Losing half a pound everyday

Weight loss and fat loss aren't the same. You're still very new in this journey. Welcome to the annoying world of daily scale fluctuations! (Someone here have a link to that great article I read a few weeks ago??) Just stick to your goals (hopefully they are realistic and reasonable), keep logging, and don't be discouraged by days your weight goes up. Your trend over time (months... multiple months...) will be the best gauge for how much you are actually losing per week.

Well, keep in mind that when you first start your weight loss plan, it can take up to 4 weeks sometimes to see progress on the scale. It's not typically a fast process. The pounds per week is an average, not a guarantee that you will lose every week like clockwork. It's very rare for weight loss to actually happen weekly.

Also, if you saw a loss only 3 days after changing your calorie amount to 1200, it's extremely unlikely that's what caused the drop. It takes more than three days for changes to happen. As others have stated, more than likely you had a 'woosh' resulting from back when you first started a few weeks ago.

jyoti_0 wrote: »

Thank you all for your replies. It is a big morale booster. My weight loss is now steady after initial obstacles. One thing is sure, by logging my food, I realized how unhealthy (read oily, fried) food I had been eating, and worrying about weight increase and thinking, "oh, but I hardly eat two flatbreads in a day!" Two flatbreads soaked in unhealthy oil, vegetable curry again, with unhealthy layer of oil on the top. Now I can't even think of eating that type of food!
I still have to lose water weight that accumulates due to my food allergy. If someone has any tips for that, I would be grateful to know that.

If there are things you can do to avoid triggering your allergies (i.e., avoid things you're allergic to) or treat your allergies (desensitization treatments, medications), that may help to reduce the water weight from allergies.

Generally, though, we don't want to try to make our bodies stop fluctuating water weight. Our bodies know what they're doing! Fluctuating water retention is part of how a healthy body stays healthy. In a case like allergies or non-life-threatening injury or illness, water retention increases because of inflammation. That type of inflammation is about how our bodies get through the injury/illness, and recover. We want that recovery to happen, right?

(That kind of acute/temporary inflammation is different from "systemic inflammation" or "chronic inflammation" that can be a bad thing, i.e. inflammation that stays around all the time because of excess total stress on our physical systems.)

If you're retaining so much water that it creates a health problem (as would be the case with, say, some heart/circulation problems), then you should see your doctor. If it's less than that, part of allergies that are somewhat routine (not life threatening) or minor illness/injury, the best idea is to live with it, and know that that weight will drop off when the mini-"crisis" has passed.

I understand that if someone has bigger water weight fluctuations than average, that can be very frustrating. That water weight will mask fat loss on the scale for surprisingly long times. The thing is, if we stay with a tested and true calorie deficit, eventually the fat loss will outpace the water retention, and will show up in the long term trend of body weight. "Long term trend" = what happens over many weeks and beyond, averaged out.

If you have water retention that creates or is caused by severe health problems, see your doctor. If you have normal causes of water fluctuations that feel frustrating, learn to understand and live with them. Water weight isn't fat, and it's fat gain/loss we really care about, right?

Best wishes!

jyoti_0 wrote: »

Also, I observed that eating dinner at least 2-3 hours before I go to sleep is excellent for weight loss. It turns into unintentional intermittent fasting

I’ve observed that if I eat a heavy snack or dessert or even a late dinner say, less than an hour before going to bed, I have anxious dreams, crazy night sweats, more joint pain (hips ache like fire at night sometimes), more tossing and turning, and am more likely to get up wide awake and stay up at 3 am.

YMMV, but I try to stay mindful. It’s hard, though. I do like a dessert after dinner, although they’re generally on the light side. But if I’m going to get in trouble, it’s usually that last hour before bed when I start gobbling anything that sounds remotely tasty.