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ARGH! Yesterday my morning weigh in was 196.4. I'd gone up a pound overnight, but that happens all the time. This morning I was 200.4. UP 4 pounds overnight!! Thinking about it just now I weighed again, hoping this morning was a temporary fluke, but now it's up to 201.6... I'm right back where I started from three months ago. What caused this? Fried chicken? Yesterday I had a thigh and two drumsticks. That one meal was over 800 calories. But that could not have caused a 4 pound gain. Water weight? Yeah, that's a good dose of sodium so I'm likely hanging onto some extra fluid, but that's not the whole story either.
In reality I don't believe that I've added 6 pounds of fat to my body in 3 days. The theory of calories and weight loss/gain dictates that one pound is equal to 3,500 calories. To lose one pound you need create a deficit of 3,500 calories by consuming 3,500 calorie less than my TDEE. Of course this can't happen in one day. FatSecret says my TDEE is 1700 calories. Other apps say I need to eat just over 1400 calories daily to lose at a rate of about a half pound a week. I haven't been tracking for a while and that's a problem in and of itself. But to gain 6 pounds of fat in 3 days I would have to have eaten 21,000 calories over my TDEE in these three days. That's 7,000 extra calories every day for three days. For sake of argument, we'll say that I need 1400 calories a day to just exist. That means that I ate 25,200 calories in the last 3 days or 8,400 calories each day. That's utterly impossible. During the worst days of my worst binge eating I didn't (couldn't) consume that much food.
But let's look at this a different way. Approximately 83 days ago - I weighed in at the doctor's office at exactly what the scale registered this morning. During the time since then I have tried various things to lose weight. For the most part I tracked my calories and macros, and tried to keep them within certain parameters that would favor fat loss. For a while I even tried 5:2 fasting, and although that seemed promising at first, eventually it backfired and I started overeating. I reined that back in and went to a structure of eating 3 meals a day within about a 9 hour window - keeping calories to less than 1500 daily and carbs to a maximum total of 100 grams. That seemed to be working fine - much better than strict keto, or OMAD or any other extreme thing. But then I got complacent and stopped tracking, and here I am right back where I was three months ago.
The human body is remarkably efficient at maintaining homeostasis. It will maintain itself if it is too thin or too fat. Thin people stay thin and fat people stay fat. It takes super human effort to trick the body into allowing you to change things and not be undone.
Does that mean I give up? No - I just need to regroup and carry on.
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91,4 kg
Bugüne kadar kayıp: 0,2 kg.
Geriye kalan: 27,9 kg.
Diyet Takibi: Düşük.
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Haftada 3,9 kg alıyor
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