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Hi all, First thank you to everybody who posted support. I really do love this website platform. It somehow makes me feel more human to know everyones struggles - emphasis weightloss struggles.
Good news, not only for me, but maybe for others too. I Just weighed myself again after 8 days, since my disappointing 1 pound loss. I have to say that I did do a lot of research and reading about weightloss and plateaus and building muscle mass, metabolism and really looking deeper into my eating habits. This was all because I knew that I had adhered to my diet so intently and exercised daily, so keeping all that control and then to find that I was NOT in control, I wanted to understand why.
I have to say that I am not new to studying food nutrition, herbal remedies etc. My husband's favorite dieting mantra is to just eat less and move more (he is now at a 15 pound reduction by the way ;). This is basic, good advice, but what I learned in my studying this week really made sense and my 3.5 pound loss testifies to my new insights.
I will explain.
Since I knew that I had exercised and eaten mostly 7-900 calories those days, I did the math and expected good weightloss. What I think happened instead, was that the exercising and low calorie intake triggered something refered to as, 'starvation mode'. What made me believe this was that I WAS hungry during that week and I was having amplified taste sense. If you remember, I commented on how absolutely delicious every bite of food seemed. That was my brain trying to egg me on to eat more! Basically my brain dialed back my metabolism to survive. The message it was receiving was that there was a shortage of food and so that my body was on a very low caloric burn, despite my diet discipline!
So thinking that I am going into a weightloss plateau, I want to know how to get past this. I read about ways to jumpstart metabolism and I learned some key things.
The weight trainers that strive for the lowest amount of body fat despite their weight perfection claim that even they need to trick their metabolism into running full and constant. How they do this is to eat their RDI and sometimes up to 20% more once or twice a weak. They also take off days from rigorous exercise. This triggers the metabolism to an opposite effect. That there is lots of food source to process and so the furnace ramps up. Note that it is important to be eating healthy food and just a caloric amount at your RDI.
Additionally,to keep the metabolism at a constant churn, there is the importance to be eating all day long! Well that was one of my first weight loss regimen rules - to stop picking all day long and to not eat inbetween meals. So this past week I did a minor tweak to my eating and began eating 100 calorie snacks all day. After normal breakfast, which has included an egg most days, I eat again at 11 and 1 and 3 and then I get home from working on this house renovation project and miraculously, I am not starving for dinner. I have my mind to think sensibly about a healthy dinner.
I have been eating eggs and steel cut oats raw with yoghurt and granola bars as snacks. This is important between these food have lots of protein that take the metabolism a long time to process.
I will say that besides not being hungry anymore, I have lost that taste sensation exaggeration. Food tastes good, but it does not slay me, subvert me, etc.
I will also add that I have been drinking a lot of green tea - about 4 cups a day to be hydrated. Not sure that this is any effect, but that is a recent implement.
I did not exercise on the stationary bike all week. I am doing physical work lifting and carrying wood, standing and doing stairs and lugging tools and painting for hours, so to come home and exercise seems like an unlikely amount of exercise and movement to ever maintain. I'm thinking forward.
Not sure why, except for pure exhaustion from the renovation work, but I have been sleeping long and deep and this has not been the case for a while. I have a menapausal insomnia that visits often, but for some reason has been put at bay. Yay!
We have been out to dinner twice last week - still no trepidation about that. Also hosted my kids for a pie and stuffed shells, meatballs, veggies and showed them that we can be on a regimen and be eating all the good stuff!
Life is good.
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169.0 lb
Lost so far: 16.0 lb.
Still to go: 24.0 lb.
Diet followed 100%.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 26 October 2015:
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1173 kcal
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Fat: 28.89g | Prot: 73.91g | Carb: 119.30g.
Breakfast: QFC Fat Free Cottage Cheese, Quaker Rice Cakes - Lightly Salted, Coffee with Milk and Sugar. Lunch: Quaker Chewy 90 Calorie Lowfat Granola Bars - Chocolate Chunk, Apples, 365 Organic Steel Cut Oats, Nonfat Fruit Variety Yogurt. Dinner: Pinot Gris (Grigio) Wine, Chester's Boneless Chicken Wings, Bertolli Creamy Alfredo Sauce, Barilla Linguini, Broccoli Flower Clusters, Skinless Chicken Breast, Great Value Garlic Bread, Lettuce Salad with Assorted Vegetables. more...
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2465 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
renovating - 5 hours, Resting - 11 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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losing 3.1 lb a week
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