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I am not following any sort of official diet. I just got sick of being fat sick of failed diets so I made my own. The Math Diet. from what I understand 3500cals is a pound. +3500 +1lb -3500 -1lb. thats my diet.
so I decided to see just HOW LOW a calorie intake I could do a day and not feel hungry. I was quite shocked when I tried 1200 calories and was fine. 1000 calories fin 800calories STILL FINE. I feared going any lower for nutritional reasons.
I did compensate by eating mass quantities of ultra low calorie foods. lots of tomato's Spinach and veggies. Especially tomato's 30cals a pop and Spinach WHOLE DAMNED BAG 35 calories. man I am glad for that as I love spinach.
anyway its been working extremely well. Been doing it since september 18th lost just shy of 49pounds so far from 418.8 to 470.2 this morning.
I am running into an annoyance. The math is bothering me so I want to smooth it out.
I will have a steady loss of .8 to 1.5 pounds per day for 4-5 days and then "stall" sometimes "GAIN" 1-2 pounds and stall for 2-3 days. Then resume losing.
what irks me for example is this one time last week I gains 2.6 pounds back one day.
what irks me is I DID NOT EAT 2.6 pounds of mass the previous day. this is a logic fail for me if I did not even consume 2.6 pounds of food the previous day even if my body converted 100% of what I ate to fat how could I possibly gain more than I ate ??
now off course the next day I lose a pound then 1.5 pounds by the 3rd day I was net positive loss again. typical happens almost every week. (usually to a slightly smaller degree)
then it hit me. LIQUIDS I easily consume 5-10 pounds of liquids a day depending on how active I am. Then I noticed during the times I gained I was not urinating as much as I might normally.
so I must be retaining liquids temporarily.
how do I stop this? how do I even this out? I don't EVER want to see that number go up. Period.
I tried going hard core and forcing myself through the "stall zone" as I call it. when I hit my 4th day I will do 500-600 calories (and actually eat more volume ie I up the spinach tomato veggy intake) I don't ever feel hungry since I know thats bad. I eat 5-6 times a day.
this does have an impact and one time I avoided a stall but not always
All my liquid are sugar free. Usually something like wawa green tea (I swear if you sliced me open I would bleed the stuff its so good) or turkeyhill white tea or wally world crystal light knock off.
I pretty much avoid soda at all costs.
I would rather see a slightly smaller but CONTINUOUS daily loss than have these gains and 2-3 day stalls.
suggestions? ie what am I doing wrong? lately I have been almost LIVING off white rice and chick chop suey. very low cal very nutritional and very tasty and filling. it has accelerated my weight loss.
other things I eat. EB's with spinach and tuna and tomato's for breakfast. sometimes rice spinach onion and mushrooms mixed together with tomato side.
lots of chicken and fish. no beef no pork. sometimes turkey if I get a good deal on it. ie only meats where I get about 4oz for 100calories.
100cal yogurts here and their. a piece of fruit here and their (my inbetween meals) etc..
what am I doing wrong? what is causing these annoying temporary gains and stalls. They are very demoralizing even though I KNOW them are temporary.
Thanks!
so I decided to see just HOW LOW a calorie intake I could do a day and not feel hungry. I was quite shocked when I tried 1200 calories and was fine. 1000 calories fin 800calories STILL FINE. I feared going any lower for nutritional reasons.
I did compensate by eating mass quantities of ultra low calorie foods. lots of tomato's Spinach and veggies. Especially tomato's 30cals a pop and Spinach WHOLE DAMNED BAG 35 calories. man I am glad for that as I love spinach.
anyway its been working extremely well. Been doing it since september 18th lost just shy of 49pounds so far from 418.8 to 470.2 this morning.
I am running into an annoyance. The math is bothering me so I want to smooth it out.
I will have a steady loss of .8 to 1.5 pounds per day for 4-5 days and then "stall" sometimes "GAIN" 1-2 pounds and stall for 2-3 days. Then resume losing.
what irks me for example is this one time last week I gains 2.6 pounds back one day.
what irks me is I DID NOT EAT 2.6 pounds of mass the previous day. this is a logic fail for me if I did not even consume 2.6 pounds of food the previous day even if my body converted 100% of what I ate to fat how could I possibly gain more than I ate ??
now off course the next day I lose a pound then 1.5 pounds by the 3rd day I was net positive loss again. typical happens almost every week. (usually to a slightly smaller degree)
then it hit me. LIQUIDS I easily consume 5-10 pounds of liquids a day depending on how active I am. Then I noticed during the times I gained I was not urinating as much as I might normally.
so I must be retaining liquids temporarily.
how do I stop this? how do I even this out? I don't EVER want to see that number go up. Period.
I tried going hard core and forcing myself through the "stall zone" as I call it. when I hit my 4th day I will do 500-600 calories (and actually eat more volume ie I up the spinach tomato veggy intake) I don't ever feel hungry since I know thats bad. I eat 5-6 times a day.
this does have an impact and one time I avoided a stall but not always
All my liquid are sugar free. Usually something like wawa green tea (I swear if you sliced me open I would bleed the stuff its so good) or turkeyhill white tea or wally world crystal light knock off.
I pretty much avoid soda at all costs.
I would rather see a slightly smaller but CONTINUOUS daily loss than have these gains and 2-3 day stalls.
suggestions? ie what am I doing wrong? lately I have been almost LIVING off white rice and chick chop suey. very low cal very nutritional and very tasty and filling. it has accelerated my weight loss.
other things I eat. EB's with spinach and tuna and tomato's for breakfast. sometimes rice spinach onion and mushrooms mixed together with tomato side.
lots of chicken and fish. no beef no pork. sometimes turkey if I get a good deal on it. ie only meats where I get about 4oz for 100calories.
100cal yogurts here and their. a piece of fruit here and their (my inbetween meals) etc..
what am I doing wrong? what is causing these annoying temporary gains and stalls. They are very demoralizing even though I KNOW them are temporary.
Thanks!
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