemon and then making my first meal a green shake. Yep, veggies for breakfast. Still doesn’t hit the spot like a pile of pancakes, but I’ve lost seven pounds in the last month and a half and my skin is looking a lot brighter and clearer. Good luck and God bless!
a James Ray Fan

Does the shake offer more nutritional value than just eating the veggies? or are you adding something magikal? [sp intended]

yellobeuty · Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:12 pm

butterfrog82, have your doctor test your insulin levels too.

If you are a female you want to have that checked not just your sugars. I was doing southbeach, exercising 2 hours a day 6 days a week and lost nothing. not one ounce. after 3 years they figured out I have hyperinsilumia (sp?) to much insulin. it's the opposite of diabetes. ANYWAY, I need all three things to lose weight...the right healthy food, exercise and meds. if one is off I wont lose.

I have finally lost 65lbs last year. nothing this year yet but, I have had other medical issues interfer too. so I am still working on it.

I am not saying this is your problem I am just saying have them check. like I said it took a long time for them to figure it out for me and some people/drs didn't even believe I was eating right. but I was! SO I KNOW THE FRUSTRATION!

metabolism alone is easy to fix.

butterfrog82 · Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:30 am

I am not for sure what it is that my doctor checked in my blood but he said it all came back normal. I know that other than my weight I am experiencing many other symptoms that something isn't right with me but I can't seem to get him to listen.

I have started the south beach diet almost a week into it and still no weight loss. :evil:

yellobeuty · Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:50 am

I encourage you to get a list from your dr of what he tested you for. AND DON'T GIVE UP.

GO ARMED...keep a notebook of food and exercise journal..write down every bite...even cheats or sips of somehting/someone elses. show it to him and ask him why is this not translating to weight loss.

I would take said notebook to every dr. I went to and wrote down what they said and went in with a list of ?'s too. some drs. hated it. others didn't mind. the ones that hated it didn't need to be my dr. that was my opinion.

believe it or not a gynocologist is who finally figured out my problem and sent me to a specialized endocronologist. but..I had a great primary dr who would not give up either AND BELIEVED ME! other specialist didn't believe me or gave up trying. and the gym didn't believe I was eating what I said I was and asked my daughter if I was lying. that p'd me off to no end. but she said "oh yea we all are eating what she says. lol" :wink: anyway,

KEEP BEING PERSISTANT AND DON'T GIVE UP!


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