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I just signed up for an accountability challenge here. I think that's a key to being successful in weight loss. It's the little day by day things that make a difference.
I was playing with the old CICO thing in my head the other day. What I mean is the guideline that it takes 3,500 calories of deficit or excess to gain or lose one pound of FAT, therefore one needs to eat/move in a consistent deficit of their TDEE to lose FAT. In theory, if one had a deficit of 500 calories a day consistently for one week, one would lose one pound of fat per week.
(That does not mean that one would lose weight of course, because we have the ever shifting weight of bodily waste and fluid to consider. I have noted this before and am amazed at how I can lose or gain 4 pounds literally overnight. But that's beside the point.)
I'm an old woman who doesn't move much, so I'm guessing my TDEE is pretty low, but I think it might be somewhere around 1600-1700 calories. So if I consume 1400 ish a day consistently, I might lose one pound of fat in two weeks. Do to the aforementioned fluid fluctuation, it could take a long time to see/feel any difference at all. But the thing is that it is very difficult to make that deficit consistently, and it's very easy to undo it. One "cheat" day a week could undo any progress for a week or two. I'm reminding myself of these facts in order to prevent myself from getting discouraged.
I need to just keep focused on today and on living my best life right now. Right now is all we have.
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89.4 kg
Lost so far: 2.2 kg.
Still to go: 25.9 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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1363 kcal
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Fat: 96.09g | Prot: 67.19g | Carbs: 57.08g.
Breakfast: Versatile Sandwich Round, Jones Dairy Farm Pork Sausage Patty, Great Value Half & Half, Coffee. Lunch: Cook's Hickory Smoked Ham, Versatile Sandwich Round. Dinner: Butter, Bubba Burger Turkey Burger, Spinach, White Rice. more...
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Gaining 0.1 kg a Week
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