How to mantain extreme weightloss:
Like everthing written in this blog:
• When I say underweight, I mean a BMI of 17/18. Not 15. That shit is fucking dangerous
• This is experience based
• I do not encourage starving oneself at all. I only use the tags I use because I know many people in this community will be better off with my advice then with many other people’s, and will probably have a bigger chance of surviving and not damaging their health permanently WHILE achieving at least a part of their goal looks, and therefore coping with their destructive thoughts (if they have them). I’m a big fan of balance.
So, here is part two of “How to be underweight without killing yourself”, and this part is much more based on mantaining weightloss.
As I said in my previous post, I recommend an absolutely bare minimum of 800 calories, even if it sounds like “a lot”, and it will make your weight loss “slower” (if more or less a kg a week is slow, for you), and ideally you should aim to eat between 800/1200 calories a day for sustainable weight loss.
If you didn’t read the other part, I highly encourage you to look it up on my blog.
• You can’t keep your body at an energy deficit forever, obviously. So, once you reach your goal, add back calories slowly. When I say slowly, I mean 50/150 calories a week more than the average you mantained on your diet, based on how you feel. To know how many calories you should aim for, use an online calculator: do not try to eat as many calories as you would have needed before, especially if you lost lots of weight, because your mantainance level is probably way lower, now. To be more accurate, take measurements of your BF% and use a calculator which keeps them into consideration.
• Don’t fucking weight yourself everyday, because I’m sure as hell the weight of the food in your digestive system will make it seem like you gained weight, but it’s water weight. I know it’s unpleasant, but would you rather water weight for a short period of time, or binging and ruining everything/ending up in a clinic?
• Keep up the same levels of exercise you were mantaining previously. This is why I say you shouldn’t over-exert yourself working out while you’re trying to lose the weight: because you’ll have to mantain it.
• Aim for a gram of protein per pound of body weight, in the long run. Since most girls’ mantainance for a moderately low body weight is around 1600/1700 calories a day, you’ll probably be able to fit this into your diet without too many calories, if you choose your protein sources wisely.
• Aim for 0.3/0.4 grams of fat per pound of body weight for optimal health.
• If you start eating more salt or carbs, you’ll gain water weight, but this is nothing to worry about. It’s literally just water. As your body adjusts, it’ll go away.
• Don’t be afraid of good carbs. Lower mortality risks, and lower BF%, are linked to moderately high carb assumption.
That’s all I can think about, for now. I’ll give y'all more tips tomorrow. Today I’m happy because I went horseriding and it spiked up my endorphines, I think.
