My weight is doing crazy things?
sadiejoy4509
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Hey, I have been on a weight loss journey for two years now and have lost 30 pounds. Been on so many diets before so I feel that I have a good understanding of calories and how my body reacts but it’s been crazy recently so I wanted some feedback.
I was really hungry for two weeks so I ate maintenance 2000 calories a day and ended up dropping three pounds in one week and like 1.5 the next. I stopped feeling hungry and slept a lot more and starting eating less than 2000 for this week (calorie intake varied from 1400-2,900 one day). If my daily burn is 2,000 I still only ate 600 calories over this week BUT the scale says I’ve gained 2.5 pounds?
I did have one day where I had to estimate calories but I really gave generous calorie estimations just to see if that day could have been 9,000 calories- which would have caused a two pound gain. But I had a turkey sandwich that day (no cheese no mayo) chips (200 cal) and for dinner steamed rice veggies and scallops (no butter) and a very small slice of pie.
I’m not feeling down on myself. I know that some people have this problem and you just keep moving forward. But I’ve never had my weight do such crazy things! Wondering if anyone else has this problem?
Also I’ve seen people ask to open their diary but I don’t know how to do that.
I was really hungry for two weeks so I ate maintenance 2000 calories a day and ended up dropping three pounds in one week and like 1.5 the next. I stopped feeling hungry and slept a lot more and starting eating less than 2000 for this week (calorie intake varied from 1400-2,900 one day). If my daily burn is 2,000 I still only ate 600 calories over this week BUT the scale says I’ve gained 2.5 pounds?
I did have one day where I had to estimate calories but I really gave generous calorie estimations just to see if that day could have been 9,000 calories- which would have caused a two pound gain. But I had a turkey sandwich that day (no cheese no mayo) chips (200 cal) and for dinner steamed rice veggies and scallops (no butter) and a very small slice of pie.
I’m not feeling down on myself. I know that some people have this problem and you just keep moving forward. But I’ve never had my weight do such crazy things! Wondering if anyone else has this problem?
Also I’ve seen people ask to open their diary but I don’t know how to do that.
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I'm surprised it's taken you 2 years to run into this
The article above is a good one. Basically, if you're confident your logging is good, it's probably just a blip. 4 -
Haha, well I only weigh once a week to remove those insconsistencies. Also my weight ALWAYS made sense. I was never surprised. That’s why0
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I’m wondering your age? Because I’m almost 50 and during the 40’s my weight was all over the place ,within 10 pounds but the ups and downs didn’t make sense to my dietician or my gp. I think is was all my hormones leaving me 😊.... I am able to lose now with ease0
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Body weight fluctuates.
If you lost 3-4.5 Lbs in a couple of weeks eating 2000 calories though, that would indicate that your maintenance isn't 2,000 calories...just because some calculator gives you that number, it doesn't mean it's gospel...it's just an estimate.2 -
sadiejoy4509 wrote: »Haha, well I only weigh once a week to remove those insconsistencies. Also my weight ALWAYS made sense. I was never surprised. That’s why
It doesn't necessarily remove those inconsistencies. My weight fluctuates, even when I'm on an overall losing trend. I weigh daily. If I weighed once a week, there have been times I wouldn't have seen my losing trend, if I hit on a low day one week and a high one the next.
Overeating doesn't lead to fat gain the next day. Digestive transit, according to research results, can take up to 53 hours, and we absorb nutrients at various points in the process.
Our daily burn is not the same every day. If you think you generally burn 2000 daily, but you spend a bunch of extra time sitting/resting/sleeping for a week, you burn fewer calories than if you'd spent more time doing something less physically inert. If during the week you ate at maintenance, you felt especially energetic from the extra calories/nutrients, you may've burned more calories than normal. It varies.
Some weight gain is fat. Some weight gain is water retention (from eating more carbs than normal, eating more salt than normal, doing extra exercise, having a minor illness or injury, hormonal fluctuations if a premenopausal woman, stress, and more). Some weight gain is extra digestive system contents still in transit, if one eats more bulky/fibrous food than normal. Only fat gain really matters in the long run, but the others show up on the scale and confuse things.
It's probable that things will return more to your normal experience. Don't stress about it, and stick with the process. If you keep gaining and gaining out of sync with previous experience, and you think you're about as active as usual, go see your doctor.
Best wishes!5 -
I’m 30! I think a big difference is I was eating 1200 cal a day and with that low amount of food you can’t eat enough carbs or salt to make my body have big fluctuations. Now I’m finally going slower at 1700 a day and I think I can eat enough different food to make my body react differently. Maybe turning 30 means my body is different.
Either way- my net loss is 2.5 pounds in three weeks! Not bad.
It was kinda making me uncomfortable to lose 4.5 pounds in two weeks any way!5 -
i float within a 7lb range during a week. i'm sensitive to sodium and my hormones0
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@sadiejoy4509 I think you’re doing great! A loss is a loss and yes being 30 means it could be a harder struggle then being 20. Doesn’t mean it can’t be done , it could just take more precise tracking.
Keep going , great job 🌸1 -
sadiejoy4509 wrote: »I’m 30! I think a big difference is I was eating 1200 cal a day and with that low amount of food you can’t eat enough carbs or salt to make my body have big fluctuations. Now I’m finally going slower at 1700 a day and I think I can eat enough different food to make my body react differently. Maybe turning 30 means my body is different.
Either way- my net loss is 2.5 pounds in three weeks! Not bad.
It was kinda making me uncomfortable to lose 4.5 pounds in two weeks any way!
Age in and of itself doesn't really have much impact on weight management.5 -
I think OP mentioned her age in context of a PP that asked her age, with the implication that being perimenopausal could cause hormonal issues that lead to weight fluctuations.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a strong "I'm so old, can't lose" claim from OP, though she did wonder if things were different at 30. (This li'l ol' lady, 63 this week, would say "LOL, no - not unless you're less active in daily life or less muscular than you were at 20 . . . and the difference from the latter isn't much"
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