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Superstar ..I also have PCOS and insulin resistance. I have been here. I have done the metformin thing (still do) and all. It took me years to get the balance right so that my body would lose weight. Finally, what worked for me was to go low GI and make up the majority of my diet with slow burning food. That made SO much difference to my weight loss.
I get what is being said about the numbers game and the fact is that it is indeed true that my weight loss came when I started counting every damn calorie I eat. I have done that for just about every meal that I have cooked for two years now. So, yes, it is true that even for me it is about the number of calories I eat but it is also about what makes up those calories. If I eat things with fast burning sugars I can stay within my calorie allowance and my weight will start to push up. If I eat the exact same calories of slow burning (low gi) foods it goes down.
What isn't taken into consideration with the 'it is just math' line is that the math may be true but that it still doesn't mean it will happen like clockwork. I have had weeks when I have been well bellow my required calorie deficit and not dropped a single pound. Then, another week I may have eaten a bit more than I should have (but not hugely) and that will be the week I drop weight.
Right now, I am on a plateau that is driving me nuts because I am so close to 100lbs lost. It isn't being helped by me recently being put on a medication that has weight gain as a side effect. I am working out 6 days a week just to keep from gaining. I am very within my calorie deficit too but it just isn't budging. I feel that is eventually will and in the mean time I know I am eating a very healthy diet.
I think what stops so many people from finding the power within themselves to climb this mountain is the pressure they feel to drop all their weight nearly instantly. It simply isn't how it happens if you want to keep it off and be healthy with your loss.
As I have said, it has taken me over two years to get to nearly 90lbs lost. It will take me for sure over another year to get to my ultimate goal. People such as myself who have issues where it takes them physically longer to drop weight then a lot of other people most likely have tried 'diets' over and over again and lost a bit and then met a wall. They become discouraged by the wall and then give up.
I totally know that I have been guilty of that all my life. I would drop 20 or so pounds and then nothing for a weeks and then give up. This time, I didn't and instead of being on a 'diet' I just totally changed the way I eat and live and decided that is what I would do no matter if I lost weight or not. It is only by sticking with it and not judging my rate of weight loss by anybody else's that I am seeing my weight go and stay off.
I have a typical apple shape where most of my weight is in my belly. I get now that part of the reason I used to give up was that my belly just doesn't budge. It wasn't until I lost over 50lbs that my belly started to drop any real inches. Okay, my body around me was but this big thing wasn't moving. It still is bigger than you would think it should be for my current weight. It simply will be the last thing to go on my body. Yet, I was judging all of my previous weight loss attempts on it.
People that think they are a failure because their weight isn't coming off as fast as somebody on The Biggest Loser or somebody on one of the milkshake diets need to be shown that this is a long term thing. The quick fix culture makes so many people feel they are never going to drop weight. They usually will but they need to be shown that they have to do it on the pace *their* body will go.
If it wouldn't take a stupid number of years for me to train, I would think about going into counseling to help other people that I have been as big as me find that inner strength to not give up on their own bodies.
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