I am a huge yo-yo dieter and always have been. I've had eating disorders and lost and gained back more weight than I can count. Because of a year of traumatic events in my life, I gained an extra 30 lbs ontop of my already-highest weight, finally resting at 262 lbs. my blood pressure, cholesterol and triglycerides are high, my asthma is at its worst, and I've had to move up into size 20-22. I was so unhealthy and unhappy six weeks ago when I started dieting AGAIN. But this time I knew there was no magic pill, no quick fix, no possibility of starving myself skinny and, more importantly, healthy. I decided to finally take the advice I've received on here through so many years of extreme dieting and slow down, step back, and get in touch with my body.
So I started out just trying to stay under 2000 cals/day and not binge. I didn't exercise or anything and lost about 5-7 lbs over about two weeks. Then my dr put me on a diuretic for my blood pressure, sure to mention that it would speed up my loss. I'd had a bad week before and eaten crap food so I was retaining a lot of water and the pill helped me drop it, 7 lbs overnight in fact. I continued to lose eating ~ 1700 cals a day until my dr suggested I eat low-carb and up my exercise, and I lowered my cals to ~1500-1600. I ate less than 50 carbs a day, and often less than thirty, and was losing at a slightly faster rate but mostly I felt amazing.
I've lost 15 lbs in 6 weeks, which isn't turtle pace, but when I was younger I would brag about losing 15 lbs in a week, achieved by starving myself, and the loss was more noticeable because I was ~190 lbs. I am proud of what I have accomplished so far, and despite wanting to lose faster, I know it's unhealthy to do so and am happy at my rate of loss.
BUT.
My doctor seems disappointed every time she weighs me that I haven't lost more. She continues to suggest things that will "up the ante" and I implement her advice, just not in an extreme way. Also, we're on vacation at my grandmothers house right now. At first I didn't even want to mention my diet but being low carb is high maintenance and between asking about her food supply and Cooking all the time, she caught on really quick. Ive just always crash dieted and told her about amazing losses and I wanted my loss to speak for itself. But now that she knows, she watches everything I eat and when I've eaten a small slice of cake or something she's very quick to tell me not to backslide. Over and over. In addition to that, no one has even lied and said they notice weight loss on me. Which I didn't expect because I don't see it either, and I tried to destroy that little spark of hope that my family might notice before we even got here, but I'm disappointed and angry. I feel like no matter how proud of myself and content with my rate of loss I am, everyone else thinks I'm just slacking off or expects me to fail.
Does anyone else deal with these issues, people around you prescribing to the diet "gospel" we're fed by the diet industry and pushing their ignorance off on you and your efforts? Or just frustrating family members? I'm just sad, and because I'm sad, it's a struggle every day to stick to my eating plan here.