38 lb down in 5 weeks 🤯🎉
2 months and 1 week in, 38 lb down! Yahoo, I haven't been this weight in a while!
Some advice - watch your caloric intake too - I'm still learning how to do this and til now I tend to concentrate on the pretty colored bars and pie chart lol - carbs, fats and proteins. The past few days, I have been exhausted with little energy and have had tired (not cramping but weak) leg muscles. I tried supplements, Mg and Kcl, no improvement. I looked back and saw I had total caloric intakes of 800-1200/day for a bunch of days straight. Was rarely hungry so I didn't notice. Yikes!! I was in too low of a deficit and was feeling it I think. Oh well, upping my calories and we'll see how it goes!
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That’s an incredible loss but yes, you need to make sure you get enough calories or your body will start to hold on thinking it’s in starvation.
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I'm confused how you manger to only eat upto 1200kcals. I'm the opposite.... I dont know how you can hit your protein and most fat and not have really high calories. All the low cal foods are carb high (fruit and veg)... help. What am I doing wrong?
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Hi Carina ! I'm no expert, and as I said in my original post, I felt really bad, weary and sore, with too low calories, so be careful you don't go too low with your calories. My macro limits are: 12 net carbs, 95 Fat, 75 protein, 1199 calories. I usually aim for hitting the protein, and I too overshoot the calories frequently, I'm okay with that. I don't try to hit all 95 of fat, some days I'm lower. I'm not too strict with myself - as long as I'm close I'm cool with it, and I try to intake as few carbs as possible.
Here's what I ate yesterday: No breakfast, for lunch I ate a 2 egg omelette with cheddar cheese, butter, herbs and 2 asparagus. I have a 2 egg omelette every day, it really fills me up.
Snacks were 6 pieces of bacon (dont judge lol, I caved and made a second set of 3), 2 strawberries, 3 celery sticks with guacamole, one babybell cheese.
Dinner was 3 oz 80/20 burger with cheddar cheese.
I was 5net carbs, 12 total, 97 fat, 78 protein, 1225 calories.
Good luck, you can do it! You'll learn as you go ! I'm still learning
