Hi r/loseit, first time posting. Just wanted to see if anyone can help explain what's happening to me or has had any similar experiences.
I started my weight loss journey on September 19th @ 306.8 lbs, 42.3% BF... I'm a 26 year old, 6' tall guy, and I began eating in around a 1000 calorie per day deficit; for me, that brought me down to roughly 1,800 Kcal/day. I tracked calories and my weight religiously between September 19th and November 19th, eating at that deficit every day except for one "maintenance week" where I ate 2,800 Kcal (calculated with online tools). I lost weight quite quickly the first two weeks as was expected, but then the losses began to slow, and then completely stall, which I also knew was normal and bound to happen. Before traveling home for Thanksgiving about a week before the holiday, I weighed in @ 287.8 lbs, 40.8% BF. I stopped tracking/weighing in while traveling, and due to end of year stresses, I haven't restarted tracking since my last weigh-in on November 19th. In the mean time, I haven't been binging or gorging myself on food as I have been known to do in the past, but I certainly let myself eat what I wanted within reason, and in portions larger than I had been allowing myself to eat over the previous two months.
I just weighed in this morning, December 10th, 3 weeks after I stopped "trying" on my diet, and I am down to 283.3 lbs, 39.8% BF... can anyone explain what's happening? How is it that my loss crawls or stalls completely when in a deficit, even when introducing diet breaks, but then suddenly accelerates when I stop trying? I've tried researching it, but haven't found any info that seemed convincing. Can anyone relate? I'm not that upset about this (quite the opposite actually), just confused...
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