Carbs: The Enemy? (carbohydrate, protein, 2015, losing)
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Geeze, I didn't eat all of that in one meal! It was spread out over several days! I couldn't hold that much in one sitting.
If you're attributing 3 lbs of fat gain in a week from two lunches, yeah, you ate 5,000 calories on each of those lunches. And yes, that's the point. It's absurd and you didn't eat 5,000 calories. The difference was water weight, what is in your digestive system, and/or bowel movements and not relevant. You didn't put on 3 pounds of fat from eating lunch twice. Three pounds is just normal weight fluctuation in a day. It's why you look at rolling averages.
If you're attributing 3 lbs of fat gain in a week from two lunches, yeah, you ate 5,000 calories on each of those lunches. And yes, that's the point. It's absurd and you didn't eat 5,000 calories. The difference was water weight, what is in your digestive system, and/or bowel movements and not relevant. You didn't put on 3 pounds of fat from eating lunch twice. Three pounds is just normal weight fluctuation in a day. It's why you look at rolling averages.
I find weighing myself once a week a better indicator of actual loss or gain.
I find weighing myself once a week a better indicator of actual loss or gain.
Well, it's not really more accurate as there's that same variation. +/- 2-5 pounds is really just noise for most people. It doesn't indicate that you've either gained or lost what people actually care about, which is body fat. Looking at the rolling average or just generalized trend is much more meaningful.
Eg you might measure once a week and get:
205, 206, 202, 204, 200, 202, 203, 198, 200, 201, 197, 200. Even though the last week you "gained" three pounds, it's not really meaningful of anything on its own. If you went on vacation and ate like a total glutton you might put on three pounds of fat in a week. It's just CICO though. It's pretty hard to run either a 1,500 calorie deficit/surplus in a week. Possible, but not likely. Hell, I can change my weight on cheapo scale by a couple pounds just by getting on and off it and putting my feet in a different position.
Every week I weigh the least on Saturday morning because I'm coming off 5 days of adherence to the plan.
On Saturday and Sunday I eat more, so I gain a few pounds.
Then I lose it all again and then some the next week.
When I reach my goal weight, my weekday plan is not going to change. It's very easy to stick to.
Weekends will be different. The plan is to have as many free days as possible while maintaining.
If it's every Saturday, then great. If it's every two or three Saturdays, that's fine, too.
Every time I've had a free day since August, I lost it in a week.
I gained 8 lbs on my birthday weekend and it was all gone by the next Saturday.
Every week I weigh the least on Saturday morning because I'm coming off 5 days of adherence to the plan.
On Saturday and Sunday I eat more, so I gain a few pounds.
Then I lose it all again and then some the next week.
When I reach my goal weight, my weekday plan is not going to change. It's very easy to stick to.
Weekends will be different. The plan is to have as many free days as possible while maintaining.
If it's every Saturday, then great. If it's every two or three Saturdays, that's fine, too.
Every time I've had a free day since August, I lost it in a week. I gained 8 lbs on my birthday weekend and it was all gone by the next Saturday.
I hope you realize the majority of that weight was water.
Every week I weigh the least on Saturday morning because I'm coming off 5 days of adherence to the plan.
On Saturday and Sunday I eat more, so I gain a few pounds.
Then I lose it all again and then some the next week.
When I reach my goal weight, my weekday plan is not going to change. It's very easy to stick to.
Weekends will be different. The plan is to have as many free days as possible while maintaining.
If it's every Saturday, then great. If it's every two or three Saturdays, that's fine, too.
Every time I've had a free day since August, I lost it in a week.
I gained 8 lbs on my birthday weekend and it was all gone by the next Saturday.
You're wasting your time on this yo-yo dieting.
The human body doesn't run to a 7-day week.
You need a sensible lifetime eating regime.
This reminds me that I need to make cornbread......
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