17F 5’2 SW: 160 CW: 132 GW: 110-120
TW: disordered eating, also I am in no way encouraging eating the way I did, just giving you my story and seeking advice.
This year so far has unfortunately been a tough one for me in terms of food. When I was overweight I struggled with binge eating (wasn’t diagnosed) and it got to the point where I was doing it almost everyday. Fast forward to October 2020 and I started to take my health more and I decided that I would no longer yo-to diet but do CICO with a combo of intermittent fasting. It ended up working out great obviously and I finally start to lose weight and had not binged since before I started losing, there were a few days I overate but they couldn’t compare to how I was eating before.
Since I got down to around 132 I had been feeling slightly hungrier even though I’d been eating around 1400 calories since the beginning of my journey. I started getting a little impatient because I’ve been sedentary for the most part and knew I needed to create a bigger deficit because I wasn’t burning as much as before. So I did that and it was going okay until recently.
About a week ago I was PMSing and I had cravings so I had a few maintenance days to combat this problem and it normally works out okay. Well this time I overate 2 days in a row and ended with a binge on the last day, which was at least 4000+ calories (I didn’t count). I ate past the point of being sick (although somehow I didn’t throw up) and afterwards I was in so much pain that I literally thought my stomach was going to burst. I hadn’t eaten like that in so long and I’m not that big of a person so I suffered in the days that followed. When I stepped on the scale the next morning I weighed 137 and I panicked. So I restricted the next 4 days and ate under 1000 calories. I know it’s not okay to eat this much or little but I wasn’t really thinking straight and wanted to get back down to my original weight quickly. It worked and I got back down to 132 so I decided I would eat 1200 and have one maintenance day of 1600 per week.
Yesterday I ate 2000 instead of 1600 for my maintenance day and today I ate my actual maintenance rather than going back down to 1200. The kicker is I’m still hungry (yay!). I know some of you will say “1200 isn’t enough! Your young and that’s what a toddler needs, blah, blah, blah.” Please don’t tell me this. I am a short person with a low TDEE and even with extra walking I can’t eat a lot. I also don’t do high intensity exercise because it increases my hunger. I am waiting to start doing more workouts once I hit my goal range so I can eat an adequate amount.
So that’s what’s happened so far and I’m just struggling. Ever since I’ve got to the low 130s my hunger has been out of control. I just have a strong desire to eat and I don’t even remember how I did it the rest of the time when I was in a deficit. I’ve heard a bit about having a “set point” in terms of weight and I think 134 may be mine. The lowest weight I can remember weighing at this height was 134 and then I went up from there. No matter what it seems like I can’t get past 130 and I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried eating at different times of the day from 5 meals to 2 meals (I think 2 works best) but it isn’t helping anymore. I already also practice volume eating and I make sure to eat enough protein, so I’m just like: what else can I do?!?
My last solution is to take a maintenance break for about 2 weeks and then slowly go down by 50 calories each week until I reach 1300. I’ve taken maintenance breaks before and I was going to do so at 130 but I guess I’m going to start it now. If anyone has any advice or has experienced this I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts! I don’t know any other solutions and I’m feeling pretty frustrated after these past few months.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/lyshek/in_need_of_advice_even_though_i_already_have/
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