Do I need to eat carbs, losing very slowly...

[brown eyed gal 59]

Ok friends, I'm at week 11 and have only lost 23 pounds. It's extremely difficult to get into the nutritionist at our program. I was supposed to have a 3 month check up with her but it will be February before I can get in to see her. I eat anywhere from 600-900 calories a day. I always get my Protein, (mostly from drinks) and I get my Water. I'm doing 30 minutes of cardio at least 2 days a week and I do a 30 minute routine of free weights 2/3 times a week.

Any guesses as to what I'm doing wrong. I do not eat carbs hardly at all. I don't have any issues swallowing and no food has seemed to bother me so far, I've tried everything but steak and fried stuff. Over Christmas I did eat a few pieces of fudge and a few Cookies (no dumping) but after Christmas I haven't eaten any sweets.

[wcdaniels 48]

Have you had your appointment yet? Just curious what the nutritionist said. I know you posted a few days ago that your doctor is satisfied with your weight loss, but I understand your frustration.

I generally get about 900 calories a day, and my nutritionist said that usually she would recommend that I get up to about 1200, but since I was still losing, not to worry about it. But if I stop, try and add some calories.

It sounds like you're doing pretty well, although the Christmas cheating wasn't great of course. If you're not already, log everything you eat with something like MyFitnessPal, to make sure your Protein and calories are truly accurate. If we're just estimating, we often get things wrong.

If possible, you may want to try and increase your exercise more frequently. It can even be something simple as doing your weight training 6 days a week, with 3 days of upper body, and 3 days of lower. This will make sure you are getting the fat burning benefits pretty much constantly.

Good luck!