Thread: Weight Loss and Birth Control

Ugh! I hate BC. I was on the pill for 7 years and was 20 pounds over weight the entire time. I'm very active and eat healthy too.
Continue working out, it's good for you regardless of whether or not you need to lose weight. Counting calories is good too, so continue to do that as well.

I finally went off the pill because I was sick of feeling like crud, and I immediately lost 10 pounds. Can you switch to a non-hormonal form of BC? Copper IUD, or just use condoms? I don't think switching the dosage will help.

The thing is I NEED to lose weight, even my doctor said so though all the advice she gave me was count calories. Like I said, I quit doing that after two weeks and can kind of count them in my head now that I stopped. I don't eat much at all and none of it is horribly bad either. I just HATE the way I look. It's making me get a little self concious about it and i've never felt that way until now.

I still live at home and I'm only 20. My mom has always told me that IUDs are for women who have had children already and well, I haven't and don't plan to. I like the freedom Birth Control gives me I just want the weight gone. It's ugly to look at and has me overly frustrated.

Anyone can get an IUD, it's just easier to insert if you've had children. If you have a good doctor, then it should be fine.

Weight loss isn't easy, or quick. If you keep on the track that you are. Eat healthy, eat enough and keep working out, eventually you'll lose the weight. You just have to be dedicated and patient.

An IUD isn't something I'm really interested in. My doctor basically sucks since she hasn't been able to get hardly any cells from my cervix both times I went in for a pap. While she's nice and all, I just don't think she knows what she's doing hence why I don't trust doctors.

I know weight loss isn't easy and obviously it's not going to be happening for me. I worked out every other night for 2-2 1/2 months and didn't see one pound drop. I have tried a ton of other things, one going as far as hardly eating at all (which really messed me up). When you live at home, what you eat is fairly limited to what your parents buy and without a job, I can't buy my own stuff. This has put me in a depressed mood a few times, I'm amazed I haven't had a serious break down yet. I hate the way I look, I hate the way I feel and nothing is helping.

First, don't go by the number on a scale. If you worked out for two months, chances are that you were burning fat and building muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat, plus it burns calories while you are at rest. So that is good. A better judgment would be to measure yourself every 3 weeks. Don't worry about the scale at all. You may also want to get your body fat tested once a month. I'm willing to bet if you did those two things you'd see some progress.

Talk to your mom and see if you can A: get a new doctor, one that is experienced at inserting IUDs, and B: visit a nutritionist to line you out on a healthy eating plan. Maybe if she helps you pay to see a nutritionist she'll be more motivated to buy and cook healthy foods.

My fiance and I tried out the Conture belt that goes around your wasit and is supposed to stimulate your abdominal muscles. We measured our waists at the end of each week and I had lost about 3 inches at the most, needless to say that is all back into place. My scale sucks which is why I don't really use it. I am going by what my doctor's office weighed me at this past January which was 190, which was the same as February of 2009.

Our financial stability here is not good. We're far in debt so no one would be able to afford anything and we can only go to a certain doctor on the Insurance my dad has through his work so I'm basically stuck at where I am so that's a no go. Also, I'm not home ALL the time to eat dinner here with my parents. My fiance and I both live at home so we switch with whose house we eat at for dinner. Some days we eat at his house, some days at time. Also, my mom works at night so she's not able to make a healthy dinner or anything like that, same with my fiance's mom. The whole eating healthy dinners and stuff is pretty much not happening right now. We also can't afford a gym membership.

I can't afford to do anything. The only work out plan I have is work out at night using work out videos and it's not helping. Like I said in my first post...I am completely and utterly stuck.

You're not stuck at all. So you need to drop that mentality right now.
Offer to help cook dinner and grocery shop. Research healthy meals and start incorporating them into your routine. Keep up on the videos, that's all good.
And 3" is A LOT. So you are making a lot of progress with the exercise.

It's not as easy as you might think it is.
The 3 inches is WAY gone and that was at the end of last year that it even happened. I can't really help make dinner when honestly, we have nothing to cook hardly ever. All we ever have available is chicken and ground beef. Whenever we do eat here all we ever have is Burgers, Spaghetti, Chicken and well, that's about it. Even when my fiance and I don't eat here they don't make much anyway. We have more of a variety at his house then here. They can afford to spend $600 on groceries when my parents can only spend the occasional $20. I assure you, it's not as easy as it may seem.