Just needing to vent. I'm down 50kg from my highest weight and I've been actively focusing on losing weight for 18 months where the bulk has come off - around 38kg. However I'm now in the skinny fat phase where I've got a serious belly pouch going on that I'd like to shift. I appreciate that that part is going to be slow to get there.
But right now I'm getting really frustrated at people close to me saying "It doesn't matter, just have a day off" when I'm now trying to accurately track calories for at least some period of time (2 to 3 weeks) to work out my maintenance calories on a new exercise regime I've undertaken. People see me looking mostly skinny (arms, shoulders, face, etc) and wearing nice fitting clothes, sure I look good - tight clothes compress my belly in and my figure looks ok. But there's still blatantly a lot more fat to lose that people don't see.
Currently I weigh myself daily and I look at an average of the weight over 2 weeks. I gauge from that whether I need to increase or decrease the amount I eat depending what pace I want to lose weight at. I lost at nearly 3lb/s a week for 4 months continuously and had side effects - hair loss, sagging skin, etc, muscle loss. I've also at times really struggled with some disordered eating in the way of binge/restrict cycles and still lost weight - but I know that's harmful and I don't want to be doing that, even if it gets results on the scales.
So sure if all I cared about was looking at the number on my scales and wanting it to go down then I know I could very easily just undereat a lot and the weight will eventually come off. But I don't want that and risk side effects.
I'm currently targeting a small weight loss target (200g a week) as I'm hoping to also build some muscle through strength training at the same time. So like.. with my current activity level I simply don't know if my body can get by on as little as say 1400 calories or maybe I actually need closer to 2000 calories with this new exercise program. Current aim is 1600 calories a day and see where I'm at in 2 and either increase or decrease that by 100 calories depending on what my average weight ends up as.
I know that even looking at a week by week weight there are fluctuations/sudden weight catch ups etc and realistically I only get a clearer picture by extending my average to looking at weight over 2 or even 3 week period.
So I feel like a day off from not tracking calories during this period effectively makes the entire weeks data useless and I have to start again to figure out what my target weekly average calorie intake should be.
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I'm just frustrated at people for not getting how much I time and mental effort I'm putting into this when they're so dismissive of me telling them I need to be careful of where I'm eating out etc and choosing only places/foods that I can get a close as accurate calorie count from. You baked me a cupcake? Great, it's likely very tasty but I'm sorry - I can't eat it. I couldn't accurately gauge whether it's 200 calories or 600 calories. Invited to a small restaurant with no nutritional labels on any of the food.. out of the question at this stage for me.
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