Success with eating more to lose more

dustyhockeymom
dustyhockeymom Posts: 537 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been pretty successful since starting to change my lifestyle in February. However, the last month my weight loss had slowed way down, which was counter intuitive since I was working out harder, including doing 30 day shred and C25K and I was consistently under my calorie goal. I was getting really frustrated.

So I spent some time going over all my reports since when I started on MFP. I was looking for trends. I noticed that when I first started and was at 2 pounds per week setting my calories were between 1550 and 1600 and I was losing about three pounds a week and I was much more varied in my eating. As I lost and MFP suggested the reduction of calories, I was down to 1300 and I was losing less and eating much less variety.

Based on my analysis I decided to change my MFP goals to 1.5 pounds a week, which would put my calories back up into the range in which I had been the most successful. I did that a week ago. In that week, I have continued my consistent exercise routine. During this week, I have lost 2.5 pounds. This is after four weeks of losing 1 pound total.

It is clear that my body just needs a little higher calorie goal to function and loose efficently. I am so glad I looked back at where I had been and what had worked better for me. It was a little scary to make that decision and take the risk that it would be the right thing, but I listed to my body and it appears to be paying off.

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  • hbarney
    hbarney Posts: 434
    Similar thing happened to me. Friends said I wasn't eating enough-that was hard for me to take since eating has never been a problem for me!! :) I ate closer to my 1200 calories a day and had a greater weight loss. It is still hard for me to eat "all" of my calories. When I workout I often have 100's of calories left but don't feel hungry.
    Keep up the great job!!!
  • dc_amaryllis
    dc_amaryllis Posts: 223 Member
    Good to know. Thanks for the tip. And congratulations on your weight loss. Your results are incredible.
  • deadstarsunburn
    deadstarsunburn Posts: 1,337 Member
    so glad to hear that! I'm thinking I may need to eat more but like you said it's not an easy decision, I'm scared!!! However I suppose after losing what I have eating 300 more calories a day really won't kill me in a week. =] awesome job I always feel so motivated by seeing what you've accomplished so far.
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