Does anybody still have a big loss week?

ruwise

Hi All

This week I stepped on the scales and I had lost 3.8lb's. I've been out for a big meal on Easter Sunday but since then I have been eating about 200 calories less each day to save them for my long weekend in Paris. I've been doing a lot of walking as I'm trying to do one of the April walking challenges but other than that I've not really done anything differently.

Does this still just sometimes happen? or do I need to make sure I'm eating more calories?

Raynn1

Why are you saving calories? If you are eating at your cut value and eating right, then there is no need to "save" calories for a splurge. You just splurge when you want/need to.
My guess is you are seeing huge drops because your letting go of some water retention and eating less than you should be, while walking more than usual.

Saving cals wont do anything for you but make you hungrier and crankier now:)

heybales

Hi All

This week I stepped on the scales and I had lost 3.8lb's. I've been out for a big meal on Easter Sunday but since then I have been eating about 200 calories less each day to save them for my long weekend in Paris. I've been doing a lot of walking as I'm trying to do one of the April walking challenges but other than that I've not really done anything differently.

Does this still just sometimes happen? or do I need to make sure I'm eating more calories?

Does this week mean 1 week since last weigh in?

So always do the math for any gain or loss, knowing when it's water weight and couldn't possibly be fat.

3500 calories / lb if fat.

But losing 500 calories worth of glucose stores, or 125 grams, is 1 lb total with the stored water.

And storing up doesn't work except with math.

If you eat extra that day compared to the real TDEE for that day, the glucose stores will be topped off first, any protein needs met, any immediate energy needs used from the food, and then extra is stored as fat.

About the only benefit you'd get from eating less all week is the fact your glucose stores may have been constantly deprived during the week's exercise, so there is a lot to top off.
But during that week, if your metabolism is fast moving and feels threatened by that bigger deficit, is slower metabolism, so less fat burned all week, and now on the big eat day, even more is considered excess.

Bad idea if metabolism is flakey.

Best method, cut maybe 200 cal the day before and after your big day. Eat light breakfast and lunch leaving more for dinner. And do a really intense cardio workout BEFORE the dinner so more glucose to restore, or a really hard lifting workout BEFORE so the excess cal's will be used for great benefit there.

ruwise

Hi All

Thanks for responding I post another topic about how I was going to Paris for 4 days with my husband who is running the marathon. I'm vegetarian and Paris is not renowned for being a great place for vegetarians so in most places I'll pretty much have to eat the only thing on the menu that is vegetarian.

There will be a group of 6 of us as well and as the only vegetarian I can't really dictate where we eat so a few people suggested eating a few hundred calories less for the week leading up to it would be ok. I'm not going to get the chance to work out as 3 of the group are running the marathon so before they will be resting and after recovering.

And yes this week is a week from my last weigh in. I weigh myself every Thursday morning but only reduced my calories since Monday and in fact on Sunday went for a large walk followed by a 3 course meal.

I've only had 3 days that I've eaten 200 calories less on (still eating 1900 calories) All I was asking is do people sometimes find they lose more than 1-1.5lb's a week as I'm pretty sure the 600 calorie deficit from my usual can't have accounted for the 3.8 lb's that I've lost this week.