Hey friends!
Medical resident here, and fairly educated on the weight loss literature and methods. Recently, I started a fat loss phase prepping for a family event in the summer. It coincided with rotating on to a very busy rotation where I was on call every 3 days - that is to say, 2-3 hours sleep every 3 days. I restricted on my non call days by 200-400 less than maintenance and then on call days would do one meal a day for 600+ below maintenance. After this month, I felt physically terrible... and ended up gaining 7lbs in 3 weeks. Before you ask, no there was no overnight eating, and no heavily creamed and sugared coffees. At most, my tracking was off enough to not lose weight, but I don’t know how it would be off so much to gain.
I am wondering a couple of things: 1) has anyone who works nights / crazy resident schedule like this / sleep deprivation other ways experienced something like this? (Especially if you were trying to diet) 2) ...why? 3) in any event, I think this weight gain is real (I can see it on me and feel it in my clothes, so probably not just water) - is there anything else I can do to help? I’m afraid the sleep has just completely dismantled my metabolism and I’m in a terrible place now to diet metabolically.
Would appreciate any and all thoughts!
Ticags.
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