Ive lost 30 pounds since May but Ive been stuck on a plateau for over a month now. Yesterday I ate one can of baked beans and one slice of bread and I gained a whole pound. Wtf. I guess I don't need to consume food anymore to stay alive.3
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you are consuming more calories than you think if you arent losing weight. your body doesnt defy thermodynamics
Ummmm check your thermodynamic privilege?
>Yesterday I ate carbs and water, I gained a whole pound.
No shit sherlock?
The leaner you get the more your body will hold onto carbs and fat.
>yesterday i consumed an additional 400 calories and gained 3500 calories worth of weight
no you fricking didnt moron. you ate a can of beans loaded with sodium and preservatives and now youre carrying a little extra bloat
You should only weigh yourself like once a week at most, preferably just once a month. Day-to-day changes don't mean shit.
>You should only weigh yourself like once a week at most, preferably just once a month.
>How to make no progress and frick up a cut 101
Weigh yourself every 2 or 3 days, simple as.
>ou should only weigh yourself like once a week at most, preferably just once a month
Most moronic advice. You should weigh yourself every single day, calculate median weight from last 7 days and compare it to previous week. It's not rocket science.
Unfortunately there's no cheating the scale, so it's likely that you're no longer at a sufficient deficit to be losing weight. So your options at this point boil down to eat less or burn more. But I get that it's hard to give things too generic, because it doesn't really address the fact that it's hard to make anymore changes likely at the stage of dieting you're at. Here's some suggestions:
Burn more
- two extra 30 min walk. Time + energy become limited resources when dieting sometimes. I'd suggest finding something that you have to do/like to do that can be done on a walk. Taking calls, audiobooks, etc.
- 1 extra hiit session mid day. I'd recommend a jump rope
- Stimulants. Caffeine typically gives an extra 10% expenditure. Can be helpful to break plateaus if you dont' normally use caffeine.
- autistic pre and post meal routine. throwing in 15 air squats, 15 wall presses pre/post every meal adds up. it also frees up a little bit of muscle glycogen before your digestion.
Eating less
- swap even more carbs for fiber and protein. energy required to actually digest foods with high amounts of these tends to offset more of the raw amount of cals in them. Nominally, you'll be at the same, but extracting less calories. Going even less carbs will also drop instant water weight, so don't get fooled by that.
- eating earlier in the data and mastering the sleep and starve. It's never comfortable sleeping while hungry but it's frankly easier than going 8 waking hours at that level of hunger.
Good luck bro.
Day to day changes do not mean shit. But you should measure every day and plot resutls. Use trailing 3 or 7 day to inform best.
This guy gets it.
Thanks bros. I'm gonna do a 3 day water fast and stop eating processed garbage. I haven't been watching my macros at all so I need to step it up if I want to continue to cut.
Carbs make you carry water weight. Weight != fat.
How active are you. And if you eat too little (which is what you're doing, baked beans is about 500 while a slice of bread is 120) your metabolism is going to slow down and when you eat normally again you'll gain the weight back. It happened to me years ago, and it will happen to you.
>when you eat normally again
A "diet" is not a transient endeavor. A "diet" is what you eat. If you change what you eat, your weight will change. The diet you ate that made you lose weight is the diet you continue on for the rest of your life.
he was clearly referring to caloric intake you autist
I have a fulltime job that alternates between office work, driving, and long periods outdoors which may or may not involve walking. I lift weights 3 days a week and run for 30 minutes 3 days a week. I have room to increase my physical activity for sure but I've been leaning on diet more than exercise because I'm just really tired when I get home from work. I'm not trying to look like a body builder I just want to be fit and I'd like to see my abdominal muscles some day.
Change up your diet. This week when you make dinner, cut it in half and save that half for the next day. You'd be surprised how filling half of a meal can be, but simultaneously how even a small change like that can cascade to a 1lb a week weight loss for a month.
you're allowed to take a break. 6 months of cutting is a long time. eat maintenance for a few weeks to a month.
also that sounds like way too little calories. make sure your deficit is no more than 500 cals and the food you're eating is actually clean and nutritous. baked beans and bread is not that.
Yea, I know it's low. I've been averageing around 1000 calories a day. I don't drink any calories or make any of the easy mistakes. I had a anorexia when I was in my early teens, so I know what that looks like and my patterns are starting to shift to that. This is probably water retention because the foods I eat alternate to good whole foods to mcdoubles but I maintain the calorie count either way with few exceptions.