weight loss after eating chocolate

Hilauren

I've lost a stone last year and have maintained my weight for the past 6 months. I need to lose another stone (hopefully in 3 months) to be at my ideal weight. Ive spent 2 weeks eating clean, doing 50 mins cardio a day, ate 1200 cals a day and didnt lose anything! Not even a pound. I was so fed up that i didnt work out for a week, ate dairy which i cut out, and ate alot of bread. I still weighd myself everyday and i didnt gain or didnt lose. I was disheartened so spent the weekend eating a lot, i had half a easter egg and 2 chocolates! I weighed myself the next day and Id lost 2 pounds. Can anyone explain this?! I have no idea what my body is doing!

kgeyser

As someone said in your post yesterday, your body retains water when you begin a new exercise program, so the two pound loss you saw could be water weight. Why are you eating 1200 calories per day - is it because that is you calculated your TDEE and subtracted a percentage to lose 1/2 lb per week, which should be your goal with so little to lose; or because you set an unrealistic goal in MFP and it gave you 1200 by default? 1200 is not enough to sustain anyone, even tiny women, who are doing 50 min of cardio every day.

I'm going to post this again for you, because I am concerned with the approach you seem to be taking that you are going to burn out: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

GingerLolita

Because you don't need to cut out entire food groups to lose weight, you just need a calorie deficit... I eat mostly "clean" (by my definition), nutritious foods, but I'm eating bread right now and I have chocolate daily.

jstout365

You are putting your body through a lot of stress to lose a little weight and yes, 1 stone isn't a whole bunch of weight to lose. You will probably find better success easing up on calories by eating a bit more or reducing the amount of exercise you are doing.

Finding out what your TDEE and BMR is and using that as a guide will probably help you test out what calorie level will be best for your activity level.

Here is an interesting article that helps to explain why you may not be seeing weight loss with a large deficit and long workouts:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/why-big-caloric-deficits-and-lots-of-activity-can-hurt-fat-loss.html

Often one of the best things we can do for our weight loss is to not worry about it so much. Do what we need to do, and are willing to keep up after we hit goal, and eventually we will get to where we want to be.

dwarfiegodsmack

Because you don't need to cut out entire food groups to lose weight, you just need a calorie deficit... I eat mostly "clean" (by my definition), nutritious foods, but I'm eating bread right now and I have chocolate daily.

chocolate daily here too