Yesterday was not a good day

jimwaters1016
jimwaters1016 Posts: 9 Member
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The day before, I was about 900 calories. I did two stationary bike rides and lifted weights, so I was not under eating. Yesterday, I did not exercise. I wanted something sweet and I was hungry. Ate two large bowls of Cap'n Crunch. I didn't get enough water in for the day. Up two pounds. Oh well. Not going to beat myself up over it. I am off today so I will get in an extra bike ride and do better. But hey, I am 54 days with no alcohol. So I am winning either way.
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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,262 Member
    What Snowflake said!
    jimwaters1016 wrote: »
    The day before, I was about 900 calories. I did two stationary bike rides and lifted weights, so I was not under eating. Yesterday, I did not exercise. I wanted something sweet and I was hungry. Ate two large bowls of Cap'n Crunch. I didn't get enough water in for the day. Up two pounds. Oh well. Not going to beat myself up over it. I am off today so I will get in an extra bike ride and do better. But hey, I am 54 days with no alcohol. So I am winning either way.

    On a day where someone who is not micro-tiny eats 1300-some calories, and does nearly an hour and a half of stationary biking plus weight training . . . they are undereating. If an average male, and with a material amount of weight to lose, seriously undereating. It's pretty close to the classic definition of undereating.

    You netted eating 1374-600=774 calories on that heavier exercise day. That's not enough calories to sustain a toddler, let alone a grown man. We're supposed to eat more than usual when we're more active than usual, though it is OK to eat some of those calories on another day.

    It's very likely that when you ate 2,086 calories (on the Cap'n Crunch day) with no exercise, and a calorie goal of 1700 (so 386 over goal), you were still in a calorie deficit for the day, unless you're quite small, old, very sedentary in your daily life, etc.

    It would also be very normal - guaranteed, pretty much - that when you eat as few as 1300-1400-ish calories every day for a while as (I suspect) a normal-sized, normally-active male, it will catch up with you, and you'll be extra hungry. Things like random Cap'n Crunch will happen. (Nothing wrong with a little Cap'n Crunch now and then, if you like it, but sure - a whole meal of lots of it probably isn't the nutritionally most optimal choice.)

    The 2 pounds that showed up on the scale? Not fat gain. Highly, highly improbable to the point of impossibility of it being fat gain, if your logging is even remotely accurate.

    So what is it? You ate more than twice your typical number of carb grams that day, and you say that you didn't drink as much water. Both of those things will result in a water retention increase. (They're called carboHYDRATES for a reason - we need to retain a little extra water while we digest/metabolize them. It's no big deal. It's not fat. It will likely drop off in a day or few, without doing anything special.)

    It's absolutely wonderful that you've been able to skip alcohol for 54 days, if that's been a problem area for you in the past. Kudos for that! Don't make undereating - a devotion to fast weight loss at any cost - a new kind of dysfunction in your life.

    Please eat more, routinely. You're IMO low on protein, if you're an average-ish sized guy. You don't seem to eat much in the way of vegetables or fruit. Those things are good for people, and tend to be filling for many. Maybe start there.

    Yes, absolutely don't beat yourself up, too.

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