For some background: I'm 5'0 and currently around 133lbs, down 7lbs from 140. I'm definitely not new to weight loss, as a teenager I had an eating disorder and my lowest weight was around 85-90lbs which I dropped to from 140lbs (seems to be the highest weight I get to). I've been trying to lose weight for years, ever since I got to my HW again and every time I've failed. I sincerely know quite a bit on nutrition and weight loss. I've recently started paying more attention to my body and what works best for it and I've noticed I do quite well eating substantial carbs (in a calorie deficit) and so on.
What I've noticed though is that when I'm eating whole foods there will be times when I just want to eat weirdly. For the past two months there are days when I've just eaten so much processed chicken or I just want to eat less nutritious food like ramen all the time and thinking about normal whole foods makes me so adamantly not want to eat them, like a 8 year old has taken over my body. First I thought maybe I'm not getting enough protein or that I'm underestimating my activity level. Over summer I've worked in a cafe, I walk around 6000 steps to and from work, and I don't know how many steps I walk in my 6-8 hour shifts because we can't wear activity trackers.
I try to stay at around 1200 calories because I'm so short but often I'm going WAY over it with my weird chicken nugget binges and being poorly disciplined. When I want to eat a lot of food it's not that I'm always hungry, its more like I just HAVE to eat it (I've realised it comes from my ED past) and I literally can't settle until I do. I do also have a binging problem obviously.
At this point, I'm not sure if I should eat more calories from just assuming I'm underestimating my activity level (incase I gain) or if I should just try and eat awfully processed food in a calorie deficit?
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