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Taking a pause from low calories, once in a while.

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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    edited October 2015
    looney9708 wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    @Artemiris I don't do it on a set schedule. When I am losing weight, I am usually not hungry beyond "oh, it's dinner time" kind of hunger. When I get to the point where I am just hungry all of the time, I take a week off. Well, actually 8 days because I usually do Sunday through Sunday. I am usually ready and raring to get back to cutting my calories by Friday at the latest, but I make myself wait because the extra calories for a few more days helps me out with exercise (lifting) so much.

    Do you gain a lot of weight or just a few pounds water weight if you do this?

    I don't usually gain anything from it. I don't eat really low carb so I don't get a carb bloat from it. I also don't eat in a really big deficit. When I was losing most of my weight, I ate between 1750 and 1850 calories and then my maintenance was 2200. I would just flip up to the 2200 number for a week and back down without any water weight issues.

    ETA: I'm not saying I've never had carb/sodium bloat. I've had that a few times but it was when I went off the rails for one day and ate a ton of foods like Cheez-its, a quarter pounder, pastry, etc. within a few hours. Those weren't diet break weeks though.
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