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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry OP. My neighbor, about your weight, lost 100 lbs seeing Dr Beale in DC. Lost 60 lbs in 2 months. No surgery. Insurance doesn't pay and it's not cheap, but she is so pleased with her results. Good luck.

60 pounds in two months? What did they feed her, meth?

A prescription medication and B12 shots. A year later, weight stayed off. Amazing.

Which one?!

I wonder if it's ozempic/wegovy. It's a miracle drug but between stingy insurers and greedy drug companies none of us can get it.

I’m on Ozempic and it is amazing but it’s not going to make you lose a pound a day for two months. Even someone 100 pounds overweight. Especially because you have to titrate up fairly slowly to avoid icky side effects. I suspect Phentermine was also involved.

2 weeks op. it's been only two weeks.

I’m on team — check your thyroid. That doesn’t sound normal. But I have hypothyroidism and when my meds are off I tend to gain a lot more weight and always feel hungry, despite zero changes in my diet & exercise.

Anonymous wrote:A gastric sleeve was the best decision of my life. Complete life changer. Easy, very little pain, fast recovery. My mother had it after me and is also very happy. Husband going to do it soon too. Insurance paid for most of it.

It just seems so drastic. I’m going to check my thyroid and gut and blood first.

A gastric sleeve was the best decision of my life. Complete life changer. Easy, very little pain, fast recovery. My mother had it after me and is also very happy. Husband going to do it soon too. Insurance paid for most of it.

Try a diuretic. It can be just simmered cranberries every day; drink it like tea. That will help get some water weight off. Look up other natural diuretics.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry OP. My neighbor, about your weight, lost 100 lbs seeing Dr Beale in DC. Lost 60 lbs in 2 months. No surgery. Insurance doesn't pay and it's not cheap, but she is so pleased with her results. Good luck.

60 pounds in two months? What did they feed her, meth?

A prescription medication and B12 shots. A year later, weight stayed off. Amazing.

Which one?!

I wonder if it's ozempic/wegovy. It's a miracle drug but between stingy insurers and greedy drug companies none of us can get it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry OP. My neighbor, about your weight, lost 100 lbs seeing Dr Beale in DC. Lost 60 lbs in 2 months. No surgery. Insurance doesn't pay and it's not cheap, but she is so pleased with her results. Good luck.

60 pounds in two months? What did they feed her, meth?

A prescription medication and B12 shots. A year later, weight stayed off. Amazing.

Which one?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry OP. My neighbor, about your weight, lost 100 lbs seeing Dr Beale in DC. Lost 60 lbs in 2 months. No surgery. Insurance doesn't pay and it's not cheap, but she is so pleased with her results. Good luck.

60 pounds in two months? What did they feed her, meth?

A prescription medication and B12 shots. A year later, weight stayed off. Amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Eat less. A lot less. That is how I’m losing weight.

-5’3, 195 (was 205 6 weeks ago)

OP here. I was essentially eating one meal a day, and that meal was very light and lean. I could not eat less without going to a complete liquid diet.

What does "essentially" mean?

On the initial plan you were losing a lb a week. That's loss. I'm sorry you felt discouraged by the pace, but if you had stuck with that, you'd still be losing. At your weight and age I'm guessing you have a very high percentage of body fat, and as a result your TDEE is probably much lower than it had been in your younger years.

True. And yes, but I’ve also heard that you lose a lot earlier on because you have a lot to lose. I just don’t understand how I can not eat very much at all, but not drop weight faster. People say they lose 10# a month doing a similar diet.

When I eat 2 meals a day, mostly cooked vegetables and some low sugar fruits and lean protein, I am eating 1200-1500 calories a day. With my high body fat TDEE, that's a daily deficit of 400 calories a day, which is less an a pound a week. I think you don't understand how low your TDEE is given your body composition, and how many calories you're still eating eating very light and lean.

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Anonymous wrote:Eat less. A lot less. That is how I’m losing weight.

-5’3, 195 (was 205 6 weeks ago)

OP here. I was essentially eating one meal a day, and that meal was very light and lean. I could not eat less without going to a complete liquid diet.

What does "essentially" mean?

On the initial plan you were losing a lb a week. That's loss. I'm sorry you felt discouraged by the pace, but if you had stuck with that, you'd still be losing. At your weight and age I'm guessing you have a very high percentage of body fat, and as a result your TDEE is probably much lower than it had been in your younger years.

True. And yes, but I’ve also heard that you lose a lot earlier on because you have a lot to lose. I just don’t understand how I can not eat very much at all, but not drop weight faster. People say they lose 10# a month doing a similar diet.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eat less. A lot less. That is how I’m losing weight.

-5’3, 195 (was 205 6 weeks ago)

OP here. I was essentially eating one meal a day, and that meal was very light and lean. I could not eat less without going to a complete liquid diet.

What does "essentially" mean?

On the initial plan you were losing a lb a week. That's loss. I'm sorry you felt discouraged by the pace, but if you had stuck with that, you'd still be losing. At your weight and age I'm guessing you have a very high percentage of body fat, and as a result your TDEE is probably much lower than it had been in your younger years.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry OP. My neighbor, about your weight, lost 100 lbs seeing Dr Beale in DC. Lost 60 lbs in 2 months. No surgery. Insurance doesn't pay and it's not cheap, but she is so pleased with her results. Good luck.

60 pounds in two months? What did they feed her, meth?

It is probably your body adjusting to a new diet and perhaps retaining more water than normal. Stay the course, you’ll get results. No harm in getting some of the other medical aspects checked out though.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry OP. My neighbor, about your weight, lost 100 lbs seeing Dr Beale in DC. Lost 60 lbs in 2 months. No surgery. Insurance doesn't pay and it's not cheap, but she is so pleased with her results. Good luck.

I’m not in DC but thank you.