Losing More Weight at 1/2lb a week?

wish21
wish21 Posts: 602 Member
edited November 9 in Health and Weight Loss
Has this happend to anyone?

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  • wish21
    wish21 Posts: 602 Member
    Bump:ohwell:
  • luvmybaby333
    luvmybaby333 Posts: 241
    I think it's possible, for sure! Who knows how your body works. Perhaps you were underestimating your calorie needs before, and by taking in too little on a higher-loss-per-week diet, you were actually stalling or slowing down your weight loss. (If that makes any sense. LOL) I have my settings to lose 1 pound per week, but I have lost much more than that in the past month.
  • wish21
    wish21 Posts: 602 Member
    I think it's possible, for sure! Who knows how your body works. Perhaps you were underestimating your calorie needs before, and by taking in too little on a higher-loss-per-week diet, you were actually stalling or slowing down your weight loss. (If that makes any sense. LOL) I have my settings to lose 1 pound per week, but I have lost much more than that in the past month.

    I really think maybe thats what is happening to me. I eat 1400 a day on most and will loose about 3-4 oz. But they constantly go up and down the same numbers. Today and yesterday I dropped my calorie goal to 1200. I am just trying to figur out whats going to work. I want to see a loss consitently
  • russellma
    russellma Posts: 284 Member
    YES! Mine is set for 1/2 lb. per week, but it's usually well over that.

    For the last 6 weekly weigh-ins, my weight loss has been:

    1.8 lbs
    0.5 lbs
    1.1 lbs
    1.1 lbs
    1.5 lbs.
    0.2 lbs.

    Total = 6.2 lbs.

    I'm a firm believer that you need to eat to lose!

    Edit: I also try to eat all but 100-200 of my exercise calories.
  • wish21
    wish21 Posts: 602 Member
    Bump?
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    I didn't change my calorie goal, at least not yet, it's still set at 2lb per week, but I'm going over on my calories most days and I'm still losing about two a week. Mystifying, but I'm not complaining too much!
  • Gilliamzoo
    Gilliamzoo Posts: 72 Member
    I've read in a couple places and even talked to a nutritionist about the whole eat more to lose more concept and from what they said you need to eat AT LEAST enough calories of your resting meatbolic weight. To get that you multiply your weight by 10. And that's the amount your organs (brain, heart, lungs, etc) need to function if you were a total couch potato. If you are active, then that will have to increase. From what the nutritionist says, restricting you calories will put your body into a starvation mode, which makes you lose weight but 50% of it is usually muscle. Then when you gain it back its almost always 100% fat. That being said, your calories have to be "good" calories and not just junk.

    Does it work? I'm not sure because I haven't quite figured things out. Currently I weigh 180, which means I should be eating at least 1800 calories, but right now my calories are set at 1400 (which is more than MFP said I should do). I'm trining for a marathon though, so I'm running 15-20+ miles a week, which means I really should be eating more, but I can't seem to do it. I have noticed though that my weight tends to change more when I'm not concerned as much with logging what I eat and just try to make sensible food choices. When I stick to the 1400 calories (plus my exercise calories) consistently my weight stays the same for weeks.

    So, that said, I'm going to go change my calorie settings now and see what happens. (Thanks for helping me process this)
    Good luck finding out what works for you!
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