On the 27th of may i officially began my journey to a healthier lifestyle and weight. I started at 130,3kg and lost 4kg in the first month. But that was when i started to notice i was barely losing weight and 10 days ago i lost my motivation due to life getting in the way and having only lost 2 more kilo's in all the rest of my journey.
I was doing CICO and after a month i started seeing a dietician who presribed a more balanced meal than that i was getting. I was eating about 1800cals a day and expected i was at a deficit of nearly 800cals. (i'm 180cm 22F so my starting TDEE was about 2585 cals for maintenance or so i thought).
So now a mistery began. Why wasn't i losing my promised 0,75kg a week. Not even in trendlines or anything by a longshot. Well when calculating my TDEE i didn't account for... my abnormal body fat percentage for someone with my weight. Turns out my TDEE is around 2147cals a day for maintenance. I've also understood that my muscle mass is quite high. Actually as of now 63,7kg of my 124,1kg is pure muscle. Which is significantly high to say that if the muscle is close to maintained my bmi would wind up somewhere around 28 and i'd be as healthy as i could be. Also when maintaining my muscles my tdee will not drop much lower than what it is.
So i got new goals for myself as of now. I'll first of all will follow my dietician's advise of an high protein diet more closely. Will set my CICO to 1550cals a day (so just snack less and keeping to my diet). Try to find enjoyable muscle building exercises to try and maintain or even build my muscles. As for scale goals: i want to go to about 90kgs (instead of the 75kgs i was going for before) and a 27% body fat on the body composition analyzer at the dieticians.
I at least learned a lesson that not every body is composed the same way. And sometimes a couple of extra bits and pieces of info are needed.
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