Diet related: is this normal?
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I'm hoping one of the PH masses could give me a bit of an explanation.
About a month and a half ago I decided to overhaul my diet, eating 'clean' foods and using myfitnesspal to keep my calorie intake at around 1400 (regularly it will be around 1200 though) per day, bearing in mind i'm a fairly big guy with (according to MFP) a BMR of 2900.
But yeah, back to the point, i've had a couple of cheat days, which consisted of a mcdonalds and a take away fish and chips and afterwards iv felt absolutely terrible, physically. Before I started the diet I could eat these foods every day and not even think about it but now my body seems to completely hate them.
Is this just me becoming a normal person and not liking these sorts of foods? or is it my body telling me there is something up with my diet, such as entering the dreaded 'starvation mode'?
thanks in advance for any explanation/help/advice anyone could give me.
About a month and a half ago I decided to overhaul my diet, eating 'clean' foods and using myfitnesspal to keep my calorie intake at around 1400 (regularly it will be around 1200 though) per day, bearing in mind i'm a fairly big guy with (according to MFP) a BMR of 2900.
But yeah, back to the point, i've had a couple of cheat days, which consisted of a mcdonalds and a take away fish and chips and afterwards iv felt absolutely terrible, physically. Before I started the diet I could eat these foods every day and not even think about it but now my body seems to completely hate them.
Is this just me becoming a normal person and not liking these sorts of foods? or is it my body telling me there is something up with my diet, such as entering the dreaded 'starvation mode'?
thanks in advance for any explanation/help/advice anyone could give me.
I was at about 265-270 pounds after the xmas period when I started the diet. I'm aiming to get down to around 205 is, maybe a bit below and then bulk up in muscle to 205.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know much about it, and at the beginning I have just gone of a very basic calorie deficit idea. I'm not constantly hungry at 1400 (note this is when taking exercise calories into account). Also, to be fair I have a feeling the calorie tracker on MFP is a little under estimating, so this may mean im eating more than I think, but i'm not hungry in between meals, I just eat if i'm hungry. I took a few tips from the 'lose a stone in a month thread' and have basically applied that to my diet. I'm sure as I get closer to my goal i'll have to implement more complicated diet and exercise strategies to get results.
I have had results so far, I had lost 20 pounds when I checked a few days ago but was just wondering as to what happened the other day.
In terms of exercise, I have been exercising 5 times a week most weeks, including two 2 hour sessions of Muay Thai per week (hence the pretty specific weight goal). I had been doing this amount of exercise for around 4 months leading up to Christmas however left my diet the same and saw next to no difference in my weight.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know much about it, and at the beginning I have just gone of a very basic calorie deficit idea. I'm not constantly hungry at 1400 (note this is when taking exercise calories into account). Also, to be fair I have a feeling the calorie tracker on MFP is a little under estimating, so this may mean im eating more than I think, but i'm not hungry in between meals, I just eat if i'm hungry. I took a few tips from the 'lose a stone in a month thread' and have basically applied that to my diet. I'm sure as I get closer to my goal i'll have to implement more complicated diet and exercise strategies to get results.
I have had results so far, I had lost 20 pounds when I checked a few days ago but was just wondering as to what happened the other day.
In terms of exercise, I have been exercising 5 times a week most weeks, including two 2 hour sessions of Muay Thai per week (hence the pretty specific weight goal). I had been doing this amount of exercise for around 4 months leading up to Christmas however left my diet the same and saw next to no difference in my weight.
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