Help!! Weight Loss

Ok So I'm 5'5 (169 cm) I used to weigh, 200 pound (90kgs). Over the last month i Lost 35(ish) pounds. So right now I weight about 167. Anyway I used to work out CRAZY EVERYDAY. Push-Ups, Plank, Running, Stairmaster etc. But now i Stoped im way to tired most of the time. I got a pedometer and it tells me that I burn about 400 calories just to walk to school and back and also the soccer we play in school. But lately I think I've stopped loosing weight? Is this normal? I also started to eat ALOT LESS. I used to steal food from freinds etc. I used to eat crazy. But now this is sort of my outline

Breakfast -Post Cereal

Lunch- Nothing :(

Dinner- Very light Stuff. Soup a small toast with chese. AND WATER MELON!! I EAT LIKE 4 WEDGES A DAY.

So my intake is low so now that I have been doing this for like 2 weeks does this mean that I wont loose weight and I need to change something?
Also generally for my height is my weight healthy? I mean good looking?

Why are you too tired now? 

35 pounds!!!  Good for you.  You have probably just hit a plateau, but you are definitely not eating enough.  You need to eat several healthy, balanced meals, you can't skip meals, and you need to eat more protein.

Good luck!!!

In chronological order, what came first? Getting tired and stopping the exercise or starting to eat much less?

If all at once you became exhausted and lost your appetite, you need to see a doctor. If you are tired because you eat less, well... you know the answer.

Hang on, you lost 35lbs in a MONTH?!?!

Thats crazy!

You really need to eat more, this behaviour is sounding a little indicative of the beginning of an eating disorder, you really do not want to go down that route, I suggest you see a nutritionist, start eating more immeadiately, and scale back your workouts - I guarantee you will feel much, much, much better!

And you have probably stopped loosing weight because your body is hanging onto EVERYTHING, it cannot afford to loose anymore fat so quickly, you could really be damaging yourself.

There are healthier, more enjoyable ways to loose weight.

Edit: to say I agree with disc, maybe you should see a doctor.

Thanks overall!!

Im tired cause i dont eat nearly enough

SO i guess I should just eat A LOT OF FRUITS !!

ARE fruit salads good? (no whipepd Cream)

You need more carbohydrates; try jacket potatoes, very low in calories compared to bread or pasta, and you could put tuna, other proteins, cheeses etc, its a really good, filling meal.

Oh, also, I should start having lunch, it'll speed up your metabolism; think of it like feeding a fire, the more wood you put in, the stronger it'll burn, and the faster the wood is disintegrated! Odd metaphor I know!

No, you shouldn't just eat fruit. Yes fruit slads are good. But your diet must be BALANCED. That means getting enough carbohydrates, protein AND fat.

You sound like you are getting mostly carbohydrates and very few calories. This is not sustainable.

Why don't you check out how many calories you need with tools here on the site? Other sources of information are out there to tell you how much fibre, protein, vitamins and minerals you should be getting in a day. Try to meet those targets every day.

Trust me, my ex-boyfriend was around that weight, and more or less what you're doing. Several years later, he's heavier than he started out. You don't want to do that.

Merged from duplicate thread in Young Calorie Counters as a courtesy.

tiffanikeys
Apr 30 2008 17:42

You HAVE to eat more!  It might sound weird, but you will lose more weight if you eat more and eat healthier.  Maybe for breakfast have cereal, skim milk, a piece of fruit, for lunch have a sandwich on wheat/whole grain bread with some raw veggies, for supper have 1/2 a chicken breast, some milk and fruit - don't forget healthy snacking too!  a single bowl of cereal for breakfast has maybe 300 calories - 400 calories in it, that is not enough.  Your body needs those calories to make it run and work!!!  I think you are at a good weight right now as is, you should start to focus on eating healthy and eating a good amount of cal each day (guessing around 1800-2200) and maybe look into weight lifting.  It is normal also for many people to hit a plateau in their diets, it could also be that your body is not getting the proper nutrition it needs to burn weight off. Anyhow thats just my 2 cents!

thedude7777, I posted some of this info to you in another thread but am posting it here as well as we want you to read it and take it seriously.

I know my colleague Undertherainbow posted some info for you in The Young Calorie Counters forum, have you read what she read about getting some help for your disordered eating habits and also she posted several links to websites with information for teens??  Did you take a look and consider what she wrote to help you? Calorie Count is not designed with teenage weight loss targets but even so the calorie counting tools would tell you that you are severely undereating.

calculator and calorie information for Teens 

Nutrition, Exercise & Weight Management for Teens

More Nutrition & Health for Teens

Dieting & Metabolism (explains starvation mode and why undereating is counter-productive)

The Body Neglected (explains what happens when you undereat a long time)

Something-Fishy.org (information about eating disorders)

I also saw you have lost 35 lbs in a month? A safe rate of weight loss is generally considered to be roughly 1% of your body weight per week. For most people ~1-2 lbs per week is about right, assuming that you are not underweight to begin with. Since you are 14 you absolutely should be under the supervision of a doctor and/or your parents? Have you spoken to them about your desire to lose weight - maybe they can help you set up a sensible and HEALTHY eating plan? Your school nutritionist or nurse might also be able to help?

However, it is critical for you to know that your calorie intake is dangerously low and for your own health you should increase your calories immediately. Eating so little could damage your health with long-term ramifications.

1200 calories if the bare minimum for a woman and 1500 for a man to eat per day and to remain healthy.

Upping your calories will also prevent your metabolism from slowing.

In addition, by eating so few calories you are setting yourself up for an endless cycle of weight gain-weight loss (yo-yo dieting) as once you go back to your normal calories you might gain weight back and become frustrated.

From Mary Hartley, Calorie Count's Director of Nutrition:

"By eating so few calories, you will not get enough energy, protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals and other components of food. In time, you could become malnourished, which can cause severe health risks such as respiratory infections, kidney failure, blindness, heart attack and even death."

Here is a brief reason why never less than 1800 calories from the Advice section of Calorie Count Plus, under the Q&A tab:

In order to get the daily food servings you need for a balanced diet, it takes about 1200 calories a day (for a man it is 1500 calories a day + 300 additional for a teen). With careful planning, you could have a balanced diet on 1000 calories, but the restrictiveness of a very low calorie level can lead to binging and weight cycling, which will take you further from your weight loss goal. What's more, very low calorie diets can cause excessive muscle breakdown and metabolic adaptations, which can drive down your calorie requirements. In the end, you'll need fewer calories to maintain a higher weight.

Here is a very rough scientific break down provided by a dietician for a 5' 2", 19 year old female weighing approximately 100 pounds, sitting around all day and doing nothing:

-The heart needs 12% of the calories (144 cals)
-The kidney needs 12% of the calories (144 cals)
-The Liver needs 23% of the calories (276 cals)
-The brain needs 23% of the calories (276 cals)
-The skeletal muscle needs 30% of the calories (360 cals)

Finally as UTR told you in your YCC thread, Calorie Count Plus's mission is to promote healthy and sustainable weight management. We want to support you and enable you to manage your weight healthfully but you must please help our moderators follow this vision by respecting the following guidelines:

• Your post is subject to modification or deletion by our moderators. Repetitive, off-topic, disruptive, and frivolous posts will be removed. We will take down any posts that violate either the letter or the spirit of any of these rules.
• Promotion of starvation diets or habits that exhibit signs of an eating disorder ("pro-ana", "pro-mia", etc.) is prohibited.

Fruit salad (assuming that you like, personally I despise it) is a great component of a healthy eating plan.  But eating one extreme or another is not healthy.

1. You need enough but not too many calories.
2. Beyond that, you need a balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
   • By carbohydrates, I mean whole grains and vegetables, not sodas and candy.  Your diet should be about 40-50% healthy carbohydrates.
   • Proteins, as in lean proteins.  Chicken, pork, lean cuts of beef, turkey, tofu, edamame, nuts, protein powder, eggs, beans and rice, etc.  Sure, you can get all of your protein from cheese, but you also get more fat from it so unless you're needing fat and calories in your diet it's not the best sources. 20-30% of your diet should be about right.  Somewhere between .5-2g per pound of body weight depending on your intentions.
   • Fats, the healthy ones.  You don't find them in animal products, you get the from nuts, avocados, fish, eggs, olives, olive oil, flax oil, etc.  20-30% of your diet.
3. Nutrients...it's hard to get sufficient nutrients in under 1500 calories per day for a man.  You do need vitamins and minerals and the best places to get those is from food, not from supplements.  Supplements can help.

In my opinion, the first thing you need to do is to start eating 1800 calories per day.  The next thing you need to do is start looking at the composition of what you're eating.  Then look at the vitamins and minerals and make sure you're getting what you should be.  Also add in some mild exercise and then later if you feel like it you can do weights or something more active.

All right dude, I've read your other posts, and while other people's comments concerning anorexia-related health problems were extremely helpful, thorough, and accurate, it's pretty clear to me that at this point in your young life you don't actually care about what you might do to your body as long as you lose weight. Cause when you're 14, you're invincible, right?

Consider this, then. You want to lose weight cause you want to look good, right? Here's the breakdown of how that's not gonna work if you continue to severely restrict your diet:

1. This is not a sustainable diet; you won't be able to keep it up your whole life, and then you'll be back at square one with no clue on how to eat well and maintain that weight loss - unless, of course, you actually want to look like a skeleton. Heads up - I can't think of anyone I know, male or female, who finds that attractive.

2. If you keep forcing your stomach to become this unused to food, any food you eat will start to make your stomach into a bloated, water-retaining mess as your body desperately clings to whatever nutrients you give it, and you will feel fat fat fat. This goes double if you start binging and purging - you may indeed lose weight, but your stomach will not be a pretty thing to look at.

3. Without enough nutrients - especially at your age, when you need more calcium - your bones will steadily weaken. I know you don't care about that - it's not like anyone can see your bones, right? Wrong. I have two words for you: rotten teeth. Why don't you google-image that and see how sexy you think it is?

I could go on.

Look, I know it's addictive to see the numbers on the scale go down. I know the feeling of self-control is like a drug. I know you're thinking about how much better you look/feel now than you did drop that first huge chunk of weight. But seriously dude, even if all you care about is looking good - start changing your eating and exercise habits before it's too late.

I've read a bunch of your posts too.  People keep repeating the same types of things about their concerns for your eating habits.  They keep telling you about the damage you are going to do to your body.  They explain that you are probably going into starvation mode since you aren't getting the needed amount of calories and nutrition.  And you know, again from what people have said, that yes, it sounds like your body is holding onto everything it can since it does not know if it's going to get anything else it needs ever again, like carbs and protein.  Blah blah blah...

So why ask these questions again if all you really want is for people to tell you you're doing great when we all know that you aren't at all?  Yes, fruit and veggies are good, but even vegetarians need to be careful to get enough protein.  Hair will fall out, you'll be tired all the time...oh wait you already are.   And aintgotwings put it quite nicely...rotten teeth, bad bones that will become brittle and break more often.  My concern would be all that extra skin you're about to have.  I know most teens and children when they are about to hit a growth spurt tend to get a little pudgy to start and then they stretch up.  Ever thought that was part of it?

Oh, and I thought you put in another post that you actually weigh 155 but didn't want to say that cause you know we'd all jump on you?  So in some way, you have already acknowledged that what you are doing isn't right, otherwise, why hide it?  If I were your parents I'd be taking you to see a therapist to get behind the feeling of what is actually wrong.  Do you like somebody and they don't give you the time of day?  Are you trying to fit in?  Do you want to join a sport team and feel you can't make the team yet?  Do you feel like you aren't in control of your life anymore?  Parents divorcing?  What is it that has made you decide to take it out on your body?  I work with teens your age and know that it's a really rough time.  I was overweight at that time too.  But, you're obviously trying to deal with something else with this weight loss.  So what is it that you're looking for really?

And for those of you who may feel I'm being harsh, I'm ok with that.  I think he needs it...might get through his food deprived head.