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Joy says:

Hi, there!
Congratulations on your hard work and the weight that you have lost! Be as kind as possible to yourself, you deserve to do well.
I have a few suggestions about how you might maximize the benefits of your efforts.
Severely restricting calories will not work long-term (as you already sense). Apart from damaging your health by eating too little, in your particular circumstances your body is likely to go into famine-mode quite quickly (it may have already done so).
Severely restricting calories is not sustainable. Eventually you will go off such a diet and probably regain the weight you have lost. Additionally, it is likely that a higher percentage of the regained weight will be more body fat than you had before.
It’s best to think in terms of lasting fat loss. ‘Lasting’ means ‘maintained for over 5 years.’
The odds of sustaining weight loss for 5 years or more are less than 1 in 20. To ensure that you are the 1 of 20 who makes it, adopt a sustainable program of diet (and exercise as soon as you are able to).
Calorie counting works well for some people. For other people, calorie-restricted diets will work only up to a point, because the approach does not correct an underlying metabolic imbalance that has caused fat to be stored in the tissues.
Think of it this way: for tens of thousands of years our ancestors did fine without weight loss diets. For them weight gain was not an issue because they had a natural diet. Our ancestors did not eat refined carbohydrates. Neither did they eat grains. By that, they had a natural low carbohydrate diet (which becomes a natural weight loss diet).
Whether one counts calories or carbs, our bodies were not designed to eat refined/processed carbohydrates. For that reason, you may have a metabolism that would respond better if you counted carbohydrates rather than calories.
For example, if you are currently eating any refined/processed carbohydrates, cut them out of your diet. That one dietary change can quickly make a BIG difference! If you want a list of refined/processed carbohydrates, I have listed a free Internet resource at the bottom of this reply.
If you have a history of being overweight, dieting and then regaining weight, you may have become insulin resistant. If you are insulin resistant (and many overweight people are,) you will find it hard to lose weight by counting calories, in which case a natural/ unprocessed low carbohydrate diet will suit you.
If you are insulin resistant, and severely restrict calorie intake, you may become even more insulin resistant. Then you are trapped in a cycle of dieting and not losing sufficient weight. It will get harder and harder to lose weight.
If you decide to count carbohydrates, get all of your carbohydrates from natural sources such as (nutrient rich, organic) low carb vegetables and low carb fruits.
Additionally, instead of 3 larger ones, eat 5 or 6 smaller meals daily (to boost your metabolism and to curb any cravings) and ensure that you are getting at least 15 grams of proteins, from natural sources, at each of those meals.
As soon as you are able, and you have the blessing of your physician, begin an effective exercise program. When you are able to undertake it, cardio and strength training will greatly assist your weight loss.
Moreover, it will replace fat with lean muscle mass, which will enable you to eat more food without gaining weight.
You do not need to join a gym to do it. You can do it on your own and you can begin very slowly. At the bottom of this reply, I have listed a free Internet resource that will give you the information you need.
At that same resource, also see the “Fat Burning Boost” page listed on the navigation buttons. There is free information there about weight loss plateaus and how to overcome them.
I hope this helps. Good luck with your diet. You deserve to do well!
All my best wishes

montella says:

I lost 75 lbs in 6 months safely! I cut my calories to 100 for breakfast 100 morning snack no more than 300 lunch and 100 for afternoon snack. I limited my dinner to no more than 300 calories. I ate at 7, 10, 1, 4 and 7. I cut down also on fats! Drank alot of lipton diet green tea and water! Try it it works! Just walk at least 30 min a day, try to up it to an hour! I also found walking outdoors is better than a treadmill. You walk till you get tired and then you have no choice but to walk back!

blydblnd says:

a really good way to lose weight is join weight watchers, it limits you to a certain amount of points a day …but its not only a diet, its a new way of looking at how to eat healthy in the right amounts.

? says:

sleep is a good way to burn calorie (you eat less because you have less time to eat and more energy for exersice)so get more sleep and eat lots of fruits low fat milk product and whole grain for meat look to alternatives(IEeggs tofu- there lower fat there meat)

billie b says:

Here’s the deal the body will only let go of so much weight at a time. I know it is frustrating I have been there. It took me 2yrs to lose 50pounds in a healthy way and my clients fight this all the time. They lose a big chunk of weight and stall out. I know you need to lose for health reasons but just keep doing the healthy things and it will come. Try to increase your movement best you can and keep at it. There is no quick fix for this. I always tell people you didn’t gain it overnight you won’t lose it overnight.Don’t go less than 1700 calories.