Diet for managing weight
Jul. 1st, 2018 05:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcFor many weeks now I have limited myself to eating 14Mcal per week but lost less than half a pound per month. My weight remains at around the top of the
What puzzles me is that the modern weight calculators suggest that I should need to eat well over 16Mcal per week to maintain my weight. I do take the occasional break from counting calories when we are with extended family or suchlike but I rather doubt that is enough to explain such slow loss. I suspect it is instead more to do with how individuals can vary from the mean.
When I originally reached a healthy weight and adjusted to a more generous maintenance diet I had hoped that I would indeed get to eat more than 16Mcal per week. Instead I am now thinking that I may need to limit myself to 13Mcal per week, at least from mid-August after life has settled back down from various summer holiday things. I will look again at increasing the limit back to at least 14Mcal if I reach 150lb.
healthyrange so I would like to buy myself a greater margin there. Perhaps with a little more weight loss my other health indicators would improve a little too. In British Imperial terms, I have already lost well over four stone and kept it off but perhaps I could yet stand to lose just one more.
What puzzles me is that the modern weight calculators suggest that I should need to eat well over 16Mcal per week to maintain my weight. I do take the occasional break from counting calories when we are with extended family or suchlike but I rather doubt that is enough to explain such slow loss. I suspect it is instead more to do with how individuals can vary from the mean.
When I originally reached a healthy weight and adjusted to a more generous maintenance diet I had hoped that I would indeed get to eat more than 16Mcal per week. Instead I am now thinking that I may need to limit myself to 13Mcal per week, at least from mid-August after life has settled back down from various summer holiday things. I will look again at increasing the limit back to at least 14Mcal if I reach 150lb.
