@Deyadissa wrote:
I have recently changed my lifestyle on the way I eat, because I moved out from my parents house. I am no longer spoiled with the luxry of eating out every day of the week. Now I will be lucky if I eat out at a restruant once a month. I'm not really starving, although there really is no way for me to tell because I never have hunger cravings (due to medications). I eat roughly 1,000 calories a day on average and I'm a 21 year old male at 5'11.
I started out at 191 pounds on Febuary 13th, and today I just reached 174 pounds. This means on average, I have been losing 5-6 pounds a week so far. I don't have any medical conditions such as diabetes or HIV which are known to cause drastic weight loss. But it appears that I'm the exact opposite of how most people are.
I gain weight, significantly slower than I lose it. Prior to my diet, I may have ate around 3,000-4,000 calories a day; and yet somehow I was only marginally overweight.
My goal weight is 140 pounds, fitbit says I should reach that in July 2016, but I suspect I'll be my goal in a few months. So I need to know what I can do, I'm not so spoiled anymore to afford such fattening goods. What can I do to eat something cheap, full of fattening calories to keep my weight maintained? I spend about $150 on food a month, none of that is fast food and I cook at home.
I honestly don't know if there is something I should be concerned about with losing weight this quickly, as my average activity is 3000 steps a day.
Yikes - say goodbye to muscle mass you will dearly love to have later, and is MUCH harder to put back on.
Little Debbies, $2 for about 2000 calories. Not filling in the least, and they'll generally make you hungry because of the insulin spike and resulting low blood sugar.
Eat one with your lunch and dinner for an extra 1000 calories. Make the meals mostly protein to offset it.
Ya, you are doing yourself any favors.
And it's not opposite, without the right exercise to hold on to muscle, or enough protein, or enough calories in general - most lose 20% of their weight as LBM, and biggest part of that is muscle mass.
While the 3500 calories per lb is true for fat only, muscle only provides 600 calories when protein is used as energy. So actually easier to lose a lb of muscle than fat.
And your body breaks muscle down every day, if you don't have those big 3 things to tell it to build it back up again - it doesn't, because it's obviously not needed and the calories can be used for more life-sustaining body functions.
And why in the world in your goal weight underweight by a bad amount for your height and age?
Why would you think 140 is good goal weight?
Grief, my race weight in 20's and inch shorter was 155 lbs, and that about 5-7% bodyfat.
Unless you are up for a big money film roll as concentration camp survivor, I'd rethink that goal weight.
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