They say at the beginning it’s fast but soon it slows down. It seems like they are correct. Today morning I weighed 86.10kgs (after 3 glasses of water). Considering my last time recorded weight (Day 12, 87.55 kg), in ideal case it should have been 85.84kg, and in target chasing case 85.90kgs. This is a lag of approximately 1 day. Just to note again, ideal case corresponds to no cheat days, target case means 72kg on day 120, and the normal case leverages 10% cheats over ideal. I’m still cheering up because I’m still on ideal weight line (86.01kg on day 21) of my weight loss projection.
What might be the possible reasons
for the slowing up thing? I’m counting five factors.
One, a bulkier body needs more
energy to sustain. When I was over 90kgs, probably I had more cells, all of
which needed to be fed. Now I have lesser. Or maybe, energy consumption per
cell decreases. Currently, I’m not in the mood to research this, so leave this
for later.
Two, metabolism slows down. The weight
loss journey involves psychologically controlling your body and its needs. Maybe
the control doesn’t restrict to food. One probable way out of this dilemma is
to enhance metabolism with more exercise and metabolism-enhancing food. I’m
considering resorting to these, while with 800 cals per day, there is little room
for losing calories through exercise. I hope ketogenesis will kick higher and
the energy requirements will be fulfilled by fat burn.
Three, a starved body absorbs
every ounce of energy from food. This is just a conjecture occurring to me for a
long. During weight loss, we feel like vampires for food. It is possible that when
we are starving our body, it starts sucking every last calory of food it gets
which normally it will let go. If it’s true, it also means that our digestive
system improves when we lose weight. Anyway, I’m chewing my food more than
earlier so that I’m not the first one to get done with lunch on the table.
Four, we tend to drift towards
normalcy. When I wasn’t losing weight, I didn’t count my calories. That’s what
normal humans do. Generations over millennia weren’t supposed to count
calories, just feel full. Maybe as we proceed down the weight loss journey,
normal behavior kicks in. Yesterday I had 3 glasses of mausambi juice and 2
glasses of buttermilk and assumed they don’t add many calories and are healthy.
In the first week, I used to keep track of everything.
Five, measurement errors. As I wrote in a previous blog, nobody knows the
ideal time to weigh oneself. Some sort of standardization may help, but it's never
perfect. I’m sure a trend analysis with a bigger data source may reveal the
truth, but as of now I’m short of it and letting it the way it is.
Six, random factors such as
stress. I don’t know wherefrom does a stressed body gets calories, but I can’t
discount stress causing weight gain. Probably it just slows down metabolism.
Last few days I’ve been hunting for another flat to rent and it has been a hell
journey. While I enjoy walking the streets of Delhi, the company of brokers in
general is torture. Mostly they have this non-human way of talking which leaves
you wondering if isn’t there even a slightly better way to search for flats.
Trust me, the apps, etc. are worse. Another day, a magicbricks guy from headquarters
called me to ask about my requirements in detail. I’ve put it in the app, so he
asked me to now subscribe to the most premium service which seems to hardly
fetch anything as per reviews. The good thing about me, I get over these
feelings soon. When they bother me more than required, I meditate. Some yoga
also helps.
None of the above may be true.
All of them may be true. Some of them may be true fully or partially. I suppose
this must be a course for people taking degrees in this area. And maybe they
know the truth. I however am not planning to ask them. I’m just considering
more exercise and metabolism-enhancing food/supplements to get through this.
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