Weighty matters
Apr. 15th, 2006 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puddingcatThis SparkPeople diety thingy...
Well, I've lost my water weight; 4lbs of it. What comes off now *should*, in theory, be fat.
Usually when I diet, I go all out - much as I do for anything else. I'm either in it to win, or I don't try at all. I lose 7-14lbs, then stop & go back to old habits - which keep me at a steady weight, so I don't put any back on. I do gain it back next time a stresspatch hits me & I start comfort eating.
This Spark thingy is making me start slowly, which feels strange. I'm not *supposed* to be counting calories yet; only keeping track of what I eat so I know where I most need to make changes (although it has given me a target daily intake - I assume so I know whether I'm miles or feet out).
I know I can't expect to wake up tomorrow and be thin. It's taken me 16 months to get this size, from when I broke my wrist, and I can't expect it to come off again in a few weeks. I also know that muscle weighs more than fat, and so what the scales say isn't the end of the world. With those things in mind:
I'd been going to the gym 3 times a week & burning off 300-400 Calories a time for a month or so before I started this thing.
Without changing anything, I'm fluctuating between eating 1400 and 1900 Calories a day.
Even allowing for my (lack of) height meaning that I need slightly less than the "average" 2000 Cals/day, that means I should have been getting thinner over the last month. Not much; maybe just enough that some trousers aren't tight any more; but I should have seen a difference somewhere, either on the scales or in the fit of my clothes.
And I haven't.
If this was just the first week of a normal diet, I wouldn't mind. It's the fact that it's after five weeks of a fairly rigorous exercise plan, combined with sensible eating, that's making me disillusioned. I don't like the way I look or feel, and I want to know what I'm doing wrong.
Bah.
Well, I've lost my water weight; 4lbs of it. What comes off now *should*, in theory, be fat.
Usually when I diet, I go all out - much as I do for anything else. I'm either in it to win, or I don't try at all. I lose 7-14lbs, then stop & go back to old habits - which keep me at a steady weight, so I don't put any back on. I do gain it back next time a stresspatch hits me & I start comfort eating.
This Spark thingy is making me start slowly, which feels strange. I'm not *supposed* to be counting calories yet; only keeping track of what I eat so I know where I most need to make changes (although it has given me a target daily intake - I assume so I know whether I'm miles or feet out).
I know I can't expect to wake up tomorrow and be thin. It's taken me 16 months to get this size, from when I broke my wrist, and I can't expect it to come off again in a few weeks. I also know that muscle weighs more than fat, and so what the scales say isn't the end of the world. With those things in mind:
I'd been going to the gym 3 times a week & burning off 300-400 Calories a time for a month or so before I started this thing.
Without changing anything, I'm fluctuating between eating 1400 and 1900 Calories a day.
Even allowing for my (lack of) height meaning that I need slightly less than the "average" 2000 Cals/day, that means I should have been getting thinner over the last month. Not much; maybe just enough that some trousers aren't tight any more; but I should have seen a difference somewhere, either on the scales or in the fit of my clothes.
And I haven't.
If this was just the first week of a normal diet, I wouldn't mind. It's the fact that it's after five weeks of a fairly rigorous exercise plan, combined with sensible eating, that's making me disillusioned. I don't like the way I look or feel, and I want to know what I'm doing wrong.
Bah.
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Date: 2006-04-15 10:14 pm (UTC)Ordinarily, my energy in slightly exceeds my calories expended. With the addition of exercise, I should have reversed that enough by now to see a difference somewhere. I'm not dieting as such yet, so I shouldn't be damaging my metabolism at all.
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Date: 2006-04-15 10:19 pm (UTC)