For reference I'm 20F, 5'3, SW: 155 lbs, CW:147 lbs, GW: 130 lbs
So I started CICO at the beginning of May, and it was going great (-6 lbs lost). I was eating a baseline of 1240 calories a day, but I would eat back calories burned from exercise, so on most days that was around 1400 calories.
However, this past week was really hard. I started doing less cardio and therefore I had less calories to eat, and I ended up feeling almost ravenous which led to binging on 3 occasions. My weight spiked from 144 to 147. I was pretty disappointed because I was soo close to a healthy weight range, but here I am approaching my starting weight range.
I could tell that my approach was going a bit sour before these binges--I would go on long walks just so I could be "allowed" to eat more or if I felt guilty for eating a piece of chocolate or ice cream. I started to make my runs longer so I could burn more calories and then eat more. Then I realized the problem: there's a reason why I want to eat more so bad.
So I'm changing my strategy, and I've decided to increase my daily caloric intake to 1500. However, this time I'm not factoring in exercise; so I'm probably still eating nearly the same amount that I was, but my mentality has changed; 1500 is just the routine, regardless if I exercise or not, it's not some sort of reward for walking 2 extra miles. Whereas before if I went over 1400 I would feel really shit and either binge or exercise to burn it off, but now I have that leeway built into my diet. I'm hoping that with this mindset I can separate diet and exercise--my diet is for me to lose weight, and exercise is for me to feel better and stronger. If the two help each other, then even better, but I don't want them to be so interdependent.
I'm hoping this will be more sustainable for me, as I naturally have a huge appetite, and 1240 was just not cutting it for me. Honestly what I've learned these past few months while losing weight is that you have to keep playing around until you find what works for you. There have been several points when I thought I figured it out, realized then I didn't, and then I had to take a step back and re-evaluate. Honestly who knows if this will work for me, but I'll give it a shot for a few weeks, and if it doesn't work for me, I'll repeat the above process.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/h98tdn/trying_something_new/
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