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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 29 and have about 70 lbs to lose to be in a healthy range. I'm mad at myself for getting to this point but nothing I can do about that now. I've lost 30 lbs since mid-January by cutting out soda, sugar and pretty much most carbs. I do still have a cheat day about 2-3 times a month but that's it. Generally, I eat chicken or ground turkey for meats and then just tons of veggies (green beans, broccoli, sweet potato, etc.). I snack on nuts (cashews or almonds), cheese sticks or plain rice cakes with natural PB. Occasionally I'll have a "think thin" bar if I need extra protein in a certain day. I limit my carbs to no more then 40g a day. While I'm happy that I've lost 30 lbs in the last 2 months, I'm not really "satisfied" with that. I watch the show "my 600 lb life" and see these people losing 60+ lbs in one month. Granted I'm not 600+ lbs but still.I just feel like I should be losing a lot more then I am and it's getting frustrated. On top of the diet change, I also walk 2-2.5 miles 4-5 days a week. I started off at 1 mile (literally all I could do without feeling like I was dying) and now I do 2- 2 1/2 without any issues.

My husband and I are TTC and have been for over a year and a half now. I have PCOS and hypothyroidism so that hasn't helped on top of my weight (clearly). We finally met with an RE in January who gave me provera to induce a period and then ran a bunch of tests. Pretty much everything came back completely fine. All of my levels are normal/where they should be, A1C was a 6.4, TSH was 2.5, etc. She wants me to lose 40-50 lbs before we move foward with Famara/timed intercourse and all that. Since that appt with her, I've dropped 30 lbs so far and have a follow up with her for the second week of April in which I hope to be down another 10 lbs by then to at least be at the 40 lb lost mark but I'd really like to be closer to 50. The TTC stuff has been hard for me knowing that it's "my fault" (hubbys semen analysis came back EXTREMELY good- all levels are on the higher end of average so he was thrilled). Over the last week, I've really taken a turn for the worst with my diet. I'm barely allowing myself 600 calories a day and have gotten to the point where I'm barely hungry and am just eating to get something in me. Today for example I had a think thin bar at 2:00pm (120 calories) and then around 6:00pm I had a piece of grilled chicken with about 5 pieces of broccoli and that was it for the day. I'm also OBSESSED with the scale and will literally weigh myself 10+ times a day. I'll weigh myself 3-4 times in a row in the morning and then randomly throughout the day and again at night before going to bed. When I wake up in the morning, it's the first thing I think of to do. I'm worried that I'm on a downward slope here as I'm now just obsessed with dropping weight and losing as much as I can a week.

I guess my biggest question is- how bad is it for me to be eatting less then 1,000 calories a day? I know on those shows, they have them eat no more then 1200 calories a day and they lose weight SO FAST. I know eventaully my body is going to stall out and go into starvation mode if I keep this up but I'm just to the point of not even being able to force myself to eat more then 600ish calories a day now. Any advice would be great and PLEASE, no bashing.[/quote]

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