So I completed week 2 of the challenge on a up. I was discourage at the beginning of the week. Wednesday to be exact when I weighed and gained 1lb. I weighed in today and lost 3. So I am feeling better. I was thinking about what I did different the 1st half of the week over the last half. The only thing I did was add about 200 more calories a day (think I was under eating) and upped my water from 100oz to aroun 130oz. I am suppose to be at 150oz. Side note: I drank over that today so far.
I think sometimes we are so focused on eating less that at times we eat less than we should for optimal weight loss. I have done a lot of reading and when you go to far below the calories you are needing your body goes into starvation mode and holds on to everything. By upping my calories just a bit I was telling my body I am not starving just wanting to lose weight. I was told when I was a lot younger by a Dr. that I have the type of metoblism that likes to save its calories and if we ever had a famine I would be one of the people who would survie. So now I am understanding that eating to few calories is actually determental to my goal. I have to keep it up around 1400 to 1600 calories for losing weight. There are some days that the amount seems impossible since I am full. I don't want to add junk back in to get that many calories, but adding some good carbs really helps.
I know I have only really been at changing myself the last 3 weeks, but with many diets, starts and fails in my life. I am really seeing a difference in what I have learned and actually paying attention to my body and how it is reacting to things this time. We go blindly into things at times and forget to look at all the elements that are around us and miss the tiny things that can make a difference. Yes I am moving more, eating less, but moving correctly and eat less the correct way is really making the difference.
So on the high note my total weight loss since I have begun the DB is 11.2 pounds. Yep I am proud of the lose, but I am more thankful for the lessons I am learning along the way so that I can make this a sustained loss and not just another fad.
I hope all of you are listening to your body and learning the lessons it is trying to teach you. Good luck on the adventure.