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It's harder to lose weight as you age, and harder for females than for males.
880 calories is so low that your body has gone into starvation mode. Sounds like you've done other extreme diets in the past; that just messes up your body and makes it harder to lose weight.
Instead of trying to "lose weight for your vacation," formulate a plan of healthy eating to follow the rest of your life. It should be more than 880 calories a day.
Work with a highly rated nutritionist, not just random folks on the internet.
Because I might tell you to eat more fat and fewer carbs, while someone else tells you to cut fat and eat rice cakes. How do you tell which of us is right?
Spoiler: I'm right. Rice cakes were bad advice from the 1980s.
Anyway, even though we walk every morning at fast speed for 45 minutes, before that I ride the recumbent bike for 26 minutes (200 calories used up) and do weights for 5 minutes every other day, my weight loss stopped as soon as I had lost 15 pounds in mid April.
3 years ago I always lost 15 to 20 pounds on juice fasting in one month, now I lose only 15 pounds in 2 months on 880 calories. As if my body says, wow, so many calories!
It's very frustrating as I wanted to reach 89 kg, but am stuck at 94 kg.
How can I lose those stubborn 10 pounds over the next 3 weeks?
For my husband Nutrisystem and elliptical trainer worked out perfectly well: he lost 30 pounds. Then I asked him to stop losing any more weight and to wait until I'll catch up with him.
However, it doesn't look as I'll catch up.
Hey Chrissie,
That can be frustrating when we hit a plateau like that. The body does adapt to the demands we put on it. So what works to lose weight initially does not always work with losing further weight.
You mentioned 880 calories per day, what foods/ meals are you eating each day?
What people generally refer to as “starvation mode†(and sometimes “metabolic damageâ€) is your body’s natural response to long-term calorie restriction.
It involves the body responding to reduced calorie intake by reducing calorie expenditure to maintain energy balance and prevent starvation.
This is a natural physiological response, and the technical term for it is “adaptive thermogenesisâ€
I haven't eaten meat since 1974 and consider that to be a big plus.
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Originally Posted by Chrissie777
I immigrated to the US in 2002. Met with 6 different nutritionists between 2003 and 2015. They all recommended to eat rice cakes with peanut butter. I tried that and it certainly tastes delicious, but it didn't help me losing any weight.
Peanut butter is one of the worst things people could eat, high in fat, often trans-fats, clogs up the insides and is slow to digest.
Drastically lower carbs, which lowers insulin as another poster said. There's a lot of guidance online to show you how to do this. Lower calories too. And do some light cardio like walking, or recumbent bike, treadmill, or whatever increases your heart rate for an extended period of time. You don't have to pay for some expensive weight loss program like Weight Watchers, Nutrisystems, Jenny Craig, Medifast, etc. Focus on lowering your insulin - this is key.
You don't have to go crazy, but it you're consistent, it will come off, although slowly because of your age. It sucks, but it just takes longer the older we get. Gimmicks don't work and are sometimes harmful. Be patient and use common sense.
Where there's a will, there's a way. Truer words were never spoken.
3 years ago I always lost 15 to 20 pounds on juice fasting in one month, now I lose only 15 pounds in 2 months on 880 calories. As if my body says, wow, so many calories!
It's very frustrating as I wanted to reach 89 kg, but am stuck at 94 kg.
How can I lose those stubborn 10 pounds over the next 3 weeks?
Go on Survivor!
Just look at any season of Survivor and you can see what a calorie restriction lifestyle can do. Pretty much every contestant on that show is burning way more calories every day, as compared to what they are consuming every day and the fat just melts away.
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