Help I've lost too much weight-scared

mcnomore · Post by **mcnomore** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:58 pm

Ever since I went gluten and dairy free I have been losing weight, down to 101 lbs and I'm 5.5. It seems as though a lot of it is muscle. I eat a lot meat as well as quinoa. Anyone else have this problem? My diet has been pretty restricted due to my Enterolab results, no rice, potatoes or corn. I do eat millet bread. Also, nuts are out as well.

Post by **tex** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 2:12 pm

Weight loss is typically caused by either a diet that does not provide sufficient calories, or a compromised ability to properly absorb nutrients from food. As a first step, try running your daily diet through one of the nutrition analyzers available on the Internet to see exactly what you are taking in. If you are not taking in enough calories to at least maintain weight, then you are bound to lose weight. To gain weight, we have to take in more calories than are necessary to merely maintain weight.

Sometimes a nutritional deficiency can cause weight loss. Before I corrected my severe magnesium deficiency, I was losing an average of about 2 pounds every week, regardless of what I ate. As soon as I increased my magnesium supplementation rate, the weight came back.

If you have no nutrient deficiencies that can cause weight loss, and there are no additional food choice options available, then the obvious solution would be to eat more of the foods that you can safely eat. One can gain weight and be perfectly healthy by eating only meat, if necessary. Just be sure that the meat contains plenty of fat in order to prevent the condition known as rabbit starvation.

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Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 2:28 pm

In line with Tex's reply above, the other thing that can contribute to weight loss is stress
http://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety/weight-loss

mental and emotional relaxation is important for health..

mcnomore · Post by **mcnomore** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 2:53 pm

Thank you so much for your quick and very helpful response Tex and Gabes. How much meat would be too much? I have been eating lean lamb leg. Definitely not enough fat I think.

mcnomore · Post by **mcnomore** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 2:58 pm

Forgot to ask ratio of fat to meat.

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 3:07 pm

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lisaw · Post by **lisaw** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:16 pm

Hi, I'd try to add more carbs. What about sweet potatoes (think Enterolab results refer to white potatoes), butternut squash, and plantains? If you cook plantains when they are a bit more green, they taste potato-like. When they are yellow, they are sweeter. Cook everything with plenty of fat.

Lisa

Post by **tex** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:20 pm

mcnomore wrote:Forgot to ask ratio of fat to meat.

I'm not sure there is an ideal ratio. The point is to eat fatty meat such as lamb, pork, or beef (whatever type is safe for you) without trimming the fat, rather than to eat lean cuts of meat such as venison steak or other cuts of meat, or other wild game meat that tends to be lean. The meat doesn't have to be abnormally fat, it just needs to have normal amounts of untrimmed fat.

Cooking with bacon grease (if you can tolerate pork) or refined coconut oil, will provide extra healthy calories. Avocados contain a lot of fat, if you can tolerate them. and the suggestions offered by Lisa are also good.

Tex

Marcia K · Post by **Marcia K** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:35 pm

Hello. I'm 5'3" and I had to work hard at keeping the weight on, too. I eat a sweet potato and a banana every day. I eat at least 4 ounces of meat at lunch and dinner. I add coconut oil to my morning hemp protein drink made with almond milk. I would try roasting parsnips, carrots, etc. with coconut oil.

mcnomore · Post by **mcnomore** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:11 pm

Thanks everyone.