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I've been frustrated for at least a year now, because I am eating no more that 1400 calories a day and excercising nearly everyday yet not losing weight. I've talked to my general physician and my thyroid doctor about how frustrated i am because I don't know what to do, and they both basically told me that there's no hope. my general physician said some people are just meant to be skinny and others not, and my thyroid doctor just said people aren't meant to lose weight and that its hard. Both times I heard this I cried. I'm so frustrated. I can't just accept the fact that theres no hope. it makes me so frustrated. Has anybody heard similar things from there doctor. Does anybody have any motivational words for me. This is killing me.

I do NOT believe that for one minute! I am surprised a doctor would say that. What are your stats? Height/weight? It could very possibly be that you are not taking in enough calories. 

Your doctor is horrible and clueless. It sounds like you aren't eating enough and that your metabolism has suffered from that. You need to shake your diet up, get more protein and increase overall intake.

my doctor shocked me by actually being very sympathic and gave some good insight. I had increased from 135-145 over the summer and it seemed that strict dieting and exercise werent shifting the extra lbs. I thought that shed tell me i was being silly as i had a healthy BMI but anyway i brought it up in a general appointment and she explained that when you stress the body by either over exercising, under eating or constantly worrying about losing weight you body releases cortisol, thinking that it is in a crisis situation.

"Cortisol is a corticosteroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex (in the adrenal gland). It is a vital hormone that is often referred to as the "stress hormone" as it is involved in the response to stress. It increases blood pressure, blood sugar levels and has an immunosuppressive action"

Anyway one effect of cortisol is to slow your metabolism in order to preserve your fat stores, whihc your body thinks it needs to fight whatever is stressing you.

The point being relax, eat a little more, take a few days off the gym and instead have a massage. Let your body re set itself and then perhaps it will start to cooperate with you. I found this very hard to do when i was told to because it didnt sound like it would work, but in fact a few days later i felt great and the weight started dropping when i got back tot the gym.

cassk,

i found myself in a similar situation this past summer. i had gained 25 lbs in january-june, and i became obsessed with losing it. i was exercising every day, eating an extremely lowfat diet, and depriving myself of all sorts of foods. my thoughts were constantly about how fat i looked and the foods i wanted to be eating. when i wasn't losing any weight, i went to a doctor who tested my thyroid and told me i should be able to lose weight just fine. after 3 months, i had only lost 2 pounds, and i just gave up altogether. i stopped obsessing over my body and ate the foods i wanted.

a couple months later, i realized i had been losing a bit of weight while not even "dieting." in november, i decided to come to calorie count, and have been consistently losing one pound a week. i attribute the weight loss to a change in my mind-set. i stopped obsessing over how my body looked, how i thought people were looking at me, how i was "depriving" myself of junk food and made the realization that weight loss comes slowly. my goal is now "health" instead of "getting rid of that nasty tummy and thigh fat," ha.

being able to look at weight loss in a realistic and almost non-emotional manner and switching to a positive mind-set made all the difference for me. hopefully this is something that can help you, too! good luck =)