Tracking sugar over calories

kutekristieb

Happy June everyone! I started paying attention this weekend to my sugar for an experiment. I still ate whole wheat carbs & went over my calories but I lost 3lbs! Has/ is anyone else doing this?

cmriverside

Good job on the three pounds loss.

Weight loss is all about calories. How you lower calories is pretty much individual preference. When I was in weight loss mode I was eating 1500 calories as a baseline, and if I kept carbs between 100-150g per day that seemed to be the best place for me.

Good luck.

janejellyroll

You "went over" what calories? Your goal to lose? Your goal to maintain?

It's possible to consume more calories than MFP gives you for a weight loss goal and still lose weight if you're eating below the level you need to maintain.

Also, many people find they have a water weight loss when they decrease carbohydrates in their diet. Even if we're still eating whole wheat, reducing added sugar in the diet can result in fewer carbohydrates overall if we were previously eating a lot of sugar. So those three pounds might be the initial drop one would expect to see with a lower carbohydrate diet.

In either case, a weekend isn't long enough to draw any conclusions about weight loss or gain.

kutekristieb

Well I'm still excited about it.

yirara

Don't draw any conclusions from that, like others have said. You just could have had a very big bowel movement, the famous woosh (suddenly peeing out lots of water), sweating a lot and not refilling it, end of menstruation, bit more movement, or lots of other reason for a bit less water weight (which isn't fat). Or maybe your scale was at a slightly different location, or you stepped on the scale at a different time, after bathroom, with different clothes, etc. For weight loss only calories are king.

missysippy930

yirara wrote: »

For weight loss only calories are king.

And long term trends. Two days is nothing and that time could as quickly show a gain.

But, congrats! It can be a big motivator.

AnnPT77

kutekristieb wrote: »

Well I'm still excited about it.

Understandable: You should be! That's great, sincerely.

If you're interpreting some of the comments as throwing cold water, I wouldn't assume that's the intention. I think the point is warning that that loss rate may not continue, that there could even be some backtracking on the scale, and that if that happens it's not a reason to be discouraged. It's kind of common around here to see someone get excited about a quick, big loss that turns out to be mostly water weight, then get discouraged and give up when water weight increases again for some random reason.

https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

Most people here would really like you to succeed: I know I would!