I am female, 5'5", 54 with treated hashimotos and in perimenopause. I have gone from 185 to 166 over the past 8 or 9 months on about 1500 calories per day. GW is 140-145.
I am a slow loser, and I am mostly OK with that, though sometimes it gets frustrating. I am active. I walk an average of 1200 steps daily. I lift heavy things at work. My fitness watch says I currently burn about 2200-2400 calories per day, though it is probably somewhat inaccurate due to my metabolic issues. I aim for an insulin balancing diet of high fiber and protein with lots of veggies and moderate whole carbs. What I am doing is working (slowly) and I feel good. And yes, I weigh and measure everything. I follow 16:8 intermittent fasting.
My conundrum is this: I use the Loseit app, and now that I have lost almost 20 pounds, it has dropped me to an average of 1300 calories per day.
I am not adapting well to this.
Psychologically I am having a hard time, and deprivation thinking has kicked in. I keep "sneaking" small handfuls of nuts or other little snacks which is obviously counter productive and erasing whatever extra deficit there was and then some. I am hungry again in the late afternoon, a time I find particularly challenging. It is mostly mental, though I am hungrier, too. Weight loss has not surprisingly, stalled out the past couple of weeks.
Obviously I don't have to do what the app suggests and can re-calibrate my calorie goals and still stay in a deficit.
What should I do? Try to eat slightly less (1400 cals)? Try to figure out how to stick to 1300? Go back to 1500 but try to burn more every day? I could add intentional strength training, for example.
How have you all dealt with this mostly mental hurdle of eating less after you have lost some weight?
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