Thread: My fiancee is struggling horribly to lose weight - desperately need help

my fiancee started dieting hardcore last 4 weeks. She's been doing a good job - working out 3-4 times a week and eating a very healthy 1000 calories a day


now on Monday, she got down to 204 (she was 208 3 weeks ago) but then all of a sudden, she ballooned up to 209 yesterday. She's like in tears and asking me to help her out. She's completely baffled. I feel like I'm totally failing her. She's 5'10 200+... based on online metabolism calculators, she should be losing tons of weight based on these numbers - the calculators say she should be burning 2000-2500 cals a day


how is this possible? she tells me she's been drinking like crazy amount of water and peeing 20 times a day. Could this just be water gain where she was dehydrated before?? Is there any plausible explanation for why a 22 year old girl would struggle so badly to lose weight? I did all her health tests and they said she is perfectly healthy. Why would calories in vs calories out not work when she is eating healthy and lifting heavy??


now she does have a good amount of muscle. What's weird is I know cals in vs cals out works great for me. When I follow it, I easily lose 2-3 lbs a week

Originally Posted by Dennis71

Water weight can fluctuate, but I'd be more inclined to thinking she's eating more than the 1k calories.

[Btw 1k calories a day is barely anything.]








Especially as a 200lbs woman.

why isn't the weight flying off of her? I've seen her eat, she eats way less than me.


She works out intense with relatively heavy weights. Do you think this weird weight gain this week is due to her drinking tons of water??