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The Online Slimming Club web site has been developed to offer everything that a
local slimming club can provide and much more, but without the time, expense, the
travel and the embarrassing public weigh in.
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Can't Lose Weight
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Question:
I have remained the same weight and in fact went up a little last Wednesday (therefore I ate hardly anything on Thursday). I stick to around 1000 calories a day (Collins calorie guide) and do not have any of the treats suggested.
I am particularly concerned about this as I am very unwell (I am having a bronchoscopy later today to see if I have lung cancer) and I might face surgery. Whenever I diet there always seems to come a time when I stop losing. If I stop eating altogether, as I have often done, when I
start again I put on weight even more quickly even on less that 1000 calories. Is this a common problem with people who have been anorexic in the past?
Today I shall not be eating at all and yet I doubt whether it will make a difference to my weight next week.
Answer:
Firstly let me just wish you well that the scan went o.k today, in regards to your weight fluctuations I can offer you the following advice. First what I would say is not too get too worried about your weight as this stress could be a contributing factor to making you unwell especially if
you have not been in the best of health recently. Think of and act on the positive things you are doing in regards to your weight and not on the negatives that you can always learn from.
Secondly it is OK to stick to that calorie mark of 1000 calories for you daily quotient or just either side of it, but if for one day however you go slightly over don't think that you must level that out the next day by eating much less as it doesn't work like that. Another thing you really must try and avoid doing is to stop eating for a day at a time, I know you have had an anorexia problem in the past and it is difficult to overcome but try to eat little and often throughout the day and not too late at night, if you stop eating for the whole day you will not necessarily lose weight. But your body will be craving the food that it is missed from the previous day the next time you eat your body will hypothetically be trying as much as it can to fill the void therefore as you have found it will cause you to put on weight quicker as your body will try to store more fats in case you miss a day again. Think of it as an analogy to a pet, if for one day you do not feed them and that is what they are use to; then when you feed them again they will crave more and more and be more hungry to make up for the day they missed therefore putting on weight.
The best advice I can give you is to continue to eat little and often through the day, to avoid missing whole days of not eating, to follow your diet plan on the web site, not too worry if you eat a bit more than you think you should, balance your diet so you eat/drink all of the major sources needed for your body and to think positively.
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