Losing weight too quickly.

I went from around 18 stone down to 10 stone within a couple of months, and then I plateaued at that. I weighed 64.5 kg almost solidly for about 3 years since on a lowish carb regime (non-keto) which is my sweet spot for BMI too.

Then I went into hospital last month and had to eat Eatwell. My weight plummeted down to 58kg in a week or so, but since coming home it is creeping back up, even though I am doing strict LC to get my sugars down again. So t seems LC will find its own plateau which should be ok.

One thing I discovered is that my scales lie to me. Especially, the first step on reading, which I now ignore. I take 3 readings and find on my scales that while readings 2 and 3 come to the same value, reading 1 is almost always about 1 kg higher. It is a quirk of my scales but explains why I disagreed with the practice nurses when they weighed me. Now we agree.

I’m your height and was your weight

I’ve lost it all and am now 9st 9lbs

I lost it within 15/16 weeks just by moderate low carbs and dapagliflozin but it looks like it was mainly the low carbing


I aimed for 100g daily but it ended up being lower as in 50-75g and I did count calories as I was eating 1400 to 1600 a day 1100 is the lowest and isn’t sustainable in the long run I’d be aiming for 1200/1300 to be honest with some intermittent fasting thrown in.

good luck

plus good to hear that we flatten out on weight loss as I was concerned about being too thin.

SuNuman said:

Hi. I’m eating very carefully now. Been on metformin (still feel sick) for 2 weeks. So I was 12 8 (5 3). This morning I’m 12 2. I kno this is because I’m only having about 1100 Cals if that; as because I feel sick not really bothered about food (first time ever!). Is this worrying to lose weight this quickly? My fasting blood was 6.2 this morning. Did have a 9.8 2 hrs after last night but went down to 8.5 15 mins after the 2 hrs. Thank you. X

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I also haven't been well recently. My Dr asked me has know one ever told you not to take your metformin when your not feeling well . For 16 years know one told me that. I took her advice and low and behold I felt better. Took 16 years to get good advice on a whim if her mentioning it.