Finally back in the groove

cryonic_273

Five years ago lost 24kg. Regained it all over 3 years.
the last couple of years had hit or miss false starts trying to stick to diet plans.
This year my partner is on board as well and ive lost 12kg since the second week in Jan and shes lost 7kg.

Ive got a target of 26kg (106>80) and shes got a target of 15(72>57).

snowflake954

cryonic_273 wrote: »

Five years ago lost 24kg. Regained it all over 3 years.
the last couple of years had hit or miss false starts trying to stick to diet plans.
This year my partner is on board as well and ive lost 12kg since the second week in Jan and shes lost 7kg.

Ive got a target of 26kg (106>80) and shes got a target of 15(72>57).

Congratulations on your weight loss, but if I'm figuring right, you're losing 3 kg (6.5 lbs) a week? You've been in a deficit for a month? Way too fast. As you yourself noted, you gained it all back before. Sustained weight loss teaches you how to eat for the rest of your life, so you can go into maintenance with all the tools you'll need. You should be building good habits while you lose. Keeping the weight off is the big challange. Hoping you are able to do it this time. I'd change strategy a bit.

cryonic_273

Lost 6kg in the first 2 weeks and its been about 1.5 kg a week since. Which is a mix of calorie restriction, 16:8 intermittent fasting and a hell of a lot of walking.
Its not been that hard from an eating perspective, ive pretty much just cut out snacking and drinking and im eating filling meals. Intermiitent fasting just killed the snacking habit id picked up from working from home since lockdown.

snowflake954

How many calories are you eating a day?

desertbloom415

I've just gotten back into the groove too and have about the same amount of weight to lose as your partner. I had a stroke 4 years ago at age 51, was in bed for a year, gained about 60 lbs and am getting serious about losing it once again. I'm usually really independent and never ask for help thinking I can do it myself or I'll ask for help when I really need it. I never did (mainly because my brother was diagnosed with a serious disease at 18 and I felt I'd burdon my family if I asked for help or I thought I'd be told I shouldn't complain because he had it so bad). I realize now that outlook probably led to my stroke so I started changing that behavior right after my stroke. It was probably the best thing that could happen to me because it was the wakeup call I needed. I'm grateful to still be alive and kicking but I feel guilty I haven't treated my body as well as I should since. I want to take better care of it with the extra time here on earth I was lucky to get.

I never engaged enough in MFP's support system so I'm happy I saw your post today! I'm also really happy snowflake954 (great name lol!) commented because that did seem like too much weight lost in too little time but then again there is usually an unusually high amount lost in the first couple weeks. Hopefully we can help each other with support and humor as life gets so hard sometimes I always think I'm better off laughing if I can rather than falling into a depression.

Where are you all located? I'm in the bay area and we got snow this weekend in the Santa Cruz mountains and in the Tilden Park in Berkeley - crazy! Hope you're all well with this cold weather we've been getting nationwide.

cryonic_273

How many calories are you eating a day?
I aim at 1200 a day. I eat back between half and my full exercise calories as recorded by my Fit pro 2, depending on how i feel. Normally its half. If i feel im having a particularly hard day ill let myself eat them all. It motivates me to keep up the exercise as well as do the Calorie restrictions.
My worst case is to let my base target slip to 1500 and eat all excercise. Ive only done that once.

I record my weight every day and log it in good or bad. There are plateaus, there are gains. However the overall trend is steady - which helps when it sticks for a few days.

snowflake954

cryonic_273 wrote: »

How many calories are you eating a day?
I aim at 1200 a day. I eat back between half and my full exercise calories as recorded by my Fit pro 2, depending on how i feel. Normally its half. If i feel im having a particularly hard day ill let myself eat them all. It motivates me to keep up the exercise as well as do the Calorie restrictions.
My worst case is to let my base target slip to 1500 and eat all excercise. Ive only done that once.

I record my weight every day and log it in good or bad. There are plateaus, there are gains. However the overall trend is steady - which helps when it sticks for a few days.

For a male the MINIMUM calorie allotment on MFP is 1500 a day. As noted above you are losing fast. I hope you won't have problems doing this, but it is a risk. Rethink.