Reverse effect

ancha0702

I'm not losing my motivation because the process of losing weight is slow or because I can't resist the food. My problem is reverse effect of healthy life.

I was losing weight first 4 months of healthy life. I was eating about 2000 cal per day and workout for about an hour (half an hour of light cardio and strength). My lowest weight back then was 55 kg (121 lbs).

Today, I eat around 1600 cal per day (extremely balanced, healthy diet) and workout twice as much. Two hours every day; 75 minutes of jogging (7.1 km/h, incline 15 - on a treadmill), 45 minutes of strength, yoga and gymnastic, 8 km of cycling and sometimes I add 5 km of running (12 km/h). I also play volleyball twice a week.

I weight 59.5 kg (131 lbs), and it's not muscle weight. I started to store more and more fat and you can obviously see it. I don't have any eating disorder or distorted image of myself. I'm scared I will keep putting on weight out of nothing. My family is concerned because it doesn't make any sense.

I don't know what to do, it's weird. Does anybody knows why my body does that? How to go back on my healthy weight?

tobnrn

Looks like your eating less and more active than before. Our body needs fuel. Cant drive a car 100 miles on a drop of oil and a tbs of gas.

ancha0702

I was thinking the same thing - maybe I slowed down my metabolism too much...

drmattski

Our bodies also get more efficient - eating less food (volume) means it stays in your digestive system longer, longer chance for the body to extract nutrients...just a theory, but i have noticed that my weight loss is less now (also probably because I am carrying arounf fewer pounds)