Why am I not losing weight at 300-400kcal a day? I'm 5'2, 20 years old, and weigh around 129- 127lbs/59-57kg. I check the scale every day?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Because you're not fat and you don't need to lose weight. Let me explain it this way. A person that's your height and say, 350 pounds can diet and lose weight very fast initially. That's because their body knows it has plenty of energy reserves in the form of body weight to live on. But once they've gotten down to a certain weight, their body will begin to worry about those now depleted reserves and begin slowing its metabolism because it knows it can't keep using them as fast as it once did. Thus weight loss starts coming slower and slower. So at 5'2 and 127 pounds you don't have many reserves to begin with, so your body isn't about to start chewing them up at breakneck speed. As someone has already pointed out to you, your body will try to keep you from dying.

I lost 130 pounds some years back. I was 6'4 and weighed 320. Fat. Not morbidly obese, but fat nonetheless. The first 70 pounds came off effortlessly because I had a lot of fat reserves to work with. The next 40 took a bit more time as my body started slowing its metabolism. The last 20 took forever because my body was trying tell me I didn't need to diet anymore. I probably should have stopped at 210 because that's a healthy weight for a 6'4 man. But I pushed it to 190 foolishly.

Extreme diets that heavily restrict calorie intake are intended for severely obese people, amd I mean people that are really big, like 500 pounds plus. Not someone 5'2 and 127 pounds. And those diets are almost always performed under a doctor's supervision because they have to run tests to ensure the subject doesn't have any medical conditions that would make such a diet unsafe for them. And I can tell you that none of them are restricting people to anything as low as 400 calories a day.

You don't need one of those diets. You don't need any diet, but if you're determined to do it anyway please see a doctor. They'll tell you how much weight you can afford to take off or if you should even bother. And they'll give you a safe diet plan or refer to a nutritionist or dietician that'll give you one. Think it over.

[Anonymous]

Because your body is trying to stop you from dying, that is not how dieting works.

You have an extremely serious mental disorder and quite obviously and evidently have no idea how to look after yourself.

Seek medicial attention immediately and accept that you have to make serious changes to your thinking and lifestyle in order to try to recover and minimise the damage you have presumably already caused to yourself.

[Asker]

I think I’d have to be skinny to worry about death. My body can just eat the fat I have, I don't know why it’s not doing it anymore

[Opinion Owner]

Ok.

But that is not what evidence says and its not what experts say, the reason you think that is because you have as I have already pointed out to you (it's obvious) that you have an extremely serious mental disorder.

You seem to be under the impression that you can just stop eating and all that will happen is that any extra weight you have that you don't want will just get used up and then you can carry on like nothing happened.

That is not how it works.

Being seriously malnourished, which is what you are / are doing to yourself is extremely damaging and has long term consequences.

You need help from medical professionals.

[Asker]

Oh thank you so much ☺️

[Anonymous]

Because you're so thin, you're probably almost dying

[Asker]

57kg at 5’2 isn’t thin. Im on the upper end of nearly becoming overweight

[Opinion Owner]

Eating 300-400 calories a day?

[Asker]

Eating disorder

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah I figured that
I have a friend, she had anorexia... ended up in hospital when her kidneys failed and was a day away from dying at the worst point

[Asker]

But why am I not losing weight anymore? It’s so frustrating