My EM2WL Journey
pixie_mills
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Hi there
I hope it's okay to start a new thread with my journey and ask for advice and support here, while I'm on my journey...so far:
1st June - upped to 1450 calories from a few years of on and off eating at 1200 - I lost 3lbs in 2 weeks ( down to 145.0 lbs)
13th June - upped to 1650 calories - lost another 1lb (144.0 lbs)
19th June - upped to 1750 calories - this week I put on 1.5 lbs.
26th June - (today) I am upping to 1850
Is this sounding about right?
I hope it's okay to start a new thread with my journey and ask for advice and support here, while I'm on my journey...so far:
1st June - upped to 1450 calories from a few years of on and off eating at 1200 - I lost 3lbs in 2 weeks ( down to 145.0 lbs)
13th June - upped to 1650 calories - lost another 1lb (144.0 lbs)
19th June - upped to 1750 calories - this week I put on 1.5 lbs.
26th June - (today) I am upping to 1850
Is this sounding about right?
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It sounds very similar to my own experience. As long as your activity is staying consistent, that 1.5 lb bump is nothing.0
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another observation, from my first night out drinking since Easter time (where I was on 1200 calories).
I had a lot more to drink last night than I should have...and I was expecting a total rager of a headache this morning (normal for me
) but I feel as fresh as a daisy. I have NEVER, I mean NEVER got off scott free while drinking alcohol without feeling the effects of it the day after.
I drank (and ate) much less at Easter time (2 glasses of wine - yes, I am a lightweight/cheap date, whatever you want to call it :P) and felt horrendous the next morning.
Is this just me getting lucky? Or have others experienced this?0 -
Interesting - would love to know if others have even noticed, or had the means to notice.
I don't sadly. But I am curious enough to see if my stiff drink affects me more on big deficit days compared to TDEE days.0 -
I feel like I don't drink often enough to really chime in, but chime in I will. I go months between even having a single drink. Since I rarely drink at all now, even one whiskey or a beer can give me a headache the next day. If I have two or three, my stomach will also feel terrible and I'll be exhausted all day. This happened when I was eating 1200 and also happened at 2800. Food didn't make a difference for me.0
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It's mostly about dehydration...so perhaps you were well hydrated before you drank and re hydrated after you drank....We always have the rule drinking 1/2 gal of water with advil before bed and wake up fine. My husband does gatorade before bed.
I don't know but I doubt that food as anything to do with how you feel the morning after...but again...I haven't tested it out.0 -
Yeah, I'm just pretty curious
I don't drink normally, so I thought I'd still be feeling the effects! I didn't have any water (bad girl!) during the evening and didn't take any painkillers before going to bed.
I'm guessing I just got lucky :P Not going to use it as an excuse to go out more often lol.0 -
LOL I would! Getting older sucks in recovery of night's out. That would help me indulge more, for sure.
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I would have to agree with the hydration theory. When I'm well hydrated and go all out one night, I'm much better off than when I've been busy all day and haven't eaten or hydrated well that day.
heybales mentions water from food being a more prominent that we really realize and the water from food from 1200 cals to near 2000 has got to be significant.0 -
Oh, ya. Absolutely. Water content in food has got to be higher at higher cals. Especially if a lot of those cals come from fruits and veggies...which mine do.
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Wow...so I've been upping my calories for the best of 4 weeks and only just yesterday have crossed the border to eating 2050 calories (probably closer to my TDEE now that I am on summer break from my job) and I have not budged a single pound!
I mean sure, I've had fluctuations. The 3rd of June i was 146lbs eating at 1200, and now the 4th July I'm 146lbs eating at around 2000... I'll take that for now!
Very happy bunny so far. My moods have gotten better, I am now sleeping without nightmares or restlessness, I think it's safe to say my body is on the mend still lots of work to do to fix it but I'm happy with the results so far. 0 -
Happy news, those are great results. I have been following your progress, glad it going so well for you.0
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Congrats. Anyone notice in real life and ask what you are doing?
And what's their reaction when you say - eating more?0 -
That's awesome @pixie_mills0
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just really my better half noticing at the moment.
He is a real gem, always there to pick me up when I feel like things aren't going good - for example I'm just back from a teaching course in Spain, where I have had very little control over meals, I wasn't as active (although was walking every day), lots of salty food and eating and drinking out in local restaurants on top of gaining my TOM this week added to a whopping +7lbs in only 1 week!!!
My inner demons said to drop low again, but I know I have to just push through eating 2000 calories worth of eating normal wholesome home cooked food as I'm almost certain most of that is water weight... (I was down 2lbs of that overnight, so really, I'm only +ing 5lbs now) that was a real blow on the scale, but I'm ready to attack this with determination and courage, and won't be lured into the trap of 1200 calories!0 -
Teaching is Spain that is very cool. I was wondering when you would check in again. I'm trying to follow along with all the other resets going on now.
No way did you eat enough to gain 5+ lbs. Traveling causes bloating and water retention, let it settle down for a few days before hitting the scale again.
Glad you have a supportive SO. Makes a big difference.
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Yeah, I was in Malaga. Reaaaallly hot, sitting at about 35-40 degrees Celsius each day
Got rather sunburned as well.
I'm travelling again in about 10 days time to the Canary Islands for just over 2 weeks, so...yeah, It's gonna be rather up and down this month, but i'm prepared for a lot of water weight gain
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wooooow...can't believe how much water weight I held onto! From Saturday evening when I got back from Spain I'm down 6.3lbs! Holy moley! I knew I held onto water, but i can't believe I held onto that much! That's insane!!!0
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That's great! Good job for not dropping back down. The vacation was probably good for you!0
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Great job on holding through - this is why we always say the scale lies!0
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I went to Spain for the weekend too, put on so much water weight which is nearly all gone now! Maybe the potential dehydration makes our body hold onto more water.0
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I'm back for another update. I'm pretty happy so far. I've only put on 6lbs in 2.5 months after eating at 1200 calories religiously for a rather long time. I went back to my job as a teacher yesterday after the summer holidays and got so overwhelmed with work I missed eating about half of my lunch. We'll, how in the hell I managed so low for so long I don't know. By early evening I was taking dizzy spells, had a headache and just couldn't concentrate. Will not make that same mistake again! Huge wake up call to how much food my body actually needsto function properly. It's nice to see that it seems to be responding well to the extra fuel those past 2.5 months0
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Good demo of what the difference can mean.
But I'll bet if you were eating that low the whole time, with body slowed down, it probably wouldn't have been that drastic of a comparison - normal mode likely was slow enough that the extra from no lunch wouldn't have been noticed.
Indeed, now the fun of figuring out what new maintenance is.0 -
Sorry haybales, can you clarify what you mean for the second bit of your comment? I'm confoooooozed lol. X0
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Ya, that was confusing.
Missing part of your lunch now compared to when eating 1200 would be a bigger difference to your body.
Not only that, but when eating 1200 your body was operating slower anyway, so the difference was less than too.0 -
aaaaaahhhh! I see that now makes perfect sense thank you. And my god! did I notice the difference, I just felt totally ill! It was horrible! Really don't want to feel like that again in a hurry lol. 0
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I may or may not be levelling out
Stayed the same weight this week, still +6lbs from when I started resetting at the beginning of June.
Started NROLFW 2 weeks ago and back to school for now a "normal" week, so will update on Friday.
Is +6lbs sounding about right? Or too much? I'm learning not to trust the scale, however, after years of conditioning I still have that nagging in the back of my mind 0 -
That sounds right. 6 lb isn't a lot to gain and a few of those pounds will still be water weight (carb restoring). It's why, when you eventually go for a cut, you should have a range of weight for your goal versus just one number.0
