for context: after being overweight my whole life, i decided to start my weight loss journey sometime in the winter of last year. in total, i lost nearly 50lbs and became a healthy bmi through cico, while also reaching my goal weight during the middle of september. throughout this process, i gained relatively healthy eating habits (i used to only eat highly processed/fast food and i didnt really eat anything that was considered to be healthy) and rarely had any cravings for any sort of junk food.
now to my problem:
ever since the thanksgiving dinner (im canadian) i attended on october 8th, i’ve been consistently eating a crazy amount over my maintenance calories, and im talking about 1000+ over every single day for the past 2+ weeks. im eating 2500 calories every day, and my maintanence is about 1500 (im a 5 foot female for reference). to make things worse, the only things ive been eating the past few weeks are all highly processed, carb-heavy, or sugar filled foods; basically nothing with any nutritional value. even when i try to at least go back down to my maintenance calories, i end up overeating and tell myself ill “start again tomorrow” every time, which never happens. i lost all sense of hunger cues and fullness cues, and i physically cannot stop myself from eating no matter how hard i try. it doesnt help that the only things im eating are VERY processed foods.
i made the mistake of weighing myself this morning and im up my last weigh in by a whopping 6.5kg/14lbs. im at the weight i was during the middle of june, so seeing the number now just out me in shock. i know that a portion of it would be food/water weight, but my body actually looks and feels like i gained weight. the clothes i recently bought to celebrate hitting my goal weight feels extremely tight now and my legs have grown bigger again, similar to when i was overweight.
i visibly gained weight and im extremely bloated all the time (it doesnt go down even when i sleep) and ive been feeling especially self conscious about it. i feel as if i reverted back to who i was before and that ill soon go back up to the overweight person i was before at the rate of how much ive been eating and how fast i gained weight. ive been trying to get back on track but its so hard; i dont even know whats causing me to overeat every single day. was it because ive been in a caloric deficit for the majority of this year?
any tips or advice on how to get back on track and avoid overeating every day would be greatly appreciated. i just want to regain the control i had and go back down to the weight i was at the beginning of this month.
thank you so much in advance :(
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