Maybe this eating more thing isn't b*****ks after all

VBnotbitter

I admit I was skeptical. Very. After all its a matter of physics - energy in energy out - and all a calorie is is a unit of energy. Eat less calories + burn more calories = weight loss. I've had a lot do success over the years trying to force my ageing body to remain the same BMI it was in my 20's, with low calories diets. The same 5kg has had revolving door relationship with my backside for the last 15 years. Eat at 1200 calories it goes, eat a bit more and it comes back.

Before last Christmas a 1200 calorie diet got me down to 67kg (I'm 5'7) which put me in a great party mood to celebrate and I was back to 71kg by the time January was out. Bored with WW etc I signed up for MFP and read about BMRs and TDEEs and amidst struggling to get a handle on abbreviations I started to eat the recommended 1500 calories. And the weight crept on and on, and I got more and more obsessed. I was thinking about nothing else and it was doing my head in. So I stopped.

For the last few weeks I haven't tracked a single calorie.I've eaten what I felt like, mostly healthy but not always. At a guess I would say I've probably rarely gone over 2000 calories but can't say for sure. Then two weeks ago I hurt my back and stopped running to rest it, and just stuck to yoga. This week I caught a cold and have sat on my bum drinking hot chocolate and feeling sorry for my self.

Then this morning I weighed myself for the first time in nearly five weeks. I've lost weight! Only 1kg but the first loss for five months. Apart from the cold, I feel better, not tired or grumpy even though its that time of the month when I usually put on ridiculous amounts of fluid weight and want to kill my nearest and dearest.

So we will see. This weekend I will start exercising again, I might even introduce some weights BUT I think I can say good bye to eating less calories than my eight year old.

thingeringer

Great to hear. Good luck!