Why am I not losin weight.

[magicbeatle]

Hi everyone.
I'm really angry and depressed at the moment. I am 41 and I am trying to lose weight. I have a Beer-belly that looks 6 months pregnant. Ive even had small children asking me if I was. My daily consumption of food used to typically be (at the very least) as follows: 2 sandwiches, 2 chocolate bars, 2 packs of crisps, Large KFC or Large Fish and Chips, two small bottle of Coke, Ice Cream. Ive been like that all my life. In the last Ten weeks however, I have cut out all Sweets/Crisps and coke. I hardly ever eat Chips. My daily food intake will typically consist of 4 slices of Marmite on Toast, Mackerel Peas and Boiled Potatoes for dinner and a Yougart for desert. Not the same everyday of course, but something just as healthy. I mostly drink water and Tea, with 1 cup of Coffee a day. On top of this I have been doing an hour a day on either the Treadmill or Exercise Bike for the last Ten weeks, burning around 500-600 calories a day. The first week I done no Exersize but only ate Two bowls of soup a day and burnt of about about 12 pounds. Since then, with my extreme hard work I have lost nothing. In fact, the last couple of days I have put on 3 pound, making my Grand total weight loss for 10 weeks a miserly 9 pound! I have another 10 weeks now before I go on holiday to Memphis. I want to lose 2 and a half stone before I go (Getting to about 11 and a half stone). I have told the missus that if i am still a Fat C%nt then, I will eat myself to death. If I cant look good no matter what I do, I might as well be dead! Please Help!

[Nosha123]

Weight loss of on pound per week is the recommended rate. Any more and you risk putting all back on again.

[chi-chi66]

Why not do Weight Watchers or Slimming World.

You are changing the way and what you eat, and are checked and given support. Good Luck anyway.

[ladybirder]

Errr what about the duck with plum sauce you were cooking yesterday?

[cathfromsaron]

ditto not eating enough nutritous food, causing famine/feast response, plus frustration and anger can cause cortisol to enter the blood! see this link:

http://stress.about.c...health/a/cortisol.htm

hope you can make better meals and learn to relax, THEN you will lose body fat!

well done on the physical activity, but try to take your time to make changes in future!

cath x