Lost too fast

yirara

The last few days I got a bit scared. Just came out of 'that time per month' a few days ago and knew I'd lose some waterweight. But the loss is quite a bit more than I expected. Basically, I lost 2.5kg in 24 days, which for my weight and size is far too much I guess. This is after plateauing for a whole month.

background: female, 40 years, 169cm, currently 66.2kg (very close to my goal).

What would be the way to go now? It's certain I've been eating a little too little, though there is something wrong with the numbers here: I'm usually rather close to the deficit MFP gives me for half a pound loss per month. Maybe my BMR/TDEE/whatever is wrong to start with in MFP? The numbers in my spreadsheet seem to be in line with the weight loss from diet and sport, however, that would bring me to a daily deficit of 636 without eating exercise calories back. It does sound a bit too aggressive for my weight, doesn't it? Plus I have not updated my TDEE in there. It's still set to a weight of 72kg and should now be 96 points lower. Maybe I'm burning much more calories doing sport after all?

Eating exercise calories back: that's a tricky one! I usually only know I'll be doing sport the moment I'm home from work. Right after sport I'm having dinner and am literally full then. I can eat a few dates, or a grapefruit but certainly not enough to eat exercise cals back - and my stomach cannot deal with very fatty food at the moment.

What would be the way forward now?

maidentl

The last few days I got a bit scared. Just came out of 'that time per month' a few days ago and knew I'd lose some waterweight. But the loss is quite a bit more than I expected. Basically, I lost 2.5kg in 24 days, which for my weight and size is far too much I guess. This is after plateauing for a whole month.

What makes you think it's too fast? My regular pattern is to stall for 2-3 weeks and then have a big drop. If you were on a "plateau" for a month and then took almost another month to lose what you did, that seems pretty normal to me.

Liftng4Lis

Awesome, If I lost 5 pounds, I'd be dancing in the street!

hortensehildegarde

The last few days I got a bit scared. Just came out of 'that time per month' a few days ago and knew I'd lose some waterweight. But the loss is quite a bit more than I expected. Basically, I lost 2.5kg in 24 days, which for my weight and size is far too much I guess. This is after plateauing for a whole month.

What makes you think it's too fast? My regular pattern is to stall for 2-3 weeks and then have a big drop. If you were on a "plateau" for a month and then took almost another month to lose what you did, that seems pretty normal to me.

^^ This. It wouldn't be 24 days you'd include the whole previous month too I'd think. Basically count back to the last time you saw the scale drop. (in other words, you were probably "losing" the whole time you thought you were stuck, just not in a way that it reflected on the scale just yet and then it all showed up at once)


ETA: you should see the scale go back to not moving or possibly going up a bit. After a week or 2 (or 3) if you are still losing faster than the planned .5 per week each week then yes, I'd say your numbers are off somewhere.

yirara

I think I didn't give the whole info. I got sick some time in July and lost just shy of 4kg in a few days. After another small drop nothing happened for a month. My guess was that I'm still recovering and making up for the big weight loss. And now the weight is dropping again very quickly. Before getting sick my loss was rather stable with about 1.5kg per month, just a bit above the 0.5 pound/week I chose in MFP. Sometimes it would go up again and sometimes do a smallish jump down again, but there was a regular, slow loss. I guess I'm a bit scared that there's still some health problem lurking that is causing some additional loss.

I mean, a continuous down on the scale of 1.5kg in 5 days is unheard off for me. I'm more used to smaller steps down for 2-3 days, one day up. I'll be seeing my doctor again this week and will just mention it as I'm still fighting with some minor health problems (tingling in limbs, limbs fall faster asleep, spontaneous blushing and a blocked nose). Maybe it's a coincidence, but I am worried a bit.

Sued0nim

Doesn't sound like anything to worry about to me

I'd look at your average weight loss since you started and if still concerned increase your calories

yirara

Doesn't sound like anything to worry about to me

I'd look at your average weight loss since you started and if still concerned increase your calories

Thanks,
that would be nearly 8kg in exactly 3 months, including being sick and not losing for a whole month. Difficult to say due to that, but I think I'll eat a bit more and see what happens. I'm close to my goal anyway.

Lottiotta

Weight loss isn't meant to be a steady gradual decline, right? Average it out from when you started losing weight. What have you got per week then?

Edit: 8kg in 3 months is just over half a kg per week. That's totally fine and good, no?

jenilla1

... I'll be seeing my doctor again this week and will just mention it ...

Sounds like a good idea and will probably help put your mind at ease. :flowerforyou:

yirara

... I'll be seeing my doctor again this week and will just mention it ...

Sounds like a good idea and will probably help put your mind at ease. :flowerforyou:

Thanks a lot I'm sure it will.
Projecting the initial weight loss down to now I'd probably be at around 5kg. Slow but hopefully sustainable. Well, so far this is sustainable as well so far, while I actually expected to to weight again. Anyway.. we'll see...

yirara

Right, weight went up just a bit this morning Actually, I never thought I'd say that but it's kind of comforting