BuffedWildCat’s BodyBlog

Keeping in mind that my activity level has been the same for MONTHS, basically stay-at-home mom duties and the same workout/exercise routine.  But anyway, here is something strange that just happened that I thought I’d mention in my blog…
Over the course of 5 days, my calories averaged 1947 (not one day even at 2000 calories) and my weight went UP 2.5 lbs.

Over the next course of 5 days, (when I said heck with it, I’m tired of restricting myself, of being hungry much of the time), my calories averaged 2463 (lowest day 2232 and highest day 2741) and I LOST 3.5 lbs!!

I’m still trying to figure this one out.  I don’t see how it could be a water issue since I should have actually retained MORE water if anything during these last 5 days cause of my eating less clean than usual.  So I’m really not seeing any reason it could just be a simple water issue.  Or perhaps it is a bowel issue, as I do have constipation problems when my carbs are lower, which they would have been on the 5 days of lower calories, so maybe I’m just not as full of shit anymore??  LOL.  (Note to self, from now on keep notes of bowel movements, heh).  Anyway, the only other explanation I can come up with is that I’ve perhaps revved up my metabolism??  Maybe my body has figured out that it’s not starving anymore?  As we all should know by now, when you eat under your maintenance calories for an extended period of time, the body’s metabolism does slow down (some more than others depending on your genetics) and your body hangs onto every bit of fat that it can.  So once you raise your calories back up for long enough, something seemingly magical happens, suddenly you start dropping weight again cause your body is no longer in starvation mode!
Now I don’t know if that’s what’s going on with me or not, let’s hope it is, but all I do know is that it sure is nice to be finally dropping some unneeded weight without having to starve my ass off!  Yay!!  Oh, and yes, I am still planning/hoping I am pregnant.  I just won’t know til the 22nd, pregnancy tests ya know, you can’t take them too early.  But if all went as planned, I should hopefully be pregnant now, we’ll see…
So no, I’m not actively trying to lose weight anymore, obviously, it just happened, without my even trying.  I was originally planning on keeping my cals around 2000 then increasing them up to about 2250 once I found out I was pregnant but it looks like that’s just not gonna happen now.  I mean seeing as how I’ve lost 3.5 lbs on an average of 2463 calories, heh, I’ll still watch it, still track my calories, but put it this way, if I’m hungry I’m going to eat and I’m going to eat til I’m not hungry anymore, not like before when I’d eat and still be hungry but have to wait until the next meal, screw that!  Also, another good reason to NOT restrict yourself too much on calories during your pregnancy is because you want to be able to start a new diet after you have the baby with a metabolism that is running full throttle and not be compromised from the getgo by having restricted yourself already during the pregnancy.  Know what I mean?  That way you’ve got a lot of room for slowly decreasing calories when you need to and you’re not already starting off at restricted calories, not good, just not the best way to go about losing weight.  So anyway, I won’t go nutty and eat a bunch of junk food or everything in sight sorta thing, but just eat when I’m hungry and eat enough so that I’m not hungry anymore, as opposed to eating til I’m full or stuffed, there’s a difference ya know, not that I WON’T do that once in a while though, heh. 

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