So it's felt like I've been hovering around this weight for a while now. Let me be clear, I have NOT been experiencing a plateau. A plateau is three or more weeks with zero change in weight. I've been experiencing small ups and downs that have left me in the same range.
And that's normal, for weight to have these micro ups and downs. It often is the start of a big drop while your body lets go a whoosh of water weight all at once, and so it was for me. While it's frustrating, just tough it out and keep doing what you're doing and have faith in the process.
While I am again, happy to be achieving this milestone, I am a little uncomfortable with how my weight is bouncing up and down. I am trying my best to increase calories because I think the level of exercise I am doing needs more. I wound up spending a day in bed this past weekend because I was just feeling so burnt out from expending so much energy, and I was ravenously hungry, and it was the next morning after the rest and high calorie day (~2200 calories, carb heavy) that I suddenly dropped all the weight.
I am trying to keep my calorie consumption up towards the higher end of my range, which is another reason that I don't plan to increase my dose further yet. It seems like staying at 0.44mg for a little while is going to be the right move. When I first increased to this dose I started getting side effects more intensely again and found it difficult to eat. My body clearly needs fuel to have all systems go, and to create muscle from my workouts. It's not going to be healthy for me to be unable to eat.
I'm going to see how this week goes. Hopefully I can keep myself over 1500 calories a day with an occasional higher day, which is basically the plan I followed last week. I've taken three rest days in a row off from exercise videos and I'm ready to get back to it!
OZ Week 3 gain: 2.0lbs
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