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Encouragement Post!!! There's been a bit of chat about weight fluctuations lately. When I first came back here I was recording my weight every day, but when people started following me it felt a bit spammy, all those updates! FS was never that chatty back in 2013! I only record on FS once a week now but I do still weigh every day (best approach for me personally). My February looks like a rollercoaster. A really steady drop followed by two weeks of crazy spikes, 3kg up followed by 5kg down, while my workout and diet stayed constant. I've never had fluctuations quite so nuts.
My thinking for now is to blame white sliced bread. That's the only thing that slipped in my diet that I never usually have. It's not TotM - I don't get issues with that and in fact the most constant, slow dropping is around that time.
Anyway, I just want to say, these weird fluctuations happen, and can last weeks. It definitely isn't body fat, and sometimes you just have to ride it out and hold your nerve, look at other things - how your clothes feel, how you feel physically, measurements, or just progress so far, and things will all work out in the end.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk ;)
View Diet Calendar, 24 February 2021:
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851 kcal
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Fat: 29.91g | Prot: 78.54g | Carbs: 66.63g.
Breakfast: Sainsbury's Chia Seeds, Bio-Tiful Kefir, Rhubarb. Lunch: Tesco Baby New Potatoes, Spinach (Chopped or Leaf, Frozen) , Leek, Spring Onions , Chicory (Witloof) , Tomatoes, Green Peppers , Butter, Egg, Asda Gammon Joint. Dinner: Waitrose Wheat & Rye Sourdough Bread, Lettuce, Mayonnaise , Anchovy (Drained Solids in Oil, Canned) , Chicken Breast Meat , Parmesan Cheese (Grated). more...
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Love this....thank you! because I know I feel like this continuously!
24 Feb 21 by member: selinaforeverunity
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I tend to weigh myself every Sunday as I know the week goes up and down and then I can look at the report in this app to see what was different from one week to the next. It's all a bit of a science this stuff. My sister is a nutrionist and depending on the level of exercise she will adjust the calories up or down! If you don't give your body enough calories if you are quite active your body goes into self defence and holds on to its weight, she calls this starvation mode. She says if you feed your muscles (especially for being very active) it actually burns energy and calories and lose weight. 🤯Honestly I still don't get it, as I keep wanting to go under my calorie goal.
24 Feb 21 by member: lovvella
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Personally, I disagree with the starvation mode idea, because evidence just shows that humans without enough food just keep losing weight. In fact there is evidence to show that the human body will tend to compensate for increased energy expenditure by making some calorie savings elsewhere. Obviously there are limits to that and athletes need a LOT of extra calories. But for people like me I don’t think you can add extra cals for a workout. BUT I do make sure I put something in the tank the night before a workout and I do make sure I get enough protein to build those muscles. Muscles are our friends! 💪🏻
I think if you are being consistent with a reasonable healthy diet in calorie deficit then the ups and downs, daily or weekly, are just fluctuations in water or digestive stuff, and are interesting but not important.
I did post a pic of my roller coaster graph with this, but I think FS was having a bad afternoon so the pic is on a duplicate post 🤷♀️
24 Feb 21 by member: JanusWoman
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