I am a 5'9", 20 something trans dude. I walk a few miles a day, run 3-5k every other day. I'm not severely overweight, my BMI is about 26.4, and I gained weight very slowly over the last few years after I stopped playing sports but ate the same. I've been a vegetarian for most of my life, so I have done a good job at supplementing and counting macros; I'm not super worried about malnourishment.
I decided a little under a month ago that I wanted to lose 30-40 pounds. I stopped eating out, stopped mindlessly snacking, and stopped eating when I was no longer hungry rather than eating until full. That's it, I don't count calories, unless I made a specific recipe and was curious about how calorically dense it was, most of the time it would be just one meal between 400-700 calories.
I have, so far, lost 12 pounds, over 3 a week. It's more than I wanted to, I planned on losing 6 pounds a month. A week ago, I asked my partner to count the calories I ate since we have spent all of the last week around each other. I asked him so I wouldn't change what I was eating because I was the one counting, just out of curiosity. I have eaten sweets, fudge and pastries, etc. Three meals a day, oftentimes stuff that seems unhealthy (stirfries, rice, veggie sushi, lots of pizza, comfort foods). I felt like I was eating a lot and haven't really gotten hungry.
Well, the results are in, I've average about 1150 calories a day. I don't know what to change. I'm not hungry, I actually feel great. But if I keep this up I will be underweight in just a few months. This is nicest I've felt in years, there have been some days when I eat more, but always end up feeling sluggish and yucky.
Have any of you had this problem? I want to keep losing weight but not so much that I fuck with my metabolism. If you kept losing weight super fast, what happened after several months?
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