Losing too fast

ashleyminnich1
ashleyminnich1 Posts: 60 Member
edited December 1 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm not trying to brag. I'm genuinely confused. I have been logging here for a few months now, and have no issue logging a losing. I was on maintenance in preparation for a race on May 14th. I still lost 4 pounds or so during that month. I reset my goal last Monday for half a pound in a week, and I lost 2! I wouldn't complain, but I felt awful today, and had to cut my run short. I have felt pretty awful most of the week, actually. I think, because I needed more food. I ate a BIG lunch a little bit ago, and feel better. I reset myself to maintenance today, but I'm a little unsettled. Could it be that I am burning faster than myfitnesspal thinks I am? Am I leaving too much each day, maybe. I'm not weighing my food, and I KNOW that I sometimes eat more than I think I do. Has anyone else had this issue?

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited May 2016
    I kept loosing after training as well. It will stop. For me it was like the fat loss switch stayed on for about a month. Just like loosing the body has to adjust..

    Have you backed down the training? What I mean is are you now running less or the same mileage as before?
  • ashleyminnich1
    ashleyminnich1 Posts: 60 Member
    I ran a very minimal amount of miles last week to recover from the race. (24ish) I'm picking things up just a little this week, because I start marathon training next Monday.
  • ashleyminnich1
    ashleyminnich1 Posts: 60 Member
    I'm basically doing a reverse of my taper weeks before the race, so not at peak of my training.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    You at least ought to start or resume weighing your food so that you can have accurate information about the food you eat during weeks you lose. Your weight is ideal enough that you are correct to be concerned.

    I find with weighing almost everything that my 30-day calorie deficit predicts a weight loss of 110% what actually happened. Considering the known inaccuracy of exercise logging and the known inaccuracy of so much of the food database, that 110% accuracy looks very good.
  • ashleyminnich1
    ashleyminnich1 Posts: 60 Member
    I can pretty much assure you that I eat over by at least a little. No weighing needed to tell me that! I don't weigh, because I don't find it to be a healthy habit for me mentally. Or a maintainable life habit.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    ashleyminnich1 wrote: »
    I can pretty much assure you that I eat over by at least a little. No weighing needed to tell me that! I don't weigh, because I don't find it to be a healthy habit for me mentally. Or a maintainable life habit.

    then why are you still losing if you are "over" your calories...

    and you don't lose on Maintenance ...so what you logged the month you "thought" you were on maintenance was not...

    and if you have to cut exercise short that is a good sign you aren't eating enough.

    I have taken a look at your diary and what I see is this...

    not eating back exercise calories
    not a lot of protein
    and not a lot of nutrient dense foods to fill up the calories you are eating esp if you are training for a marathon.

    you are not at maintenance and you are not "over" either if you are losing so until you accept that you will continue to down this path.
  • ashleyminnich1
    ashleyminnich1 Posts: 60 Member
    Yikes! Your last sentence was really not necessary or nice. Thank you for looking at my diary though. I keep forgetting when I look at my counts that I've lost a lot, and fifty to hundred calories is actually a pretty decent deficit added to the 300 that it adds for half a pound lost. I just need to make sure I leave less!
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