Eating more and losing weight ......... losing it fast, too fast :S

Hopefully someone here would please be nice enough to answer a question for me. Been working towards getting healthy since Feb and its really paid off. I'm 5”4 was obese at 195 pounds but have been working hard and gotten down to 161 pounds. I have been eating 1200 to 1400 cals per day and losing 2 pounds a week. Now my BMI says I'm in the overweight but not obese section I wanted to start upping my cals. I changed my goal to lose around 1 pound a week and slow the weight loss so I didn't have to be as hard on myself. I'm now eating around 1800 cals per day but I've started losing 3 to 4 pounds a week. Can this be normal or should I worry?

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  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    How long has this rate of loss happened?
  • Beths_Angels
    Beths_Angels Posts: 19 Member
    edited June 2020
    mmapags wrote: »
    How long has this rate of loss happened?

    3 weeks so far and I'm down over half a stone. I've called the doctor but they are only giving out appointments if its an emergency cos of the quarantine. At that rate it can't be water plus I think my weight would of gone up the weeks leading up to it.

    Edit: Is it worth upping my cals to 2000 and seeing if it levels out that way.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    And you are logging accurately using a food scale?
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,937 Member
    Have you been working out less (or has it become more normal for you), or had your menstruation three weeks ago? Or did anything else change? There's a possibility that part of that is water weight. Fluid retention is totally a thing, and especially for women. Or more regular poops?
  • cupcakesandproteinshakes
    cupcakesandproteinshakes Posts: 1,130 Member
    How long have you been at 1800 for? I might suggest an increase of 100 calories a day if the 3 to 4 pound loss per week has been happening for a month. If you increased to 1800 in the past week or so I might weight a few weeks and see if it is a trend which then slows down.