Nutrimed I'm about to quit. HELP!!!

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I am half way through 12 week nutrimed diet And I'm not getting the results I had hoped for. I'm down 21 pounds but I still have 40 to go. Any ideas on how to speed things up. I'm following the diet to a T and exercising like crazy getting 1.6 pounds a week is very discouraging. I'm ready to quit and have a martini. Help!

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  • Unknown
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    you lost 21 pounds and you want to quit????

    what is the nutrimed diet? Is it super restrictive????
  • Unknown
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    800 calories a day. Shakes and protein bars. It's so hard. No alcohol or eating food. I have such a ways to go.
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    tcb998 wrote: »
    800 calories a day. Shakes and protein bars. It's so hard. No alcohol or eating food. I have such a ways to go.

    no eating food???

    so you are drinking 800 calories of shakes every day? ????
  • Unknown
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    Yes and I have to cook for my family. It's awful. So after a week seeing only a pound off is heartbreaking
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    yea that sounds miserable.

    I would suggest the following

    set MFP to one pound per week loss and enter your other stats
    eat to that number
    log everything you eat
    get a food scale and weigh all solids.
    this is not necessary but find a form of exercise you like and move around more...
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    Thanks. I will try.
  • Unknown
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    Is this a medically directed and supervised diet?
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    Yes but I only see md once a mont. I get weighed in weekly by a counselor in his office who is not too helpful
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    tcb998 wrote: »
    Yes but I only see md once a mont. I get weighed in weekly by a counselor in his office who is not too helpful

    In that case the wise course is to talk to your doctor, not his assistant or counselor.
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    I will see him next week.
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    You can do about as well just using MFP, but I wouldn't expect to lose weight faster under any circumstances. You are losing at a healthy pace, but not in a sustainable way. Quit that expensive and unsatisfying stuff and eat real food, Calories In, Calories Out! Good luck and congrats on your loss so far!
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    htg20 wrote: »
    You can do about as well just using MFP, but I wouldn't expect to lose weight faster under any circumstances. You are losing at a healthy pace, but not in a sustainable way. Quit that expensive and unsatisfying stuff and eat real food, Calories In, Calories Out! Good luck and congrats on your loss so far!

    I would agree with you if this were a self directed path. Telling a person to go against medical advice is something that I cannot agree with.
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    From a doctor's physician asst, I learned that too many carbs/calores make you store fat and likewise too few can also make you store fat because you go into starvation mode and your body doesn't want that. I've been having good luck with low carbs and 1200 -1400 calories AND journaling in MFP everyday.
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    edited May 2015
    How terrible not being able to eat regular foods... you are losing though at a pretty good pace for us not knowing your stats...
    Try logging in some foods in the food diary here on mfp to get an ideal of calories in the foods you like. Then you can see how many calories you had been eating. Set up mfp to find out how many cal. you can eat to lose 1-2 pds a week..and speak to your doc about it.
    Play with the site a bit to feel comfortable with it.
    Then fit in that Martini !!!! good luck.
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    grh50 wrote: »
    From a doctor's physician asst, I learned that too many carbs/calores make you store fat and likewise too few can also make you store fat because you go into starvation mode and your body doesn't want that. I've been having good luck with low carbs and 1200 -1400 calories AND journaling in MFP everyday.

    NO! That is such a debunked myth it amazes me that anyone believes it.
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    Your mental health is important too. Talk to your doc. Tell him how you feel. Perhaps another plan will be better for you.
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    grh50 wrote: »
    From a doctor's physician asst, I learned that too many carbs/calores make you store fat and likewise too few can also make you store fat because you go into starvation mode and your body doesn't want that. I've been having good luck with low carbs and 1200 -1400 calories AND journaling in MFP everyday.

    absolute hogwash ...
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    You're not drinking anything other than water are you? flavored drinks can have literally hundreds of calories that people don't even think about. To get around how boring JUST water is I drink green tea (plain). 0 calories, tasty, and filled with antioxidants.

    Don't listen to the person talking about starvation mode. That's not science, just an odd old myth.
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    I know you said that you see a doctor there, but were you recommend to this by your doctor or does the doctor who recommended it to you work at the weight loss center? If the only doctor who told you this is a good idea is one who is profiting from you, you may want to get a second opinion from another source.

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