📓 Daily Journal: Intermittent Fasting (16:8), ED Recovery and Weight Loss

[jeffy89]

Day 10

Weight: 59.0-3kg (~59.2kg) I was afraid of weighing myself daily, coming from a disordered background where I’ve basically weighed myself everyday since I was 13. I still have the records, in fact. But this time, with the new tools I’ve gained (and not being so fearful of my disordered past), I’m more able to look at my daily weight purely as a tool to analyse trends and experiment and do maths with. I just have to bear in mind that it’s going to fluctuate, and that’s okay. Nothing to be distressed over.

Huel review: Hmm I still love Huel of course, but I couldn’t really taste the Rhubarb & Custard? Or at least, I’m not sure what I’m supposed to taste. I smelled it and it smelled like the ordinary New Vanilla so idk.

Food intake:

• Huel 112g, Rhubarb&Custard Flavour Pack
• Snacks – 1 plum + 5 mini butterfinger cups + 4 pork loin ham slices + 4 cherry tomatoes
• Dinner – 150g rotisserie chicken + carrots + 5 cherry tomatoes + some of my friend’s food (mushroom & beef & a forkful of fried rice & 5 asparagus)

Exercise: 20min Tabata Workout with a Friend https://youtu.be/lQkD1b5HOPY

Other observations:

• My thought-process-when-I’m-doing-everything-right-but-the-scale-increased, as a little reminder for myself and anyone who needs it haha

@jeffy89

Water retention
Food weight (you could have eaten a bit later the day before)
Waste weight (had a satisfying No.2 yet? )
Muscle gain
Shifting your weight on the scale (depending on your scale, standing differently can have up to a 1kg difference!)
If you’re a female: It could be the TOM
The ‘Whoosh Effect’: Sometimes, your fat cells are still holding onto water, which could cause you to maintain your weight for ages or even increase. I often find that when keeping my habits consistent, the scale increases slightly just before a loss, then dips down below what it was maintaining at the next day.

• My midsection is looking a tad leaner!
• It was ~3.30pm, and I didn’t feel hungry, but figured I should eat something to keep my energy up and not wait until I was ravenous to start eating and making wrong choices haha. Realised that I found a plum more appealing than butterfinger cups. (But I still ate butterfinger cups anyway and they more than easily fit into my MFP log)
• I still have, albeit not to the same extent, a problem with stopping-eating. That’s partly why IF works great for me: I’m perfectly fine if I tell myself I’m not eating for a certain period of time, but I’m always afraid that once I start, I won’t stop. I ate the 5 butterfingers and tbh wanted to eat like 5 more, but I told myself that I don’t actually have to, and can save it for tomorrow haha.
• Ugh I’m so confused I could’ve worn even overcounting my calories I barely had 1463kcal. But I was so full for so long?! Idw gain weight
• For the first time in my life, I don’t actually think the lesser the better: I don’t want to get below 1400, and preferably not above 1800. Why?
  I need room to cut so I can continue losing weight (if I immediately drop to 1200 where tf am I gonna go from there?)
  I don’t want my metabolism to adapt to a lower intake. There are gonna be days where I eat more, purely socially too, and I don’t want to easily gain on that.
  Cost-benefit analysis: Sometimes, the benefit of losing weight not as quickly, is to have it last for the long term. To enjoy my favourite foods. To not feel restricted. To be able to stick to this. To feel like I’m still meeting my goals. To enjoy social events. If the goal were solely to drop weight as quickly as possible, sure the rest can be forfeited…but is it really worth it?
• 2am: Nvm I’m feeling the usual slight hunger

@Madeleine Awh Madeleine, back with your kind words! Yes Huel has been such a miracle, I’m in awe. Thank you! How’s Huel going for you?