I gained weight as a teenager due to a lot of medication I was forced to take. I was 15. I went from 135 to 205 pounds in 3 months, and as soon as I could I tried to lose it. I have been eating “right” for a decade. I’ve gone to countless doctors and countless times got dismissed and treated like a liar. I watched what I ate, I tracked every single calorie, and I exercised an hour a day. And I couldn’t lose it. I would go to the doctor and tell them, I’m tracking my calories, I am exercising, and I can’t lose weight. I got told I’m probably eating too much. I got told “you’re not trying hard enough.” I got completely dismissed. My health has been in a gradual decline for years. I was exhausted all the time, it was getting harder to workout and run around with my daughter. I have heart problems and fainting episodes. I would get shaky and nauseous, dizzy and weak halfway through my workouts. I started losing my hair and spending a lot of time in my bed.
I weighed 270. I went to an endocrinologist who ran a few tests and sent me to a dietitian stating it’s likely a nutrition issue. I was angry. I’ve been eating a low calorie, healthy food based diet for years. I’ve been fighting to lose weight for years. I thought it surely wasn’t a nutrition issue.
The dietitian believed me and scheduled a test for a base metabolic rate. My metabolism is 34 percent higher than the average population. I burn 2600 calories a day, baseline. Just existing. I was trying so hard to lose weight, based on average caloric intake, that I was slowly killing myself. My body was stuck in starvation mode, holding onto every calorie it could.
I am on week 2 of my new high calorie diet and I have already lost 10 pounds. Not everyone has the same calorie needs. I made myself sick following the average guidelines. I was literally starving my body, and it caused a lot of issues. If you’re having trouble losing weight following a “normal” diet and exercise, do everything you can to find out what’s happening. Keep talking to the doctors. Keep pushing. It took me a while to find out the issue, but at least I found out before I died from years of eating 1400 calories a day when I needed at minimum 2100.
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