Cut day 1 complete! I'm just so glad to be on this side of things!

Welcome to cut seobstar and mrscheesefries!

Lucia - that's awesome about the press ups! It's so fun to reach those physical goals!

I can't believe I'm already in week 2 of cut. So far nothing super exciting to report. My weight rebounded after the inital drop. I expected that. I've found that my pattern when losing is drop, back up, a little bit of back and forth inbetween my new low and a higher number, then a new drop and the process repeats. So if I'm consistent I will likely see a new drop end of this week or sometime next week.

My weight does the same thing and always has, even before EM2WL. Yesterday I was at my post pregnancy low of 191.6 and today I was 192.5. But next week it will likely be down to 191 or 190.something.

3 weeks ago i did the cut officially. I logged every single thing i ate and stayed within my caloric goal of 2150. I have been losing about 1.5 pounds a week. And im happy to say i finally broke my plateau and reached my goal for july. my goal for august is only 4 pounds away and i cant wait to see whats in store for this month.

Love seeing posts like this! Let us know how August goes!

Susan

Wow, everyone's doing great, love seeing successes!
The past 2 weeks for me were dedicated to semester finals.
I'm doing my best to stay off the scale until September 4th (to coincide with the end of stage one NROLFW). It's really a weird feeling not to measure in some way (I've been doing the once a week thing for a looong time), hope curiosity doesn't get the best of me!
Hey, does anyone else get extremely hungry the day after lifting? Been eating almost all 30% (within 50 cals) of protein and fats but still crazy hungry! I'll recheck TDEE next week since I just started lifting, but my BM core says most days I'm right on target.

couple of random ramblings......

so I have 3 full days of cut under my belt...on day 4 and I ALREADY feel amazing! I have no idea how much I weigh and frankly I don't want to know. If I weigh myself and don't see a loss I know my mind will say "frickin a...I KNEW this wasn't going to work"...haha! Anyway, I FEEL like my old body (prior to reset) is coming back to me! My flat stomach is returning (yes, after only 3 days...for real...I'm serious...I can't believe it!) and I feel like this might really happen.

Funny.....on monday and tuesday I thought I was going to die of hunger....ridiculous that I used to "survive" just fine on 1500cals per day and now I'm dropping from 2500 to 2150 and I think I'm might shrivel up and die. Yesterday I did not feel like that and today is going well so far! I'm feeling very satisfied on my cut # and feeling like the reset was well worth it!

ROFL...too funny! "Shrivel up and die"....I tell you it never ceases to amaze how I lasted on 1200 EVER...or ever 1800 for that matter.....just love it!

WTG!

Ohhhhh lawwwwd! Is anyone else experiencing awful headaches after cutting calories? I am at 10% cut and almost at 2 weeks. My headaches are unbearable!

Congrats to everyone who is making progress on the cut! Hooray for water weight whooshes and broken plateaus! :drinker:

AFM, I am going to keep my progress real for you ladies. I felt bad earlier when I talked about some supposed setbacks in my cut and it sounded like a downer, but I am not going to avoid talking about the bad as well as the good, because some people may not be experiencing apparent, instantaneous fat melting. I don't think I am, but I am also currently without my Omron fat monitor (I lent it to someone and wish I had it back right now!).

Post-reset, I went from 2400 cals to approx. 2040 cals. I'm in week 4 of my cut. I thought I had lost 3 pounds by week one, and through some fluctuations I have ended up at ONE pound lost from the start of my cut. That's kind of disappointing, TBH. But as I look at the bigger picture, I see that the one pound lost is a REAL pound as opposed to water weight lost, because I've fluctuated at the lower end of that pound for two weeks. I am not as hugely bloated as I was during reset. My measurements had gone down 1/4 inch overall and haven't budged for two weeks, but at least they went down a little. I've also decided that I have to exercise harder to burn fat, and not expect the calorie deficit to do it all for me. The hollows in my cheeks are coming back, and overall I FEEL better. Finally, I told myself that 4 weeks into cut is probably not enough for my body; I will do it for 6 weeks before taking a week-long diet break.

I would like to think that there's internal body recomposition going on inside me, and that's what keeps driving me forward. That, plus trusting the process.

Ohhhhh lawwwwd! Is anyone else experiencing awful headaches after cutting calories? I am at 10% cut and almost at 2 weeks. My headaches are unbearable!

Me too! They didn't last for two weeks though, probably just the first couple of days. I hope your headaches let up soon!

Not much for me to report right now. Tomorrow's my weigh in. I'm not really expecting a loss this week - had a bad day that was pretty far over. But I just realized that I haven't done measurements in a few weeks so if I get super motivated tomorrow I may go ahead and measure and see if anything's changed there. Training wise I'm okay with this week. I'm still struggling with some fatigue that's making it hard for me to get out the door at five in the morning. I did order a supplement that I've been considering awhile - an herbal adaptogen (supports adrenal function). I feel like I'm still trying to figure out how to get my thyroid functioning at an optimal level for me. I think it's just going to take some time. I do notice a difference when I use my coconut oil though. And I did go for a run today despite the awful heat. So I'm on track with training for my half marathon at the end of September, so I do feel good about that.

So here's a look at the big picture of my time thus far on MFP.
4/6 - joined at 172 lb

by mid May 167 lb! (1200-1500 calories)

Started the reset

7/5 176lb! End of reset

Cut (TDEE - 10% = 1500 cal)
wk 1 7/13 173 lb
wk 2 7/20 173 lb
wk 3 7/26 174 lb (7/28 170.4 must have been water)
wk 4 8/4 174 lb

All measurements are still above where I was 4/6. Size 12 still fits the same as 4/6. Pictures look the exact same, too.

So, after all this time (4 months!) I am exactly where I started only I weigh 2 lb more!

In looking at the big picture and what has worked in the past, I plan to move to calorie cycling. My average will still be TDEE - 10% of 1500/day, but I will do something like 1100, 1300, 1600, 1400, 1700, 1400, 2000 and then repeat.

We will continue to work out on days we can and when I do workout I plan to eat back the calories. My working out is not to lose weight. It is to maintain an overall increased fitness level. At 49 this sounds resonable and fits our lifestyle at this time (which is very busy with long work days!).

If seeing my diary with the low calorie and then the higher calorie days bothers any of you I apologize in advance! In fact, I'm considering making my food diary private so I don't get negative feedback. Each of us has to do what works best given where we are in this process. I hope to have all your continued support, but if not that's okay too.

I hope all of you have a great week ahead!!!

Hi everybody! I just dropped in to share my story and hopefully offer motivation/encouragement for those who are thinking about doing or in the midst of doing a reset.

It's been a bit over 2 months since I joined MFP. I have faithfully logged in everyday since then and been amazed at the volume of information available and quantity of supportive people!

I found out about MFP through my fitness bootcamp instructor and owe her a great deal of thanks.
When I joined MFP I was already down to 178 lbs from my original weight of 212.5. In order to achieve this I did some things right and some wrong. One of which included somehow making it down to 1100-1350 calories a day and not realizing that my BMR in fact is currently about 1550 and I was doing myself a disservice everyday. I am VERY active and my TDEE is roughly 2300-2700 depending on my workouts.

My trainer told me I should be eating about 1870 calories a day to LOSE weight. I thought that was ridiculous considering I wasn't losing weight eating 1300. I tried and couldn't eat that much, that is when I discovered the EM2WL videos/forums. This was the most sense anything had ever made to me so I began the DIFFICULT journey that a reset is.

During my reset I gained roughly 5 lbs and then stabilized and then actually lost a couple and maintained that for 3 weeks. I only did a 6 week reset eating at full TDEE for probably 3-4 weeks of that, but felt ready to cut again since I could then easily consume all my TDEE calories plus some.

So here comes the FUN part, ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?!!!!!

Before reset = 178 lbs
During reset = 184 lbs
End of reset = 180.5 lbs
1st week of cut phase = no loss
**drum roll please**
End of 4th week of cut = 175.5 lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have 100% faith in the metabolism reset. I am now eating around 1800 calories a day PLUS most exercise calories to LOSE weight which means upwards of 2200 calories and actually losing weight. I plan to keep eating myself thinner everyday

Thank you for reading my story, I wish everyone the best. I know it's hard but its worth it!

Heya All.. Im back home from vacation and had a wonderful time!! We logged about 67,000 steps which I estimate to be about 35miles/56Km over the course of four days.. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and indulged in all the wonderfful Disney/Universalr treats. I felt ZERO guilt about it all too:)

Got home last night and stepped on the scale this morning and it shows about a 3-5 pound gain depending on whether I include the AF bloat that hit me the morning we left. I know it is all pretty much water weight and I will give it a few days before weighing in again. Im looking forward to getting back on routine and hitting the gym later this week and starting stage 4 of NROL. Im excited to see what happens over the next few weeks now:)


Hope you are all doing well and starting to see some progress!

Welcome back! I see such a healthy attitude in your posts. I love that you were able to enjoy yourself and not worry about food during your vacay. I also love that despite seeing a gain your logic kicked in and you were able to realize that it was likely water weight. Kudos to you!

Went to a wedding last night and didn't end up eating my cut, actually went over my TDEE by 100 calories. Not really worried though, I've been pretty bang on with my numbers lately and my cut has been going well.

I never did the reset but started eating more (1850) in April then bumped up to 2050 in June . For about two weeks in April I tried 1300 net then two weeks of 1600 net with no results.
Early May: 151.8lbs
Mid-Late May: 149
June 2: 146.4
June 11: 144.6
July 22: 139.8

EM2WL is working for me, that's for sure. I haven't weighed in a couple weeks but will update when I do again (a couple more weeks, I like to do a month scaleless between weigh ins.) I do feel a bit icky and bloated from last night but not panicking. What I'm doing works, I've had great results and it's easy to pick myself back up again!

Just wanted to jump in with my week two results!

I lost a half pound and half an inch around my hips. A tad from my waist. Thats actually pretty good considering its the end of TOM and I ate a tad over a few times. Especially last night, I got a litt le heavy handed with the peanut butter :blushing:

Still glad to see some results! So far EM2WL is definitely working and I still don't have the urge to binge which I love love love!

Heres to another week, can't wait to read everybody else's posts!

First week of cut complete! Down 1.2 pounds! This is my first loss since February and I could not be happier!

It works!!!

Can someone explain this cut and reset stuff to me.

Hi there, there is a ton of information provided in the other stickied threads if you want to check those out.