Baldur2630
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I hope that somewhere out there, someone can throw some light on this problem.
My wife is 55 years old. We workout with free weights at our local gym, 4 days per week. We both push ourselves to the limit we started at the gym last year October. We use a computer program called Fitness Assistant to track our calories burned. We weigh all our food to the nearest gram.
When I started, I weighed 137 kgs. We both ran a diet of chicken breast, fish, steak and liver. We dropped sugar and tried to keep saturated fat way down. I'm 1.95m tall and my wife is 1.63m. She weighed almost 90 kg. by 1 March this year, I had got my weight down to 100 kgs, and changed my diet to increase lean body mass (from a clorie deficit of 1500 per day to a calorie surplus of around 200 per day.
Because of the size and weight difference, my Missus couldn't drop so many calories, but she was eating a deficit of around 500 calories per day. By February, her weight was down to 75 kgs and she only has 10 kgs to go.
Now here comes the strange part. Since February, she has only managed to lose just over ONE kg. no matter how many calories she burns in the gym and no matter what she eats, her weight doesn't move.
Over here we have VERY unhelpful doctors. She asked for blood tests, but the doctor refuses to check testosterone, (that's only for men, he says). Likewise he won't get my estradiol level checked (that's only for women)
My testosterone is 412, but the doctors say "it's perfectly OK for someone your age". I told him that I haven't had an erection in almost 2 years and the comment was "why would you want an erection at your age?"
My wife's bloodwork, he says is perfectly normal, in spite of the fact she just cannot lose any more weight or belly fat.
Her thyroid function is in the range, she thinks that it might be to do with testosterone from what she has read, because she finished menopause a year ago.
Now, she is getting more tired, she took a break, but her maximum weights keep dropping she was squatting 135 kgs, but since Fubruary she is struggling with 110 kgs and all her other weights are dropping. We've tried more food, more cardio, less reps, more reps, but nothing is working and she is getting very disheartened.
It won't help telling her to see a doctor, this country is super conservative and they are all the same. So far I've tried four different ones, but they just aren't interested.
Anyone got any helpful ideas (not doctor dependent)? Getting steroids here is VERY difficult. Our Customs are paranoid and getting ANYTHING even remotely medical or even herbal from outside the EU is impossible.
My wife is 55 years old. We workout with free weights at our local gym, 4 days per week. We both push ourselves to the limit we started at the gym last year October. We use a computer program called Fitness Assistant to track our calories burned. We weigh all our food to the nearest gram.
When I started, I weighed 137 kgs. We both ran a diet of chicken breast, fish, steak and liver. We dropped sugar and tried to keep saturated fat way down. I'm 1.95m tall and my wife is 1.63m. She weighed almost 90 kg. by 1 March this year, I had got my weight down to 100 kgs, and changed my diet to increase lean body mass (from a clorie deficit of 1500 per day to a calorie surplus of around 200 per day.
Because of the size and weight difference, my Missus couldn't drop so many calories, but she was eating a deficit of around 500 calories per day. By February, her weight was down to 75 kgs and she only has 10 kgs to go.
Now here comes the strange part. Since February, she has only managed to lose just over ONE kg. no matter how many calories she burns in the gym and no matter what she eats, her weight doesn't move.
Over here we have VERY unhelpful doctors. She asked for blood tests, but the doctor refuses to check testosterone, (that's only for men, he says). Likewise he won't get my estradiol level checked (that's only for women)
My testosterone is 412, but the doctors say "it's perfectly OK for someone your age". I told him that I haven't had an erection in almost 2 years and the comment was "why would you want an erection at your age?"
My wife's bloodwork, he says is perfectly normal, in spite of the fact she just cannot lose any more weight or belly fat.
Her thyroid function is in the range, she thinks that it might be to do with testosterone from what she has read, because she finished menopause a year ago.
Now, she is getting more tired, she took a break, but her maximum weights keep dropping she was squatting 135 kgs, but since Fubruary she is struggling with 110 kgs and all her other weights are dropping. We've tried more food, more cardio, less reps, more reps, but nothing is working and she is getting very disheartened.
It won't help telling her to see a doctor, this country is super conservative and they are all the same. So far I've tried four different ones, but they just aren't interested.
Anyone got any helpful ideas (not doctor dependent)? Getting steroids here is VERY difficult. Our Customs are paranoid and getting ANYTHING even remotely medical or even herbal from outside the EU is impossible.
