Hey,
I was thinking about how "unfair" it is that when I diet, I don't lose any weight and just maintain or lose 0.2lbs in like two weeks. But the moment I stop dieting, I gain weight. Basically, when I decide to lose weight, I usually go all out. Starting running, yoga, and strength training while tracking my calories, fasting, eating more vegetables, and cutting junk food and sugar. I don't last a month as you can guess. Then, I take a cheat day that turns into a couple of weeks, I gain back what I've lost, I diet again but this time with less restriction for a couple of weeks (ie not counting calories but fasting and eating clean). I don't lose weight at all. I get angry and stop dieting, I gain MORE WEIGHT and the cycle continues.
I was on a break from dieting the last couple of months to focus on my thesis (I graduated so yay me!). and I gained 20lbs :( I was blaming this on stress eating. But I was reading about how when we're stressed, we tend to "revert back" to our defaults and safe options. I believe this is true as I couldn't build any new habits last couple of months due to stress and just did what I usually do. What made me notice something is how quickly I dropped exercise even though I used to believe that exercise is a habit of mine. Yet, I continued to brush my teeth, shower, drink water, learn a language. studying, you know, things that are ACTUALLY a habit of mine and not things that I THINK are a habit.
So, since graduating, I decided to actually track my defaults. Default food, default calories, default routine, and so on. Turns out I:
- eat +1000 cal over my maintenance A DAY
- rarely cook. I love cooking but because the kitchen is dirty, I don't feel like cooking. when I do cook tho, I tend to cook for a couple of days so that's good! (but only one meal worth, ie precooking lunch for the next 3 days)
- I. do. not. eat. vegetable. I love vegetables, but I noticed I DON'T eat them at all unless I ate one of the meals I cook at home or drank a green smoothie
- On my best days, I eat one meal a day. No this is not OMAD, I literally eat one proper meal, the rest is snacks or half meals
- my portion size is normal, not big and not small, but I eat too frequently, sometimes twice an hour.
- Meals are usually preprocessed food or junk food. I also eat takeouts 5 times a week at least. I eat junk food like chips or chocolate multiple times a day
- I don't exercise and spend +12 hours sitting in front of my PC working
To summarize, there are too many things to unpack lol. It's not only the calories (which it is) but also the quality. Not to mention not moving at all
I need to stop being a perfectionist and start working on these issues one by one instead of going all out. I'm still not sure how to tackle this or where to start or how to make habits stick instead of yo-yo dieting, but I'll try
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/qu9tdi/tracked_my_calories_at_maintenance_for_a_couple/
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