Success is a Journey not a Destination
aobilor
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So this Friday would be a week since I started my journey on weight loss. I'm not happy. I weighed in at 265 last Friday and gained two pounds. How did that happen? Well, it could have been I haven't been as strict when I was following my meal plan. Or maybe I need to follow more closely to the macros. I set a goal of exercising 3x a week, which I will complete later this evening and my sore muscles account for. I set MFP to adjust for loosing 2 lbs a week. The amount of calorie I can consume is a little over 1400. I don't know if that number is to extreme this early in my journey. I feel hungry all the time and drinking 0 calories liquids don't subdue the feeling. For next week I'm going to follow the meal plan to the tea and hope for the best.
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Pissed Plush Pound
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Pissed Plush Pound
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When I first got back into exercising, I got annoyed by those 2lb gains too. It turns out that developing muscle retains water, hence the gain. What a relief!0
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Aobilor, as a habitual over eater myself I have really found that eating oatmeal for breakfast as soon as I wake up helps me a ton. I have suggested it to a few people that are in similar situations as me and one of them have tried it. They agree that it both makes you feel nice and full plus kicks your metabolism in the butt.
In the past when I lost serious weight I ate oatmeal every day.
I have been eating better for a little over a week now and I never feel hungry. I have breakfast at 630, a snack at 9, lunch at 12, snack at 3 and dinner at 6. I go to sleep at midnight so if I am hungry I will eat then too. It might be worth trying to eat like this if feeling hungry is becoming a problem.
Another thing you might want to try is setting your weight loss to 1 pound a week to start. This will give you a few more calories to work with during the day and will give your body some time to adopt to more controlled eating. 1400 calories sounds pretty low to me. We all want huge immediate results, I am 100% guilty of this but if you are having a problem with staying at your calorie goal raise it a bit. If i know i cant have something, it makes me want it all that much more. Maybe your hunger is a mental thing because you look at MFP and it tells you that you can only have 1400 calories? Just some thoughts.
As for the sore muscles, remember that even a 20 minute leisurely stroll is better than sitting around doing nothing. Don't burn yourself out, if you end up hurting yourself by going to hard too fast you will quit. This is exactly why the last two times I started working out i stopped.
Anyways, i have an open journal if you are interested. I don't advocate eating how I do but it gives you another perspective on how someone else gets their calories.
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I was hungry for the first few weeks, too. I think it takes a while to get used to eating less (psychologically and physically). I also learned what foods to eat when and that was a big game changer for me. Everybody is different and you have to figure out what works for you.
A couple of tips to help you feel full on less calories is to plan your macros (protein/fat/fibre). Each of these help you feel full but everybody is a bit different in terms of how much to get of each. So, for example, for many people a chicken salad with a dressing will fill them up more (and for longer) than a bowl of pasta; even if they both have the same number of calories. Since vegetables add very little calories they can be added to every meal, and make great snacks ! Personally, I try to get protein, fat and fiber at every meal.
You can also experiment with how best to split your calories across meal times and snacks. I find 3 bigger meals to be more filling than smaller meals with snacks in between but it really does depend on what works for you.
From what you've said, it sounds like 1400 calories is enough. But it depends how you feel, too. The most important thing about this journey is that you keep going. If you are so hungry that you think you might give up then I would suggest increasing your calories to a level that you can manage. Its better to take an easier route but one that you will stick to, rather than a faster route which you will give up on.
It does get easier
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Thanks for the replies, an update I lost 1 pound since my last weigh in. @totaldetermination I will definitely set my settings back to 1 pound instead of two pounds. I'll start this change for the next week.0
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aobilor i get the hunger thing when you first start. It's where i have always failed in the past. It wasn't until a friend of mine had a gastric sleeve and was talking to me about head hunger that I really stopped and thought about what she meant. When i first started this time i was always "hungry" and looking for something top eat. I thought about our conversation and stopped and asked myself. Is my stomach grumbling? Am I really hungry? Or is this my head telling me I want something? I found that 9 times out of 10 it was my head telling me it wanted something and that physically i wasn't hungry at all. I would have a drink of water or distract myself with an activity. It was really hard at first and I struggle but Once i got my head around that I was good to go. I find I rarely get Head hungry now and only look for food when im physically hungry.
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I think it's really great that you're taking the time to figure out whether what you're doing is working for you, and how you can improve it if its not.
Good luck with the 1lb per week loss, I hope that makes things more maintainable for you !
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