Thanks. I tend not to go over āmaintenanceā calories over the weekend, but could that be doing it? I donāt drink, which helps, plus Iām mindful of not undoing the good work in the week, so I donāt go crazy by binging. A bowl of cereal, piece of toast, and coffee for breakfast, maybe a sandwich for lunch and something like veggie chilli, veggie pasta for tea - last weekend came to approx 2200 and 1900.
Maybe now Iāve been on Huel for a few months I should start drinking it at the weekend too.
PS - Itās not the āCreate your ownā just a bog standard margarita, 598kcals! But the cooking thing isnāt something Iād considered.
If all the things you say are true, then you should be losing weight. From what I can work out it should be about 1lb a week.
That being said one of 3 things could be happening here:
1: Youāre eating more calories then you think
2: Youāre calorie requirements have been calculated incorrectly
3: There are many cases where you will lose no weight for a week or so and then drop what seams like an impossible amount. I canāt remember the name for when this happens but it could be happening here.
Iām sorry I canāt be of more help. Have a look at this tool to make sure you have youāre macroās correct. For me I always calculate based on 1lb loss a week and I put youāre activity level as ādesk job, little to no exerciseā. This will give you a base rate of calories and any exercise will be weight loss on top.
Thatās something I was thinking about earlier. I usually have two or three hot drinks a day, and about four 250ml glasses of water a day + 900ml of huel per day. Someone told me it should be at least 2 litres of water a day on top of everything else consumed.
I know water is good for hydrating the body and clearing out, but does drinking water help us lose weight? Iām not being facetious, I genuinely donāt understand!
As far as iām aware, drinking more water can help speed up digestion and make you burn more calories, but i donāt know if it would make you burn less if you not having enough.
Either way itās recommended that you drink 1.9 liters of liquid a day which would include huel. That being said this figure can go up or down significantly depending on the temperature, meaning drink more in summer and less in winter.
If you donāt drink enough your body will store water which will increase your weight. I count the amount of water I mix with my Huel in my daily intake amount, same with tea, coffee, milk etc. All adds up to around 1.9 - 2 litres per day (occasionally a bit more if the weather is warm. This works fine for me.
Iād suggest itās worth not changing anything but weighing and measuring everything you eat (and I mean everything) this weekend to see if your approximations are right.
Just looking at that list:
A portion of cereal is 30g (or what you get in those tiny individual portion boxes). Without measuring the average serving most people eat is closer to 50-60g. How much milk on the cereal?
Only one piece of toast, or two? Are you counting butter? 10g butter is about 70cals. How about marmalade, marmite?
Are you counting the milk in that coffee?
Homemade or shop bought sandwich? Any butter/mayo/mustard/dressing? Any cheese (cheese is super high calorie)?
Pasta serving size? Same with pasta sauce, homemade or from a jar? Serving sizes are generally smaller than you think.
Itās easy for portion sizes to creep up over time so even if you are still logging everything if your 30g of cereal is actually 60g you wonāt be losing anything.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to me everyone. Iāll keep a close eye on my eating this weekend and report back. I wore a pair of shorts today that I bought years ago. I canāt remember if they didnāt fit or I had buyers remorse because theyāre sky blue!
Sorry for the lack of updates, we have a poorly cat here.
Anyway, I did a my fitness pal over the weekend, without going into loads of detail Saturday was 1,732 cals and Sunday was 1,298 - skipped a proper lunch because I was decorating. I didnāt drink much during the day though, I was conscious of it, but kept forgetting because I was so busy.
Hunger isnāt a feeling I was used to until starting Huel! This sort of confirms to me that something must be working because before Huel I was never really hungry. Average day then was bowl of cereal with semi skimmed, two rounds of toast with flora, pre-made sandwich and a bag of low cal crisps, then a varied evening meal and maybe a pudding.
I start feeling hungry an hour or two before eating.
When you suddenly drop lots of weight overnight or over a couple of days by losing retained water.