I think it was a result of getting my ADHD under control but I have had a lot of unintentional weight loss recently. As soon as I actually realized that my cotton clothes were not permanently stretching due to age of the fabric and that I was actually shrinking I celebrated. And bought new clothes to celebrate my new size. And then I needed to replace those clothes a few weeks later. (That was a financial ouch.)
Well I decided I wanted to keep the weight loss going on at its current rate and downloaded a calorie tracker. It asked me a bunch of questions and offered three calorie limits based on how fast I wanted to lose weight. I chose middle of the road, 1350 calories. I'm trying all the bells and whistles of the program and it has illustrated there are things related to weight loss I don't understand.
First, it's not calorie in, calorie out. It keeps track of what I've eaten and the exercise I've done during a day and adjusts my calorie balance. But there are days when it tells me that I can eat an additional 2200 calories that day. Someone on a hobby forum I'm on said that I actually do burn calories just breathing (when I made a comment that breathing doesn't burn calories) so it might be that on the long work days I've just burned that many calories on top of some metabolic thing. But what metabolic thing? I can't imagine breathing and having a pulse taking more than a couple hundred calories.
Second, it wants me to weigh myself daily and I'm finding I'm having dramatic (2-4 pounds) variation from day to day, depending on when I weigh myself. I weighed myself twice today and I gained 2 pounds between the two weigh-ins. Someone mentioned water weight and my calorie tracker is telling me I'm averaging 14 (8 oz) cups of water in a day but does drinking 14 cups of water really add 2 pounds by the end of the day?
I really want this weight loss to continue, I've accidentally lost 40 pounds in 5 months just simply from not impulse eating anymore. What makes it more special is that I'm on several medicines that all have weight gain as a side effect. I just don't understand how to deliberately lose weight, especially on that scale. I've never dieted before, I always considered it a lost cause due to my starting size, so I know absolutely nothing.
Well I decided I wanted to keep the weight loss going on at its current rate and downloaded a calorie tracker. It asked me a bunch of questions and offered three calorie limits based on how fast I wanted to lose weight. I chose middle of the road, 1350 calories. I'm trying all the bells and whistles of the program and it has illustrated there are things related to weight loss I don't understand.
First, it's not calorie in, calorie out. It keeps track of what I've eaten and the exercise I've done during a day and adjusts my calorie balance. But there are days when it tells me that I can eat an additional 2200 calories that day. Someone on a hobby forum I'm on said that I actually do burn calories just breathing (when I made a comment that breathing doesn't burn calories) so it might be that on the long work days I've just burned that many calories on top of some metabolic thing. But what metabolic thing? I can't imagine breathing and having a pulse taking more than a couple hundred calories.
Second, it wants me to weigh myself daily and I'm finding I'm having dramatic (2-4 pounds) variation from day to day, depending on when I weigh myself. I weighed myself twice today and I gained 2 pounds between the two weigh-ins. Someone mentioned water weight and my calorie tracker is telling me I'm averaging 14 (8 oz) cups of water in a day but does drinking 14 cups of water really add 2 pounds by the end of the day?
I really want this weight loss to continue, I've accidentally lost 40 pounds in 5 months just simply from not impulse eating anymore. What makes it more special is that I'm on several medicines that all have weight gain as a side effect. I just don't understand how to deliberately lose weight, especially on that scale. I've never dieted before, I always considered it a lost cause due to my starting size, so I know absolutely nothing.
