WTF I'm loosing weight pigging out???

Supercell

I've been eating clean as I can and have been loosing weight for a while doing that.

About a month ago I notice that my weight loss stopped.
This persisted for about three weeks and one weekend I snapped and gorged on McDonalds and chocolate.

I lost 2 pounds .

WTF!!

I'm pigging out at weekends and am loosing weight again, what the hell???

Its three weeks since i started on my fatty diet, I've lost about six pounds.
Last month I lost no pounds!!

Jesus does lifting weights come with a crappy foods pass? I'm very con****ing fused.

estebancambias

Gypsy curse.

daveirl

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Malteaser!

Longfield wrote: »

I've been eating clean as I can and have been loosing weight for a while doing that.

About a month ago I notice that my weight loss stopped.
This persisted for about three weeks and one weekend I snapped and gorged on McDonalds and chocolate.

I lost 2 pounds .

WTF!!

I'm pigging out at weekends and am loosing weight again, what the hell???

Its three weeks since i started on my fatty diet, I've lost about six pounds.
Last month I lost no pounds!!

Jesus does lifting weights come with a crappy foods pass? I'm very con****ing fused.

I find the exact same thing tbh...I'll tell ya, I'm not complaining!!

estebancambias

If that EC guy is to be believed, does that mean you could count Christmas a cheat week.

Supercell

daveirl wrote: »

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That's an interesting article, thanks daveirl. I guess I've been doing something similar to that by accident.

Glad to see I'm not loosing my mind and there is a rational explanation for it!

Cadrach

Longfield wrote: »

That's an interesting article, thanks daveirl. I guess I've been doing something similar to that by accident.

Glad to see I'm not loosing my mind and there is a rational explanation for it!

Don't get too comfortable with unhealthy eating habits. There could be other factors in play (e.g., loss of fluid). But if you have been doing regular exercise for a few months now and doing well, then you can get away with a lot more. Maybe it's because your body hasn't "caught up" with the new trends yet or something. "Cheat to lose" diet that is linked in the article is a delicate balance. Either way, if you keep working hard in the gym then you will absorb much of the potential negative effect of McDonalds and chocolates.

g'em

Longfield wrote: »

Jesus does lifting weights come with a crappy foods pass? I'm very con****ing fused.

lol, not quite but it certainly means you can afford to slip up once in a while!!

The whole "cheat" principle is a fairly sound one - when you eat a certain calorific level consistently, your body adapts: when you overeat all the time you don't keep putting on weight at the same rate, your body will adapt to the excess and while you'll still put on lbs, it'll be slower and slower as your new size requires higher calories for maintenance anyway. Likewise when you undereat, your body quickly adjusts. Leptin in particular is a hormone that controls appetite and energy regulation, and when you chronically undereat it tends to be suppressed. The occasional cheat meal kickstarts leptin and encourages its production, helping you to get over weight-loss plateaus.

When you factor in weight training as well the effects of controlled cheating (which as Cadrach rightly pointed as is a fairly delicate balance) the effects can be greatly enhanced. Growth hormone and cortisol suppression both aid lipogenesis helping you to lose fat faster but maintain lean body mass.

@ estebancambias: unless you've been eating super-clean for the last 8 weeks, train like a demon and can confidently say the cheats wills till consist of wholesome nutrition rich foods... no, a week of Christmas food does not constitute a healthy cheat.

Supercell

g'em wrote: »

Leptin in particular is a hormone that controls appetite and energy regulation, and when you chronically undereat it tends to be suppressed. The occasional cheat meal kickstarts leptin and encourages its production, helping you to get over weight-loss plateaus.

Nice explanation there, thanks g'em.
I think I may have been under eating also though it didn't feel like it - I'm eating "more" than before just not fatty crap.
Since I lost weight pigging out I have upped what I eat (mainly by eating more chicken and tuna) but am probably still eating less calories than maintenance (wouldn't be loosing weight otherwise).
It's good to know that once in a while eating crap is forgiveable and maybe even beneficial! (as long as its not a daily thing).