Well since I got back last Saturday I've been eating around 2000 cals a day as a bit of a break, maybe even more a couple of days, been out on the drink twice aswell and I always go to an extreme doing that, my weight spiked up right up (by half a stone) in the past I would have been really dissapointed by that and thought maybe it's not worth the effort if it all goes back on so easily. This time as a bit of an experiment I ate maintenance calories to see if the half stone increase was either real, partly real, or just fluid. Turns out it wasn't a real gain, I've been eating really quite a lot the last few days and it's settled right back where it started last weekend at 22st13. I feel this weeks break I've given myself should have given my metabolism a real boost aswell. I'm not sure where to go from here though, although I can happily do decent periods of severely restricted calories, once the weight loss tails off I lose motivation and go onto maintenance calories for a while. The weight spike is a bit depressing when I do that although I know it's not real, but it makes it hard for me to not keep giving myself one last day, and then another and another before I go back to a real calorie reduction. I've been thinking of maybe trying some kind of intermittent fasting, but I know in the past I tried the 5:2, and found it far too easy to postpone my fasting days to the point that I wouldn't actually do one during that week, I also used to use my non fasting days as real feasting days eating far too many calories
anyway, I know I'm rambling on but I really feel it's time for me to make some kind if change and am open to suggestions.
I know shakes etc won't work, I need to feel like I'm eating food. Intermittent fasting I find it hard to actually do a fasting day, and too easy to put off. Calorie restriction has worked for me so far, but eventually stops working and then I have to take a break from dieting which I find frustrating. Maybe if that's what has worked so far though I should just keep it up? Or maybe not drop my calories so low that I need to take breaks to get my metabolism going again? But then would the slower losses Kurb my enthusiasm?
maybe I just stop thinking about it and be happy I've lost 61lbs in 13 weeks?
sorry for waffling on lol