Why do I lose weight so fast?

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zaynesmommy2015
zaynesmommy2015 Posts: 20 Member
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Yes I'm trying to lose weight, the problem is I lose weight so fast. I am about 155 lbs at the moment, I'm trying to get to 130. Well I started eating about 1200 calories a day and exercising daily and now I'm losing about 1-2 lbs a day. I know that's not healthy and I don't want to lose it that fast. A couple months back I did the same thing, was at 155 lbs and lost 20 lbs in about a month. The reason why I don't want to lose weight fast is because I gain it back so fast and I don't want that to happen again. Why does that happen? What do I do?
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  • LessCookiess
    LessCookiess Posts: 538 Member
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    If I were you I would slow down you're not eating back the calories you burned off. You're most likely losing muscle, and will be more prone to having a less tight figure when you're done. Loose skin may be something you deal with at the end but possibly not just thinking with the fast rate it may be possible.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
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    Eat more?
    1200 calorie is the minimum calorie goal for women for weight loss. It's not a suitable goal for all women.
    I have never had to resort to eating that little for weight loss. Why? Because I'm an active person and eating that low would make it hard for me to stay active. It would also essentially be crash dieting for me.
  • zaynesmommy2015
    zaynesmommy2015 Posts: 20 Member
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    But even if I do eat more wouldn't I still gain the weight I lose back really fast?
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
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    no - you'll just slow down the rate of loss

    you look to be close to a healthy weight (obviously based on the photo) and with a goal of 25lbs to lose - you should probably adjust your MFP to .5-1lb weight loss a week and take in more food
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
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    zaynesmommy2015 wrote: »
    But even if I do eat more wouldn't I still gain the weight I lose back really fast?

    Only if you eat more than you burn in will you gain.

    What you seem to be describing is you cras diet to lose and then eat at a surplus once at goal (probably without realising because of the crash diet).

    Try this calculator to get a rough idea of what you need calorie wise

    https://www.iifym.com/iifym-calculator/
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,182 Member
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    zaynesmommy2015 wrote: »
    But even if I do eat more wouldn't I still gain the weight I lose back really fast?

    I've spent a year being just as skeptical of eating back exercise calories. I finally decided to try it. It works. At least, it works for me most of the time if I carefully log my exercise accurately, carefully and accurately log my food, make sure I eat no more than 50% of my exercise calories earned, try hard to get my protein numbers to my higher target, and drink lots and lots of water.
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,665 Member
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    Put your information into MFP and let it set you up with the right amount of calories, then log your exercise. I typically eat 75% of my exercise calories and am losing almost exactly at the rate I've selected (1.5 lbs/wk).
  • ruqayyahsmum
    ruqayyahsmum Posts: 1,514 Member
    edited March 2017
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    The reason many regain is once theyve lost the weight they go back to eating how they were when they gained the weight in the first place

    You need to look at this as a long term lifestyle change

    Make changes you can live with

    Set mfp to 0.5lb loss a week and eat back at least half to 75% of your exercise calories.

    When you get to goal you change your settings to maintenance and eat at that level
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
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    Since this happened a few months back, it should have told you that 1200 calories is way too little for you to be eating to lose weight along with exercise too.

    Slow your rate of loss down. Reset MFP to lose .5 pound per week and eat back some of your exercise calories. Once you get down to the last 5-10 pounds start planning for maintenance. The lose gain, lose gain is just a yo yoing effect and you can avoid this by planning for your move into maintenance.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
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    zaynesmommy2015 wrote: »
    Yes I'm trying to lose weight, the problem is I lose weight so fast. I am about 155 lbs at the moment, I'm trying to get to 130. Well I started eating about 1200 calories a day and exercising daily and now I'm losing about 1-2 lbs a day. I know that's not healthy and I don't want to lose it that fast. A couple months back I did the same thing, was at 155 lbs and lost 20 lbs in about a month. The reason why I don't want to lose weight fast is because I gain it back so fast and I don't want that to happen again. Why does that happen? What do I do?

    Before you take the advice to eat more; how long have you been doing this? If it is 2 weeks or under them leave your calories where they are. You're losing water weight, especially if you have reduced carbs and sodium as well as calories.

    If it has been a month and you're still losing fast (and using food scale as well as logging accurately), increase your calories.
  • mikkey
    mikkey Posts: 24 Member
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    Losing weight slow or fast doesn't affect your long term success. You seem to be yo-yo dieting. This is a lifestyle change, not just a diet. If you lose the weight and go right back to what you were doing before, the pounds will pack on again.
  • LAT1963
    LAT1963 Posts: 1,375 Member
    edited March 2017
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    It's normal to lose up to 20 lbs in the first month or two, and as others have said, its mostly water-weight. This is why there are so many diet scams "lose up to 14 lbs in the first month"--they know that's not too difficult for most people.

    If you are meeting your calorie targets, be happy about what you lost in the first month but don't take it as an indication of how fast you will continue to lose. If the rate doesn't slow down thereafter, then consider increasing your calorie target.

    I was off mfp for a year and gained about 40 lbs because of foot injuries that made it a challenge even to walk around the house. But here's a graph of my first 40-odd days back on MFP. Notice how steep the loss curve is at first and how (for the last 4 or 5 entries on this graph but now for a couple weeks beyond the segment shown) the slope is now settling down at a modest rate of about 0.3 lbs/day. The horizontal lines are 10 lb increments.

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