12-30-14, 12:41 PM | |
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when a person loses weight, it's not from 1 source. you lose both fat and muscle, and water.
for this week and maybe next, monitor your daily statistics (# of sleep hours, what your food intake was, and minutes/hours of activity, and weight on the scale). as it is with "wanting" to lose weight, keeping a simple journal can reveal what might be happening with "unwanted weight loss." I know that when I was losing weight, my "whoosh" (major drop in weight, like 3# seemingly overnight) came after 2-3 weeks of making a change (be it dietary, activity, rotation, intensity). so yours might be a delayed response from prior efforts, and maybe it'll stabilize. congrats on having reached your goal w/TA. how many hours were you working out/day & # of days w/TA?
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12-30-14, 12:56 PM | |
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It could be stress. When I was going through a particularly stressful time, I was dropping weight quickly, just like you. I also was not exercising. I stabilized once my stress got under control, and gained the weight back.
This could just be a temporary thing. Just wanted to throw that out there in case the rapid weight loss was also stressing you out.
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12-30-14, 12:58 PM | |
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(((hugs))) for your ongoing stress
I just wanted to chime in and say that I've experienced the same thing: losing a lot of weight suddenly after *stopping* an exercise program, when all along it was a struggle to get lbs to budge at all. I remember one particular rotation about 7-8 years ago; I was doing cardio and weights, six days a week, for about 8 weeks, and I might have lost a pound or two over the span. I had to stop for some reason (it might have been injury or work), and *immediately* dropped like 7 lbs, in about 3 weeks. Mystifying and frustrating! This has happened to me a couple of times. I think it might be a matter of the physical demands prompting the body to hang onto reserves. When that lets up, your body lets go. (How very technical and scientific was that! LOL) The good news is, your weight will stabilize based on the number of calories you're eating. You must still be eating at a deficit, if you're losing. If you really want to halt the weight loss immediately, try adding healthy foods that are packed with nutrients. (I can gain weight just by *looking* at nuts, all other things being equal!) YMMV, of course.
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12-30-14, 01:30 PM | |
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I also would recommend going to the doctor and doing some blood work. Sounds like thyroid issues to me. When I'm hypo, I lose weight.
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